We take a deep dive into “The Flat Earth” Skate film, a groundbreaking passion project from visionary Director Ty Evans. It features skate legends Jamie Foy, Chase Webb, Carlos Iqui, Mike Pulizzi and Cody Lockwood. Mettle co-founder Nancy Eperjesy
We’re proud to shine a light on one of the standout 360/VR productions of the last year, Save Every Breath: The Dunkirk VR Experience. Original content developed by Practical Magic, it takes us inside the world of acclaimed filmmaker
We’re proud to say that one of the standout 360/VR films from Sundance uses some Mettle tech mixed in with the magical story. For the Amazonian Yawanawá, “medicine” has the power to transport you in a vision to a place
Mantra VR is specifically designed for 360/VR post-production, but many customers have been using the powerful effects for both 360° and conventional video production. We had many requests to make a “flat” compatible version, so the latest version 1.20 of
The Mantra VR 1.20 Update has integrated “Environment Light” and “Material” parameters into the Graphix Effect. This allows for more organic compositing of non-360° sources onto your 360 footage, especially when using the Distribution features, which let you quickly add
Exciting news – Mantra VR has a free update, with some great new features and enhancements. It’s all about more tools for content creators. We now offer enhanced audioreactivity features, with a new algorithm and signal fall-off features. This gives
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows how to create a 360/VR Virtual Dolly in Post with 360° footage using Mantra VR and Premiere Pro. This is a really powerful effect, similar to a Ken Burns effect with images, but used
As you may already know, Skybox 360/VR plugins have been acquired and integrated into Adobe CC 2018. Many of the effects have changed names and locations in After Effects and Premiere Pro. In this quick overview, courtesy of Charles Yeager
Historic Treasures of the National Parks takes viewers on a 360/VR tour of America’s most famous, and sometimes endangered, historic sites!
When Death Valley National Park called on Gold Creek VR in 2016 they had a problem: Their most popular
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows how to create an Overcapture-style video in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 with an extreme wide angle POV for 16:9 final format. He takes it further with Mantra VR, which lets you create stylized
A Curious Mind is a Hulu VR exclusive, presented by Microsoft. It is a pop-science, cross-platform VR series that takes users on unforgettable immersive journeys, illuminating the most mind-blowing concepts science and nature have to offer. Led by Dominic Monaghan
Visionary skate video Director Ty Evans brings us his latest work, “The Flat Earth”, Friday December 8th. Self-taught, Ty is known for his breakthrough work over the last 2 decades, including Transworld Skateboarding videos such as Feedback (1999) and Modus
Award-winning Canadian pop-band “Hedley” brings us the music video for their recent hit Love Again in 360° format, produced by Occupied VR and presented by Samsung VR.
Toronto VR studio Occupied VR has extensive experience in 360/VR production, with
The Stretcher Effect from Mantra VR is a simple, yet powerful effect to be used in 360/VR post-production. Stretcher lets you easily create 360° Little Planet and Wormhole effects, transforming and interpolating your 360 footage, all keyframeable. Stretcher is also
Adding a Dolly in Post is a powerful storytelling technique for filmmakers, helping to draw the viewer’s attention and to create movement on a static shot. Now, thanks to the Mettle Mantra VR, this powerful effect can be easily
The Primitivz Effect is yet another powerful stylization effect from Mantra VR. Primitivz lets you transform your 360 footage into primitives (cubes, spheres, tetrahedrons etc.) in After Effects and Premiere Pro. As Charles Yeager demonstrates in his tutorial, there
The Mantra VR “Virtual Dolly” lets you add a Zoom in Post from a static 360° camera shot, in After Effects or Premiere Pro. This introduces a new technique to help drive narrative in 360/VR. In 2D Post-production you can
The Hyperbolix Effect is one of the most easily identifiable effects from Mantra VR. It creates a variety of Kaleidoscopic patterns with your 360/VR footage, on which you can control parameters like the pattern, evolution, position and more. Charles Yeager
Charles Yeager introduces one of his favorite effects from Mantra VR – the Turbulence Effect. When applied in a composition, the Turbulence Effect will seamlessly distort and ‘liquify’ the footage, creating twirls, reminiscing of the famous Starry Night painting from
The Graphix Effect is one of the more unique effects from Mantra VR. Graphix lets you add graphical elements to your 360° composition, elements that you can adjust and customize, as showcased by Charles Yeager in this tutorial.
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The Mantra VR Twirl effect, creates a seamless transformation into a spiral effect inside your 360° footage. This effect works well when used in combination with the other Effects from Mantra VR and creates various interesting visuals when adjusting its
As you may be aware by now, SkyBox plugins have been acquired by Adobe and integrated into Adobe CC 2018. We have prepared a chart so that you can quickly reference how the plugins have been integrated.
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The Mobius Rotate Effect is one of the more unique effects from Mantra VR in terms of the power and possibilities it offers.
With the Mobius Rotate effect from Mantra VR, it is now possible to create Overcapture-style videos with
The Mirrors Effect from Mantra VR adds one or multiple mirrors reflecting the footage behind them in your 360° composition. As Charles Yeager puts it in the Tutorial, the Effect works much like the Magnifying Glass effect, for which it
The Esher Droste Effect in Mantra VR creates an infinite spiral in your 360 Composition. This spiral can be keyframed in many ways and its parameters modified to create different effects. Charles Yeager goes through some of these effects in
The Mantra VR Magnifying Glass effect can be used to help focus the viewer’s attention, and also for unique effects such as a searchlight. Charles Yeager illustrates some of those in this tutorial. The effect simulates one ore more
The Repeater Effect from Mantra VR is great for creating seamless, visually dynamic patterns with 360° footage, and is ideal for creating a title sequence. It is a fairly simple effect to understand, that will repeat the footage of your
Adobe has announced the release of Adobe CC 2018. It has many great new features, including 360/VR editing capabilities due to the SkyBox integration. The great news is that our plugins Mantra VR, FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE are
Adobe has just unveiled the latest update to its Creative Cloud – Find out more details here. We’ve prepared a list of the latest features below.
As of October 18, 2017,
