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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Chris Holmes has spent the greater part of the last seven years touring the world with Sir Paul McCartney as his show opening DJ. Videos from his recent DJ sets for McCartney One on One Tour use Mettle Mantra VR
Last week marked the 4th Edition of the Oculus Connect Conference (OC4) and a lot of big VR-related news came out for Oculus and Facebook during that event.
We’ve prepared a list of the most important pieces of news from
USA today, for its VRtually There series, had the chance to fly in the cockpit of one of only two surviving B-29 planes that are still flying. Nicknamed FIFi, she’s basically a flying museum, maintained and piloted by the
Swiss alpine gear provider Mammut partnered with CONCEPT360 and German ad agency Heye to promote its latest line of alpine gear – the Eiger Extreme Collection. The 360/VR project “Mammut – Eiger Extreme 360° Experience” showcases extreme
Rose Colored is a haunting VR short film that was scripted specifically for the 360 medium. It successfully engages the viewer in a futuristic story where the world is auto-corrected through technology. Writer/director Adam Cosco uses cuts, POV shots, tracks,
Does It Make a Sound was created by the Australian-based animation studio Poke The Bear. The title sequence for the prestigious Semi-Permanent conference in Sidney was made using Getty royalty-free 360 stock footage combined with CG character animations. All
In this tutorial, Charles Yeager shows how to use GEOLayers 2 with SkyBox tools to create 360 videos. Using GEOLayers 2 and Mettle FreeForm Pro, you can create 3D map landscapes right inside After Effects. This also enables us to
Chasing the World VR is a culmination of Daniel Bury’s passions – world travel, filmmaking, and friendships with people from distinct cultures around the world. Completely self-funded, he traveled solo for the past year and a half with several 360
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows how to create a Peripheral Effect on a 360 video using SkyBox Studio V2, SkyBox 360/VR Post FX and After Effects. This 360 vignette effect is an easy way to draw the viewer’s
DJ Mix Master Mike takes a brief pause from touring with Metallica on the World Wired Tour to present the World Premiere of “MOONBASE INVASION Remix” at Siggraph 2017. Mettle is proud to host the event at our Booth #1211,
Nick Bicanic (CEO of RVLVR) presents his views on the state of VR Experiences, and which one will win out. He looks at the Uncanny Valley of VR; the more the storyteller or game-designer wants to immerse the viewer in
Creating quality immersive experiences in the continually evolving landscape of VR requires a working knowledge of all the available tools and techniques. Legend VR Supervisors Ryan Cummins and Mike Hopkinson discuss the important choices and considerations to make when creating
Mix Master Mike follows up the great success of his first music VR Experience, Magma Chamber VR, with another powerful VR experience, “MOONBASE INVASION”. Mettle is honoured to play a supporting role with our 360/VR plugins, which are used
Brazilian Rapper Nobre San’s VR Music Video for “Já Posso Destruir o Planeta?” (Destroy The Planet, Already) is an amazing 360° experience. Produced by Marcelo Henrique of QG3D, it’s visually rich, using multiple CG sets, with a 4-month production
Linienflug Design produced a VR Experience for their customer Konica Minolta. The creative mandate was to show office life in the future, as realised with Konica Minolta technologies and expertise. The resulting VR Experience, “Workplace of the Future”, was
Follow the updated instructions below to install Oculus Home and Revive to use your HTC Vive with SkyBox VR Player. This lets you work with Mettle 360/VR plugins in Premiere Pro and After Effects, with 360 previews through the
Chapter 4.4. In this final video, we view our finished 360 video on a browser, where it has been uploaded to Youtube. It can also be viewed in an HMD, and on a 360 Smartphone.
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