Mettle is having a special event during NAB WEEK. The Mettle Facebook page will have Live demos and tutorials, Monday April 9th, 10th and 11th at 10 am PST. Hosted by award-winning animator Jonathan Winbush, we’ll get to see his
Internationally renowned artist James White runs the Signalnoise studio out of Dartmouth, Nova-Scotia. He is one of five influential artists invited to participate in “Vegas: Alter your Reality”, an innovative campaign for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm) shows us how to create a Dr. Strange-inspired cityscape in After Effects CC 2018 with Mantra VR. This technique uses the recently added support for RGBA, part of a free Mantra VR update. Charles shows how
In this Facebook Live demo, Jonathan Winbush (WInbush.tv) gives us a look at his 360/VR workflow with Adobe After Effects and Mantra VR on Mix Master Mike’s “MOONBASE INVASION (ReMix). Specifically, we see his 360/VR workflow with the
Fafi is an international artist who began her work as pure graffiti, drawing innocent/erotic girls called Fafinettes, and has risen to achieve critical and commercial success. She is one of five influential artists invited to participate in “Vegas: Alter
Adhemas Batista is an influential Brazilian artist with a vibrant pop-culture style that can be seen in work for companies like Coke, Burger King and Puma. He’s one of five artists invited to create their own 360 art experience as
“The Door” is a 3D 180/VR Psych-Thriller from filmmaker Ed Davis (Underbelly). The film plays with the viewers gaze, uses subtle camera moves and trips the viewer from objective bystander to First person view and back again, similar
When Turner Classic Movies chose to broaden their fan base for Film Noir, they decided to partner with the design team at Sprocket Creative to create a 7-episode 360° Whodunnit.
Utilizing 360° technology available on desktop and VR devices, TCM
The following is a reprint of an interview by VeeR TV with Mettle CEO and Co-founder Nancy Eperjesy. Special thanks to VeeR’s Mina Bradley for the interview! Read the original on VeeR.
“Having interviewed over 100 content creators for
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows how to combine Stereoscopic and Monoscopic 360° footage in the same video, using the Adobe Immersive Video tools (formerly the Mettle Skybox tools) in Premiere Pro CC 2018.
Charles uses VR Projection, from
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) shows two different methods for adding subtitles to 360 footage. The first method uses the integrated SkyBox 360/VR tools in CC 2018. The second method uses Mantra VR Graphix effect, which speeds up and automates the process.
We take a deep dive into “The Flat Earth” short 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 interviews Ty, and
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