New Releases: Upgraded Roto, Paint, and VFX Tool by Silhouette, Continuing Its Successful Streak
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Silhouette 2022, the latest version of the popular film and visual effects software, has been released with significant new features and improvements. This update enhances the software's capabilities in visual effects, motion tracking, and usability, making it a powerful tool for professional visual effects workflows.
Key New Features and Improvements
Integration of High-End Plugins
Silhouette 2022 has integrated high-end plugins like Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Particle Illusion. Sapphire, known for its high-quality lighting and texture effects, offers over 270 effect nodes, thousands of presets, and Hollywood's favourite lighting effects, lens flares, and glows. Mocha Pro brings advanced planar motion tracking, organic PowerMesh tracking, object removal, and image stabilization to Silhouette. Particle Illusion, a powerful real-time particle generator, allows for the creation of realistic particle animations with 3D emitters, fluid dynamics, and a large preset library.
Improved User Interface and Usability
The updated user interface in Silhouette 2022 includes an adaptive menu for easier selection and tool switching, optimized for better workflow. Visibility of sketches has also been enhanced when working with non-normal camera angles, improving usability in complex designs.
Enhanced Export Options
Silhouette 2022 now allows users to export USDZ files with materials and textures for augmented reality applications on iPadOS and macOS. Visualization tools are now available on Windows, enabling realistic material rendering directly within the software.
New Features and Tools
Other new features include construction sketches, which allow users to mark sketch geometry for guidance without generating closed shapes. Layout options have been expanded with circular pattern for the Pattern tool and improved dimension annotation with basic calculation support. Performance improvements have been made, such as faster loading and moving of complex sketch fills, and bug fixes to enhance stability.
Pricing and Availability
Silhouette 2022 is available as an annual or monthly subscription, permanent license, or upgrade, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. The monthly subscription cost for the multihost plugin is $100, and the annual subscription cost is $495. The single license cost for the multihost plugin is $1095.
Notable Usage
Silhouette 2022 has been used on blockbuster titles such as Dune, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and The Mandalorian. For media inquiries regarding Silhouette 2022, contact Jessie Electa Petrov at jessiep@pur socials.com or 617-451-9900.
In addition to these features, Silhouette 2022 offers useful image processing filters like magic sharp, beauty studio, and dynamic blur filters. It also includes a branding toolkit and a new node, InPaint, which removes objects and creates clean plates without manual painting.
With these plugins and features, Silhouette 2022 is positioned as a powerful compositing and rotoscoping tool, benefiting from the combined strengths of Boris FX’s industry-leading technologies Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Particle Illusion integrated directly into the software. These improvements in usability and augmented reality export also extend its utility in broader design and visualization contexts.
Technology enhancements in Silhouette 2022 include the integration of high-end plugins like Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Particle Illusion, offering advanced lighting and texture effects, motion tracking, object removal, and real-time particle generation. Silhouette 2022 also provides improved image processing filters, such as magic sharp, beauty studio, and dynamic blur filters, further showcasing its technology advancements.
