OCULA .0 available now...

Three years of collaborative research result in a major upgrade for OCULA.

Following three years of industry collaboration and artist feedback, OCULA 3.0 has arrived. Made to meet your requirements OCULA 3.0 is our most significant upgrade to date. Refined in production on ground breaking live action stereo projects including Avatar, TRON: Legacy, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, OCULA provides artists with a set of NUKE tools that assist with the integration of elements and help correct common stereo-3D defects.

OCULA 3.0 is our most significant upgrade to date. Stereo-3D has seen substantial growth in the three years since OCULA was launched and sustained collaboration with customers on ambitious stereo projects has provided the opportunity to considerably improve OCULA's efficiency and workflow.

OCULA 3.0 brings an all new disparity engine, new tools to help fix mis-focused camera pairs and retime in stereo as well as a range of workflow tweaks and improvements to improve day-to-day OCULA use dramatically. It is now cleaner and more accurate giving you better results from all OCULA operations.

Here is an overview and some new features.

Ocula 3.0: New Features

OCULA 3.0: Overview

AVATAR 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Images courtesy of Weta Digital.

TRON: LEGACY Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

DOLPHINS: Footage shot and supplied by Boomtown Productions Dubai

Right off the bat the results were getting from OCULA 3.0 are truly amazing. This is a major step up from OCULA 2.2. Jose Fernandez de Castro Heller, Senior Compositor, MPC Vancouver

I love the new disparity map algorithm in OCULA 3.0. We did tests using the depth map generated by OCULA to create digi-doubles of real live action in a CG snow storm to allow the FX team to blow snow particles around the people to get the correct holdout mattes in z-depth. We created geo from footage without building animated digital doubles.

Mark Van Den Bergen, Senior Compositor - Stereo, Dr D Studios

OCULA was a vital contributor to the success of Hugo. We used it on every single shot in one form or another. The new features in OCULA 3.0: a retimer, a focus matcher and vastly improved disparity generation make this a crucial piece of software for stereo compositing.

Micah Gallagher - Pixomondo

OCULA is available for NUKEX and NUKE.

See the OCULA product page for full details or to download a FREE trial.

Or, download the full press release here.

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