My old FlareFactoryPlus gizmo was great. But I knew I could make it BETTER!

So now it’s time to let the new version of Flare Factory out of the bag! I’ve been keeping it under wraps over the last year while it’s been put through it’s paces on various studio projects. But now it’s time to share!

Easy to create and use flares are a notorious blind spot in Nuke. There are a couple of tools that have come out to fill this gap like Andrew Kramer’s new Nuke version of his Optical Flares tool. But it’s really expensive, and that makes it prohibitive for studio artists. Typically out in the wild, if your Director wants a lens flare, then you’ll need to just make it yourself!

So that’s what the new Flare Factory is here to do. It’s been completely rewritten and restructured under the hood to not only make it lighter, but also give you the ability to mix and match flare elements to create something completely unique. While at the same time giving you built in presets that you can then take and customize even more! Think of it as the lens flare version of Legos.

It also has tools to apply various types of curve based animation, built in flare dynamics based on real world camera artifacts so they behave realistically, and features all new Flare presets.

So give it a try! I think you’ll love it. I know it saved my butt more times than I can count over the past few shows.

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