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Grant Kay

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Grant Kay is a Senior Training Development Specialist for Smoke & Flame Premium. Based in the United Kingdom, Grant has spent the past 10.5 years supporting the editing and VFX communities worldwide from within Autodesk. Prior to working at Autodesk, Grant worked for 10 years in the TV/film effects and editing industries in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Currently, Grant’s responsibilities include all training aspects surrounding Flame Premium and Smoke. This includes running training workshops, creating training content, instructional videos, workflow consultations, operational support and operational training. Grant is also an Autodesk Certified Instructor in Smoke and Flame. While a “Go To Guy” for all things Flame and Smoke, he also has a broader knowledge of other applications and production workflows.

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Autodesk Smoke: Action Render Outputs

You've learnt how to create render passes from Autodesk Maya. Now see how you can create render passes directly out of the Action 3D compositor using the Render Outputs for incredible flexibility and tweaking! Check…

Posted: Feb 02, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 0
Views: 371
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POPULAR -- Autodesk Smoke: The Avid AAF Conforming Workflow

With Autodesk Smoke on the Mac, you can easily work with other Mac-based video editing applications like Avid Media Composer. Conforming timelines from Avid Media Composer is an easy process that allows you to bring…

Posted: Jan 27, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 9
Views: 7306
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POPULAR -- Autodesk Smoke: Conforming Final Cut Pro 7 XML Timelines

With Autodesk Smoke on the Mac, working with other Mac-based video editing applications like Final Cut Pro 7 is quite straight forward. Conforming timelines from Final Cut Pro 7 is an easy process that allows you to…

Posted: Jan 27, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 23
Views: 7522
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Autodesk Smoke For Final Cut Pro Users - Overview Video Series

One blog post containing all the videos from the video series that looks at Autodesk Smoke with Final Cut Pro users in mind. Hosted by Grant Kay and Final Cut Pro editor, Rick Young.

Posted: Jan 27, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 8
Views: 2296
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Autodesk Smoke: Expressions - Ramping Animation

Another expressions tip from the Smoke Learning Channel. Ramp up your animation intensity and timing by multiplying curves together with a simple expression. A great way to control multiple animation channels on one…

Posted: Jan 26, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 3
Views: 1170
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Creating a Maya Motion Vector Pass for Autodesk Smoke

This video shows how you would go about setting up and creating a Motion Vector render pass in Maya to be used to create Motion Blurring effects in Autodesk Smoke. Focusing mainly in Autodesk Maya, we'll examine the…

Posted: Jan 22, 2012
Category: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk…
Comments: 3
Views: 753