Join us this week on Logik Live as we kick off a special two-part series all about Matchbox Shaders! These powerful GLSL shaders are a must-have for any Flame artist, offering limitless possibilities for image manipulation—from color grading and texture generation to skin retouching and additive keying. In this episode, I’m excited to be joined by two expert Flame Artists: Sinan Vural from Oslo, Norway, and Vermont's own Andy Dill. Together, we'll explore some of their go-to Matchbox Shaders and how they seamlessly incorporate them into everyday compositing tasks. Tune in to discover new tips and tricks that could transform your workflow!

My guest this week is Conner Stirling from Massive.io (MASV), which is widely recognized as the fastest file transfer service specifically designed for media professionals. Conner will be demonstrating Massive.io's innovative "one-to-many" workflow, showcasing how it can streamline your file transfer processes. Additionally, he will be available to answer all your questions related to file transfer, providing valuable insights and practical tips to enhance your understanding of the service.

This week on Logik Live, we're diving into Logik Projekt, an innovative pipeline solution for Flame created by Phil Man. Designed to streamline workflows, Logik Projekt handles every aspect of the production process—from project creation to versioning, color management, postings, and archiving. Whether you’re a solo artist or collaborating with a team worldwide, Logik Projekt offers the tools to keep your projects organized and efficient.

Joining Phil are VFX artists Drew Downes (Sydney), Brian Willard (Chicago), and Josh Laurence (New Jersey). Together, they’ll be demonstrating the power of remote collaboration in real time, connecting seamlessly with Phil in LA—all powered by Logik Projekt. Don’t miss this chance to see how Logik Projekt can transform your workflow!

This week we dive into the wonderful world of VFX Paint with two incredible artists at the top of their game. Katie Morris has multiple tutorial series on Paint on fxphd and Boris FX, and a truly endless list of Blockbuster credits. Jan Klier is a renaissance man of Finishing who has seen and done it all, with a breadth of experience spanning everything from feature films to commercials to corporate videos. Whether you’re just dipping your big toe into Paint for VFX or you’re a seasoned professional, there’s sure to be something for everyone on this week’s show.

The Flame Development Team is back to talk about the latest and greatest Flame has to offer in the 2025.1 Update. Senior Product Owners Fred Warren and Stephane Labrie will be joining us once again to talk about all of the new features and capabilities, including Machine Learning Timewarp, the Frequency Node, enhanvements to the Marker & Colour Coding systems, and a number of hardware + driver updates.

This week we meet with Flame Artist Marc Wellington, who will be taking us through a recent pharmaceutical job of his. He’ll be going through his color grading process, green screen shots, as well as explaining how he rebuilt a Cinema 4D animation inside of Action!

Bryan Bayley dives into the lesser-known world of Preferences, Presets, and Hotkeys in Flame 2025, highlighting some hidden gems that you might not be aware of. We’ll also cover some of Bryan’s favorite custom hotkeys that might inspire you to maximize your own efficiencies. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow or explore new ways to optimize your setup, this episode is jam-packed with valuable insights.

Our look at the new Flame 2025 Release continues! Senior Product Owner Stephane Labrie returns to Logik Live to go over the remaining new features in Flame 2025, and to give us an overview of all of the infrastructure improvements, supported cameras, codecs and hardware that made it into the 2025 release.

Coming to you all the way from beautiful Montreal, Frédéric Warren returns to Logik Live to talk about the Flame 2025 release. We covered some of the new features, including match grain, lens distortion, and the ST Map node, all from the dev perspective.

My guest this week is Flame Artist Alter Oktay. Alper has been posting some incredible tutorials lately, and the lineup that he has planned for Logik Live is nothing less than spectacular:

•Modeling a 3D Bottle in Flame

•Motion Vector Mapping - Datamoshing Transitions

My guest this week is John Geehreng, Flame Artist from Uppercut in New York. John is coming on Logik Live to show us how he is using Python scripting to automate his workflow. Everything from Project Creation to shot publishing, renaming, Frame.io Integration, Delivery and much, much more! If you’ve ever been curious as to how Python can simplify your Flame workflow you do not want to miss this!

It’s time for the ol’ informal get-together of “What’s Everyone Working On!” Whether it's breakthroughs in your work, challenges you've faced, or just some cool tips and tricks you've discovered, this episode is all about sharing, learning from each other, and catching up. It's a great opportunity to see what everyone's been up to and say hello. This is your chance to share insights, discuss the current state of hardware and software, or talk about your experiences and expectations for the year ahead.

Not even the Holiday Season can keep him away— yes that’s right, Randy McEntee is back yet again for the first episode of Logik Live in 2024! It’s January Comp Club over at Logik Academy Pro, and Randy will be taking us through the latest and greatest comp tips and tricks.

The man, the myth, the legend Randy McEntee is BACK for another installment of Comp Club! Over at Logik Academy Pro Randy has been running weekly challenges called “Comp Club”. On this week’s show Randy is going to take us through some recent Comp Club challenges.

At a typical Flame User Group meeting, the Devs from Autodesk present new features to users. Well, we are going to try something different - A “Reverse” User Group, where the Users present feature and workflow ideas to Fred and Stephane! A bunch of Logik users answered the call and Fred & Stephane are going to discuss them LIVE!

🔥 It’s the November Edition of Comp Club with Randy McEntee! 🔥

My partner-in-Flame Randy McEntee joins me for the start of a new monthly feature: Comp Club! Over at Logik Academy Pro Randy has been running weekly challenges called “Comp Club”. On this week’s show Randy is going to take us through some recent Comp Club challenges.

We are THRILLED to welcome back our good friend and brilliant Flame Artist Inti Martinez! Inti is going to take us through a particularly challenging green screen shot, and like all things Inti…it will be AMAZING!

On this episode of Logik Live we are Talking Storage with Doug Ricketts from Synology. Whether you are looking for a central NAS or a remote backup solution Synology has you covered. We are going to look at the several of the different hardware and software solutions that they offer to make the most out of your storage investment.