It's our 40th episode! Julik Tarkhanov takes us through the principles of 3d tracking and how to use Syntheyes, from a Flame Artist's perspective. He also showed two MIND BLOWING tricks! Hands down, one of the best Logik Live presentations we've ever had!

What a fantastic time! We announced a bunch of great stuff today:

• The winners of the Time Farrell Jargon Contest

• Logik.tv is now on Patreon!

• Everyone talked about the tools they wish were in Flame (spoiler alert: Paint was mentioned)

• We announced the first Logik.tv Renderdome Battle! Andy Dill vs Andy Milkis live from the BorisFX Arena on Jan 30th!

Happy New Year Logik Friends! In this episode I chat with the incredible Thiago Porto from MPCNY. Thiago has been exploring new ways that Machine Learning can be used in VFX production for a couple of years now. He comes on the show to tell us about his latest and greatest.

Andriy Toloshny was able to wrap the 2020-RIFE ML Timewarp tool into a python script, which we’ve distributed on the Forum. Sign up now at http://forum.logik.tv

It's our first ever Holiday Celebration! I was joined by 20+ members of the Logik Community including several past guests from all over the world. It was a great way to close out a very memorable year.

I proudly present the King of Conform, the Master of Repo, the Viscount of Versioning, the Emperor of Expressions - The irreplaceable, unflappable and always brilliant Tim Farrell! Tim shares 4 amazing tips, some incredible stories and all the schtick you could ever ask for!

My guest this week: The man, the myth, the legend! Autodesk's Grant Kay! We'll chat about his career, the Flame Learning Channel, and what goes in to creating his fantastic flame-related content. Plus, I introduce Michael Vaglienty's Portal for Logik.tv! Install & share Python Scripts, Logik Matchbox Shaders and Batch Setups, all inside Flame!

Dan Harvey and Ross Shain of BorisFX join us to show off the new Powermesh and AdjustTrack 2.0 features of Mocha Pro 2021.

It was absolutely devastating to hear that our friend and colleague, Ivar Beer, passed away suddenly last week. Today we got together to remember our dear friend.

It's a Flame Double Feature! Will Harris, Flame Family Product Manager is going to take us through the new features in Flame 2021.2. Then, Andy Dill will take us through all the amazing things you can do with the Comp node and take a look at different stabilizing techniques

In this episode of Logik Live Valentine Andreev of Kyiv, Ukraine, takes us through the complex world of Color Management. It's a great primer, covering everything from how your eyes perceive color to an understanding of color spaces. He also shows some practical examples in Resolve.

We had a great social hour on Logik Live today. Randy brought us up to speed on the Forum, Andy showed off a shot breakdown of how he made a dog sing, and Jeff & Simon each won a Logik Phone Charger!

It's easy to think of a Flame Assistant as a junior, but don't be fooled! Amanda Elliott has made a successful career as a Flame Assistant, and she's joining me on Logik Live to discuss her career and give us insight on her job. A must watch for anyone who's looking to get into the Flame business or expand their skillset.

The Event of the Year! Join me and my co-host Grant Kay as we reveal the winners of the One Frame of White 2020 Contest! A wonderful collection of artists from around the world join us to talk about their entries.

It's our first One Frame of White Reunion Show! Join me and my guests Greg-Paul Malone (2014), Deron Hoffmeyer (2015), Gabriel Garrido (2016) and Kaelem Cahill (2017). We chat about their winning entries, the challenges that they overcame and how OFoW helped introduce them into the greater Flame community.

Christoph Zapletal returns to show us some amazing beauty techniques with Flame. He begins with a look at A2Beauty, then moves on to the GMask Tracer and it's powerful built in keyer. Christoph then covers his 6 favorite Matchbox nodes for beauty and then closes out with showing how he uses Motion Vectors as a Warp Stabilizer. One of the best Logik Live sessions we've ever had!

Our friends at BorisFX needed to postpone the Mocha Deep Dive to prep some amazing new features, so this week you're getting the Andy & Randy show! Andy i shows some great tips for using the new ML Face Extraction tool for retouching, and Randy is going to take us through the features of the new Forum at forum.logik.tv

Flame Family Product Owner Fred Warren returns to Logik Live! We chat about his background, Flame development, the importance of user feedback and how he came to learn the ins & outs of every button in Flame. Plus, Fred answers user questions about features, frustrations and all things Flame!

What a truly special event! No demos, no shot breakdowns, just an opportunity for everyone to socialize. Also we had two BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Randy McEntee and I launched forum.logik.tv! We now have our own site to share knowledge and original content!

2. One Frame of White is back! Be a part of the greatest creative challenge of all time: Make anything you can think of but only using the tools in Flame! First prize is a LOADED Dell 7750 Workstation laptop with a 2.8GHz Intel Xeon Processor and an NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPU w/16GB VRAM, 128GB RAM and 2 SSDs, courtesy of Autodesk, Dell, Intel and NVIDIA! Plus a host of other great prizes from AJA, BorisFX, Cinesys.io, ActionVFX.com and fxPHD. For rules and registration visit www.oneframeofwhite.com

My guests this week are Alan Latteri and Jesse Morrow of Instinctual in LA. They're going to show how they use Shotgun in production with Flame. Shotgun is an amazing diverse tool and capable of so much more than just shot and task management. Check out how Alan and Jesse leverage it to maximize the efficiency of their workflow! Alex Arce from Autodesk will be with us to answer any questions you may have about using Shotgun with flame!

It's Part 2 of Building Your Flame Business at Home. As a follow up to Renee Tymn's fab presentation last week, Randy is going to cover the tech side of the at-home Flame business: What machine to buy, how to keep it up and running and everything in between. Randy will dive deep into Mac vs. Linux, SSD vs NVME vs HDD storage, backup and archiving options, client presentation options...and more! He gets specific with numbers and stats - but all framed under the most important question: What type of Flame business are you looking to run.

Logik Live is sponsored by CineSys-Oceana. To find out more about their remote workflow solutions visit https://cinesys.io