"Hype was indispensable for us on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, especially for the wide angle shots where we needed to put CG squirrels on the edge of frame. We tried all our off-the-shelf tracking software but they just did not model the lens distortion accurately enough. With Hype we got a perfect track first time and every time."
New! Watch Matthew give a demo of how easy it is to measure lens distortion using Hype. Get a real flavour for it by seeing it in action.
Requires Quicktime 7.
Hype is a revolutionary fully automatic system for measuring and compensating for lens distortion.
Hype for Shake add-on: Add or remove lens distortion accurately from within Apple's Shake compositing package.
Hype Batch add-on: Add or remove lens distortion with this command-line tool. Perfect for running on a renderfarm.
Hype Unleashed is a version of Hype designed for the larger visual effects facility who want to develop their own in-house tools that integrate tightly with Hype.
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Visual Appliance Limited, based in the UK and Australia, was formed in 2004 as a platform to launch Hype. more...
Visual Appliance Limited
PO Box 677
Paddington, NSW 2021
Australia
Visual Appliance Limited
Coldblows
Manston Road
Margate, Kent CT9 4LR
United Kingdom
Visual Appliance Limited, based in the UK and Australia, was formed in 2004 by Matthew Landauer and Philip Riddett as a platform to launch Hype.
Our philosophy at Visual Appliance is to make software that really works and is simple to use.
We strive to take a difficult problem, strip away the complexity and leave a simple solution.
Our software development process reflects this philosophy by heavily using modern agile methodologies.
Before forming Visual Appliance Matthew Landauer worked in research and development and software development at such visual effects facilities as The Computer Film Company (now Framestore-CFC), Manex Visual Effects, ESC Entertainment and Rising Sun Pictures. He has a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK.
Philip Riddett is a founding director of Visual Appliance Limited and a member of the Institute of Directors. Since being awarded a Bsc from Southampton University in 1994 Philip spent seven years in visual arts production and publishing.