Curious gFx

Curious gFx is the latest addition to the Curious Software platform: a powerful integrated paint, rotoscoping and compositing system for video, HDTV and film. Taking full advantage of the latest generations of PC and Mac® hardware, and offering fully integrated real-time video support, gFx delivers the highest professional performance and quality to the desktop.

Designed specifically to meet the exacting needs of television and film production, gFx combines a sophisticated rich feature set with the intuitive ease-of-use familiar to users of Curious products.

Graphics professionals and visual effects artists in all fields will find that gFx provides an enormous boost in efficiency, and offers countless possibilities for producing ever more striking and engaging content.

Television Broadcasters

For television broadcasters, gFx is the perfect companion to Curious World Maps. Entirely integrated into version 4.0 of World Maps, gFx fits seamlessly into your workflow. Now you can make full use of your Windows® or Mac platform, allowing efficient and creative production of all types of news graphic in a single graphics environment – at standard definition or HD.

The user interface is designed for fast operation with moving content, including integrated support of real-time video input and output. Everything – paint, rotoscoping, animation and compositing – is entirely integrated, allowing fast creation of anything from content source elements through to multi-layered effects. You can paint directly in the composite stack – even on transformed layers, or work off line to build up a library of content elements.
gFx offers a comprehensive toolset of paint brushes, text, shape, cutout and masking tools, rotoscoping, keying and over 100 image filters, color correctors and effects, all in an intuitive multi-layered compositing and animation framework.

gFx also extends the template technology pioneered in Curious World Maps. Once a graphic sequence has been designed, the content can be changed at the touch of a button, and all animation, image effects and composites are retained. Work never needs to be repeated just because the source material changes. Even with the most complex multi-layered effects, you can have a new piece with new content ready for air in minutes.

Video Post-Production

The same rich feature set is a valuable addition to any video post-production graphics suite. Not only does it provide an extremely powerful platform for production of motion graphics and visual effects, but gFx’s extremely sophisticated rotoscoping tools let you move the manually intensive work off expensive dedicated systems and onto a standard desktop machine – and do a better job!

Roto-matting, wire removal, retouching and composite tests can all be accomplished more efficiently, and often at much higher quality.

Film Visual Effects

gFx also offers a wide range of tools designed specifically to meet the precise demands of the film visual effects market – focused on painting, rotoscoping, wire and rig removal and image processing – all supporting full 16 bit per component image depth.

Roto-mattes are created using highly sophisticated multi-layered shape-based rotoscoping (with polygon, Bezier or B-Splines). Individual keyframing control is available for every point of every shape. Motion blur can be applied automatically, or edge blurs can be added selectively for every point under the control of the operator. The shape creation tools are complemented by the ability to paint mattes directly, and by a large number of matte extraction methods based on image content.

Painting and retouch functionality includes a comprehensive range of built-in brushes, and a powerful brush editor for creating user-defined brushes. Working at resolutions of up to 6k, artists can create multi-layered matte paintings or image sequences, blend in computer-generated or real-life elements, apply filters, color corrections and procedural effects – all in a clear and intuitive user interface where the picture always takes center stage.

For wire and rig removal, gFx offers sub-pixel merge and clone brushes, allowing elements to be copied and blended within the same image, or from any location in any image in a different sequence (or the same sequence). The source image can also be freely scaled and rotated. gFx is available in a number of configurations designed to meet your precise requirements.

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