Tim Wharton, Chief Engineer, Rushes “WE HAVE FOUND THE FOUNDRY’S SPARKS TO BE “WE HAVE FOUND THE CREATIVE PROCESS. THE WIDE GREAT ASSETS IN OUR TINDER TOOLS HELP US TO ARRAY OF FURNACE AND RANGING FROM SIMPLE RIG EFFICIENTLY ATTACK JOBS DESIGN WORK.” REMOVALS TO COMPLEX Riot Andy Davis, VFX Supervisor, RESULTS “TINDER DELIVERS PROFESSIONAL QUALITY USER WITH FAST RENDER TIMES, AND IT HAS A GREAT RUSHES.” INTERFACE. WE USE TINDER EVERY DAY AT TINDER is a powerful suite of 2D plug-ins, delivering delivering effects plug-ins, suite of 2D visual is a powerful TINDER digital in producing involved for artists creative possibilities unlimited and video. lm images for fi of some of the industry’s the creative capabilities Designed to enhance incredibly versatile platforms, TINDER is an leading compositing effects, a bunch of a vast array of fast, organic collection featuring and warpers. Opt for and a host of blurs, generators every day tools or add your unique touch cation with hundreds of presets instant gratifi If you are involved in post of adjustable parameters. with a multitude suite of visual effects plug-ins is a valuable production, this astounding addition to any VFX arsenal. to download the software and obtain a Go to www.thefoundry.co.uk free 15 day trial. TINDER, CREATE YOUR VISION… YOUR CREATE TINDER,

Established in 1996, The Foundry is a leading developer of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity and workfl ow in fi lm and video post production.

The Foundry has grown considerably since its early days; we now successfully license our sophisticated image processing technology to third parties, hold a portfolio comprising three Academy Award® winning products including high-end compositing application and operate offi ces in London and Los Angeles. Our innovative products are renowned worldwide and support a wide range of host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Baselight, Film Master, Fusion, Scratch, FCP and of course our own - Nuke.

In addition to product development The Foundry has used its considerable infl uence to drive the development of an open standard for visual effects plug-ins known as OpenFX. OpenFX is gaining wide acceptance by host and plug-in developers, such as Autodesk®, Assimilate, Digital Vision, eyeon Software, FilmLight, Grass Valley, Soluciones Grafi cas por Ordenador (S.G.O.), Photron and others.

Other products from The Foundry…Take a look at Furnace; wire, rig and fl icker removal, a world-class retimer, grain management, dust-busting, image stabilisation, auto rotoscoping, image segmentation and much more. Furnace features a whole host of plug-ins, which you’ll fi nd yourself using on a daily basis. If you are looking for a stunning collection of 2D visual effects look no further than Tinder and Tinderbox; incredibly versatile collections featuring a vast array of fast, organic effects, a bunch of everyday tools and a host of blurs, generators and warpers. If it’s a superior blue/greenscreen keyer that you are after, check out Keylight.

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EFFECTS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION… THE FROM HIGHLIGHTS smooth out the appearance of colour banding on 8 bit images or apply camera shake with Wobble. BLURS EFFECTS GENERATORS TOOLS WARPERS

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DirBlur BumpShade Diffuse Glow Paint Tint Fire Fractal Grad Degrain Droplet

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GradientBlur Cartoon DiffusionBlur HeatHaze PseudoColour Tile LensFlare Grain Lens

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LensBlur Chromatic EdgeDetect Kaleid Qube Trail Lightning NightSky MuzzleFlash MatteTool Polar

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RadialBlur SpinBlur Condensation Etch Mosaic Rays Turner Pattern Plasma Rain Median Pond

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TINDER includes: BLURS • Blur • BlurChannels • BlurMasked • CircularBlur • DirBlur • GradientBlur • LensBlur • LensBlurComp • RadialBlur • Silk • SpinBlur • EFFECTS • BadTV • Bandlimit • BumpShade • Cartoon • Chromatic • Condensation • Contour • CrashZoom • Diffuse • DiffusionFilter • DoubleVision • EdgeBlock • EdgeDetect • Etch • Flatten • Glass • Glow • HeatHaze • Kaleid • MeltTime • Mix • Mosaic • MotionDetect • Newsprint • OldFilm • Paint • Pong • PseudoColour TINDER... IMAGE IS EVERYTHING • Qube • Rays • RomanMosaic • Shaft • Starburst • Strobe • Stutter • Tile • TimeBlend • Tint • Trail • Turner • TVDots • GENERATORS • Bars • Beam • Blob • Caustic • Clouds • Elements • Fire • Fractal • Grad • Laser • LensFlare • Lightning • MuzzleFlash • NightSky • Pattern • Plasma • Rain • Shape • Sky • Starfi eld • TOOLS • ColBalance • Compare • CompareMotion • Contrast • CopyFlicker • Crop • Deband • Defi eld • Defl icker • Degrain • Dilate • Grain • Levels • MatteTool • Median • MinMax • MixMatte • Noise • Rewire • Sonic • Split • Wipe • Wobble • WARPERS • Distorto • Droplet • Lens • Polar • Pond • Ripple • Swirl • Warp