Reflection: Recap of the Year 2023
Boris FX Suite Expands with New Releases and Innovations
In a series of exciting updates, Boris FX has been enhancing its suite of visual effects and motion graphics tools throughout 2023 and 2024. The latest updates focus on improved performance, new and enhanced effects, a streamlined user interface, and advanced tracking and masking capabilities.
The cornerstone of these updates is Boris FX Sapphire 2025. This version offers a performance boost, richer effects, a more efficient user interface, and sophisticated tracking and masking tools. These updates aim to help users work faster and with greater precision on visual effects and motion graphics.
In May, Particle Illusion Standalone, a free product, was released. This tool offers a range of particle effects that can be used to create stunning visuals for various projects.
In April, the Boris FX Suite was expanded with the release of CrumplePop. This new product within the suite offers AI-driven audio restoration and quick-fix tools, providing a significant boost to the suite's audio capabilities. CrumplePop 2024 features significant sound quality boosts on its noise, traffic, wind, rustle & clipping removal tools due to next-gen AI models.
In June, Continuum FCP: 2023.5 and CrumplePop 2023.5 were released. The 2024 release of Continuum includes a DeNoise ML effect, an UpRes ML effect, and the ability to generate custom AI sprites inside Particle Illusion.
Silhouette, another product within the suite, includes a Stability Node (2023), a DeNoiser ML node (2023), and an UpRes ML node (2023.5) for removes and painting tasks, grain management, and scaling clips respectively.
August saw the release of SynthEyes, a new product within the Boris FX Suite that provides fast 3D tracking and match moving tools for visual effects artists.
In the same month, Mocha VEGAS, Continuum FCP - Lens Flares, and Continuum FCP - Light Flicker were also released.
The Boris FX Hub, launched in October, offers a seamless, user-friendly experience for installing products, managing licenses, staying current with releases, and taking free trials. It is available for download for both Windows and Mac.
Boris FX has also been offering a range of Essentials training series, including Continuum Essentials, Silhouette Essentials (broken into two tracks: rotoscoping and compositing), Sapphire Essentials, Mocha Pro Essentials, and Particle Illusion Essentials. These resources are designed to help users make the most out of Boris FX products. Active Boris FX Suite subscribers get free access to the premium downloads of all Essential training series.
It's worth noting that Boris FX products have been used in popular TV shows and videos such as The Last Of Us, Ted Lasso, Hawkeye, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Jonkari P's meme videos, and more.
In summary, the core product innovation centers around Boris FX Sapphire 2025 with its performance boost, richer effects, streamlined UI, and advanced visual tracking/masking features introduced during 2023-2024 and refined into 2025. The Boris FX Hub provides a convenient platform for managing these and other Boris FX products.
- With the latest updates, the Boris FX Suite now offers a range of particle effects that can be used to create stunning visuals for various projects, such as Particle Illusion.
- The integration of next-gen AI models in CrumplePop 2024 has significantly improved the audio capabilities of the Boris FX Suite, providing AI-driven audio restoration and quick-fix tools.
