Commotion (animation)

Commotion is a visual effects application, originally released by Puffin Designs. Puffin Designs was founded by Scott Squires (Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic) and Forest Key to market Commotion.

Commotion set a high standard for a rotoscoping application, introducing rotosplines and offering features like motion tracking and motion blurring for masks. It was the first desktop application to allow real-time playback of full quality video clips from RAM.

Puffin Designs was later acquired by Pinnacle in 2000. After another release, Pinnacle let the program languish. Pinnacle has since been acquired by Avid, who shows no signs of reviving the product.

The last release was version 4.1.

Apple Computer briefly bundled a limited version of the program with Final Cut Pro.

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Digital compositing software

Open-source	Blender Cinelerra Kdenlive Natron OpenShot Shotcut

Closed-source	Adobe After Effects Apple Motion Autodesk 3ds Max Autodesk Inferno, Flame and Flint (IFF) Autodesk Maya Autodesk Smoke Aviary Peacock CompTime (ILM) FXhome HitFilm Saber (ILM) Houdini (Escape and Master Versions) Blackmagic Fusion Mistika Nuke Piranha SilhouetteFX

Discontinued	Autodesk Combustion Autodesk Softimage Autodesk Toxik Avid DS Avid Elastic Reality Avid Matador Avid Media Illusion Kodak Cineon FXhome Lab Range Pinnacle Commotion Silicon Grail's RAYZ and Chalice Shake

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