Digital Anarchy has launched a new update to Beauty Box, with new AI-based masks for digital makeup and skin retouching. Beauty Box AI is claimed to allow video editors to limit shine removal to skin areas, creating a better-looking image.
Some of the new capabilities in the latest release of Beauty Box AI include:
- Shine Removal: Beauty Box updated Shine Removal addresses issues with clipped highlights that would sometimes affect white areas that should not be de-shined. With Beauty Box 6.0, an AI face mask is automatically created and applied to prevent other areas from being affected by the shine removal settings, such as eyes and teeth, making it easy to apply the effect only on the subject’s skin areas.
- Multiple plugins: The retouching and shine removal features are now separate plugins. This allows the video editor to have different masks for skin retouching and shine removal. This also makes them easier to use, with a simpler UI, if you just need one or the other.
- Easy Skin Smoothing and Retouching for Video: The Skin Smoothing controls in the Beauty Box Video plugin work together to smooth over wrinkles and blemishes in a subject’s skin tones. The three main controls make it simple to adjust the amount of retouching, from very subtle to more airbrushed, and choose what works best for your footage. Beauty Box Video keeps the important features of the face sharp while reducing or eliminating wrinkles and blemishes.
- Automatic Masking: When users click ‘Analyze Frame’ to have Beauty Box Video analyze footage and set skin tones, these tones get tracked throughout the footage through an automatic process that creates accurate masks that adjust as the subject moves and speaks.
- Fast Rendering: Beauty Box supports Apple Metal, Nvidia CUDA, and OpenCL, enabling real-time or near real-time playback with Nvidia and AMD graphics cards as well as Apple’s M series of chips, delivering incredibly fast rendering regardless of platform or host application.
Jason Bowdach, C.S.H, recently worked with Digital Anarchy to produce a music video that relied on Digital Anarchy Beauty Box to eliminate a common issue when shooting music videos – shine.
Jason Bowdach, C.S.H is a freelance colorist and finishing artist based in Los Angeles, California. With a background in color science and workflow development, Jason provides a unique combination of both technical and creative insight that is only furthered by his passion and dedication towards his craft. His color and finishing work spans the gamut, having collaborated with well-established brands such as Netflix, Disney, Fox, Adobe, and Google, as well as independent filmmakers with projects bound for festivals like Sundance and Tribeca.
Pricing & Availability
Beauty Box AI is available immediately and is designed for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Resolve, and Avid artists. Pricing is $199 USD for new licenses, $99 USD for upgrades from 5.0, and $149 USD for upgrades from earlier versions.
Beauty Box AI is also available as part of the Anarchy Cloud subscription, which is $149 USD (one host app) or $199 USD (all apps).
By Matthew Allard ACS
Matthew Allard is a multi-award-winning, ACS accredited freelance Director of Photography with over 35 years' of experience working in more than 50 countries around the world.
He is the Editor of Newsshooter.com and has been writing on the site since 2010.
Matthew has won 51 ACS Awards, including six prestigious Golden Tripods. In 2016 he won the Award for Best Cinematography at the 21st Asian Television Awards.
Matthew is available to hire as a DP in Japan or for work anywhere else in the world.
