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Midweek Motivation: FilmConvert Competition 2019 Winners
The winners of the FilmConvert Short Film Competition have been announced. Filmmakers submitted a short film graded with FilmConvert products for a chance to win in one of 6 categories + the People’s Choice Award.
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Midweek Motivations: CG Garage Podcast interviews at Chaos Group
Chaos Group hosts the CG Garage Podcast that features all sorts of interviews with their team members, CG artists, and more.
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Midweek Motivation: Beeple’s Manifest Destiny with Making Of
Beeple, or Mike Winkelmann, has released his video for Manifest Destiny, and indeed, is magnificent! Watch a behind the scenes video on the process, too.
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Midweek Motivations: Hue&Cry – Into the Flame + BTS
This animated short film is from director Sean McClintock and his team at the Richmond, Virginia-based Hue&Cry. Watch a behind the scenes video too.
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Midweek Motivations: Music Video Round-Up
It has been a while since we did a roundup of music videos with interesting VFX. Today we’re featuring recent videos from the last few months with The Divine Comedy, Chemical Brothers, Björk and more. The Divine Comedy – Infernal Machines/You’ll Never Work In This Town Again This video contains illustrations and artwork by Mathieu…
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Midweek Motivations: Sophie Villy – Another Existence
Watch Jean-Marie Marbach colorful and inspirational music video for artist Sophie Villy, featuring particle animations created with Superluminal Stardust.
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Midweek Motivations: Maestro, with Making of Video
Maestro, from Illogic Studio and Bloom Pictures, is a CG animated short featuring forest animals that perform Vincenzo Bellini’s “Guerra Guerra”.
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Midweek Motivations: VFX Explained Episode 01
Check out the new YouTube show, VFX Explained – Diving into the Hollywood Effects, from Host and Creator Ignace Aleya. Ignace has been putting up VFX videos and some fantastic Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects tutorials on his YouTube channel for a few years. VFX Explained – Diving into the Hollywood Effects | Episode…
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Midweek Motivations: V-Ray Architecture Showreel 2019
The V-Ray Architecture Showreel 2019 from Chaos Group is a showcase of Architectural Visualization from the many talented designers, studios, and firms.
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Midweek Motivations: Fantasy UI Design (FUI) + Wireframe Podcast
Adobe’s blog has a nice article on FUI design, and it features Mark Coleran, one of the pioneers of modern FUI design in films and tv.
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Midweek Motivation: New Chaos Group V-Ray Showreel 2019
The Chaos Group V-Ray showreel displays some of the amazing work from V-Ray and Phoenix FD customers from around the world. It includes works from Blur Studio, Dreamworks TV, Method Studios, Scanline VFX and many more.
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Big Screen Effects: Ad Astra Moon Rover Scene
I saw Ad Astra when it first came out. Although I generally did not like the movie, the space scenes and visual effects were incredible.
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Midweek Motivations: Transient 2 Storm Chaser Footage
Dustin Farrell’s mindblowing 4K highlights reel includes two years of footage from his travels around the world. The editing is a treat to watch too!
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Midweek Motivations: 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Tokyo Videos
2020 Olympics videos with different animation styles. They feature mascots, a 3D animated torch, animating shapes, and some animated sketches.
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Big Screen Effects: Men In Black: International
Men In Black: International is known for great visual effects from WETA Workshop, DNEG, Method Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks VFX, and more.