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Midweek Motivation: Maxwell Render 2017 Showreel
Need a bit of inspiration? See what can be done using Maxwell Render with Next Limit’s Maxwell Render 2017 ShowReel.
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MidWeek Motivation: Allegorithmic Meet Mat Contest Winners Announced
Allegorithmic has finally selected the winners of it’s 3D painting contest “Meet Mat.” They had so many great entries that they reworked the rules of the contest and added more winners in each category.
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Captivating Examples of Future of 3D Animation from SIGGRAPH 2017
This piece fro the University of Pennsylvania for SIGGRAPH 2017 shows “Anisotropic Elastoplasticity for Cloth, Knit, and Hair Frictional Contact”. Just watch and be amazed.
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Midweek Motivation: The HyperZoom™ Technique Takes Flight with Mocha Pro & After Effects
Geoff Tompkinson has created HyperZoom™, a technique that combines real-time, time-lapse, and hyperlapse into one seamless, continuous shot. Find out how he uses Mocha Pro and AE to help create these amazing virtual timelapse flights.
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Midweek Motivations: The Exquisite Corpse Project, Volumes 1-3 + Motion Conference Info
The Exquisite Corpse Projects are made yearly and are directed by Michael Waldron for the Motion Conference in New Mexico. The videos feature a collaboration from artists around the world. “The idea was to create a piece of art that you share with another artist. That artist has to figure out how to seamlessly transition into their piece and then they hand off their work to another artist. This repeats until the final animation is complete.”
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Midweek Motivations: Behind the Sounds of Black Mirror
Black Mirror, if you haven’t seen it, is an interesting, sometimes funny, and often scary look at the technology in the near future and how it will influence (or take over) our lives. Stefan Henrix was the supervising sound editor for three episodes of Black Mirror Season 3, and in this interview, he talks about how he created the soundscape of the future.
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Midweek Motivation: 12 Facts About 12 Monkeys – Folks VFX and Autodesk Maya, Arnold Renderer
12 Monkeys is a series on the Syfy channel, now in it’s 3rd season, about a time traveler trying to stop a deadly plague. The show relies heavily on visual effects for both the look of the show and the story line itself. Sebastien Bergeron, Founder and VFX Supervisor at Folks VFX, offers 12 facts about this series, and the work he and his team did on it.
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Big Screen Effects: Sci Fi Edition – Life & Passengers
Both of these films are recent science fiction Hollywood films with really nice visual effects. See some visual effects breakdowns and learn more about the visual effects crew that worked on the film.
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Midweek Motivation: cebas finalRender and finalToon Show Reel for the Victoria Film Fest 2017
Check out some amazing artwork from 4 different artists using cebas finalRender and finalToon, plus you will see some in-house clips on the recently released finalToon v4.0.
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Midweek Motivation: Boris FX | Sapphire | Mocha | Customer Reel
Boris FX has put together a sample of some of the work that was produced with Sapphire, Mocha Pro, and Continuum software for your viewing pleasure.
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Midweek Motivations: Husky – Ghost
Check out the Day of the Dead themed embroidery effects in this music video for the song Ghost by Melbourne, Australia’s Husky.
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Midweek Motivations: Papia – Gözü Kapalı Breakdown
This appears to be a Turkish toilet paper commercial, and while it looks really simple at first look, it’s very involved. Check out the breakdown. It’s pretty cool!
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News: MAXON Cinema 4D and CV-VR Cam Software Inspire Virtual Reality Film Satire, EXTRAVAGANZA
Filmmaker Ethan Shaftel Leverages Popular 3D Solutions to Streamline VR Workflow; Film Starring Paul Scheer and John Gemberling to Make European Premiere at “NEXT” VR Program During the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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Midweek Motivations: Celeste Trailer
Check out the beautiful work fro Adam Swaab and Wolf & Crow.
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Midweek Motivation: 25 Classic Before-After VFX Shots
Ever wonder how much of a shot is real and how much is VFX? IAMAG has put together 25 interactive, classic movie before and after shots so you can see just how much was “done in post.”