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Midweek Motivation: Quixel: Making of American Gods with Megascans
Learn how Quixel Megascans was instrumental in the making of episode 5 (Lemon Scented You) from the Starz original TV series ‘American Gods.’ There’s even a tutorial on how it was done.
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Midweek Motivations: ‘The Fearless are Here’ Winter Olympics Campaign with VFX Breakdown
Along with the amazing athleticism of the competitors, be inspired by some stunning 2D visuals for the BBC Sports 2018 Winter Olympics coverage.
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Big Screen Effects: The VFX and Editing of I, Tonya
With the Winter Olympics and the Oscars are coming up in a few weeks, it seemed like the perfect time to talk about “I, Tonya”, which is disgraced ice skater Tonya Harding’s own story. I saw the film right after it came out and it’s very entertaining, and really makes you feel for Tonya Harding and how she was destroyed by the media. The most impressive visual effects in this film involved head replacement of skating doubles, using V-Ray and Maya in the pipeline. We’re also featuring the superb editing of Tatiana Riegel, ACE.
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Midweek Motivations: r/AfterEffects Collab 3: Elephant music/lyric video
This music video for Tame Impala’s Elephant was completely created in After Effects by members of the Discord After Effects group. Impressive work! I’ve been on the Discord group for a few weeks now and there’s a lot of interesting After Effects chat and links to inspiring work.
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Midweek Motivations: The new Audi A5 2017 Pure Imagination Commercial
People are still talking about the Super Bowl ads but today we’re talking about last year’s stunning ad for the Audi A5 with some incredible futuristic visual effects, v and asking the question, “What if artificial intelligence could dream?”.
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Midweek Motivation: SENTiNEL, Sci-Fi Short Film, with Making Of Video
This is a great little Black Mirror-esque sci-fi film about a man trying to avoid and fight single-minded drones. The film has a VFX Supervisor with a familiar name, Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot, who’s team made the drone effects! Watch the film and some behind the scenes on the making of SENTiNEL.
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Big Screen Effects: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
On my birthday the whole family went to see Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and it was a wild ride. The effects are insane, especially the extraordinarily realistic CGI animals. Today we’re sharing a lot of great information about how the artists created the animals, plus information on other VFX and sound design.
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Midweek Motivation: A Dose of Festive Imagery Using LightMap HDR Light Studio
Artist Chris Boyd from Dose Pictures used CINEMA 4D, Octane Render and HDR Light Studio to bring a young students drawing into a fully realized 3d illustration, for the Holiday Dreams Project.
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Midweek Motivations: Elton John – Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Legacy (VR360)
Elton John has announced his retirement with an incredible immersive effect-filled tribute to his career, complete with animated text, swimming particles, and 3D all in VR360 format. Rocket Man is especially cool. You can watch it on YouTube and scrub around in 360° or watch with a VR headset.
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Midweek Motivations: Sam Khorshid Interview, Mojin: The Lost Legend Trailer + VFX Breakdown
We’re packing a lot into this post. First, Edwin Braun of Cebas interviews VFX artist Sam Khorshid about his career, from Hollywood LA to Beijing, China, and from stereoscopic to procedural. He worked as VFX Supervisor on Mojin: The Lost Legend, a Chinese action film that looks awesome. We’re sharing the trailer for the film and VFX breakdowns too.
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Midweek Motivations: Cinematographer/Editor Bobby Hewitt On The Versatility Of Blackmagic Cameras
Clint Milby of Indie Shooter talks to Bobby Hewitt, musician-turned-filmmaker, about his post-production work on music videos and commercials, and his love of Blackmagic Design cameras.
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Midweek Motivation: Mocha used in Thor: Ragnorok
Learn how Rising Sun Pictures used Mocha with both NUKE and Silhouette for the VFX shots they created for ‘Thor: Ragnarok.’
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Big Screen Effects: Star Wars: The Last Jedi + Oscars 2018 Visual Effects Nominees
We’ve featured 4 of the 5 films that are up for the Academy Awards 2018 Oscar Nominations, but haven’t covered Star Wars: The Last Jedi yet. Most of the people that I know really enjoyed the film, but there were a few who didn’t like it. I have my theories about that, but no one can deny the fantastic VFX that transport you straight to the Star Wars world. Here’s a look at the VFX and effects teams involved in creating the film.
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Big Screen Effects: The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is a gorgeous fantasy/romance from Guillermo del Toro and has 11 Oscar nominations. The film is visually stunning, the color grading is sublime, and the soundtrack is wonderful. It takes place during the cold war and is a love story about a merman and a mute cleaning lady. Michael Shannon plays a really great villain too!
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Midweek Motivations: Mike Patton’s Top 12 ‘Warp-able’ Plugins
Mike Patton is well-known as the vocalist for Faith No More and Fantômas, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. He has had a diverse musical career that includes an fantastic album of Italian retro pop, sung entirely in Italian, in which he is fluent. He has done soundtracks, including scoring the new Stephen King adaption, 1922, on Netflix. He also has title of being the singer with the widest vocal range (over 6 octaves!), quite a bit more than Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey! But the reason I’m posting about him is his love of audio plug-ins. Here are some examples of his work with a range, from punk to atmospheric, and the Waves plug-ins he has used to create his diverse sound.