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Midweek Motivations: Audio Creatures – Sydney Opera House: Lighting the Sails 2017
Vivid Live is a yearly festival that brings color, light, and music to Sydney Harbor. For 2017, Australian artist Ash Bolland directed a visually stunning, transforming, and fully enthralling piece, with visual content animation created by Spinifex and Luxx. CGSociety features an interview with Tim Clapham of Luxx and Mike Tosetto of Never Sit Still.
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Midweek Motivation: Del Toro’s “The Strain” Idents VFX Breakdown
Using a nice mix of practical textures and 3d effects, Materia and Onesize joined forces to create the visual identity for the fourth season of Guillermo del Toro’s vampire horror series, “The Strain.”
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Midweek Motivations: Time Magazine Cover Art Created with NewTek LightWave 3D
This is definitely one of the most memorable Time Magazine covers of the year so far. Brobel Design is behind the artwork and they used LightWave 3D in the making of the cover, which depicts Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow taking over the White House.
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Midweek Motivations: Droptree – “HD Delivery” (Official Music Video)
This one has been floating around Facebook for about a week and the fun part about this video is that it was shot on commercial sets in between takes, when the client wasn’t paying attention. If you work in the industry, you’ll get quite a laugh from this video. It’s brilliant. (Note: some NSFW language).
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Midweek Motivation: Walk Away – A Bad Think Music Video
CGSociety sheds some light on how director Derrick Borte and 3D artist David Ariew used Cinema 4D and Octane Render to create A Bad Think’s new music video ‘Walk Away’. Watch the music video and read an excerpt here and then follow the link to the full article.
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Midweek Motivation: Chaos Group V-Ray VFX Showreel
Animals, armies, monsters, chase scenes. It’s all here. Chaos Group as just released their new V-Ray VFX showreel with this year’s best visuals in film, television and game cinematics from V-Ray and Phoenix FD customers from around the world. Take a look.
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Midweek Motivations: Unsatisfying – The Original Film
Parallel Studio in Paris created this humorous and video about life’s little frustrations and used Maya. The Next Web calls this video, “a metaphor for life itself. An ode to everything frustrating, this beautifully sketched animation is both a painful delight and a delightful pain – but never only one of them.”
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Big Screen Effects: Beauty & the Beast
Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast was a beautiful film. We’re featuring work from Digital Domain and Framestore VFX on the Film, plus info on where you can see a presentation at SIGGRAPH on the film from Framestore and Autodesk.
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Midweek Motivations: Electronics Meets Crafts + Behind the Scenes
This installation took the “Milano Design Award 2017 Winner – “Best Storytelling” for Panasonic and GO last April in Milan, Italy. It contains some beautiful animation work from Japanese firm, Montage, Inc., and some of it done with LightWave 3D.
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Midweek Motivation: Classic Paintings With An AR Twist
Reblink, an Augmented Reality project from Art Gallery of Ontario, visually remixes their painting collection into modern scenes.
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Throwback Thursday: Babylon 5
Babylon 5 was a science fiction television show that aired from 1994 to 1998 and had some groundbreaking space and starship effects, fully generated with computers, and winning the pilot an Emmy for Best Special Effects in a Television Movie in 1994. They used LightWave 3D and After Effects, among other tools. Here’s a look back at some of the effects and software used in the show.
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Inspirations: Honda – Dream Makers
This 90-second spot from W+K London is a tribute all of you filmmakers out there, and it’s INCREDIBLE. It’s a mix of hand drawn storyboards, 3D, on-set shots of green screen, and more.
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Midweek Motivations: The Damned Evil Spirits Tour Promo
The Damned, the band, are back on the road and there’s a cute video to announce their new tour. They probably wouldn’t like me calling it cute, but it is.
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Midweek Motivations: Sanex Shower Gel Commercial
This colorful ad for shower gels features fluid simulations created with Next Limit RealFlow.
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Midweek Motivations: LeCoste ‘Timeless’ with Making Of Video
Timeless is the most recent Lacoste short film directed by Wanda’s Seb Edwards for agency BETC Paris. The story is about a romance between a woman and man that connects them over time. The effects include lots of green screen and CG trains and sets. It’s impressive!