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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.”
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Midweek Motivations: The Night Manager Opening Sequence
There are so many great series on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and other services that have incredibly beautiful opening title sequences, and it’s hard to keep up! Maybe we’re late to the party on this one, but we’re just watching The Night Manager and it’s full of intrigue.
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Inspiration: Rogue One Visual Effects #Maythe4thbewithyou
BBC Click created a very interesting episode on the VFX in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. They talk to ILM London’s Computer Graphics Supervisor Steve Ellis. They have a cool iPad contraption that drives an Imperial ship and an X-Wing.
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Midweek Motivations: Manifest Destiny: The Lewis & Clark Musical Adventure with VFX Breakdown
When I first saw this I didn’t think it was real! Not only is this cult musical comedy funny and intriguing, it contains some really nice visual effects. Director/VFX artist Anthony Parisi gives lots of great examples of his work.
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Midweek Motivation: Virtual Reality Movies and Uses
Createive Blog has compiled a list of 5 must see VR movies and a list of 8 fantastic uses for VR that will amaze you.
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Midweek Motivations: How Maya and Arnold were used on Gravity
Here is an exclusive interview with Martin Preston, Head of R&D at Framestore, and he talks about how Arnold renderer with Maya were used on the film Gravity. The film is a few years old now, but the VFX are stellar.
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Midweek Motivations: Gorillaz – Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) with Amazing 360° Version
Gorillaz was co-founded by Blur’s Damon Albarn of Blur and comic book artist and designer Jamie Hewlett, who also directed this creepy, trippy animated video. The song features Jamaican DJ Popcaan. What they have created together is just genius… so creative and strange.
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News: RealFlow Reel 2017
Next Limit has released their RealFlow 2017 showreel, showcasing real user projects.
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Midweek Motivations: The Space Between Us VFX Breakdown by Rodeo FX
International Space Day and Midweek Motivations bring us a VFX breakdown of The Space Between Us, an interstellar teen romance. I took my daughter to see the film a couple of weeks ago and while some of the science in the film was questionable, but the visual effects were great!
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Midweek Motivations: Space Sex is Serious Business
It’s International Space Day and here’s something everyone must be curious about, sex in space! This video from Tom McCarten shows some interesting data with great motion graphics to illustrate the history and problems with sex in space.