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Midweek Motivation: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Official Teaser Trailer
Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureline- visionary writer/director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic science fiction saga.
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Midweek Motivation: Election Day Animations from Buck – “Infographica”
The election craze is finally over, but Buck, a design-driven production company, had created some rather amazing issue-based animation called “Infographica” for MTV and ElectThis.com, that are pretty inspiring.
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Case Study: Previsualizing Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Autodesk
8 particular thoughts about previsualizing “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” – Justin Summers, Previs Supervisor, The Third Floor London
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Midweek Motivations: 4 Cool Main Title Sequences
We don’t watch broadcast TV anymore but we catch quite a few shows on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Streaming. The quality of shows seems to have increased so much in the last 7-8 years. Here are a few recent title sequences that are beautiful, artistic, clever, or just downright cool.
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Midweek Motivation: “Borrowed Time” Short Film
“A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget.” This poignant and heartbreaking short film shows the amazing power of eliciting an emotional response through animation.
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Midweek Motivations: High and Low – Empire of the Sun – Director’s Cut
I haven’t been watching a lot of music videos lately, but Empire of the Sun’s new one is a piece of psychedelic art! It’s like the surrealism of Salvador Dali, with the amazing costumes of the Pet Shop Boys, with a touch of floating rocks from Avatar!
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Midweek Motivations: LooseKeys Half Rez Animations, Interview
Greyscalegorilla posted this interview with LooseKeys, an animation studio in Chicago, about their work on this year’s Half Rez titles. They talk about artists and works that inspire them, and the challenges of diving into CINEMA 4D for the first time with this project.
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Midweek Motivations – Peaky Blinders VFX Breakdown
BlueBolt shares their impressive VFX work on Seasons 1-3 of Peaky Blinders. Go back in time to gritty, post-WW1 era Birmingham and London, England.
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Midweek Motivation: Rayons’ Waxing Moon
The video for “Waxing Moon” by Rayons and featuring Predawn, uses particles to create an inspirational “light” theme in a dusky world.
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Midweek Motivation: VFX Breakdown – The Walking Dead
Check out this VFX Breakdown of one of the shots Fido, an animation and VFX studio based in Scandinavia, did for season 6 of “The Walking Dead”.
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Midweek Motivation: See how to create hyper realistic ZBrush characters
The Gnomon Workshop has created a new training video on how to sculpt ultra-realistic human figures using ZBrush. See a preview here and then follow the links.
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Midweek Motivation: Colorist Patrick Inhofer Speakes about Color, Scopes and Trusting Your Eyes
“…when you need to look at an image objectively, you need to look at the image without looking at it because your eyes lie to you.”
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Midweek Motivation: Half Rez 5 Bumpers by LooseKeys
Half Rez (the half convention, half party for 2d & 3d professionals) is today and so we thought that it would be fun to check out the Half Rez 5 bumpers that were created by Loosekeys.
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Midweek Motivation: Blink My Brain – Ariel Costa – Director, Designer and Animator
Joe Donaldson, with Motionographer, extolls upon the work Ariel Costa (Blink My Brain) did recently for Green Day’s “BangBang” video.
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Midweek Motivation: ‘Francis’ VR Film
‘Francis’ is a virtual reality film created by Fugitives, in collaboration with The World Bank, that puts a spotlight on mental health. Mettle did a Q & A with Travis Hatfield, Fugitive Senior Editor.