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Midweek Motivations: Geostorm – Official Trailer
It’s international Space Day, so here’s another inspirational piece about space for the upcoming Warner Bros film Geostorm, directed by Dean Delvin. It’s a disaster film about that control the weather and have a mishap. There are lots of weather related VFX and nice satellite CG.
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Midweek Motivations: Black Holes
April 12th is International Space Day so we’ll bring you some space-based inspiration today. First up is Black Holes, directed by French artists David and Laurent Nicolas (Noodles Studio), which is a proof of concept for Sundance 2017 and it’s extremely fun.
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News/Inspiration: Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot on The Collective Podcast
Andrew Kramer talks to Ash Thorpe about the visual effects industry and what motivates him to create amazing products and incredible visual effects, and how he handles his success. Very interesting interview!
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Midweek Motivations: He Arose VFX Breakdown
Just in time for Easter, check out this interesting VFX breakdown of the “Golgotha shot” from the He Arose piece from Igniter Media. Trent Armstrong, VFX guru of Igniter Media, sent me a link to a write up he did about his process in After Effects.
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Midweek Motivation: Making of Ghost in the Shell and Behind the Scenes
See how Weta Digital helped to bring this live-action update of the iconic anime to life.
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Midweek Motivations: T2 Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s sequel about heroin addicts in Scotland, is one of my most anticipated films of 2017. After 20 years, the soundtrack on the original is still one of my favorites. Here is the trailer and some of the visual effects from the film, which is released this Friday in the U.S.
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Midweek Motivations: Horizon Zero Dawn – Launch Trailer | PS4
Guerrilla Games took advantage of the incredible tools in Allegorithmic Substance tools to texture the impressively crafted Horizon Zero Dawn!
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Midweek Motivations: 2017 Character Reels
There are so many great reels out there. Here are a few companies and artists that excel at CGI and character animation.
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Midweek Motivation: The Man in High Castle-Allegorithmic Chats with Theory Studios and Barnstorm VFX
Allegorithmic talked with the talented folks at Theory Studios and Barnstorm VFX about how they used Substance in their production pipeline for the TV series “The Man in the High Castle.” Read an excerpt here and follow the link to the full article, which includes a case study.
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Midweek Motivations: Chips Ahoy! and Oreos
Chips Ahoy! and Oreo are both cookies that are well known throughout the world and their advertising is top-notch. These campaigns take totally different approaches to market cookies but they’re both creative and a lot of fun. Both of these campaigns come from The Martin Agency.
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Midweek Motivation: Maya: Behind the Scenes-Swordfish SF Uses Maya in Motion Graphics Explainer Vid
Swordfish, a San Francisco based motion design studio, was asked by Autodesk to show the world what Maya’s new motion graphics toolkit is all about, through the creation of an explainer video. Watch the promo video and then go behind the scenes with Swordfish to see how they accomplished the task.
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Midweek Motivation: How They Animated ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ | Design FX | WIRED
‘The Lego Batman Movie’ uses an impressive style of animation that replicates the look of real lego bricks. But how did they do that? Mike Seymour, with Wired, explains the complex animation techniques of a few of the key scenes that allowed the performance of the characters to come through without breaking the rules of real Lego bricks.
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Midweek Motivations: Autodesk Official Show Reel 2017
Check out the stellar work on the 2017 Autodesk Showreel. It features work from films, commercials, games, and more.
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Midweek Motivations: The Art of Directing & VFX: Jean-Marie Marbach
Cirina Catania interviews Jean-Marie Marbach, a French Director and VFX Supervisor. He talks about his music video for MODULAR’s “Fiebre en la Disco” and how he incorporated Trapcode MIR into the project.
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Midweek Motivations: Westworld VFX Breakdowns
“Everything is magic, except to the magicians” – Building Young Anthony, Robot Boy, Dolores, and more. Important Looking Pirates did quite a few incredible VFX breakdowns from shots in Westworld. There’s an article about it at Autodesk’s Website as well.