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Inspirations: A Conversation with Andrew McMurry, Andrew M Films
September 15, 2014
Andrew McMurry seems to be a wunderkind. He’s the Director/VFX Artist for Andrew M Films and has a very successful YouTube Channel with his film shorts. You may have seen Mario vs. Minecraft or LEGO Invasion and they are not only fun to watch, but technically complex. Michele Yamazaki from Toolfarm talks to Andrew about his film shorts.
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Inspirations: Volkswagen’s The People’s Car Project: Hover Car
January 16, 2014
Pretty spectacular 3D and compositing! Could it be real?
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Inspirations: A Conversation with Filmmaker Riingo Banerjee
November 13, 2013
Digital filmmaker Arnabb Riingo Banerjee has been doing films with his company, Ring A Bell Films. Riingo talks about color grading his love of Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks and Mojo.
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Inspirations: 3D Microscopic Elements from Fuse Animation
October 17, 2013
Fuse Animation did some unbelievably cool concept animations of a cancer cells, bacteria and other microscopic biological entities.
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Inspiration: A Second a Day from Birth from Sam Christopher Cornwell
July 12, 2013
Sam edited together a second of video from each day of the first year of his son’s life.
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Inspirations: Bonobo – Cirrus by Cyriak
January 28, 2013
Cyriak has created another amazing video, this time for the band Bonobo.
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Inspirations: “Tempo”, A New Film by Red Giant
December 10, 2012
Post by Red Giant on Vimeo: “In this new Red Giant short film, from the creators of Plot Device, a scientist must prevent a new, powerful technology from falling into the wrong hands.” Showcases several effects from Red Giant and Trapcode.
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Inspirations: Because and Cobwebs by Cyriak Harris
May 9, 2012
Unreal and Surreal animation of a face by Cyriak Harris.
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Effect: Venetian Blinds-style Transition
February 29, 2012
A customer emailed and asked what options were available for a Venetian Blinds-style transition, so I put together a quick video of examples of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and After Effects.
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet
January 18, 2012
We normally do not get political on Toolfarm but US Congress is voting on two bills next week Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that censor the Web and hurt small businesses.
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Inspirations: Countdown – by Desrumaux Celine
September 19, 2011
“My references are various, from Chris Ware for his extraordinary layout and (sometimes abstract) images, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Stanley Kubrick or Godfrey Reggio (with his qatsi trilogy).”