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Midweek Motivation: Ex Machina Wins Oscar
Ex Machina’s visual FX team won an Oscar for Achievement in Visual Effects in this year Academy Awards.
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Midweek Motivations: SIGGRAPH 2016 – Computer Animation Festival Entries
“Enjoy a retrospective of past SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival entries and be sure to contribute to the legacy of the #SIGGRAPHcaf by submitting your best work.” – CGMeetup
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Midweek Motivations: The Jungle Book
Delving Into the Photoreal World of Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ Remake!
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Midweek Motivations: Life in New Mexico 2016
Life in New Mexico 2016 is a project that we here at Toolfarm proudly sponsored!
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Midweek Motivations: Vikings
“The success of the title sequence for History Channel’s series Vikings lies in its ability to establish the appropriate atmosphere. Submerging the viewer in the aftermath of a mythic conflict, it lays bare the thematic undercurrents of the show while leaving much of the barbarous detail to the imagination.” Art of the Title
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Midweek Motivation: Hollywood redux: the VFX of Hail, Caesar!
“Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hail, Caesar! is a throw-back to the big studio films of the 1950s. Equally ‘throw-back’ were the film’s visual effects – these involved effects for the actual film itself, effects for the film’s ‘movies within a movie’ that looked to match the way special effects would have been completed at that time, and effects that somewhat blurred those lines.” – Ian Failes
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Midweek Motivations: Chad Knight
Thanks to that nifty little tool called “Instagram,” I happened to stumble upon a familiar name. A former professional skateboarder by the name of Chad Knight. Yet here in 2016 it turns out that Chad has been making a name for himself in the world of 3D, mixing all his life’s passions and hobbies.
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Midweek Motivation: Behind the scenes of SSE “Maya” (Orangutan)
See how the creative minds at The Mill created the VES award winning 100% CG orangutan for SSE ‘Maya’.
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Midweek Motivation: Deadpool VFX Breakdown
Go deep inside Deadpool’s deadliest effects at FX Guide, and see how they created everything from the synthetic environments for the freeway chase and the fully CG character Colossus to Deadpool’s facial animation and the incredible frozen opening sequence. Software used: Maya, V-Ray, Katana, Houdini, Nuke
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Midweek Motivations: Visual Effects Behind Reverse-Flash, Tar Pit & Weather Wizard
The CW has released the fourth installment of “The Visual Effects of The Flash.”
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Inspirations: Suffering is the Easy Part
Jaime Ekkens was a student of mine several years ago and has since made an award-winning documentary, A Life with Asperger’s, and has travelled all over the world to support it. This is a new project, Suffering is the Easy part. She explains that the film is a “short, partially animated documentary about trauma, trauma’s aftermath, depression and the healing process.”
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Midweek Motivation: Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux
Why not take a short break and check out this trailer for a 2D French animated film entitled Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux. I don’t speak French, but it looks amazing.
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Midweek Motivations: What I Learned From Puppets: Lessons From Anomalisa
“I didn’t realize that this day was going to change the course of my life for 3 whole years. For 3 years I lived in a bubble… a miniature bubble, at that.” – Rosa Tan
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Midweek Motivations: 11 of the best showreels from 2015
“As the creator of the Shit Showreels Say channel, the popular PQ FUI Toys and a portfolio of slick motion design work, Peter Quinn knows a thing or two about showreels. In this special guest post, he looks back at his favorite reels from 2015.” – Justin Cone | Motionographer
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Midweek Motivation: Creative Jewelry Design with Pixologic™ ZBrush®
For creative jewelry designers ZBrush is becoming a valuable tool for designing intricate jewelry pieces.