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Inspirations: A Conversation with Andrew McMurry, Andrew M Films
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
Pretty spectacular 3D and compositing! Could it be real?
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Inspirations: A Conversation with Filmmaker Riingo Banerjee
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
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
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
Cyriak has created another amazing video, this time for the band Bonobo.
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Inspirations: “Tempo”, A New Film by Red Giant
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
Unreal and Surreal animation of a face by Cyriak Harris.
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Effect: Venetian Blinds-style Transition
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
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
“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).”