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Midweek Motivations: Ruben Brandt, Collector
I saw Ruben Brandt, Collector last weekend, not knowing what it was about before walking into the theatre. It’s a wild ride and very stylish!
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Interview: MAXON’S Academy Award-Winning MoGraph Tools
Per-Anders Edwards, Cinema 4D’s Lead Developer, talked with Greyscalegorilla about the MoGraph Tools in C4D which recently won a Scientific and Technical Academy Award.
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Midweek Motivation: X-Particles Challenge Winners
The X-Particles Challenge is a competition designed to inspire creativity using MAXON’s Cinema 4D and Insydium’s X-Particles a particle and VFX system developed by Insydium for Cinema 4D. See the winners.
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Throwback Thursday: 7 Stones: Rabbit Replacement VFX Breakdown
See how the 7 Stones: Rabbit Replacement was done, when a stuffed rabbit is replaced with a photo of a rabbit, in a seamless composite.
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Midweek Motivations: Food Play by reactiv
Food Play is an animated short created by Director Alon Isocianu and reactiv. It is so much fun, and I love the concept of combining food and sports.
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Midweek Motivations: The X-Particles Challenge 2018 Entries
Check out these cool and inspiring entries for the 2018 X-Particles Challenge. Also, congrats to winner Chris Harkin, who is now the proud owner of a $200 Toolfarm store credit, among other great prizes!
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Midweek Motivations: Kitbull | Pixar SparkShorts with Behind the Scenes
Kitbull is a 2D animated buddy film with an odd couple… an unlikely friendship between a kitten and a pit bull. This is a new Pixar SparkShort from director Rosana Sullivan and producer Kathryn Hendrickson. You better grab a tissue now. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Go Behind the Scenes of Kitbull | Pixar…
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Midweek Motivations: José Luis Guerrero Puppet Theater Ad with Breakdown
José Luis Guerrero shared this on Twitter today for the Teatro de las Estaciones, a puppet theatre company, based in Matanzas, Cuba. So fun and colorful!
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Midweek Motivation: U-RENDER – Realtime Rendered Pasture, Cottage
U-RENDER has published a couple of videos that showcase using image based lighting (IBL) for outdoor environments and the real-time rendering capabilities of U-RENDER.
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Midweek Motivations: Mouvo Reels, Motion Design Festival
The Mouvo Festival is a motion design festival that is taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of February at the Archa Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. This year they incredible lineup of speakers including Ash Thorpe, Nidia Dias, Kurzgesagt, and many others. They have a workshop on Motion Graphics in Houdini and another called You…
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Midweek Motivations: 5 Cool VFX Breakdowns
I see a lot of movies in the theatre and I find VFX Breakdowns to really be inspiring. Check out these few great films from the past few years.
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Midweek Motivations: The BAFTA Award Nominated Films Features on Big Screen Effects
The nominees for the BAFTA Awards were announced last week so it seemed like a good time to feature some of the fun VFX and animation content we’ve featured over the past year. Congratulations to all of the nominees.
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Midweek Motivations: Projection Mapping Round-up, Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve covered some of the cool projection mapping projects from the past year and given some information on the process. Today, I’m going past just simple projection mapping and into interactive projection mapping, where the viewer controls what happens in the projection. Here’s what’s been covered so far in…
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Midweek Motivations: X-Particles SHOWREEL 2019, rendered in Cycles 4D
Watch these gorgeous particle effects, splashes, and more created with X-Particles. The video was rendered in Cycles 4D. Plus, information about upgrading and Cycles 4D.
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A Conversation with Joe Mason, VFX Artist, Against The Clock (2019)
Joe Mason has worked in the motion graphics and VFX industry for two decades, but cut his teeth on visual effects for film only this year with work on an upcoming spy thriller called Against The Clock. Directed and written by Mark Polish, who is also known for The Astronaut Farmer (2006) and Jackpot (2001), and starring Andy Garcia and Dianna Agron, Against The Clock is an effects-heavy film with innovative visuals. Michele Yamazaki from Toolfarm talks to Joe talks about his first-time experience working on the film.