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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.
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Midweek Motivations: Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018, Part 3
Here are the ten Oscar nominees for the best Animated Shorts. Over the next couple of weeks, we are featuring all of them, alphabetically by title, with a bit of background on each. Today, we’re featuring “Lost & Found”, “One Small Step”, “Pépé le Morse”, and “Weekends”.
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Midweek Motivation: Top Ten Title Sequences of 2018 – Art of the Title
The Art of the Title has released a list of what they consider are the Top 10 Title Sequences from 2018. This is the 5th year they’ve created the list. A panel of experts chose from among film, television, video games, and conferences.
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Midweek Motivations: Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018, Part 2
Here are the ten Oscar nominees for the best Animated Shorts. Over the next couple of weeks, we are featuring all of them, alphabetically by title, with a bit of background on each. Today, we’re featuring “Bilby”, “Bird Karma”, and “Late Afternoon”.
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Big Screen Effects: Solo: A Star Wars Story
There are some new behind the scenes videos from ILM that have come out in the past weeks, and whether you liked the film or not, you can’t deny that the visuals are spectacular and a lot of work went into them. Here are a few videos and some articles about the visual effects in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Midweek Motivation: Redshift Renders
So many 3D Artists are creating amazing art with Redshift. Here’s a compilation of Redshift renders that I thought were pretty cool. Happy viewing.
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Midweek Motivations: More Stuff with Behind the Scenes
This award-winning animation from Blue Zoo Animation really captures the way I feel about the holiday season! Plus, it’s very funny and beautifully modeled, textured, and animated. Musical comedian Ben Champion created the song.
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Midweek Motivation: 3D battle: Microsoft Excel VS Maxon Cinema 4D
Yep, you heard right. Graphic Designer and self proclaimed “Crazy Illustrator” Alexey Shelkovnikov, pits Excel against C4D to see which gives a more interesting 3D image. This is hysterical, fascinating and a surprisingly close competition.
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Midweek Motivation: Tennyson – L’oiseau qui danse from Jean-Marie Marbach
This gorgeous animation features the music of Tennyson and was directed by Jean-Marie Marbach. Jean-Marie used particle effects and environments created with Trapcode Suite. He also elaborated on his use of Trapcode Suite for us. We shared this one last year but we’re sharing it again because it is a winner at 2018 SIGGRAPH Asia, taking place during the first week of December in Tokyo, Japan! Félicitations à vous, Jean-Marie!