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Midweek Motivations: Sonder
Written and directed by Neth Nom and produced by Sara K. Sampson, Sonder is an animated short that animators worldwide worked on over the past few years, using the Unity Engine.
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Midweek Motivations/Event: Phillip Boutte Jr. and the Mosaic Film Experience
Last Thursday I volunteered at the Mosaic Film Experience, which is a film festival with creative and educational workshops for high school kids. It’s geared toward kids who may not have access to equipment or media education, to help build and inspire the next generation of filmmakers and media artists. The highlight, for me, was meeting Phillip Boutte. Jr., who is a costume concept designer. His work is phenomenal and he’s a super nice guy.. Check out his reel and an interview about his career, plus photos and videos from The Mosaic Film Experience 2018.
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Midweek Motivations: Bilby, a Short from Dreamworks
Dreamworks Bilby looks adorable. “Bilby” directed by Pierre Perifel, J.P. Sans, and Liron Topaz is a short that was originally from a full-length Tim Minchin film that was canceled called Larrikins.
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Midweek Motivation: Greyscalegorilla 5-Second Project “Coffee” Winners
5-second projects are a Greyscalegorilla community driven animation competition. Here are the winners of the theme, “Coffee”. Mmmm, Coffee!
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Midweek Motivations: The Fascinating History of Cemeteries
This TedEd animated piece, with the Lesson by Keith Eggener, seemed perfect to post on this spooky day. The animation style reminds me of School House Rock and was done by Britain-based illustrators and animators Remus & Kiki, also known as Remus Buznea & Kyriaki Kyriakou.
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Sneak Peek: Trapcode Suite 15 with NEW Fluid Dynamics
Next week there will be a new version of Trapcode Suite that includes Fluid Dynamics! Watch the video to see it in action!
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Big Screen Effects: Behind the Scenes: VFX in The Nun and Conjuring Series
Yesterday we posted an article about how to make some of the effects in The Nun and Conjuring series from Film Riot, as well as Ghostbusters, and horror film effects in general. Today, go behind the scenes to see how they were done in production and post-production.
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Midweek Motivations: OPPO F7, Cinema 4D and Redshift
Panoply created this dark, cinematic ad for the OPPO F7 in which they took tonality and style references from the likes of some the best known sci-fi films of the few decades: Blade Runner, Elysium and District 9.
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Midweek Motivations: CONSTRUCT by Kevin Margo with Making Of Video & Interview
CONSTRUCT is a 12-minute film, from Kevin Margo and a 75 person crew of his talented friends, many from BLUR. It’s about a family man droid and some mafia-type droids who are involved in several fight sequences. I’ll leave it at that as to not spoil the plot. There is a lot of action! It’s photorealistic and used lots of motion capture, totaling 210 all-CG shots. Impressive work! This film is a couple of years old but it’s SO good!
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C4D/Redshift/ZBrush: Interview: Creating the Memorable ‘Humankind’ Titles for TEDxSydney
Go behind the scenes of TEDxSydney 2018 and see how the Australia-based studio, Substance, created the title sequence, ‘Humankind’, using Cinema 4D, Redshift, Houdini and ZBrush.
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Inspiration/Event: HalfRez 7 Ident Video & Photo Gallery
HalfRez7 took place last Wednesday at the Chop Shop in Chicago. It was a fun event with lots of inspiring speakers and an interview with Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot, Cube Races, lots of prizes and schwag, and of course, loads of interesting people. First, an amazing video from Brody Davis, then a photo gallery.
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Midweek Motivations: Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters – VFX reel by HiFi 3D
Check out some strange and gory effects from HiFi 3D used in Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters.
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Midweek Motivation: Houdini/C4D/Redshift – Jeep Driving Through Mud
Freelance Houdini FX artist Tim van Helsdingen likes to create stuff in 3D that looks as if it was shot in real life, and would have taken a lot less time too. Here’s he shows off a Jeep driving through a muddy forest road, made with Houdini, Redshift and Cinema 4D.
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Midweek Motivations: BALLiSTIC, with Lots of Behind the Scenes
Writer/director Ryan Connolly released a film this summer with VFX Supervisor Andrew Kramer on his team. He not only created a great little film, but there are lots of behind the scenes videos at Film Riot. Watch and learn.
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Midweek Motivations: One Small Step by TAIKO Studios with Some Behind the Scenes
Directed by Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas, One Small Step is the story of a Chinese-American girl called Luna who wants to be an astronaut. It’s adorable but such a beautiful story animated in a 2D style but created with 3D software from TAIKO Studios, an award-winning studio, formed by CEO Shaofu Zhang, a former Disney, and Imageworks animator.