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Midweek Motivation: Trapcode Mir Thing
October 22, 2014
Peder Norrby, the developer of Trapcode, created this interesting test while working with the Mir Beta. Bonus, he’s included a tutorial on it.
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Midweek Motivation: Guardians of the Galaxy and MAXON Cinema 4D
October 22, 2014
Duncan Evans wrote an article describing how Cinema 4D was utilized by the VFX company, Territory Studio, to create the screens, holograms and interfaces for the Marvel Studio film. Peruse an excerpt here and follow the link to read the entire article.
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Midweek Motivation: Gone Girl & Adobe Creative Cloud Workflow
October 15, 2014
The post-production team behind Gone Girl – including editor Kirk Baxter, A.C.E. – detail the blockbuster film’s Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.
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Midweek Motivation: Control real-life stage lights through C4D
October 10, 2014
Technically you can’t do this without a custom plug-in but watching this Cinema 4D artist control real-life lights through Maxon Cinema 4D is pretty impressive!
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Midweek Motivation: Ed by Chris Jones
October 8, 2014
Hyper-realism at it’s best! Software used: Lightwave, Sculptris and Krita, composited with Davinci Resolve Lite.
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Midweek Motivation: X-Men Days of Future Past VFX Breakdown
October 8, 2014
Digital Domain created some amazing visual effects for X-Men Days of Future Past. See how they did it in this VFX breakdown.
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Adobe Creative Cloud + Girl Skateboards Design Contest
October 2, 2014
If you love art and want to see it in motion (literally) then you have got to check out this design contest from Adobe and Girl Skateboards!
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Midweek Motivations: American Horror Story Freak Show Title Sequence
October 1, 2014
The long awaited season 4 is only a week from launch! Freak Show seems to have the best title sequence yet! I love the use of miniatures and stop motion. It has the time remapping effects of older versions and is creepy but more colorful than previous seasons.
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Midweek Motivation: Transformers: Age of Extinction Dinobot VFX
October 1, 2014
The Dinobots offered up some very cool, and complicated, visual effect moments in the newest Transformers movie. Check out this official behind the scenes footage.
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Midweek Motivation The Bezier Game
October 1, 2014
When your boss walks by and asks what you are doing… tell them you’re going through some pen tool training. No, seriously!
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Midweek Motivation: Making of COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey Visual Effects
October 1, 2014
Be inspired by the 260 mind blowing VFX shots BUF created for the COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey series.
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Midweek Motivation: Interview with Tim Clapham by Motionworks
October 1, 2014
Meet the guru behind the helloluxx Cinema 4D tutorials, Tim Chapham, in this interview by Motionworks’ John Dickson for Unplugged 35.
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Midweek Motivation: Cornelius Dämmrich “Haze”
September 24, 2014
Cornelius Dämmrich uses MAXON Cinema 4D, Vray, Adobe Photoshop and Pixologic ZBrush to create his photorealistic, 3D environment artwork. Here is a breakdown on his piece “Haze.”
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Midweek Motivation: Waves by Chris Lavelle and Stephen Langmanis
September 24, 2014
A conceptual video depicting the effects of sounds across our lifetime, created using RED footage, Mettle FreeForm Pro and ShapeShifter AE.
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Midweek Motivation: Most Influential VFX Movies Compilation
September 24, 2014
Here is a wonderful compilation, from the 1980’s onward, of some of the most influential visual effects movies of all time. Grab some popcorn and remember why you love going to the movies!