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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.
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Contest: Hum3D Car Render Challenge for 3D Artists
The fifth annual Hum3D competition for the best Car render has started. Enter for your chance to win tons of 3D software from Autodesk, Chaos Group, Corona, Next Limit SiNi, Video Copilot and many more.
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Midweek Motivations: “Imagine” easyJet Ad by MPC with VFX Breakdown
This is beautiful commercial was created by MPC advertising. It really makes me want to get on a plane! Really beautiful work!
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Midweek Motivations: Allegorithmic Substance VFX Showreel 2018
Watch some terrific commercial and film work from Substance Painter and Substance Designer artists and users. This was originally shown at FMX 2018. Really amazing work.
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Midweek Motivation: Greyscalegorilla 5-Second Project “Treasure” Winners
5-second projects are a Greyscalegorilla community driven animation competition. Here are the winners of the latest theme, Treasure. The entries are clever, detailed, and overall, rather amazing.
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Midweek Motivations: A Very Strange Ad for Little Baby’s Ice Cream with Behind the Scenes
These are seriously the oddest commercials I’ve ever seen. I’ll give them huge points for originality! There’s a great behind the scenes video with director/editor Doug Garth Wiliams, explaining how it was done too. (Hint: it’s marshmallow fluff, green screen, and After Effects).
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Big Screen Effects: The Meg
We saw The Meg over the weekend and it was an action-filled, fun, prehistoric monster movie. While the giant shark was impressive, the underwater shots of the lab were really impressive. Learn about some of the effects behind the film.
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Midweek Motivations: Job, Joris, and Marieke Shorts
One of my Facebook friends posted Joris Oprins, Job Roggeveen, Marieke Blaauw’s “A Single Life”, an Oscar-Nominated Short about a woman who can manipulate time by moving the needle on a record. It is fantastic so I dove a little deeper into their work. This Dutch team has done many other wonderful, creative, funny, and sad animated shorts and projects, and they use Cinema 4D!
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Midweek Motivations: V-Ray Showreel 2018
The work on this V-Ray reel is top shelf. You’ll want to watch this one twice!
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Midweek Motivation: Pomfort: On-Set Color for Deadpool 2 (Parts 1 & 2)
Pomfort chatted with both the Main DIT, Simon Jori, and 2nd unit DITs Mitch Bax and Ryan McGregor, for Deadpool 2 on the importance of live grading (part 1) and keeping the look consistency (part 2). Read excerpts here and then follow the links to the full articles.
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Midweek Motivations: Barnstorm VFX Flies High: Mocha Pro and After Effects
Boris FX posted an article and reel from Barnstorm VFX with their great work on shows like Silicon Valley and The Man in the High Castle. The article talks about their use of Mocha Pro for rotoscoping elements and beauty work.
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Big Screen Effects: Ant-Man and the Wasp Visual Effects
“Ant-Man and the Wasp” is exactly how I like my superhero films – not taking itself seriously. In the film, high tech suits give the superheroes the strength and size of an ant and a wasp, with lots of comic hi-jinx and special effects. Plus, I love Paul Rudd. Watch some behind the scenes videos and read some interviews about the miniature effects were created.