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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 Motivations: Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018, Part 1
Here are the ten Oscar nominees for the best Animated Shorts. We’ve featured two of these beautiful shorts and over the next month, we will feature all of them, alphabetically by title, with a bit of background on each.
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News: School of Motion 12 Days of Giveaways is Still Happening!
Have you been following the 12 days of giveaways? Enter 12 Days of Giveaways 2018 for your chance to win thousands of dollars worth of motion design goodies. It runs through December 21, so register now!
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New: U-RENDER, High-Quality Real-Time Rendering for Cinema 4D
Based on the latest advancements in real-time rendering, U-RENDER integrates into traditional rendering pipelines and is designed to support and even replace offline CPU and GPU rendering solutions.
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Freebie/Tutorial: Build your own Gingerbread House or Candy Wonderland in 3D
Instead of giving you a straightforward tutorial on how to make something exactly how it is, we’re doing this one more like a recipe. We’ll give you some ingredients and you use your knowledge and creativity to come up with your own sweet project!
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Update: Redshift v2.6.39 Available
Redshift has announced that build v2.6.30 is now available and brings some great features like PSD layer support for all hosts, a multiShader asset manager update for Cinema 4D, more support for texture baking in Cinema 4D, Xgen Interactive grooming splines for Maya and much more!
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Contest: X-Particles Challenge 2018 Still Taking Entries
The X-Particles Challenge is a competition designed to inspire creativity using MAXON’s Cinema 4D and Insydium’s X-Particles. There is still a few days left to submit your work, so get on it!
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New: Plugin Play Datamosh and Copy Pasta for After Effects are Now Available
Get real video glitches with Datamosh, and save time copying and pasting images into and out of After Effects with Copy Pasta.
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New: BOOM Library Urban Explosions is Now Available
Urban Explosions is a huge explosion sound effects library, with up to 42 channels, 5.1 surround and 13 GB of SFX. You can get it as a construction kit, designed, or get both in a bundle and save.
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Freebie: Adobe Stock: Free Holiday Template
The holidays are upon us and Adobe offers a free Festive Adobe Stock template to use inside Adobe Photoshop CC, so you can “spread joy to those near and far.”
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New: The Pixel Lab Redshift Lighting Essentials for C4D is Now Available
The Pixel Lab has just released Redshift Lighting Essentials for Cinema 4D, a collection of 10 customizable lighting studios to help you jump start the lighting process in Redshift.
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New: Automatic Duck Automatic Duck Ximport AE and Stupid Raisins Moment Pop
Get these powerful tools for Final Cut Pro X! Stupid Raisins Moment Pop has an introductory price through December 18, 2018, too.
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Free: Holiday Trapcode Suite Templates from Red Giant
It’s Freebie Friday! Red Giant is giving away some free templates, designed by Leo Hageman, for your last minute holiday-themed videos you might need to finish.
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New: CineFlare HandHeld Updated to v3
This plug-in for Final Cut Pro X has new features and a special introductory price! Download a free trial today!
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New: Digital Film Tools Markup for Photos
Markup is a new text and markup plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop from Digital Film Tools. Designed specifically for Lightroom, Photographers no longer have to export their images to an external program to add text.