Tweet Rise|FX’s Florian Gellinger shows off work from Matthias Glasner’s film This is Love. Mind-blowing! Another presentation that just made my jaw drop on how brilliant the techniques were, and how powerful nuke actually is. Whew.
Tweet Robert Hranitzky creates a 3D thunderstorm scene in after effects using 2 still photographs, photoshops vanishing point, trapcode particulars and trapcode horizon. Also, if you haven’t already, make sure you check out my tutorial on vanishing point for some additional really helpful tips!
Tweet An interesting approach using a system to deform man-made, or hard surface 3D objects, much similar to the way that soft deformations and selections work on organic models. iWire however deforms the model with reconstruction and maintains the initial models key features and forms. Nifty!
Tweet Creative Crash’s hosting of Belyaev Andrey’s tutorial on how to model detailed objects of rotation… as in the tires above, or a detailed plastic soda bottle. Some interesting techniques to check out.
Tweet cmiVFX have released all of the Apple Shake training for FREE, all that is required is a signup. This is great if you are looking to get familiar with the concepts of a node-based compositor, start here!
Tweet nShatter.com recently released ruins 2.0, an undated version of a pretty cool CUDA realtime shatter plugin for maya. Ruins uses accelerated cards to to generate shatters and effects in real time. Ruins 2.0 reduce memory problems, supports precision shatter or random shatter with each other. Ruins 2.0 also has greatly improved speed performance as well has having [...]
Tweet FxGuide with a feature from IBC featuring some District 9 work done in Nuke shown by Shervin Shoghian who is a compositing supervisor at Image Engine. Shervin shows off some crazy, crazy, crazy Nuke stuff used in compositing District 9. It’s easy to see why Nuke has caught on as one of the standard [...]
Tweet With the title mimicking a famous line from blade runner, one of my favourite studios ZOIC has a new blog and portal for the studios news and happenings.
Tweet Luxand, makers of face recognition software have released an echo fx plugin for after effects. The plug in features “one click video echo”. A demo version is available on luxand.
Tweet Peter Menich emitting particles to the music of Origine Nascota from Ludovico Einaudi. A sweet looking use of trapcode particulars in after effects.
