Tweet Aaron Bocanegra with a tutorial exploring the techniques for taking a 2D Image into After Effects and Projecting it into 3D. 3D Projection in After Effects – Tutorial from Aaron Bocanegra on Vimeo.
Tweet Autodesk has released some of the Subscription Advantage Packs, notably for 3D Studio Max, Mudbox and Maya, have all been made available to subscription holders. For the Maya 2011 Subscription advantage pack release users can expect Substances, Craft animation tools and FX assets, and for Softimage the addition of Lagoa Multiphysics, and the big [...]
Tweet In this tutorial, Visual Effects and Stereoscopic Supervisor, Tom Williamson (Alice in Wonderland, Pans Labyrinth, The Mist, The Final Destination 3D and many more) talks us through a clever use of Nuke to convert some fire footage from 2D to 3D.
Tweet Alvaro Castaneda in the concluding part of the very first Houdini tutorial for CGtuts, whatch how to take the nodes created from part 1 (found here) and convert them into an amazing Auto-Fence digital asset – something that shows just why Houdini can be such a powerful part of the VFX workflow.
Tweet Burke Fry from perspectx in this is 15min tutorial on how to use Maya’s dynamic hair systems to deform your geometry. This is a great way to get fast realistic deformation that would be extremely difficult to obtain with key framed animation. Dynamic Hair Rig from Perspectx on Vimeo.
Tweet Sascha Henrichs with a series of video tutorials examining the techniques used to create props using Mudbox. This video covers a number of Mudbox sculpting techniques and explains how to solve special tasks concerning prop sculpting. Subjects covered include: • Sculpting cracks and medium details into old woodplanks • Using scrape, sculpt, grad and [...]
Tweet Unity Technologies has release Unity3D version 3 hot on the heels of their announcement recently about the partnership with Electronic Arts. Unity 3 represents a quantum leap – built-in lightmapping and occlusion culling, a debugger, you name it. A full editor overhaul and stunning performance gains. An irresistible product has seen the light of [...]
Tweet Svytoslav Shumikhin demonstrating his workflow and tools for Softimage to Headus UVLayout using his Softimage Addon for just that task! Softimage to Headus UVLayout linker from Svytoslav Shumikhin on Vimeo. Where is tutorial how use Headus UVLayout with Softimage, and link to page, where you can download addon (javascript).
Tweet François Tarlier with another Pixel Bender Plugin for After Effects that provides a one slider approach to create a very compelling filmic contrast “look” to your footage. Partially based on Ken Perlin’s Gain function.
