Tweet A look at how to set up effective dust simulation using particle systems in Blender and tweaking weights, density maps and particle textures to create realistic dust effects. CGI Trainer writes: This is a video tutorial on how we can set up an effective dust simulation,using particles systems ,wight painted particles density maps and [...]
Tweet Joe Myers of SketchBook Inc. takes a quick look at moving something that would typically have no Normals (in this case edges) in Cinema 4D and moving them against a Normals direction. sketchbookinc writes: As edges don’t really have true normals, sometimes you need a little trick to move them in the normal direction. [...]
Tweet The Blender Simulation Site has posted a quick article on Point Cloud Rendering with Blender noting some better solutions for rendering. Check out the article for Pointcloud rendering with Blender here. Blensor.org notes that “This may not be the most common usage scenario for Blender but if you want to visualize pointcloud data coming [...]
Tweet The great Glen Southern shows the process of where to place initial cuts and edges when using the “Box Modeling” technique to model a character.
Tweet The Last Cookie by Isabelle Lemaux The Last Cookie from Isabelle Lemaux on Vimeo. The revised version of the 3 weeks short film directed by 3 students from Arts et Technologies de l’Image (Paris 8 University) : Guillaume Boizanté : http://boizante.blogspot.com/ Mickaël Lalo : http://vimeo.com/user3922961 Isabelle Lemaux : http://isabellelemaux.blogspot.com/ Sound design by Malcolm Berthou [...]
Tweet NEWMEDIA from MOLI on Vimeo. www.motionlights.com.ar La Plata, Argentina HD Version Recommended ·· Direction & CG AnimationJulian Cooke · Sebastian Dias ENG:As seen in many sci-fi films tapes, we’ve been invaded again, but this time is our own fault: We’ve created New Media. ESP:Como en muchas cintas de ciencia ficción, hemos sido invadidos nuevamente, [...]
Tweet The Gift The Gift from BLR_VFX on Vimeo. Directed by Carl E. Rinsch, ‘The Gift’ Belongs to the “pararell Lines” Phillips Cinema campaning. Placed in Russia, The Gift is a Sci-Fi short with a savage Chase sequence on it. We made more than 20 full CGI shots for the short. Check out the animated [...]
Tweet 3DMasterClass posts a great demonstration of how to approach animating a walk cycle in Maya covering overall techniques for process. Great stuff! 3DMasterClass writes: A real time demo of how to approach animating a basic 3D walk cycle using Maya. This is primarily intended to suggest a methodology for getting all the channels of [...]
Tweet Andersson Technologies has recently updated Syntheyes, a camera tracking / match-moving and stabilization software application offering high performance and a wealth of features at an affordable price to version 2011.1 which adds a new system for analyzing lens grid images to generate presets (even for highly-distorted lenses such as GoProHD), and symmetric/spot tracker snapping [...]
Tweet Since the Mental Core initial beta announcement back in September 2010, many have been eagerly awaiting the CoreCG plugin for Maya Mental Ray Mental Core and the day has finally come with the release of Mental Core 1.0. MentalCore is a plugin that provides an alternative to the standard rendering workflow for Maya and [...]
