Octane render from Refractive Software is out of beta and available as release 1.0 today. Octane render is a fully GPU accelerated, fully interactive, fully unbiased interactive Physically Based Render Engine.
Octane render from Refractive Software is out of beta and available as release 1.0 today. Octane render is a fully GPU accelerated, fully interactive, fully unbiased interactive Physically Based Render Engine.
Chris and Trish Meyer post the third part of a 12-part series, called “Deeper Modes of Expression”, that comes from the 180+ page bonus chapter in their fantastic must-have book, Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. Part three is a look at arrays.
StickyIt script demo – Automatic Sticky Lips solution for Maya from Riggerman on Vimeo.
Quick screengrab of my Maya’s automatic Sticky Lips rigging script, version 1.
The script was part of my studies and it scratches some concepts of Topology Navigation to identify where to create the deformations. Works on any polygon mesh with unfolded UVs and it’s not dependant on a specific edge count or mesh ‘world-space’ symmetry.
Based on the Institute of Animation tutorials by Volker Helzle. Google it for more details.
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Models courtesy of Luiz Elias.
Bad english with weird accent courtesy of myself.
Visit http://riggerman.animationblogspot.com/ for more rigging goodness!
Alphabet Soup Tutorial Preview from Quba Michalski on Vimeo.
this After Effects tutorial will show you how to create a cool underwater opening title sequence. Rather than using Trapcode Particular (which many of you may not have installed) or CC Particle World (which really could use an update to its coordinate system) the project fakes particle simulation through use of text animators.
The tutorial can be viewed at: http://qubahq.com/2010/03/tutorial-alphabet-soup-fake-text-particles/
Neal Holman, Art Director for the animated series Archer continues his look into the process of the show with a look into how they climbed over the mountain of work in the making of the pilot show. I love the example images of the rendered background, and then the painted-over-top of rendered background – brilliant.
WHITE NOISE from marius si pandele on Vimeo.
Cu un calm ce sparge armonia pianului, î?i trece fiin?a prin vopsea. Prietenul meticulos, pensula, îi decupeaz? un loc în decor iar notele pulseaz? spasmodic. Simulacru perfect. Lini?te. Dar în interiorul protejat exist? mai mul?i ochi decât note. Lini?te.
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With a calmness that shatters the piano’s harmony, he ran his beeing through paint. His meticulous friend, the paintbrush, cut him a place in the setting while the notes were spasmodically beating. The perfect mimesis. Silence. But inside the sheltered interior there were more eyes than notes. Silence.
+++ SPECIAL MENTION of the jury for a ROMANIAN FILM @ ANIM’EST 2009
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RF4 Case Study – Ketchup Bottle Blast from Leonardo Silva on Vimeo.
The bottle was modeled and shattered in Maya by hand, then I used Real Flow 4 to created both RB and fluid simulations simultaneously.