Hasta La Motion!

V-Ray RT for Autodesk Maya is now available for download and ready to be tested by all current V-Ray for Maya users, registered in the Chaos Group website. V-Ray RT for Maya is an interactive rendering engine that allows immediate communication between the user and the virtual environment. It applies the changes on the scene automatically and progressively, generating a photorealistic preview of the scene. It is designed to improve and fasten the artist’s work and significantly shorten the lighting and shading set up of a project.

Everyone is free to join the V-Ray RT for Maya BETA Program and contribute to the development. Become a beta tester to experience the possibilities of this long awaited rendering solution.

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This is a short action scene I made with the most focus on the light editing. (a fixed version of another one I made)

It took a while to create cause I worked with the light, effects, editing, sounds and music very closely. But I’m not a professional editor so maybe it doesn’t looks awesome.

In music and audio part i compressed some sounds and did some delay, changed some pitches and stuff like that.
Used: Magix Music Maker 14 Premium

The light was the longest part to do cause I wanted it to be perfect so I worked with it very carefully with curves, corrections and balances.
Used: Premiere Pro & After Effects CS5

Editing wasn’t so much, just som fixes with the music and made the clip match the sounds.
Used: Premiere Pro CS5

Effects and slowmotion was made in After Effects CS5.

Hope you’ll like it and maybe give me some comments!

Hello, I’m new here and I hope I am posting this thread in the right place.

This time I took a still image and tried to make it look like 3d and tried to create a feeling that a camera was flying over the village.

I used some lensflare and mixed with the lights alot to get a sunset look.

Watch in 720 HD!

Please give me some feedback 🙂

cmiVFX Releases New Cinema 4D’s PyroCluster Revealed Training Video
High Definition Training Videos for the Visual Effects Industry

Princeton, NJ (August 24th, 2010) – cmiVFX launches its latest training video in the cmiDirect series, Pyrocluster Revealed. Create realistic looking fire, smoke, and other volumetric effects for use in visual effects and motion graphics. This training quickly and concisely covers the major stepping stones and hurdles to get you on track to creating any kind of volumetric effect you can conceive of. Immediately learn crucial information on specific topics without slowing down your productions and wasting unnecessary time. cmiDirect continues to deliver high level detailed content direct to the topic. cmiPlayer technology was designed to let professionals access information from any computer on the internet. Whether your at work, at home, or some where in between.. cmiVFX will be there for you waiting with the information that you need to know RIGHT NOW! When it comes to high end CG and VFX training, there is only once choice… cmiVFX!

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Cinema 4D’s PyroCluster Revealed
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PyroCluster is the volumetric shading module for Cinema 4d. Pyrocluster enables photorealistic volumetric effects such as fire and smoke, as well as Hollywood-style explosions (think gasoline bomb) and stylized science (and science fiction) ‘energy’ effects like force fields, beams of electricity, and wormholes. It is a fully featured, yet extremely easy to use module, and it is fully integrated within Cinema 4d, unlike many of the other third party volumetric plug-ins available.

Deep Versatility
Learn about the volume tracer and a few ways to drastically speed your Pyrocluster renders. Delve into each of the different tabs within the Pyrocluster materials: control puff radius, luminosity, color, and alpha within the age effects, distance effects, and cylindrical distance effects. Learn the basics of the illumination and shadows tabs to help control light as well as self, cast, and received shadows. Use the noise tab to create an infinite number of different ‘shapes’ of noise, and of course animate them. Combining the ‘gradient’ style of animation with keyframing, Pyrocluster is incredibly versatile and powerful, allowing many different solutions and ways of working that with a little practice, anyone can become very comfortable with.

Time is of the Essence
An important concept within many different modules is to modify presets. By taking a preset as a starting point, it becomes infinitely easier to achieve a given look, style, or interaction and can save significant setup time, and in the fast paced (and getting faster) worlds of visual effects and motion graphics, these time savings can be invaluable. Combined with thinking particles, the sky is the limit when it comes to interaction, level of detail, and realism, so if you’re new to Cinema 4d, or Pyrocluster, or have been looking to add an easy-to-use volumetrics module to your quiver of skills, this video is most definitely for you!

About the Instructor
Paul Agostinelli is a Brooklyn, NY based artist. A recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Metalsmithing and Jewelry program in the School for American Crafts, he specializes in large-scale, interactive installation work. His undergraduate thesis spanned many different media from fabricated steel, to hand-built interactive electronic and digital devices. He is currently working as a freelance artist and enjoys working with Cinema4d for the motion-graphics and VFX industries.

This video is available today at the cmiVFX store. http://cmivfx.com/store/Browse.aspx?Category=12

About cmiVFX
cmiVFX is not a conventional training company. We know that a problem can have many solutions and we aim to drive the industry with the latest information available for our user base. Our training is aimed at expanding your marketability so that you can get and maintain a consistent revenue stream. Don’t be fooled by our pretty pictures! We mean business here at cmiVFX. Its one thing to be able to create a pretty image, but its another thing to know how to create it for the proper venue. At cmiVFX, your will learn the difference!

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