Interview with the makers of HitFilm

Today we have an interview with the makers of HitFilm, a brand new video editing software. Hope you will enjoy this.

The Making of Turning Point

The team at Crystal Dynamics picks apart the process of creating the stunning cinematic Debut Trailer in this behind the scenes do…

Peeling Bottle

Hi,

I have been trying to achieve a peeling effect for a while now in 3DS Max but appears there is no sensible way to do this. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Here is what I was able to do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_hTFd_u3t0

How I achieved it:
– Used extruded Helix to imprint (Pro Booleans) on the bottle.
– Created bones along the helix
– Created Spine IK
– Skinned the bottle (Painful process)

Problem: When I animated the points created from the Spline IK, the bones would get all twisted and stuff – hence the foil look.

Any suggestions on how to achieve all of this easier?

Thanks

Daniel Mackie

Water colour illustrations by Daniel Mackie. Nice distortions, detail and colour.

Demo Reel for game design (updated 7-7-11)

http://youtu.be/-a1WhLbgAl4

I have already gotten complaints about the length the creature and the last night shot is shown. I’m still editting it so please any comments and feedback to help me improve this would be apprieciated.

I already took banqo’s advice on what to show and hopefully it works

rendering aspect ratio off

i have a 1440×1080 clip i am editing in nuke. when i go to render via the write node, it renders it in a 4:3 ratio, despite the settings in the full size format in the project matching the ratio for the video.

Flame 2012 ExportIO (Read only) Error

Hi. I was working normally in flame when I tried to export a clip. I ran out of disk space and the operation aborted automatically. I Shut down Flame. In "explorer" Redhat, I deleted some folders from the Flame directory of proyects (these had no link relation to the current flame projects in manager, since I had previously deleted them from Flame itself).

I freed some space and returned to flame. When I do export a clip it says: CLIPMGT: Error when opening archive.

I created anew library, but everytime I try export, it will switch to EXPORT(IO – Read only).
How do I solve this so I can export from Flame again?

PostPanic: Showreel 2011

Amsterdam based PostPanic uploaded a whopping 4:25 showreel for 2011. Not sure I’ve ever seen a studio reel that long … tons of great work, some new some old but all good. PostPanic was founded in 1997 and is a Dutch hybrid film production company creating unique visual work for the international advertising, broadcast, […]

Daniel Mackie: illustration updates

After over 10 years using photoshop, U.K based illustrator Daniel Mackie abandons it in favor of pencil and watercolour, recently winning ‘Best in Book’ in the Creative Review Illustration Annual 2011. Judge Kuchar Swara says,” i was really impressed with the level of Detail and attention to the figure and it’s distortions of scale…” […]

Anthony Hurd: Updates

Arizona based, freelance artist, director, illustrator and designer Anthony Hurd updated with new interactive, design and art projects along with a new site.