Sep
08
Populate Terrain 1.0
Posted in: 1Populate:Terrain is a scripted plugin for Autodesk 3ds max. It assists in creating and optimizing terrain surfaces from contour li…
Sep
07
Fright Night – Q&A with VFX supe Joe Bauer
Posted in: 1Fright Night – Q&A with VFX supe Joe Bauer
Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night pits high school kid Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) against vampire-next-door, Jerry (Colin Farrell). Visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer takes fxguide through the gory details on this DreamWorks stereoscopic feature, from the opening shot through to the dramatic vampire transformations. Warning: contains spoilers.
Sep
07
A Couple of Spots from Knife Party
Posted in: engine, General, knife party, Mastercard, simon robson, Telstra
Sep
07
psd-Manager 3 Released
Posted in: 1psd-manager 3.0 is the first and most advanced PSD file exporter for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design available on the market.
Sep
07
LumenRT Review Release 1.3
Posted in: 1Availability of a new update for LumenRT Review for SketchUp, the company’s revolutionary new real-time 3D product for the visuali…
Sep
07
NERDO is a Turin, Italy based studio, established in 2009 by Alessandro Durando and Lorenzo Levrero, recently producing this dvd opening title for IdN’s new issue “IdN Video v18n4″.
A few months ago Nerdo was contacted by IdN World to publish this projection mapping project for SEAT Portugal.
Sep
07
Cake: New reel + A Box for Rob
Posted in: Animation, Design
Check out a selection of Cake’s best pastry and sweets for 2011. Cake is a creative animation, design and live-action studio founded by David Pocull and Thiago Maia. Although based in London they collaborate with designers and animators from around the world to bring a wealth of experience to each brief.
Cake also recently completed these open and end titles for the A Box for Rob film.
Sep
06
Scott Benson: Rendezvous’ “The Murf”
Posted in: after effects, Animation, comet, constellation, dinosaur, disaster, evolution, General, history, invention, music video, optimism, progress, Rendezvous, Scott Benson, space, spaceship, Stars
Scott Benson can’t seem to stop putting out creative work, whether it’s light-hearted (Opposites, Future Trends in Motion Graphics) or helping himself and others ponder more serious themes (Rebranding, On the Subject of Depression). His music video for Rendezvous’ “The Murf” pairs a cosmic story with beautiful, stylized design that will both make you make you smile and wonder about the future.
Read on for production stills, storyboards and a Q&A with Scott here.
Sep
06
Michael Langan: Heliotropes
Posted in: airplanes, birds, doxology, Experimental, flight, General, helitropes, michael langan, short film, Stop-motion
Michael Langan’s new short film Heliotropes is fresh off the film fest circuit. Heliotropes documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light. Based on the poem by Brian Christian.
You might remember Langan’s previous film Doxology, which mixed stop-motion and live-action to create an experimental comedy about tennis balls, dancing cars and God.
Sep
06
Prologue: New site + jobs
Posted in: Animation, Design, directing, vfx
N.Y and Venice based Prologue, a collective of designers, filmmakers and artists and founded by Kyle Cooper, launched a new site with new storyboard and title projects; Final Destination 5, Fright Night, Thor, The Help and X-Men First Class.
Prologue is also looking for Design & Animation Artists and Maya VFX Artsts.
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