May
02
quantum sound with SOUP granular synth https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soup-granular/id1358214341?ls=1&mt=8
May
02
How to Use Velocity Cells in Grid Music
Posted in: Animation
Download Grid Music on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grid-music/id1222443274?mt=8&at=1000lL6P
More about Grid Music: https://gridmusicapp.com
May
02
A Ghost Story and the Invisible Wichita
Posted in: Animation
ALL WORDS TAKEN FROM WICHITA MYTHOLOGY (Dorsey, George Amos. The Mythology of the Wichita. Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1994.) Midterm project for Digital Asias, Spring 2018.
May
02
made for the SCMS 2018 seminar “Making Videographic Criticism: The Videographic Epigraph”
May
02
Cinematography: Roger Deakins ASC, BSC Director: Denis Villeneuve Music: Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch
May
02
Horrid Henry series
Banijay Group’s Zodiak Kids has secured global broadcast and SVOD deals for Novel Entertainment’s animated series Horrid Henry. The global deals are inked for all four seasons.
Turner Broadcasting Asia has renewed seasons one-four for Asia Pacific while Netflix is further committing to the first 52 episodes for North America, France, Australia, New Zealand and India. Media Corp Singapore will air season four, TG4 Ireland has picked up seasons three and four, ERT Greece has renewed season one and Pop Slovenia has taken dates to air seasons one-three. All existing episodes will also be available for viewing through iTunes in the UK.
Novel’s four-time BAFTA-nominated TV series is one of the biggest children’s animated shows in the UK. The brand has also extended to include film, stage, radio and online extensions apart from being involved in a licensing and merchandising programme.
Till date, Zodiak Kids has sold the series to over 90 territories with broadcasters on board across the globe including: ABC Australia, RTE Eire, Mediacorp Singapore, Gulli France, NRK Norway, Hulu US, SVT Sweden, YLE Finland, RTP Portugal, TVP1 in Poland, and Al Jazeerah Middle East.
The digital arena is a huge area of growth for Horrid Henry. The show is available through Netflix in the UK and on both Hulu and Netflix in the US. The Horrid Henry website has over 1.8 million users making more than 12 million visits.
Horrid Henry is produced by Lucinda Whiteley and Mike Watts.
The post Novel Entertainment’s ‘Horrid Henry’ goes on world tour through Zodiac Kids appeared first on AnimationXpress.
May
02
Even as we try to digest the events of the Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios threw yet another spanner at our heads, releasing the new trailer of its next production in line, Ant-man and the Wasp.
Almost two months after giving a glimpse into Scott Lang’s next mission as the shape-shifting hero, the new clip opens on his daughter probing his Ant-Man adventures and how he needs a partner, someone “watching his back”. Interspersed in between is visions of the former con artist fighting few absconding burglars, but in a bigger avatar of his superhero alias.
As it cuts to Wasp jumping in the action too, we’re introduced to the antagonist “Ghost” who gains the ability to phase through objects after stealing Hank Pym’s technology. What follows, is a healthy dose of action that the Ant-Man and the Wasp engage after “teaming-up” for the new mission, growing and shrinking in size to perplex the brains out of the enemies.
Laced with trademark Marvel humour, we also have a giant ant on the drums, performing to some excellent jazzy beats!
Ant-Man and the Wasp is set immediately after the events of Civil War, and is the penultimate movie in the phase three of the MCU before the Avengers 4.
Based on Marvel comics, the Peyton Reed directorial opens in cinemas on 6 July 2018.
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May
01
FX Console Updated to V1.0.3
Posted in: Animation
Good news everybody! Our sweet workflow plug-in, FX Console, has been updated with a BUNCH of bug fixes and a few new enhancements! If you are not using FX Console, check it out! It’s free!
Fixes and Enhancements for V1.0.3:
- Added option to save images as JPG from menu & Gallery
- Preferences files are now saved in a user path instead of a common path, meaning different preferences for different users.
- Fixed user presets path for AE 2017 and 2018.
- Fixed issues of preset and effects not being applied if a floating panel had the focus.
- Fixed screenshot image resolution not being correct in OSX.
- Fixed crash when rending via command line.
- Fixed color profile issue when taking a screenshot (mismatch colors).
After Effects Requirements:
Adobe After Effects CC and above (Including CC2014 Sorry no CS6)
DOWNLOAD FX Console V1.0.3 PLUG-IN: For After Effects!
FX Console V1 Features:
- Access FX & Presets quickly
- Create FX Shortcuts
- Create FX Overrides
- Export Snapshot with PNG
- Automatic Snapshot Tool & Gallery
- + MORE!
In V1.0.1 we added these features:
- Custom Shortcut Key
- Import + Export Settings file
- Tab to Presets in search results
- Over a dozen bug fixes!
May
01
5-Second Project “Playground” Winners
Posted in: Animation
Watch the winning playground 5-second project submissions, and get ready for the new theme and deadline.
The playground theme has come to a close, and it was another great month of incredible submissions from the GSG community. Thanks to everyone who participated. Be sure to join us for next months theme, Incognito. You have until May 24th at Midnight to submit your Incognito animation. Click here for all the details on participating.
Now, let’s get to the winners.
Winner: Nicola Gastaldi
The winner of the Playground 5-second project is Nicola Gastaldi. Here’s his winning submission.
We reached out to Gastaldi to talk about his 5-second project. Here’s what we learned.
Greyscalegorilla: Can you offer any insight into how you came up with this idea?
Nicola Gastaldi: When I saw the the Greyscalegorilla 5-second projects were back, I was super excited. With a tight deadline and a nice theme, they always fuel my creativity and eventually they become something good to share online and in my reel.
Having a 2 year old daughter, I would say that I’m pretty used to playgrounds and their critical qualities. After a dreadful winter in London, with the springtime it seemed that literally everyone came back to the slides. So, I was pretty sure I had to create super busy playground.
Image via Nicola Gastaldi.
I also knew I wanted to build a fully looping animation, with tons of details that you can discover the more you watch the animation. I would say that this is a common trait of my previous works too.
(Gastaldi has won Candy Cane and Harvest 5-second projects, and earned honorable mention for Bah Humbug.)
GSG: Tell us more about this playground animation.
NG: Well, thanks to Nicola Destefanis, who created the original elliptical slide and worked on the lighting. I started to add stairs, a pole, swings, see-saws, merry-go-rounds and castles with wobbly bridges.
Image via Nicola Gastaldi.
With him, we tried different designs for the kids, one of which was more like a wooden puppet. I ended up using a more simple one that had the legs and arms that were more flexible.
I rigged it with simple IKs, UV wrapped with six sets of animated textures for the faces and six for the bodies. With that, each one could have a different look from the others. I also tried to show the lovely multi-ethnic kids that populate the playgrounds.
Image via Nicola Gastaldi.
One note: don’t ask me why I made my life harder modeling and rigging fingers on the hands. I literally don’t know. But I think it’s cool.
I used Xrefs for the puppets and animated them in the main project, which I tried to keep as neat as possible.
Image via Nicola Gastaldi.
GSG: What tools did you use to create this project?
NG: Everything was done in Cinema 4D. I tried Arnold for the first time, which would up being just 7 minutes per frame, with full dof and motion blur!
I created the textures in After Effects, where I’ve done a bit of compositing and color correction using some of the AOV’s.
More from Nicola Gastaldi:
Second Place: Steve Diener
In just five seconds, Steve manages to show us six different sports. See more work on Steve Diener’s website.
Third Place: Driss Elmeloud
Is this the little piggy that cried wee, wee, wee all the way home? More from Driss Elmeloud on Behance.
More Playground Submissions:
You can watch all the Playground submissions here in this playlist.
The next 5-second project is currently open to everyone! Head on over to the 5-second project page for the theme, deadline, and rules.
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May
01
In this 2018 NAB presentation, I’ll show you how to get faster preview renders, as well as a few more Cinema 4D tips and tricks. You can also download a free script from Greyscalegorilla to help you speed up your workflow.
I was fortunate enough to experience my ninth visit to the Maxon booth at NAB, and I’m so very grateful to have presented once again. This year I wanted to do something a little different, so I decided to giveaway a tool we built in house that I’ve used countless times since we’ve produced it.
Filter Switch is a script developed by Chris Schmidt that allowed me to quickly preview renders in the Cinema 4D viewport. Rather than waiting for an entire render, I could get a sample of my animation in seconds, instead of minutes. Here’s a real-time comparison in C4D R19.
We’ve packaged up this script, my presentation files, and my C4D GPU layout for you to download. You can also head over to the blog to watch a quick tutorial to get you started.
In my 2018 NAB presentation, I briefly talk about my career path thus far, and then get into the really good stuff! I’ll show you ways to use the C4D OpenGL Viewport, which was overhauled in R19.
It was just by chance that Chad Ashley was showing me progress on a piece he was making for GorillaCam when I noticed he was showing me a preview in the C4D Viewport. It wasn’t long after that, that I was diving deep into the Viewport settings to help me speed up my renders. I’ll show you some tricks to save you a ton of time, as well as how to see things like HDRI’s in the C4D Viewport.
I’ll also touch on some of our tools, like Topcoat for reflections, and previewing looks with the HDRI Studio Rig.
Hope you find this presentation helpful. Cheers!
Here is a timestamped breakdown of the presentation, courtesy of Cineversity.
00:00 – Introduction
00:57 – Reel
01:56 – Free Stuff Link
02:44 – Nick’s Background
05:27 – Demo Time!
10:15 – Using Hardware OpenGL
14:01 – Adjusting the Display Settings
18:57 – Example Scenes
20:53 – Eliminating Viewport Crud
22:53 – Jeep Scene
24:12 – Adjusting Anti-Aliasing and Super-Sampling for Cleaner Images
27:42 – Working with Dynamics
29:06 – Adjusting the Picture Viewer RAM Preference
32:21 – Starting a Project from Scratch
35:17 – Adding Reflections with TopCoat
36:25 – Auditioning Looks with HDRI Studio Rig
37:23 – Adding Variation with the Random Effector
38:01 – Adding DOF
40:37 – Adjusting Render Settings
41:56 – Adjusting Render Settings
48:44 – Conclusion
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