Dec 06

Save the Date: 40% Off During the Greyscalegorilla One Day Sale

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The Greyscalegorilla One Day Sale is your chance to take 40% off our Cinema 4D tools and training. Get all the new plugins and assets.*

Get ready for our biggest sale ever. More tools, more training, more savings. The 2018 One Day Sale starts next week!

When is the One Day Sale?

Monday December 10th 8AM EST through Tuesday December 11th 8AM EST.

Mark your calendar now, set a reminder, set an alarm, put a sticky note on your monitor, tell your friends to remind you. Whatever it takes, don’t miss our biggest sale!

Are there new Greyscalegorilla products I need?

2018 was the biggest year ever for new releases. Believe it or not, we released 11 new products and several big updates just this year.

Here are the new tools and training you can save on.

New Tools

Light Kit Pro 3 (Plugin, Studios, Suite)

The fastest selling GSG plugin ever, Light Kit Pro 3 might be the must-have tool for 2018. See why 3D World Magazine gave it a perfect 5-star review.

LKP3 is available new or as an upgrade. You can purchase the plugin by itself, add on 80 additional studios with Product Studios or Pop Studios, or save and get everything in the Light Kit Pro 3 Suite.

Everyday Material Collection

The newest product available was an immediate hit with Redshift, Octane, and Arnold users, and we are even seeing amazing results from artist using the texture maps in Houdini and other 3D programs.

The Everyday Material Collection features over 350 drag-and-drop materials for Cinema 4D.

GorillaCam

Our first release of 2018, GorillaCam continues to be a top-selling new plugin. These easy-to-add camera shakes and overshoots have been used on countless ArchViz walkthroughs and commercial projects. See how Ash Thorp used them in this futuristic sci-fi Nike ad.

HDRI Ultimate Skies

The most popular HDRI pack that doesn’t have “Pro Studios” in the name. Ultimate Skies features 85 UltraHDRI skies in OpenEXR format. That means you can use these in C4D with HDRI Link or HDRI Studio Rig, or you can also use them in Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, and more!

Available in 12K and 4K, these HDRI feature crisp sun shadows, no lens flares or blown out sun, and no obstructions (no buildings, light posts, trees, or random elements).

New Training

Several new training courses and a big update were released in 2018.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to Redshift

Ready to see why artists and studios are making the switch to Redshift. The Greyscalegorilla Guide to Redshift will show you all of the features and how to best use them to quickly render your C4D projects.

Led by MANVSMACHINE’s Trevor Kerr, this training series will get you up to speed with the fastest third-party render engine. Check out our interview with Trevor here, or preview a lesson with this Blade Runner fog tutorial.

Learn Squared’s Motion Design 101

With Motion Design 101, you’ll learn to concept, design, and animate within the Adobe Creative Cloud. Learn from industry giant Jr.Canest in this top-notch course from Learn Squared.

Check out Jr.Canest’s artist spotlight here to see some of his recent projects for clients like Adobe and WIRED.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20

Did you upgrade to Cinema 4D and need to learn all about the new features? The Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20 features 12 hours of training on the newest tools and several project lessons from all your favorite Greyscalegorilla hosts.

Interested in the key new R20 features? Check out this C4D R20 preview lesson.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to X-Particles (XP4)

First up was the major appendix added to our industry-leading Greyscalegorilla Guide to X-Particles training. An additional 12 hours of training focused specifically on XP4. That brings the entire guide up to 20 hours of the most in-depth X-Particles training available.

AskGSG Season 4

Grab the latest season of AskGSG, or the AskGSG Season Pass, and access all of the newest live q&a shows with Chris Schmidt.

What products will be on sale?

All products built and produced by Greyscalegorilla will be 40% off. That includes our tools, training, and suites. Save on our plugins, in-depth training series, materials, 3D models, HDRIs, and more!

Greyscalegorilla Tools:

Greyscalegorilla Training:

Greyscalegorilla Bundles and Suites:

X-Particles (by Insydium LTD) is not part of the sale.

How do I save 40%?

Check back here and on the site for the discount code on December 10th.

CHECK HERE ON DECEMBER 10TH

 

What are the best deals?

Suites! Save extra by purchasing a Greyscalegorilla suite. Not only do you already save on the price of the individual products, you’ll save an additional 30% off the price of the suite.

Greyscalegorilla Complete Suite

The GSG Complete Suite includes all the Cinema 4D tools built by Greyscalegorilla. You’ll get all of our animation, rendering, lighting and color grading tools.

Browse all Greyscalegorilla Suites.

Will X-Particles be on sale?

No.

*X-Particles (a product of Insydium LTD) is not part of this sale.

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Dec 06

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Dec 05

What to Consider Before Writing a Dissertation

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Dissertation can be a broad parcel of paper containing 10,000 – 15,000 phrases that in fact comprise you possess self-determining and advanced study you picked and also transported on the specific topic for composing a dissertation.

Nevertheless you need to read lots of advices ahead of about howto compose a dissertation in the present post we’re discussing several extra questions a person has to keep under account.

  • Among the absolute most significant things for students who’s likely to compose their dissertation would be always to pick instructor sensibly as the preferred instructor has to have all complete wisdom and data regarding the topic you’re pursuing your own dissertation.
  • A very good supervisor could be your person who’s voluntarily providing you that their period plus most of the attention that you will need.
  • One other means to create sure perhaps the boss would be right or maybe not by requesting students who’ve handed outside before you since they’ve experienced and possess functioned under their oversight until therefore they really are going to direct you even better.
  • Maybe not a single educator if he’s long or inhabited from a number of different activities aren’t likely to accommodate most of the needs you have although it will not indicate that you must pick somebody who’s occupied with a number of different activities along with pupils.
  • Prior to becoming along together with your newspaper farther you might have to compose and show your own analysis proposal into your manager. A research proposal can be really a newspaper in that you enlist the guidelines and restriction of one’s research and also additionally openly endeavor the question and dilemma you’ve objected to examine or answer your own investigation. You can read more about research proposals here: http://www.academia.edu/2282293/Research_Skills_Course_-_Writing_A_Research_Proposal
  • Investigation suggestion discusses your own benefit into a instructor exactly what things to think in potential hence if they don’t find the relevant skills on your hearing the proposition to the preferred topic they then tell you personally and recommend one to convey with another person in their team.
  • Plagiarism is just one among the most significant problems if you will compose your dissertation or composition or some other other newspaper. However it might be unintentional however its own effects are resilient also it’s usually to be considered a sneaking of additional man function.

We expect you could remember the above mentioned points ahead of starting your own dissertation to attain superior outcomes.

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Dec 05

IndiaJoy day four unveils the much-awaited Indian Gaming Developer Conference 2018

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Every year gamers and enthusiasts around India linger for Indian Gaming Developer Conference (IGDC) to obtain the overall glimpse of the Indian gaming industry. This year  IGDC collaborated with IndiaJoy and unveiled the opening at HICC in Hyderabad.

In its 10th year, the conference has been regarded as the most significant one held in South Asia. It has always played a key role in developing the Indian gaming ecosystem, helping developers in gaining valuable insights,  picking up new skills, as well as connecting with publishers and investors that they would never have had access to.

The gigantic gaming industry has only grown even bigger over the years, thus the conference was dissected into six sections in reverence of gaming business, game design, game art, the technology used in gaming, applied games and gaming career.

 The morning session started with Pascal Luban’s master class in Freemium Design, a game designing software followed by showcasing gaming art through Kaka’s Clayground by Dhimant Vyas . On technology front  99games technical director  Shanmukharaja M showcased various game programming patterns. Moving on Priya Thiagarajan of MPS Interactive shared the trendsetting paradigm shift of multiplayer in gaming, Sumit Mehera shared production expertise in Fast &Furious Power of Great Teams. This has built liveOps Culture: Taking  Games to their fullest potential by Moonfrog’s Ashwin Apte which was followed by a lunch break.

Post lunch  Rajesh Rao gave the opening welcome remarks on IGDC  and shared their celebration on the completion of 10 years at a stretch. He also shared that this year over 3000 professionals took part, over 100 industry expert speakers, eight major tracks, 10 major events, 100 expo stalls, 25 publishers, 35 investors, International Delegations, International Media. He provided a virtual walkthrough around the Agenda of this year’s conference.  He increased the enthusiasm of the industry people at the keynote as he uttered  IGDC is always stood for “ by the industry, for the industry”

This was followed by Natural Motion/Zynga VP Julian Widdows keynote Under the Hood: Empowered Teams Passionate Players where he showed how he has executed the People Project Process theme in the organisation.  Taking an example of cult games like Racing CSR and Racing CSR 2, he shared how to build the relationship between the players and the developers to have a successful game building and launch.  He said quality games like CSR can be built on  “The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of thinking we do it first.”

 This was followed by several panel discussions depending on the market scenario along with various walkthroughs of products to ease game-developing followed by its business. Karan Gambhir of Google Play shared how new additional features in the Google Play will ease out game developers in the building of games. He shared The Google Play has upgraded its policies  to complete the gaming life cycle of developers which is, “ Develop- Launch-Engage-Earn”

Later there was a panel discussion among Arpita Kapoor of Mech Mocha, Puneet Kumar of Nexus, Sharan Tulsian of Google and Nikhil Birla of Nazara with moderator Siddharth Gupta of Greedy games on Indian gaming industry status quo. They shared how PubG has made a trendsetting impact of multiplayer games in India because of its uniqueness. They further shared that there are two ways which impact the games likability among players; one is either producing relatable games like Ludo King or unique games like PUBG. So if a developer hits any one of the criteria then the game fulfils the popularity quota.

Raghu Shankar and Manohar of Zynga shared that instant games are making a huge impact on all the social media lovers. Facebook is one such platform which has to build the craze of gaming even among the users who are non-gamers. They shared that in building the instant game, facebook offers identity and network, message updates, Storage, Bots, leaderboard, Matchmaking, analytics and monetisation which ease the instant game developing.

The day four of IndiaJoy ends with IGDC awards along with Pandora’s music fest with a special performance of Raghav Meatelle, Best Kept Secret, Zephyrtone, Progressive Brothers, Lost Stories x Zaeden and the Indywood Yuva Ratna Award.

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Dec 05

Annie Awards 2019 reveal nominations for all 32 categories; Pixar’s ‘Incredibles 2’ bags 11 nominations!

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ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles branch of the International Animation Film Association, revealed the nominations for the forty-sixth edition of the Annie Awards – animation industry’s biggest night.

Set to take place on 2 February 2019, this year’s nominees include some popular films and television series such as Isle of Dogs, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, BoJack Horseman etc. However, Disney-Pixar’s Incredibles 2, the highest grosser so far in the animation category, reigns supreme with 11 nominations in all, including the ‘Best Animated Feature’ as well as ‘Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in Animation Feature Production’.

Annie Awards also recognise the best animation work in video games whilst other important departments such as music, writing, scripts are also awarded.

Here’s the 2019 Annie Awards nominations in full:

Annie Award for Best Animated Feature

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Isle Of Dogs – Fox Searchlight Pictures / Indian Paintbrush / American Empirical Pictures
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

Annie Award for Best Animated Independent Feature

  • Ce Magnifique Gâteau! – Beast Animation, Vivement Lundi!, Pedri Animation
  • MFKZ – Ankama / Studio 4ºC
  • Mirai – Studio Chizu
  • Ruben Brandt, Collector – Hungarian National Film Fund
  • Tito and the Birds – Bits Productions, Split Studio

Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production

  • Back to the Moon – Google Spotlight Stories, Google Doodles, Nexus Studios
  • Mary Poppins Returns – Walt Disney Studios
  • The Emperor’s Newest Clothes – HBO/Starburns Industries
  • The Highway Rat – Magic Light Pictures

Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject

  • Grandpa Walrus – Caimans Productions
  • Lost & Found – Wabi Sabi Studios
  • SOLAR WALK – Nørlum
  • Untravel – Production: Film House Bas Celik, Serbia Co-production: BFilm, Bratislava & Your Dreams Factory, Bratislava
  • Weekends – Past Lives Productions

Annie Award for Best Virtual Reality Production

  • Age of Sail – Google Spotlight Stories, Broad Reach Pictures
  • Battlescar – AtlasV
  • Crow: The Legend – Baobab Studios
  • Mind Palace – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
  • Moss – Polyarc

Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial

  • Goldfish at the Fair – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
  • Greenpeace There’s a Rang-Tan In My Bedroom – Passion Animation Studios
  • Grinch /40/ Olympics Spot – Illumination
  • JD.com, Joy and Heron – Passion Pictures
  • The Fearless Are Here – Nexus Studios

Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children

  • Ask the StoryBots – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix
  • Dinotrux: Supercharged – DreamWorks Animation Television
  • Hey Duggee – Studio AKA
  • PJ Masks – Frog Box Entertainment One
  • Tumble Leaf – Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment

Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children

  • Hilda – Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks
  • Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny – DreamWorks Animation Television
  • Little Big Awesome – Amazon Studios
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
  • Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters – DreamWorks Animation Television

Annie Award for Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Big Mouth – Netflix
  • Bob’s Burgers – 20th Century FOX Television/Bento Box Entertainment
  • BoJack Horseman – Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
  • Human Kind Of – Cartuna, Facebook Watch
  • The Venture Bros. – Adult Swim / Titmouse, Inc.

Annie Award for Best Student Film

  • A Blink of An Eye – Anke Kletsch
  • Best Friend – Luce Grosjean
  • FACING IT – Sam Gainsborough
  • Hors Piste – Luce Grosjean
  • Sister – Siqi Song

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • DreamWorks Theatre Presents Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
  • SuperMansion – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
  • Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters – DreamWorks Animation Television
  • Watership Down – 42/Biscuit Entertainment with Netflix

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – Sony Pictures Animation
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Next Gen – Baozou with Alibaba Pictures Inc. in association with Tangent Animation for Netflix
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production

  • Age of Sail – Google Spotlight Stories, Broad Reach Pictures
  • Back to the Moon – Google Spotlight Stories, Google Doodles, Nexus Studios
  • Hilda – Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks
  • Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • Tumble Leaf – Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studio
  • Isle of Dogs – Fox Searchlight Pictures/Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production

  • Avengers: Infinity War – Marvel
  • Christopher Robin – Walt Disney Pictures
  • Mary Poppins Returns – Walt Disney Pictures
  • Paddington 2 – StudioCanal, Heyday Films, Marmalade Films Ltd
  • The Nutcracker and the Four Realms – Walt Disney Studios

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game

  • God of War – Santa Monica Studio
  • GRIS – Nomada Studio
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man – Insomniac Games
  • Moss – Polyarc
  • Shadow of The Tomb Raider – Square Enix

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Age of Sail – Google Spotlight Stories, Broad Reach Pictures
  • Niko and the Sword of Light – Amazon Studios
  • Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – DreamWorks Animation Television
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – DreamWorks Animation Television

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Mary Poppins Returns – Walt Disney Studios
  • Next Gen – Baozou with Alibaba Pictures Inc. in association with Tangent Animation for Netflix
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Ask the StoryBots – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix
  • Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
  • Niko and the Sword of Light – Amazon Studios
  • SuperMansion – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
  • Tales of Arcadia: 3Below – DreamWorks Animation Television

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – Sony Pictures Animation
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Back to the Moon – Google Spotlight Stories, Google Doodles, Nexus Studios
  • Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
  • Elena of Avalor – Disney Television Animation
  • Tangled: The Series – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • The Tom and Jerry Show – Warner Bros. Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production

  • Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – Illumination
  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Smallfoot – Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Animation Group

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Age of Sail – Google Spotlight Stories, Broad Reach Pictures
  • Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
  • Little Big Awesome – Amazon Studios
  • Niko and the Sword of Light – Amazon Studios
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – DreamWorks Animation Television

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – Sony Pictures Animation
  • Isle of Dogs – Fox Searchlight Pictures, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures
  • Mary Poppins Returns – Walt Disney Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Ben 10 – Cartoon Network Studios
  • Big Hero 6: The Series – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
  • Star vs. The Forces of Evil – Walt Disney Television Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

  • Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – Illumination
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Mary Poppins Returns – Walt Disney Studios
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • BoJack Horseman – Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
  • F is for Family – Wild West Television in association with Gaumont Television for Netflix
  • Pete the Cat – Amazon Studios, Alcon Television Group, LLC
  • Skylanders Academy – Activision Blizzard Studios
  • Unikitty – Warner Bros. Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

  • Early Man – Aardman Animations
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Isle of Dogs – Fox Searchlight Pictures/Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures
  • Next Gen – Baozou with Alibaba Pictures Inc. in association with Tangent Animation for Netflix
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Big Mouth – Netflix
  • Craig of the Creek – Cartoon Network Studios
  • Hilda – Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks
  • Star vs. The Forces of Evil – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • We Bare Bears – Cartoon Network Animation Studios

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production

  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Mirai – Studio Chizu
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation
  • Teen Titans Go! to the Movies – Warner Bros. Animation

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

  • Big Hero 6: The Series – Walt Disney Television Animation
  • Puppy Dog Pals – Wild Canary Animation/Disney Junior
  • SpongeBob SquarePants – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
  • Tales of Arcadia: 3Below – DreamWorks Animation Television
  • The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants – DreamWorks Animation Television

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Feature Production

  • Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – Illumination
  • Incredibles 2 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Ralph Breaks The Internet – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Ruben Brandt, Collector – Hungarian National Film Fund
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures Animation

The winners will be announced during the black tie ceremony on Saturday, 2 February 2019 at UCLA’s Royal Hall.

 

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Dec 05

Bengali graphic novel ‘Utsav’ portrays Durga Puja in its truest form

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Festivals are an integral part of our lives. They’re a symbol of unity, harmony, togetherness and enjoyment. And for Bengalis it’s all the more, as the common saying goes- ‘13 festivals in 12 months’; the greatest being Durga Puja. To portray a vivid description of the celebrations during these five days, Kolkata based comic artist Satrajit Choudhury is coming up with a new Bengali graphic novel, Utsav.

Set in late-90s Kolkata, the story tracks a mystery along with the funny things which happen during the Puja in a big apartment. The content will be 16+ and full of characters belonging to multiple age groups. Aimed at 48 pages, AnimationXpress had a chat with Satra about the book:

Why did you choose to do a graphic novel set in 90s Kolkata, during Durga Puja?

I’m a 90s kid myself and actually grew up in an apartment. The atmosphere during the Puja is completely different. The story has a semi-autobiographical essence.

What genre will this book cater to, as you mentioned it tracks a mystery along with some funny things during the festival?

The category would be “Slice of Life”. Think of any graphic novel by Rutu Modan. Not too preachy, not too fantastic, rooted in reality.

Do you intend to give a closer look at Pujas conducted at residential campuses and distinguish it with that of community ones?

Per my experience, the Pujas happening in campus and community were not too different in spirit. I’ll not highlight any difference consciously.

Is it in print or digital? When will it be released?

Print. We are targeting a release date in March.

What influenced you to take up this project?

Originally I wanted to run a cartoon series called 5 days of Durga Puja. Featuring one-panel cartoons about various aspects of Durga Puja. While drawing the individual panels, I realised that these can be strung together into a graphic novel. Another influence was The Castafiore Emerald – the Tintin novel which Herge created solely to live up to the challenge of making a completely indoor Tintin adventure.

How important is the role of the festival in the book?

Extremely important. People in an apartment come together and many nice things happen simply because of the festival. The festival is the main character, I would say.

What are your next projects after this? 

There’s a project which actually is happening previous to this. An English one-shot graphic novel about a real story of Aleppo, Syria. About a man who rescued abandoned cats in war-torn Aleppo.

What according to you is special about this project?

As I said earlier, it’s semi-autobiographical. There are bits of me, my childhood friends, their adolescent misadventures in this story.

Though Durga Puja comes next year, the book promises to be a treat in this genre and with independent artists like him, who’s quite popular on social media with his page ‘Comics by Satra’, the industry just gets better.

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Dec 05

Autodesk and Unity Expand Collaboration to Design, Make and Virtually Experience

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Augmented, virtual and real-time reality technologies have the potential to shape how we imagine, design and make, not to mention experience, everything from factories, buildings and cars, to training, learning and entertainment. Also worth mentioning is the growth potential of VR content, which is outpacing VR hardware.

Imagine having the ability to see and feel the immediate impact of design changes or train muscle memory in dangerous and complex environments (construction sites or factory floors) but do so in the safety of a virtual world? These technologies offer a fundamental shift in how we perceive and interact with digital and physical things and allow our customers to interact with designs at human scale and simulate them as if they are already built and functioning.

At Autodesk, open ecosystem puts actionable data and content at the centre of new AR/VR workflows. 3D data moves into a VR, AR or real-time experience with the help from one of their partners, Unity.

They’ve worked together for a year to provide tighter integration between Unity’s platform and Autodesk’s design tools including 3ds Max and Maya, so artists have “one click” access to rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences.

Autodesk and Unity are teaming up to bring visualization and real-time experiences to more industries: Automotive; Architecture, Engineering and Construction and additional Media and Entertainment customers.

Working with Unity means designers, engineers, construction and creative professionals using Autodesk software can quickly connect, collaborate, create, and deploy immersive, real-time experiences using their CAD or CGI data. This enables them to make better-informed decisions about the outcome of designs, projects, and productions. And because Unity reaches 25+ platforms spanning the worlds of AR, VR and mobile, projects can be seen and experienced on almost any device, from anywhere.

 

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Dec 05

Save the Date: 40% Off During the Greyscalegorilla One Day Sale

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The Greyscalegorilla One Day Sale is your chance to take 40% off our Cinema 4D tools and training. Get all the new plugins and assets.*

Get ready for our biggest sale ever. More tools, more training, more savings. The 2018 One Day Sale starts next week!

When is the One Day Sale?

Monday December 10th 8AM EST through Tuesday December 11th 8AM EST.

Mark your calendar now, set a reminder, set an alarm, put a sticky note on your monitor, tell your friends to remind you. Whatever it takes, don’t miss our biggest sale!

Are there new Greyscalegorilla products I need?

2018 was the biggest year ever for new releases. Believe it or not, we released 11 new products and several big updates just this year.

Here are the new tools and training you can save on.

New Tools

Light Kit Pro 3 (Plugin, Studios, Suite)

The fastest selling GSG plugin ever, Light Kit Pro 3 might be the must-have tool for 2018. See why 3D World Magazine gave it a perfect 5-star review.

LKP3 is available new or as an upgrade. You can purchase the plugin by itself, add on 80 additional studios with Product Studios or Pop Studios, or save and get everything in the Light Kit Pro 3 Suite.

Everyday Material Collection

The newest product available was an immediate hit with Redshift, Octane, and Arnold users, and we are even seeing amazing results from artist using the texture maps in Houdini and other 3D programs.

The Everyday Material Collection features over 350 drag-and-drop materials for Cinema 4D.

GorillaCam

Our first release of 2018, GorillaCam continues to be a top-selling new plugin. These easy-to-add camera shakes and overshoots have been used on countless ArchViz walkthroughs and commercial projects. See how Ash Thorp used them in this futuristic sci-fi Nike ad.

HDRI Ultimate Skies

The most popular HDRI pack that doesn’t have “Pro Studios” in the name. Ultimate Skies features 85 UltraHDRI skies in OpenEXR format. That means you can use these in C4D with HDRI Link or HDRI Studio Rig, or you can also use them in Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, and more!

Available in 12K and 4K, these HDRI feature crisp sun shadows, no lens flares or blown out sun, and no obstructions (no buildings, light posts, trees, or random elements).

New Training

Several new training courses and a big update were released in 2018.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to Redshift

Ready to see why artists and studios are making the switch to Redshift. The Greyscalegorilla Guide to Redshift will show you all of the features and how to best use them to quickly render your C4D projects.

Led by MANVSMACHINE’s Trevor Kerr, this training series will get you up to speed with the fastest third-party render engine. Check out our interview with Trevor here, or preview a lesson with this Blade Runner fog tutorial.

Learn Squared’s Motion Design 101

With Motion Design 101, you’ll learn to concept, design, and animate within the Adobe Creative Cloud. Learn from industry giant Jr.Canest in this top-notch course from Learn Squared.

Check out Jr.Canest’s artist spotlight here to see some of his recent projects for clients like Adobe and WIRED.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20

Did you upgrade to Cinema 4D and need to learn all about the new features? The Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20 features 12 hours of training on the newest tools and several project lessons from all your favorite Greyscalegorilla hosts.

Interested in the key new R20 features? Check out this C4D R20 preview lesson.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to X-Particles (XP4)

First up was the major appendix added to our industry-leading Greyscalegorilla Guide to X-Particles training. An additional 12 hours of training focused specifically on XP4. That brings the entire guide up to 20 hours of the most in-depth X-Particles training available.

AskGSG Season 4

Grab the latest season of AskGSG, or the AskGSG Season Pass, and access all of the newest live q&a shows with Chris Schmidt.

What products will be on sale?

All products built and produced by Greyscalegorilla will be 40% off. That includes our tools, training, and suites. Save on our plugins, in-depth training series, materials, 3D models, HDRIs, and more!

Greyscalegorilla Tools:

Greyscalegorilla Training:

Greyscalegorilla Bundles and Suites:

X-Particles (by Insydium LTD) is not part of the sale.

How do I save 40%?

Check back here and on the site for the discount code on December 10th.

CHECK HERE ON DECEMBER 10TH

 

What are the best deals?

Suites! Save extra by purchasing a Greyscalegorilla suite. Not only do you already save on the price of the individual products, you’ll save an additional 30% off the price of the suite.

Greyscalegorilla Complete Suite

The GSG Complete Suite includes all the Cinema 4D tools built by Greyscalegorilla. You’ll get all of our animation, rendering, lighting and color grading tools.

Browse all Greyscalegorilla Suites.

Will X-Particles be on sale?

No.

*X-Particles (a product of Insydium LTD) is not part of this sale.

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Dec 05

Layers by Maxim Zhestkov

Posted in: Animation
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Dec 05

Age of Sail

Posted in: Animation

The latest installment from the Google Spotlight Story series is Age of Sail, a beautiful short directed by John Kahrs with creative direction for none other than Kevin Dart. Be sure to check it out!

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