CG Portfolio: Robert Kudera

This week short-listed portfolio is of artist whose renders are photo-realistic and shown the excellent composition skills.div class=”feedflare”
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Making of Waiting

The idea behind this was to create a render that looked like a still image from a film noir movie. Everything was done in 3dsmax a…div class=”feedflare”
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Spotlight: Peter Baustaedter, WD

Peter and the Weta Digital Matte Painiting team have recently finished over 330 shots on Avatar and his team received a VES awarddiv class=”feedflare”
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The visual effects of Marmaduke

The visual effects of Marmaduke

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Director Tom Dey called on several FX shops for Marmaduke,
the story of a loveable Great Dane who moves to Orange County with his
unsuspecting family. Under overall VFX supe Craig Lyn, artists brought
to life several talking animals mostly via CG face replacements,
although some key scenes featured an all-digital title character. Here’s my article at fxguide which takes a look at the work by Cinesite, CIS Vancouver and Rhythm
Hues.

Short Film: Fluffy MC Cloud

IADT National Film School short graduate film about man\’s misunderstanding and mixed relationship with mother naturediv class=”feedflare”
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Facial Rigging with Luis San Juan

In this interview Luis reveals in details his take on facial rigging techniques and share with us the character animation pipeline…div class=”feedflare”
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V-Ray for Maya 1.5 SP1 Released

New version comes with numerous new features and significant improvements. Works with Maya 2011 and free for all current users.div class=”feedflare”
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VES Production Summit 2010

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The Visual Effects is presenting its second annual Entertainment Industry Production Summit on October 23rd at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey. More info is available here.

Making of Dama 360

Artist created the female superhero using 3ds Max and ZBrush. Giving the important project insight, which helps in your projectdiv class=”feedflare”
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Brix: Next Gen Textures for 3ds Max

Materialwerk today released BRIX, the next generation procedural textures plugin with material library for Autodesk 3D Studio Max.div class=”feedflare”
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