New Cinema 4D Tutorial Recreates Bill and Ted’s Iconic Phone Booth Time Machine
Dan ‘Hashi’ Hashimoto’s step-by-step video uses Maxon and Red Giant tools, along with After Effects, to produce stunning animation and VFX like that used in the film.
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WATCH: Pixomondo ‘The King of Staten Island’ VFX Breakdown Reel
The studio, led by VFX supervisor Bojan Zoric, delivered 170 shots as the sole visual effects house on the Judd Apatow comedy starring Pete Davidson as a wannabe tattoo artist drifting through a life of little achievement.
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J Cube Releases Multiverse USD 6.5
Powered by a new end-to-end multi-threaded architecture, update is designed to deliver an easy and logical workflow to artists.
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The Winning Animated Re-Creations of Netflix’s ‘Losers’ Docu-Series
Mickey Duzyj’s Sports Emmy-nominated live-action/2D series deftly examines society’s relationship with failure by looking at epic, career-defining athletic disappointments.
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Watch 2 New ‘Baymax Dreams’ Shorts Made with Unity Real-Time Game Engine Tools
Disney Television Animation continues their groundbreaking production work with just launched season of new short films based on their Emmy Award-nominated ‘Big Hero 6 The Series.’
V-Ray 5 for Maya Now Available
Updated production renderer allows users to composite renders, incorporate light path expressions, and interactively relight scenes in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer.
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RALPH Returns to her Pre-Teen Y2K Bedroom in ‘Crush’ Animated Music Video
Multi-disciplinary artist Amika Cooper, AKA blackpowerbarbie, channels ‘Lizzie McGuire,’ ‘Degrassi,’ and boomboxes for the singer’s new video, a reimagining of Jennifer Paige’s 1998 dance-pop hit.
Jon Bokenkamp Shines Light on Animated ‘The Blacklist’ Season 7 Finale
During Comic-Con panel, showrunner explains decision on integrating live-action with comic-style toon-shaded animation to finish episode halted due to the novel coronavirus.
Foundry Announces Nuke Indie for Solo Artists
New version is part of Nuke 12.2 release that includes new SyncReview tool, floating offline license usage, and various updates for pipelines, teams and individuals.
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VES Releases Revised ‘VES Handbook of Visual Effects’
Expanded 3rd Edition, hailed as the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and solutions on the market, is now available for pre-order.
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Foundry Announces Foundry Live Summer Edition Running July 16 -23
Virtual event to feature industry focused education sessions with virtual meetups on look development, lighting, and 3D design.
New Short Reveals a Young Boy’s Imaginary Battle Against the Covid-Dragon
In Joey Jones’ charming CG animated film, ‘How the Covid-dragon Disappears,’ a kid’s imagination serves as the battleground for a knight’s valiant fight against the coronavirus, honoring the brave essential workers of the 2020 pandemic.
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Magic.Mountain Brings Chaos to the City in KILLBOY’s ‘That’s Okay I’ll Just Fuck Myself’
In new music video, animator and designer Josh Burke portrays the singer’s harrowing journey through an urban inferno raging against the backdrop of a neon-infused game-styled cityscape.
Brut Directing Collective Busts COVID-19 Myths in Short for United Nations
Mixed media production company 1stAveMachine uses animated gags to take aim at measures that are ineffective against the coronavirus.
Chaos Group Releases V-Ray Collection and Single Floating License
Artists can now freely access 15 different 3D products and services for real-time scene exploration and photorealistic rendering.
Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Expanded toolset includes photorealistic ray tracer, adding post-rendering compositing and lighting tool capabilities that makes adjustment of render elements and color corrections much easier.
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Nviz’s Gravity Flip Makes Yoga Much More Exhilarating in HBO’s ‘Avenue 5’
VFX studio handles previs, visual effects, postvis, and graphics production for the inaugural season of Armando Iannucci’s space tourism comedy
Red Giant Introduces Lens Distortion Tool in VFX Suite 1.5
New release adds to collection of keying, tracking, cleanup, and visual effects compositing tools new feature to match any lens distortion.
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How Proof’s Fully Animated Previs Helped Save the ‘The Blacklist’ Season Finale
With production shutdown due to COVID-19, the hit NBC series finished its final Season 7 episode by integrating 20+ minutes of toon-shaded animation with live-action.
Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Politics from Being Funny on ‘Tooning Out the News’
Quickly retooling their production in the face of COVID-19, executive producers R.J. Fried and Tim Luecke continue bringing us a sorely needed daily animated dose of hilarious political satire.
Fresh Takes: New ‘Quarantoon’ Series ‘Gnat & Tina’ Episode 1
Brandon Martin and Eric J. Trujillo’s 100% quarantine-produced 2D animated short, about two bored houseflies looking to experience the world, is the first of a bi-weekly animated series.
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WATCH: Pixomondo VFX Breakdown Reel for ‘The Hunt’
Led by VFX supervisors Johnny Gibson and Edward Hawkins, the studio provided a bucket-full of digital blood and gore, wounds, muzzle flashes, deadly arrows and a digital jet on the Jason Blum and Damon Lindelof produced action-thriller.
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Cinesite Shares New VFX Showreel
Highlights include sequences from ‘The Witcher,’ ‘Rocketman,’ ‘Lost in Space’ S2, ‘Avengers Infinity War’ and Avengers Endgame.’
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WATCH: Jamie Cullum’s Inspirational ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Music Video
Under Neil Pymer’s creative direction, animated short artfully captures triple platinum-selling musician’s uplifting song about relationships in the digital age.
WATCH: Pixomondo Breakdown Reel from ‘I’ve Never Been to New York’
Led by VFX supervisor Sven Martin, the studio handled all visual effects production on Philipp Stölzl’s colorful feature film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name.
