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Creating Realistic Jewelry using Blender Cycles

lesterbanks — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:04 +0000

Alex Telford by way of 3Dworld Magazine show how to go from concept to final rendered image in creating realistic jewelry using Blender and Blender Cycles Engine for rendering. Check out the complete tutorial for Creating Realistic Jewelry using Blender Cycles here. Alex Telford takes you from concept to final image with Blender’s new render [...]

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Adding a Center Crosshair to The Cinema 4D Viewport

lesterbanks — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000

EJ Hassenfratz shows a solution to create crosshairs in the center of the Cinema 4D Viewport as a guide similar to the ones seen in an after effects composition window. Check out the post for Adding a Center Crosshair to the Cinema 4D Viewport here. Ever been wanting crosshairs in your Cinema 4D viewport like [...]

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An Overview of HIERO VFX Management, Conform & Review Tool

lesterbanks — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:10 +0000

The Foundry’s Matt Brealey with 3 minute introduction to The Foundry’s HIERO, a new VFX shot management, conform and review tool. Check out the features for HIERO, and an open beta at The Foundry here. HIERO is a desktop application for collaborative VFX workflow – a scriptable timeline tool that conforms edit decision lists and [...]

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A Walkthrough of emNewton2 for Softimage

lesterbanks — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:05 +0000

Eric Mootz walks through the new emNewton2 2.0 plugin for Softimage’s ICE that can be used to create simulations that are driven by an implementation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of universal Gravity, such as solar systems or stars with an accretion disc. mNewton2 is an implementation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of universal Gravity, [...]

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Creating Funky Animations in After Effects using CC Circle & Radio Waves

lesterbanks — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:37 +0000

Tibor Miklos takes a look at animating values with the After Effects bundled CC Circle and Radio Waves Plugin to create some funky animation. Check out the tutorial for Creating Funky Animations in After Effects using CC Circle & Radio Waves here. Tibor Miklos writes: Hello everyone! In this tutorial we’re gonna show you how [...]

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Creating an Old VHS Look in After Effects

lesterbanks — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:03 +0000

Seth Worley looks at how to create an old VCR / VHS look in After Effects using Key Correct and Magic Bullet Looks. Check out the tutorial for Creating a Convincing Old VHS Look in After Effects here.

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Creating a Growing Ivy effect in Blender 3D

lesterbanks — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:30 +0000

Nikhil Dhoka shows how to create a growing Ivy effect in Blender with some really simple techniques. Check out the post for Creating a Growing Ivy effect in Blender 3D here for a look at the Shading Breakdowns & Cycles Node tree.

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Projector for Creating Project Folders Gets an Update

lesterbanks — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:45 +0000

andrew hake (creator of the drag and drop apps RenderQ and Maya Render) has recently updated Projector to version 2.4. Projector which he deems to be “Quite possibly the laziest of all the lazy apps.” Projector provides an easy way to collect resource files, footage, plugins, fonts, etc for entire projects (not application specific, projects [...]

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Creating Pixel Art in Cinema 4D

lesterbanks — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:20 +0000

Pariah Studios Rob Redman with a quick tip for one of the many ways to create 8-bit pixel style graphics in Cinema 4D using some morph tools. Rob Redman writes: In this quick tutorial I show you one of the many ways you can use Cinema 4D to create pixel art. It’s a simple process [...]

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Moment of Inspiration NURBS Modeler OSX Beta Released

lesterbanks — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Triple Squid Software has recently updated the beta they provide for the Mac OSX version of their NURBS modeler Moment Of Inspiration. Moment Of Inspiration is designed to be a NURBS modeler for artists and designers who may be frustrated with the complexity of existing CAD tools, providing Pen Tablet support and a simple user [...]

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