FumeFX 3.5 has been released. It brings many improvements, inluding the boundless grid and Field3D support. Check the Release Notes to see a full List of improvements. I found a few small ones that sounds really usefull for the daily work.
2012/11/05
Alembic for 3ds max
Have you heard from Alembic File Format yet? I didn’t had the time to test it myself but in my current job some other Artists a using it and just tell good things about it. If you want to port Character Rigs you should have a look at this.
Digital Frontier has released the plugin for importing files in the Alembic format into 3ds Max for free.
Disney bought Lucasfilm
One of my great heros ILM(belongs to Lucasfilm) was bought by Disney. We will see what this means for the future. In the same breath they announced a new StarWars Movie.
2012/08/24
Automotive Brand Contest Winner
Mackevision won four prices at the Automotive Brand Contest. In one project I was involved as VFX Artist. Thanks for the great time and congrats to the rest of the team!
RayFire customer showreel 2012
Oh I missed the latest Rayfire Reel… Check the amazing work that was done with RayFire.
Vrayies–IES Presets Script for 3ds Max
Here is a small nice script that couId improve your pipeline a bit. I was already thinking about writing something like that for a while.
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?aaagkhrzzuecif2
My tip, turn off the music…
Demolition Master |TP Blackbox
Demolition Master is a 3dsmax tool based on Thinking Particles for quick and easy destructions. They offer a free version and a paid full version for 25€. Looks like a nice tool… Will test it soon.
Features list:
- Interactive Dynamic Demolition System.
- Procedural bullets.
- Concrete, wood, glass and steel materials with specific parameters.
- Full destruction control, fragmentation objects pass diferent states with diferent frictions defined by user.
- Instant debris creation (splashes, trails, impact debris) for concrete, wood, steel, glass materials and bullets.
- Instant interaction with FumeFx.
- Thinking particles Tool, so you can refine all parameters for your needs.
- TP dynamic solver, concave and convex objects suported.
- Export geometry
You can find more infos here - andvfx.com
2012/08/23
Autodesk acquired Naiad
Autodesk has acquired Naiad fluid simulation technology from Exotic Matter.
Read the full article at CG Record.
What will happen to Naiad? Maybe we get it within Max or Maya in the future? We will see…
Destruction Hit Tutorial - Thinking Particles
Check the new tutorial by Will Wallace about Thinking Particles Destruction.
2012/08/12
Loom and 458nm by Polynoid
You know the people from Polynoid? They made some great shorts... maybe more art shorts but great as well from the technical side!
Check here my favourites from them.
First one is "Loom":
And the second one I wanne share is "458nm":
Check their web to find more work. polynoid.tv
First one is "Loom":
And the second one I wanne share is "458nm":
Check their web to find more work. polynoid.tv
2012/08/08
Autodesk announced Extentions | PFlow Box3
Free for all Subscription customers. 3ds max get mParticles(PFlow Box3) included. With this toolkit you can create nearly everything that was imposible before. You get also the great new cacheing system. This is the biggest advantage for me. Now you can cache each frame to a seperate file. This helps a lot for rendering on farms and also for preview purposes.
It will be available in late september.
What the other Tools get? Read the offical Press Release.
Never seen PFlow Box3? Check here some tests created with the help of Box 2 and Box 3 by Matthias Müller.
Autodesk Siggraph 2012 Showreel
Autodesk released a new Showreel with state of the art 3D animations for Siggraph.
Welcome to Hoxford
You know the Comic “Welcome to Hoxford” from Ben Tempelsmith? Great Artwork but doesn’t matter. Watch the short movie fan film project and you will buy they comic.
Some bad FullCG shots are in but so much great and amazing work as well. And It have a great Look!
Splutterfish announced the End of Life for Brazil and Rio
Splutterfish announcend the End of Life for the 3ds max Plugins Brazil and Rio. Check out http://splutterfish.com to read the full press release.
2012/08/07
Element 3D Plugin for After Effects
VideoCoPilot released a great Plugin called Element 3D for After Effects. They offer a great bundle for just 500$ with a lot of libarys to work with. And they look already very good now. Check out the official product page even if you don't use After Effects cause I can't write everything down here .
Here is just one simple video to show the potential! It have limitations shure...
Here is just one simple video to show the potential! It have limitations shure...
2012/08/01
Blur Scripts & Gopher Broke
I think most people now them already. But my Blog wouldn't be complete without at least one Post about it.
Blur Studios offer for free a big Script Pack for 3ds max which realy helps at daily work!
I use some of these realy often, some of them I still don't know what they are for... But as usual, you can't know everything.
Download at Splutterfish
For those of you that don't know Blur Studios - check them. Here is an old short from them but still one of my Favorite Shorts.
Gopher Broke
I use some of these realy often, some of them I still don't know what they are for... But as usual, you can't know everything.
Download at Splutterfish
For those of you that don't know Blur Studios - check them. Here is an old short from them but still one of my Favorite Shorts.
Gopher Broke
2012/07/18
Realflow Pipeline explained
Check out the new Video from NextLimit which shows how the RealFlow Pipeline and NextLimit Tools can be used.
The Dark Knight Rises Ultimate Trilogy Trailer
I had an goose skin watching the new 5 minutes Trilogy Trailer from Batman.
Check yourself for a goose skin.
Another great Tool from Thinkbox - Ember
Today I've seen the some of the Videos Bobo created to show the new Tool Ember. It's another great Tool for your particle Pipeline. Have a look at it.
more Ember Videos
Sign up for beta
more Ember Videos
Sign up for beta
2012/07/17
A Life Less Sedentary: CG Artist Health
Samuel Conlogue wrote a really nice article for Freelancers. There are a lot Tips in that aren't only usable for Freelancers. So everyone should have a look at this great article. There is a lot in that I'm doing since years to!
LINK - A Life Less Sedentary: CG Artist Health
LINK - A Life Less Sedentary: CG Artist Health
2012/07/12
Naiad
Hey I just made some tests with Naiad. Great Tool for simulation of Liquids any kind! Not such easy like RealFlow but more flexible. Grab a 30 day trial at their website...
www.exoticmatter.com
Check here a result from Igor Zanic.
www.exoticmatter.com
Check here a result from Igor Zanic.
Rayfire Technical Demonstration
You've seen the great Technical Demonstration of Rayfire yet? It's worth to look at it!
VoroFrag
Found a great new Plugin for Fracture in 3ds max. Looks better that Volume Braker and Rayfire. But it's still in Development and I couln't got my hands on it yet.
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