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!

Mercedes A-Klasse Webspecial - Check the Spot

VRay in Real Life

Are we geeks or just fanboys?

Realflow Siggraph Showreel 2012

The latest Realflow Showreel. Check the amazing Fluids, so sweet…

Interview with Allan McKay

Evermotion interviewed Allan recently…

Link to the Article

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

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.

brazil eof

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...


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