Creating a 3D Baby Velociraptor
Guga Baraldi, 3D generalist artist and co-founder of Brazil-based 3D animation studio Didalí, breaks down his sweet-as-pie Pet Birthday render. Check it out below! In this article, I’ll be sharing my workflow for creating my Pet Birthday scene. This scene is a personal project that I made during my free…Read More
Kubotek3D Support System Upgraded
Enhancement provides improved customer access to their logged support issues and status notifications To better track support requests from customers, link them to our development work if needed, and communicate status, Kubotek3D has recently integrated the Jira Service Desk software into our systems. Customers can use a section of their…Read More
Ellery Connell's game-changing journey to Modo
Recently, we had the chance to sit down and talk with Ellery Connell about his experience with Modo. Ellery is a 20 plus year veteran of 3D modeling. He’s also a teacher, speaker, and author (where he literally wrote the book on 3D design). About three years ago he brought…Read More
Nuke Artist Spotlight: Freddy Chavez Olmos
Compositing Supervisor, Writer, Director, Special Effects Make-up Artist—there are many strings to Freddy Chavez Olmos’ bow. But, the journey to his successful career hasn’t always been easy. Growing up in Mexico, there weren’t many opportunities to pursue a visual effects (VFX) career in his home country. With no VFX schools…Read More
Your guide to Foundry Virtual Events
Missed Foundry’s Virtual Events? We’ve got you covered. In the spirit of staying connected during disparate times, Foundry’s Virtual Events series was launched in late March as a way of providing invaluable industry insights to the VFX community, whilst encouraging creativity and conversations across the globe. Our APAC team got…Read More
Introducing Bifrost 2.1
With a focus on new capabilities and ease-of-use, version 2.1 of Bifrost for Maya makes it possible to build compounds using rapid point-cloud lookups, nearest-neighbor searches, and raycasting. Other highlights include an improved interface for setting datatypes on nodes, making graphs more readable, and significant improvement in file IO. Here’s…Read More
Creating CG sorcery on Netflix’s The Witcher
How Framestore used Nuke to navigate rapid production schedules on episodic TV shows like The Witcher Fantasy: as an audience, we’re fascinated with it. From whole new worlds built on myth and legend to roguish tales and mighty quests, we can’t get enough of storytelling that transports us beyond our…Read More
Infocus Supercharges Simulation Power with SIMULIAworks
InFocus Energy Services, Inc. is in the business of facing problems as hard as rock. Primarily an R&D-based company for downhole products for the oil and gas industry, the company licenses its technology and products to strategic partners. Testing is everything, especially in the unpredictable environments of downhole drilling. Not…Read More
Lighting in animation: a dive into the hand-drawn
Since the first animated film rolled onto our screens in the early 1900s, animation quickly became an integral part of our viewing pleasure—evolving from jumpy stick figures in Fantasmagorie to high-detailed motion pictures like Toy Story 4, with lighting and cinematography playing a key part in its evolution. Lighting in…Read More
Remote working and cloud: what now, and what’s next?
Earlier this year, we explored the options available for studios looking to invest in cloud infrastructure in the face of remote working conditions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Three months on, as the dust starts to settle on a ‘new normal’, it’s worth asking: how has the landscape changed and…Read More
Make Simulation Work for You with SIMULIAworks on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
Simulation software can require powerful, costly hardware. When working remotely or sheltering in place, you may not have access to your normal desktop set-up, or have the ability to communicate with your teammates as you would at the office. What is an engineer to do? The answer is simple: use…Read More
Bridging the Gap Between Designers and Analysts
Simulation has always been the holy grail of engineering. In the early days, simulation was restricted to engineers with specific levels of education and experience. This often meant that designers would have to wait days, weeks, and sometimes months to get back simulation results for their CAD designs. Seeing the…Read More
House of Design Brings Manufacturing Back to the USA
As a kid watching the animated sitcom The Jetsons, Ryan Okelberry found the idea of robots and other whimsical devices doing pretty much everything, including combing hair and brushing teeth, very cool. These days, as COO of one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the country, he and fellow mechanical…Read More
Future proof your content creation with machine learning
Machine Learning (ML) is impacting the VFX, and other industries, in a number of different ways. More recently, one of the areas in which it has started to come into fruition is content creation. The recent progress of deep learning techniques allows hours of manual and laborious content creation work…Read More
Mike Patey: SIMULIAworks is “the Coolest Software Ever.” Here’s Why
I think it’s true that many of us have a ‘dream job’ or ‘dream career.’ For some of us, it’s the place where our thoughts go when we’re daydreaming. For others, it’s an active pursuit. And, of course, some of us already have that ‘dream job’ or ‘dream career’ I’ve…Read More
Foundry, Open Source & You: A Digested Guide
Open source technology continues to be a hot topic as 2020 marches on, and no wonder: the potential it holds for fostering more collaborative relationships throughout the industry and workflows across artists, teams and studios is undeniable. In a nutshell, once a technology is open source, it’s open to everyone.…Read More
Creating Award-Winning Film 'The Beauty'
This is a breakdown of how we created our award-winning short “The Beauty,” which imagines an underwater world integrated with the plastic waste mankind has dumped into the oceans. [embedded content] Concept Early on, we kept asking ourselves “What if plastic could be integrated into sea life?” We wanted to…Read More
Need Help Managing your Issues?
Remember the old-fashioned way to manage issues and changes? Someone gets a manila folder and walks around the office to get project sign-offs from key people, allowing all stakeholders to make informed decisions before any work is done or any changes are made. Today, every engineer knows that product changes…Read More
Artist Spotlight: Ben McEwan
Ben McEwan on his Comp Newsletter, use of Nuke, and what he’d like to see from the tool in the future If you haven’t heard of Ben McEwan, you should probably get acquainted. When he’s not bringing feature films to life as a compositing supervisor at Image Engine, Ben’s busy…Read More
Maya Bonus Tools 2019/2020
Overview Bonus Tools 2019/2020 is a free collection of useful Maya scripts and plug-ins. After installing Bonus Tools, an additional pull-down menu will be added to the end of the main Maya menu. This menu provides easy access to a variety of tools and utilities for daily use. Maya…Read More