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Sucker punch comic con trailer is online

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:58:00 +0000

You can check it out over here: http://www.awntv.com/videos/sucker-punch-trailer

More info as soon as I’m able to speak it out

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Physxinfo.com interviews Mir about Rayfire

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:35:48 +0000

Very cool interview, especially for people who are now getting into Rayfire and have missed the whole history. You can read the article here.

Rayfire basic course pt 1: Introduction What is Rayfire and why is it so cool?...
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Mirroring Andrew Melnychuk’s Thinking Particles tutorials

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:05:31 +0000

Tod Harland uploaded all Andrew Melnychuk’s cool Thinking Particles tutorials over here.

Now I can mirror them and you can get them here instead of the, hm, inconvenient Rapidshare. They are coming in the following posts as download links. It would take some time to convert them to streaming videos – what I actually prefer. Would you people like it more this way? Yeah, and enjoy

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A playlist of some recent animation

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:03:35 +0000

Due to the temporary lack of an actualized reel, I’ve assembled a playlist of relatively recent animation.

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‘Rigging for FX’ DVD by Joe Gunn out tomorrow

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:27:51 +0000

That should be interesting! You can find about the DVD on Joe Gunn’s site here: http://www.joegunn3d.com/Shop.html

A teaser for the upcoming DVD Check that out, guys: How to do that and MUCH...
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A whiskey glass render

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:23:40 +0000

A whiskey glass I set up to help a friend. I think it turned out quite well, and since I don’t usually do that stuff any more, I think it’s a keeper

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Going gamma-linear is going better – with Vue

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:38:29 +0000

If you didn’t know – I am definitely a zealot for the newschool rendering techniques, with photometric lights, HDR renderings, and, maybe most significantly, gamma-linear workflow. So when I was looking at some otherwise great Vue renderings, it was always bugging me that they look like silly old CG instead the real beauties they could be. So to spread the evangelism, I fired up Vue 7.5 XStream PLE, and tried some gamma juggling out.

The scene uses the thick cloud atmosphere from the physical presets, global illumination lighting. I have two objects and two materials from the scene – one is a sphere with a simple bitmap texture on it, and the other is the ground with the gray rock preset material.

And finally, here’s the tests:

Default VUE output:

Output with gamma set to 1.8:

Output gamma 1.8 AND materials’ color gamma 1.8:

The images should be pretty self explanatory. The default output looks quite old-school CG. The shadows, light falloff and shadow-midtone contrasts look unrealistic. Boosting the output gamma to 1.8 helps in bringing out the realistic GI look, but also washes out the color maps. At the end, putting a gamma 1.8 on the textures too, remedies the problem, so we have a more realistic render. Have in mind that even if you want to go for a different look, like the filmic low-gamma one I love, this is the better startpoint for post-processing. Take the torch, experiment and preach! Amen and enjoy your new renderings

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TP: Ease into orbit using reference and bringto :)

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:49:22 +0000

Hi guys, I needed a gradual ease into orbit, and it turned out easy and nice at the end:

The trick is to create a copy of your particles (not renderable), reference them to the original ones, then orbit the copy and, in the right moment, use bringto with the referenced data to bring the parent particles to the child ones. Another cool day at TP land!

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Daily sculpt – marble demon

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:46:01 +0000

I got hooked on this digital sculpting thing in mudbox, so I’ll be uploading some stuff from time to time, hopefully daily. This one is a marble demon!

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Split amount with Thinking Particles – elaboration

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:29:01 +0000

Prompted by Andrew Melnychuk , i elaborated on the split amount scene – it now splits between multiple ratios and groups – it normalizes output and on. You can read it here in CGTalk. As usual, anybody interested in the blackbox, drop me a line. Here’s the setup:

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