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Apr 4, 2013 Maxon & Adobe Announce Cineware & Cinema 4D Lite

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 Maxon & Adobe Announce Cineware & Cinema 4D Lite

First Step in Recently Announced Strategic Alliance Results in Streamlined Workflow and Improved Functionality for Motion Graphics and Visual Effects Artists.

MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today revealed the first step in its strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Incorporated, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its powerful 3D application CINEMA 4D, and Adobe® After Effects®. The recently revealed next release of Adobe’s industry-leading software will include two MAXON technologies directly within the new Adobe After Effects: CINEWARE and CINEMA 4D Lite.

CINEWARE: The new live 3D pipeline between CINEMA 4D and After Effects, which eliminates intermediate rendering between applications, is made possible by CINEWARE, which establishes a bridge between the two applications. One of the biggest benefits to artists will be seen in a streamlined workflow, enabling them not only to import native CINEMA 4D scenes directly as assets into After Effects but also to utilize CINEMA 4D’s multi-pass workflow as layers. Users will benefit from decreased rendering time because CINEWARE makes CINEMA 4D’s Advanced Rendering Engine available directly inside After Effects. With access to this functionality, rather than having to render every revision, users will now be able to work on CINEMA 4D projects within After Effects and see the changes in real-time.

“This pipeline cannot be found anywhere else to this extent, and it will completely change the workflow of artists in the future,”
 says Harald Egel, MAXON’s co-founder and CEO.

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Mar 25, 2013 Inspiration: Don’t Fail Idaho

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Inspiration: Don't Fail Idaho

Motion Media customer Buck Design creates a stunning video fr Drake Cooper and the J.A and Kathryn Albertson Foundation.  Check it out below, and be inspired.

Feb 26, 2013 Catcher in the Rye Short Film

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Catcher in the Rye Short Film

Check out this “Catcher in the Rye” graduate short done by Fabian Koppenhofer using Cinema 4D, After Effects and Element 3D.  It’s a very well done piece. Enjoy.

Nov 15, 2012 Inspiration: Time Warp Project in 3ds Max

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Inspiration: Time Warp Project in 3ds Max

Check out this very cool grad project from Uira Lamour, where he slows things down a bit.

See more of his work at uiralamour.com/

Software Used: 3ds Max, V-Ray, Nuke, PFTrack & After Effects

Nov 13, 2012 Popular switches to Adobe Premiere Pro for Latest Video for Burton Snowboards

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Popular switches to Adobe Premiere Pro for Latest Video for Burton Snowboards

Imagine some of the world’s most progressive snowboarders risking their lives to shoot in beautiful remote locations—all cut to great music. This year, Burton Snowboards chased winter to produce an original film to kick off the season, inspiring both core riders and newcomers to the sport. The creative production company behind this year’s project is Popular, a studio recognized for originating authentic athlete, personality, and lifestyle- driven creative for film, commercials, and branded entertainment. The award-winning partners of Popular—David Tindale and Jeremy Pettit—sat down with Adobe to share their experience switching from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software to put together 13, Burton’s action-packed film for 2013.

Some Highlights: 

Adobe: You previously used Final Cut Pro. We understand this was really one of the first times you had ever used Adobe Premiere Pro. Why did you switch?

Tindale: This was our first film stepping into full 1080 resolution. We knew we would be working with different camera formats and needed an editing solution that could handle everything. Footage was shot on RED Scarlet and Epic cameras, mainly—but some Cineflex, Panasonic HPX, GPS, GoPro, and a variety of DSLR cameras. It was incredible to just throw it all onto the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline and get straight to work. I think the main thing was the ability to deal with all these different formats. With so much footage and a tight timeline it was amazing to jump right into the edit and skip the time-consuming process of transcoding all of our footage.

Adobe: What was the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro like?

Pettit: The switch was pretty straightforward. We started working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on an ESPN project last spring. I needed to work fast, so I just mapped the keyboard shortcuts from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro. But with the Burton project we moved to CS6 and I started using the regular Adobe Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts—it wasn’t difficult. The improvements in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 interface made it more user friendly than the previous version. I love the “log and transfer” capabilities, such as the ability to see big thumbnails and scrub through them, set your project in and out points, and drop everything into your timeline. We were still learning as we went, but we found that right away, Adobe Premiere Pro is great for getting down to business.

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Oct 17, 2012 Autodesk suggest that product update 11 for 3ds Max 2012 & 3ds Max Design 2012 should be uninstalled

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Autodesk suggest that product update 11 for 3ds Max 2012 & 3ds Max Design 2012 should be uninstalled

Autodesk had previously released product update 11 for 3ds Max 2012, the update has been removed from the support downloads section.

Autodesk has suggested that customers who installed the update should uninstall it.

A new version will follow updating this release.

 

 

 

Jun 19, 2012 3Dean: 3ds Max 2013, Z-Buffers, Photoshop & After Effects

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3Dean:  3ds Max 2013, Z-Buffers, Photoshop & After Effects

In this tutorial 3Dean shows you how to set up your own z-buffer in 3ds Max and then how to use that z-buffer in Photoshop & After Effects to create DOF effects.

Software used:  3ds Max 2013, Photoshop, After Effects

May 11, 2012 10 Great After Effects Tutorials from Vimeo

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10 Great After Effects Tutorials from Vimeo

Tutorials, tutorials, tutorials!  There are so many tutorials online these days that it’s hard to sift through the bad ones to find anything worth while, so we did that for you!  We compiled a list of the top 10 After Effects tutorials to make things easy on you, cause that’s what we like to do.

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Apr 30, 2012 Daily Inspiration: 3D iPhone Diorama

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Daily Inspiration: 3D iPhone Diorama

Came across this cool little animation of an iPhone diorama on Vimeo and thought I’d share it with you guys.  Let me know what you think.

 

Software used:
Autodesk Maya 2013
Adobe After Effects
PFTrack 

Mar 29, 2012 Have You Seen “RUIN” Yet?

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Have You Seen "RUIN" Yet?

If you haven’t seen this short film that was recently posted, you have to check it out.  It was modeled in Modo 601, animated in Lightwave and composited in Adobe After Effects.  I don’t know what the budget was or how long it took to make but it’s pretty sweet. What do you think?

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V-Ray 1.6 for Sketchup Beta Now Open

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Chaos Group has announced the open beta for V-Ray 1.6 for Sketchup. This massive upgrade to V-Ray for SketchUp includes a series of new feature introductions that enhance visualization workflow and render quality (V-Ray RT®, V-Ray Dome Light), and streamline scene complexity (V-Ray Proxy).

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The Foundry Mari 2.0 Masking & Painting Tutorial

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Check out this very cool The Foundry Mari tutorial from Jeff Kleinzweig, the lead artist at Zindagi Games.

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Mocha 3.2 Public Beta Now Open

Mocha Pro and Mocha AE Update

Release News: mocha v3.2 public beta Imagineer Systems is happy to be releasing a public beta version of mocha Pro and mocha AE v3.2. This new point release includes significant features and fixes for all users.

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Try Modo 701 Free

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The Foundry and Luxology announced a free Modo 701 15 Day trial and a 30 Day production trial that is $25.  I suggest you head over to the Luxology site and get started as soon as you can. Plus, if you haven’t already, take the 701 Feature Tour, now with new videos.

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Krakatoa for Maya – An Introduction

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Krakatoa for Maya – An Introduction – Come learn about the renderer used to create content for movie hits like Avatar, The Avengers, Transformers 3, Harry Potter 8 and Oblivion, as well as the upcoming Star Trek – Into Darkness, Man of Steel, After Earth, and more!

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News/Press Releases


Maxon & Adobe Announce Cineware & Cinema 4D Lite
Apr 4, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

MAXON, leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today revealed the first step in its strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Incorporated, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its powerful 3D application CINEMA 4D, and Adobe® After Effects®. The recently revealed next release of Adobe’s industry-leading software will include two MAXON technologies directly within the new Adobe After Effects: CINEWARE and CINEMA 4D Lite.

An Open Letter to Ang Lee
Feb 25, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

An open letter to Ang Lee from Compositor Phillip Broste regarding the state of the VFX industry and Mr. Lee’s lack of acknowledgement to the artists who created the VFX in “Life of Pi”. I definitely recommend the read.

Thinkbox Announces Krakatoa MY for Maya
Feb 25, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

Thinkbox Software today announced the release of Krakatoa MY, the high-volume particle renderer for Autodesk Maya 3D software running on Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.

Autodesk & Technicolor Team Up
Feb 22, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

The Hollywood Reporter posted an article about Technicolor and Autodesk partnering in the development of a new color grading and compositing tool. Steve Scott, the pioneering colorist and head of Technicolor, is leading the charge on this new venture and believes that together they can create a single procedural finishing system that would offer tools from both disciplines – color grading and compositing.

iPad Version of “Animators Survival Kit” Coming Soon
Feb 21, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

The famous “Animators Survival Kit” written by Richard Williams is coming soon to the iPad. The price and exact date of release have not yet been determined, but the publisher, Faber and Faber, has indicated that it will be roughly timed with Williams’ 80th birthday next month.

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Krakatoa for Maya – An Introduction
Apr 30, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

Krakatoa for Maya – An Introduction – Come learn about the renderer used to create content for movie hits like Avatar, The Avengers, Transformers 3, Harry Potter 8 and Oblivion, as well as the upcoming Star Trek – Into Darkness, Man of Steel, After Earth, and more!

First Look at Modo 701
Mar 12, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

MODO 701 is coming soon. Be one of the first to discover what’s new and improved during our ‘MODO 701 Feature Tour’ webcast on March 25th at 10AM (PST). Sign up today.

Learn Deep Compositing with NUKE
Sep 4, 2012 | Comments | Read more →

Deep Compositing allows artists to work with ‘deep images’ containing multiple opacity or colour samples per pixel. This allows rendering of CGI elements without predetermined holdout mattes, avoiding the need for re-renders when content changes.

Free Siggraph 2012 Exhibits Pass
Jul 10, 2012 | Comments | Read more →

Want to go to Siggraph 2012 but don’t want to pay for it? We’ll let Motion Media help you out. We are giving you a free Exhibits only pass for this years event in Los Angeles. All you have to do is fill in the form below and a link and code will be sent directly to you.

PipelineFX Offers Free Qube! Artist Workshop
Jun 19, 2012 | Comments | Read more →

PipelineFX is offering a one-day workshop geared toward artists and new users of Qube! at Siggraph 2012. This workshop focuses on submitting, managing and troubleshooting render jobs as well as best practices for maximum render throughput.

Updates/Upgrades


Mocha 3.2 Public Beta Now Open
May 10, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

Release News: mocha v3.2 public beta Imagineer Systems is happy to be releasing a public beta version of mocha Pro and mocha AE v3.2. This new point release includes significant features and fixes for all users.

Syntheyes is Now on Linux
Apr 23, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

The SynthEyes 3-D tracking application completes a triple-header with the introduction of its Linux version by developer Andersson Technologies LLC, joining the existing Windows and Mac OS X versions.

Extension 2 for Autodesk Maya 2013 Now Available for Download
Feb 4, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

Extension 2 for Autodesk® Maya® 2013 software is now available on the Autodesk Subscription Center. Extension 2 helps artists and studios with increased stability, usability, and performance.

New ArchiCAD Plugin for Maxwell Render
Jan 31, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

NextLimit has released a fully updated ArchiCAD plugin for Maxwell Render, available for download now from the customer gateway.

Matrox MXO2 Dock Now Shipping
Jan 22, 2013 | Comments | Read more →

Matrox is pleased to announce that Matrox MXO2 Dock is now available. The Matrox MXO2 Dock thunderbolt Accessory for Matrox MXO2 I/O Devices Delivers Convenience and Connectivity for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Users



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