Category Archives: VFX/Animation

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No Money? No Problem!

Nobody's paying you to play games for a living - yet. But there's a new crop of largely Web-based animators who've figured out how to make movies on the cheap by leveraging videogame engines to more »

Q&A: Animator/director Chris Landreth

Chris Landreth Academy-Award winning 3D animator/director On: Ryan This year Chris Landreth won the Academy Award for his animated short about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, a one-time Oscar nominee more »

Cutting Down Multicamera Munchies on Reefer Madness

Ipostini, the Marina Del Rey post house that handles Showtime's original features, has been using Final Cut Pro for more than four years. But when it came time to cut the extravagant demon-weed musical more »

Giving 2D Toons That 3D Pop

Fred and Wilma Flintstone are lifted out of the world of the Hanna-Barbera '70s in a heavily composited 30-second spot for Post Cereal and agency Ogilvy & Mather. "King Cocoa" isn't just more »

Anime Texas-Style

New York agency Berlin Cameron initially wanted Japanese anime artists to create a Coca-Cola spot for airing during the Daytona 500. But, after extensive research on the Net, the shop's producers decided on more »

Graphics: Better, Cheaper and Faster?

Better, cheaper, faster- those three demands for graphics are never, ever satisfied at the same time. But it's still a relentless mantra in the graphics business. Until recently, Adobe Systems has also more »

Maxon Cinema 4D R9.1

Maxon released a.1 update to Cinema 4D Release 9, including support for transferring projects to Apple's Motion. Also new is enhanced support for n-gons more »

Automatic Duck Pro Import C3 for Combustion

For anyone who has ever tried to move a project from an editing program into a motion graphics program by exporting multiple QuickTime or AVI media files and multiple EDL's and then rebuilding the project in more »

Render Out a 3D Object in Eovia Carrara 4 for Final Compositing in After Effects 6.5

Step 1 Enter the Render Room Double click on your 3D object file. [A future online version of this tutorial will include an object file, "00_detailed_lamp_v_009.car," to use while following this more »

What I’m Using Now

Ciarin Quinn Art director/senior animator, Cinema Concepts, Atlanta, GA Favorite gear: BOXX workstations and render nodes List: Render BOXX (Opteron), $2,123; Render BOXX (Xeon), $2,252; 3DBOXX workstation more »