Allan McKay has started a new tutorial series that explains in detail a 5 shot sequence of Thanos from Avengers turning to ash. The plates were shot on Blackmagic’s Pocket Cinema 4K camera, Thanos was modelled by Franco Carlesimo, and animated by one of ILM’s animators from Avengers – Lucas Ridley. In total, the free course comprises 10 videos going through the entire pipeline using tyFlow and PhoenixFD inside of 3DS Max. Find out more on the project’s website.
Allan McKay: you aren’t going to believe this, but I just had an idea for another tutorial.
Everyone else: oh cool, is it by chance a character turning into ashes?
Allan McKay: oh hell, how do you know that?
Although I understand the sarcasm, it was a FX that was predominant in Avengers and he’s also teaching TyFlow, which is cool.
You are very bitter @ somebody who is providing high-quality free training o_O
Allan is specialized at this ash stuff; if you don’t wanna do it then just ignore it; he doesn’t owe you anything lol.
I wouldn’t say bitter, but it has become a recurrent joke in the industry. I am happy for him to release more material, and for people to learn for free.
go for it Allan!
It’s a shame that a guy releasing actually good content for free is a recurrent joke in the industry. I guess it says a lot about our industry.