Breakdowns
Goodbye Kansas’ Fear The Walking Dead season 3 breakdown
Goodbye Kansas Studios has released a breakdown video of their work on Fear The Walking Dead season 3. Watch it on Vimeo.
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Wed Mar 7, 2018
Unreal
Unreal Studio open beta announced
Epic Games has announced an open beta for Unreal Studio, its new suite of tools and services for enterprise users. Unreal Studio includes Datasmith, previously available in a closed beta, which is designed to speed up the process of moving assets from 5 named CAD and DCC programs to Unreal by automating the conversion and importing of scenes, models and materials. (more...)
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Wed Mar 7, 2018
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Behind The Scenes
Framestore and Double Negative’s Bladerunner 2049 breakdowns
Two videos have been released in the last couple of days offering a look behind the scenes at the creation of Bladerunner 2049's environments. BBC Click interviewed visual effects supervisor Richard Hoover of Framestore which you can watch on YouTube, and Double Negative has released its own breakdown reel on Vimeo.
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Tue Mar 6, 2018
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Resources
ArtStation Marketplace now available in Alpha
Artstation has announced the alpha release of a new online marketplace, allowing artists to turn their online portfolio or profile into a digital storefront. Any digital product will be acceptable for sale with print on demand services planned for the future. (more...)
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Tue Mar 6, 2018
Modo
Modo Indie 11.2V3 released
Foundry has announced the release of Modi Indie 11.2V3, its feature limited version available via Steam. The 11 series added several new features to Modo that are now available to Indie users. These include modelling and procedural modelling improvements such as OpenSubdiv 3 support, new MeshFusion modelling features, enhancements to Auto Retopology and a revamped topology pen, improvements to procedural workflows including UV Create and Smooth operators, plus a new customizable Tool HUD for faster access to frequently used tools. (more...)
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Tue Mar 6, 2018
Breakdowns
Platige Image’s Żubr bison breakdown
Platige Image has released a breakdown video detailing the creation of a Bison for a recent Żubr beer commercial. Watch it on Vimeo.
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Mon Mar 5, 2018
Clarisse
Using Houdini point clouds In Clarisse
Isotropix has released a tutorial demonstrating how to use point clouds created in 3rd party software as a distribution source for a Clarisse scatter. Houdini is used in the example but point clouds from any software should work in the same way. Watch it on YouTube.
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Mon Mar 5, 2018
Training
Blue Zoo launch new training service AnimDojo
UK-based animation studio Blue Zoo has launched AnimDojo, a new online platform for learning character animation in Maya. For £15 a month, students gain access to regular mini assignments, peer reviews, character rigs and both live and pre-recorded training materials. AnimDojo's teaching is centred around the concept of an animator's checklist, a "guided workflow that has been designed for efficient CG character animation creation". Membership has no minimum sign-up period and feedback from animation professionals can be purchased for an additional cost. Find out more on the AnimDojo website.
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Mon Mar 5, 2018
