Hi everyone, I recently finished directing my second animation of the year ‘Nitro Dust’ a psuedo-prequel to the hugely succesful animated movie Digitopia: Discover Me, Nitro Dust is set in the same universe a little earlier in the timeline of the story. I had a small team of artists and we made this movie in just […]
Fable 3 Legends announced
Here are some images and videos on the game I’m working on called Fable Legends, or Fable 3 as many have called it. Fable 3 videos Here’s the trailer. Here’s an interview on the IGN website that should answer a lot of the questions that you have. Fable 3 – Images And here are some […]
How to put VFX and animation into your film
I’ve been asked so often how to integrate VFX and CG into film by low and no budget filmmakers. I’ve written a quick guide on how you can put in VFX and CG into your movie, whatever budget you are working at this process will work for you. Follow this simple process i. Find out […]
VFX Cloud Studio 2.0 – What it means for Producers and Artists
Hello everyone, buoyed on from the success of VFX and CG Survival Guide for Filmmakers and Producers (Kindle – http://amzn.to/WTZByQ) I’ve been approached by independent film producers to provide VFX for their projects. The requests have come from far and wide, some asking for quotes others asking me to carry out the work. This post is about […]
How to write a book and launch it – Launching VFX book to number 1 best-seller spot on Amazon
This post is about how to write a book and launch it to number 1 bestseller list on Amazon. So the past month I have been really busy launching my book ‘VFX and CG for Producers and Filmmakers’ on Amazon. Paperback US and International -> http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ UK -> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ Austria and Germany -> http://www.amazon.de/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ France -> http://www.amazon.fr/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ Italy -> http://www.amazon.it/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ […]
How to set up your own VFX Studio – business considerations
In this post I am going to guide you through the process of how to set yourself up as a your very own VFX studio. In practice this post can relate to setting yourself up as your own business, whatever industry you are in, but seeing as this a VFX oriented site I’ll use the […]
London 2012 – Maya Cloth, nParticles and lighting
I recently finished a job working on Olympics presentations for the London 2012 games. I used Maya for the lighting and effects for the various 2012 logos. I lit these 2012 stings that appear on the giant jumbtrons. Any time any event is about to take place the 2012 logo will fly right on screen and […]
Naiad R&D
Naiad is an extremely powerful tool, here I’m going to share with you quick and easy ways to get started in Naiad fluid simulation. Naiad test 01 – firing liquid against a wall Naiad test 01 from Farhan Qureshi on Vimeo. Naiad test 02 – a block crashing into liquid Naiad Test 02: Block crashing […]
Jelly on a plate served by Houdini FX
I was playing around with the new fluid solver in Houdini FX. I came up with a pretty cool jelly animation by adjusting the viscosity settings and collision tolerances. Here’s the basic setup and settings The basic set up Geo: basic box shape with a smoothing operation to create the shape cutter geo – which […]
Pirates! Aardman Animation Studios set tour
Here is a cool video from David Sztypuljak from HeyUGuys when he came to visit us at the Aardman animation studios set of Pirates! He’s done a pretty cool commentary too. Hopefully it’ll show why it’s so cool to work here. Working at Aardman Animation Studios was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had […]
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