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  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    Space VFX Elements video course for Blender, promo video:

    Cheers smiley

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    Fantastic!

    I really hope they do well with this course. I bet they will.

    Reason being, it's refreshing to see folks teaching VFX from the point of view of real science, even if we end up taking liberties for the sake of awesomeness. Plus I just like their drive and attitudes toward it all! They seem like they'll be really fun teachers! :)

    Thanks for sharing this, FifthElement! yes

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    Amazing.

    Prodded by the cover (and contents) of the book I just got, I had to watch this again... So Freaking Cool!!!

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,693
    edited January 2017

    I need a warehouse - and *no* not a poser compatible warehouse, a real 100yard x 60ft x 50 yard version, with big textured foam castle parts and sci-fi corridors, and lots of green fabric and lights, and wired cranes and harnesses, and ...

    Anyone have any leads on such a beast? Oh, I forgot to add that I don't have much (any) money (after the recent DAZ sales...)

    lol!

    --ms

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    mindsong said:

    I need a warehouse - and *no* not a poser compatible warehouse, a real 100yard x 60ft x 50 yard version, with big textured foam castle parts and sci-fi corridors, and lots of green fabric and lights, and wired cranes and harnesses, and ...

    Anyone have any leads on such a beast? Oh, I forgot to add that I don't have much (any) money (after the recent DAZ sales...)

    lol!

    --ms

    yes

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    mindsong said:

    I need a warehouse - and *no* not a poser compatible warehouse, a real 100yard x 60ft x 50 yard version, with big textured foam castle parts and sci-fi corridors, and lots of green fabric and lights, and wired cranes and harnesses, and ...

    Anyone have any leads on such a beast? Oh, I forgot to add that I don't have much (any) money (after the recent DAZ sales...)

    lol!

    --ms

    Here ya go ... (DAZ does sell a nice model)

    Video walkthrough here:  

     

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  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,693
    edited January 2017

    wouldn't that be a blast to refurbish into a SFX studio?!

    stands alone pretty well as a scene on its own.

    Probably not gonna be donated to the cause, though, is it...

    (funny response, but very cool building!)

    --ms

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Speaking of inspiring workshops . . . WETA Workshop!

    I was always a big fan of Thunderbirds as a kid, and even though I don't like what they did to the theme tune on the reboot, you've got to admire their combination of miniatures and CG . . . yes

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    Steve K said:
    mindsong said:

    I need a warehouse - and *no* not a poser compatible warehouse, a real 100yard x 60ft x 50 yard version, with big textured foam castle parts and sci-fi corridors, and lots of green fabric and lights, and wired cranes and harnesses, and ...

    Anyone have any leads on such a beast? Oh, I forgot to add that I don't have much (any) money (after the recent DAZ sales...)

    lol!

    --ms

    Here ya go ... (DAZ does sell a nice model)

    Video walkthrough here:  

     

    It's also about 30 minutes drive from my house (and the same small town where my novels are set. Ahem! wink)

    Good looking model in the store too. 

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    TangoAlpha said:
    Steve K said:
    mindsong said:

     

    It's also about 30 minutes drive from my house (and the same small town where my novels are set. Ahem! wink)

    Good looking model in the store too. 

    Cool, my wife & I had a great vacation around the London area years ago.  I like the model also, & used it in a short animation, but I didn't really get the effect I wanted (screen grab attached).  It was supposed to look big, but came out kind of puny due to the camera angle. About all we have around Houston is a Walmart Distribution Center (image attached) - big, yes, 1 million sq ft, but somehow lacking the character ... frown

    The short animation is here:

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,079

    This amused me.  Be patient and see the side-by-side.  Dart may have a secret identity as Shannon.

    .H/T to Sonja, I think (saw it somewhere in the Art Studio forum).

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    edited January 2017

    Anyone with Neflix watching this new show?

    Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan and Jane

    I watched the first four episodes and think it's pretty cool. It's kinda fun to see little render errors and other mistakes! LOL I'm also surprised at some of the animation being not quite as good as one might expect. Still... it's pretty cool. I am no judge of such things... I like the story, the characters... pretty cool! Every so often, I wish they'd have written a few more pieces of music for it, even though i like that master theme... it starts to wear itself down after a while.

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  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,693
    edited January 2017

    "tarzan and jane" - I'll have to take a look. Hadn't heard of it - more influences = good!

    Just watched 'Hugo'. Fantastic piece. Both 2D and 3D - visually brilliant, great story, and a main character in the story would have loved Carrara had it been available in the era (no spoilers). I expect the future will look back on our current efforts in a similar fashion.

    Worth the watch for both technical mastery and as a human inspiration piece for the creatively driven.

      

    --ms

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    Thanks! I will!

    Yeah, in Tazan and Jane, I think it's the fourth episode when (no spoilers) he's helping his grandpa out of a closet, there's a couple frames of poke through in the arm pit! LOL I was so happy to see that!!! LOL  I hope I don't leave anything like that in mine... but one never knows. When the crunch time is crunching... we have to poo or get of the pot!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    Fun

  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202

    In the series red vs blue on roostertooth you see it quite often as they were putting out a episode a week and it is all done in Poser.

     

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    chickenman said:

    In the series red vs blue on roostertooth you see it quite often as they were putting out a episode a week and it is all done in Poser.

    I've seen that this is on Netflix and started watching it a bit. Different... Cool... fun!

    Trailer for Season 1 Episode 1

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    I mentioned this in the e-mail Sale alert thread, but I wanted to put it in here too.

    This movie and Millennium Dragon II came out right around the same time, along with the Eastern Dragon which, at the time, shipped right along with Mennium Dragon II

    We still had the older store software then, back when we had a whole bunch of cool promo images for many of the individual morphs of the Dragon 2, helping to show off all of the majesty of this fantastic figure!

    Back then, Carrara had a rather exciting set of promo pages as well. I miss that stuff.

    I wonder why our current times seem to feel better suited to less visual information. I cannot understand how that can help things sell better. 

    The new Dragon 3 is so much better than the promos show, and Dragon 2 has lost a huge percentage of it's visual promotion. Now I look across the board... no longer are the days when we can see immense details on the products we might want - more of a guess... Bummer.

    Sorry for the rant. Scroll back up, grab some munchies and enjoy the movie! 

  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    I find this music video 3D inspirational, lol, Lindsey Stirling - Take Flight, ya all enjoy wink

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    edited January 2017

    Very cool! But... how did they do that? Must have used some sort of trick photography or something! surprise

    Also, Lindsey Rocks!

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224

    Steve K just posted this cool video in his thread on Foley

    Most inspirational!

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,693
    edited January 2017

    5th- that's very cool!

    whole thing amazing, row boat falling out from under her was great idea, and the clouds are spectacular. lights all converging into the door at the end was slick. thanks for the link!

    Dart - there's a fun 'behind the scenes' foley clip from "cloudy w a chance of meatballs" if we can dig it up. creative business, that one.

    --ms

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  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    Here is few more:

  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    And a few more:

    smiley

  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    Lol, maybe a few more and I'm done, lol smiley

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    edited January 2017

    Very cool! I'll be checking all of those out... Sweet! (I love new inspirational videos to watch! yes  )

    A while back, I told Chickenman that I was still not as good with Star Wars Rebels as I was with Clone Wars, which is definitely one of my favorite shows of All Time... Still!

    Anyways, I'm definitely warming up to it now - especially after the latest three videos. I actually do like All of the episode, right from the first one. I just wasn't so keen on how much more rubbery the people seem compared to the sculpted and painted look of the Clone Wars characters. This is going away, and I'm now just accepting it as a new art form for the new series. I do still like the Clone Wars character look better, but Rebels is definitely top-notch art and incredible story telling - and both have fantastic visual effects that just keep inspiring me over and over - ever learning new ways to do things in the world of 3D CGI.

    Here's a teaser of last week's episode of Rebels

    ...and here is the Rebels Recon with the totally awesome Andi Gutierrez filling us in by interviewing some of the crew

    (Andi totally Rocks!  She's the hostess of Rebels Recon and co-host of the Star Wars Show)

     

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  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569

    Music video made with using cubes only, maybe milions of them, hard to tell, lol smiley

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,139

    That's was amazing - I hope they found a way to do that procedurally, placing those cubes by hand would be a big chore!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,224
    edited February 2017

    Chris Corbould has been the Special Effects supervisor for 007 James Bond movies (and many others) for a long time.

    Amazing, the things a creative mind can actually capture on film (Special Effects) to save the cost of having to perform these things in Post software (Visual Effects) - and Chris has been on the forefront of all of this.

    Anyways, that got me to revisit my 007 collection - never that hard, I love these movies.

     

    Well, on a completely different take on things, how about some of these incredible musical artists helping to make these movies much better than they could otherwise have been?

     

    Sam Smith sings "Writing's on the Wall" during the opening credits of the latest Bond film, "Spectre". Wow, can this guy ever Sing!!!

    Adele sings "Skyfall" for the film of the same name... absolutely Amazing!!!

    Jack White with Alicia Keys sing "Another Way to Die" for Quantum of Solace - one of my (still) all time favorites!!!

    and Chris Cornell sings "You Know My Name" for the intro to Casino Royale. Being a big fan of Soundgarden, I have a particular liking for this song and movie.

    Those are just the latest Bond films since Daniel Craig took over the role of the blonde version of the British Secret Agent. Fact is, all opening credit songs from Bond flicks have climbed to the top of the charts since the very beginning - way back when Albert Brocolli took the franchise and made it what it is today.

    Got a couple of hour to burn?

    This is a nearly two hour flick of fives minutes of each Eon James Bond film from Dr. No through Quantum of Solace here's the description

    Published on Nov 6, 2012

    Approximately five minutes from each of the 22 Eon produced James Bond films have been cut together, in order and in sequence, beginning with the first five minutes of DR. NO (1962) followed by minutes 5-10 of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963), minutes 10-15 of GOLDFINGER (1964), minutes 15-20 of THUNDERBALL (1965), continuing on through each of the remaining 18 Bond features (accounting for variables in each title's running time) culminating with the final five minutes of 2008's QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

    This fresh look at the "James Bond Formula" provides a new exploration of the evolution of the series into a filmmaking genre uniquely its own. With few exceptions, each title's transition into the picture that follows it is nearly seamless, creating a viewing experience that at first might serve to remind us "if you've seen one Bond film, you've seen them all," but looking more closely it is in fact an endearing homage to a character who single-handedly shaped modern cinema's action/adventure formula and who continues to leave an indelible mark on generations worldwide.

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  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235
    edited February 2017

    A little bit of romance..

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