Atomic Fiction "Looper" VFX Breakdown

Atomic Fiction "Looper" VFX Breakdown
Team designed and matte painted the shots in Photoshop, modeled in Maya, lit and projected the matte paintings in 3ds Max and composited in Nuke.





© 2012 CTMG, All Rights Reserved. Images courtesy of Atomic Fiction. 

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The Immigrant VFX Breakdown

The Immigrant VFX Breakdown
Several shots Brainstorm Digital worked on from The Immigrant starring Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard, and Jeremy Renner.





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VFX Breakdowns - THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

VFX Breakdowns - THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
By Brainstorm Digital


A look at some of the more challenging shots we put together from Martin Scorsese's new film The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Matthew McConaughey.


By Scanline VFX


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Create a Realistic Earth in Blender

Create a Realistic Earth in Blender
In this tutorial we will be using several textures from NASA and some careful tweaking of materials to create realistic shaders.

With the complex terrain, ocean, clouds and atmospheres you’d think that creating a realistic earth would be quite hard to c ...

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Advanced Photoshop Techniques for UI

Advanced Photoshop Techniques for UI
In the below video learn the advanced photoshop techniques for UI by Edward Sanchez.


Content:
0:30 Shading with Clipping Masks
2:30 Shading with Marks (or vectors)
4:45 Masking a Group
6:20 Layers from Effects
8:30 Base Color Grad ...

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Laline VFX Breakdown

Laline VFX Breakdown
VFX Breakdown, Lalin commercial credits: Doron koren: Creative Director, design, compositing. Dor Shamir: Compositing, Design Ariella Bugod: Compositing, Shai Halfon: Modeling. texturing, rigging, Oryan Medina: lighting, shading, rendering, Andre Oustinov: modelling, ...

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Behind The Scenes - City of Possibilities

Behind The Scenes - City of Possibilities
A look behind the scenes at what went into the process of creating the epic Live-Action/CGI commercial.


City of Possibilities


Produced, designed and directed entirely by The Mill NY, Norfolk Southern: 'City of Possibilities,' showcases the ...

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Behind the Scenes - Skazka

Behind the Scenes: OFFF St. Petersburg Titles & Interactive Experience


Mill+ takes you behind the scenes of ‘Skazka’, the title sequence and companion real time interactive experience created in partnership with Goo Technologies for OFFF St. Petersburg 2014.


OFFF St. Petersburg 201 ...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 VFX Breakdown

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 VFX Breakdown
MPC were honoured to receive an Oscar nomination for their work on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

David Yates directed Harry Potter’s latest outing, the first part of the seventh i ...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 VFX Breakdown

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 VFX Breakdown


MPC's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 VFX breakdown. Find out what MPC got up to for the last installment of the brilliant Harry Potter franchise!



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The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader VFX breakdown and the Making

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader VFX breakdown and the Making
Michael Apted directed the latest installment of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, produced by Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media. MPC completed over 700 VFX shots for the film, ...

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Making of Simon Blanc's No More Wine - ZBrush Tutorial

Making of Simon Blanc's No More Wine - ZBrush Tutorial
This series of videos will show you how Simon Blanc of Blur Studios, uses ZBrush to create digital sculptures. Simon will start things off by using ZSpheres to create the base mesh. Then more advanced sculpting, posing, and painting tools ...

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PETA 98% Human - VFX Breakdowns and Behind the Scenes

VFX Breakdown: Developing a 100% CGI Chimp for PETA's "98% Human"
Watch the VFX Breakdown to see how Mill+ developed custom simulation tools to create the muscle, skin, blood and hair systems needed to bring a realistic fully CGI chimpanzee to life in the VES Awards winning PETA "98% Human" ...

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John Carter VFX Breakdown by MPC VFX

John Carter VFX Breakdown by MPC VFX
MPC VFX Supervisor Adam Valdez and Producer Phil Greenlow led the team delivering 180 shots for the picture. MPC's main areas of work were the "Warhoon Attack' and 'Helium City Throne Room' scenes.



From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Andrew ...

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Zbrush Hardsurface Techniques Video Series II

Zbrush Hardsurface Techniques Video Series II
This is the next series in Zbrush Hard surface Technique. We hope you liked the earlier one. This tutorial is for people who already have a basic understanding of how zbrush works.And want to know about Chofni Knol workflow.















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Transformers - Creation Of The Visual Effects

Transformers - Creation Of The Visual Effects
As with the previous Transformers installments, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was the main visual effects company for Dark of the Moon. ILM had been working on the pre-visualization for six months before principal photography started, ...

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Aaron Kaminar VFX Demoreel

Aaron Kaminar VFX Demoreel


Watch the VFX Demoreel of VFX Artist and Supervisor Aaron Kaminar.



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Jeff Gaunt VFX Supervisor/VFX Director Showreel

Jeff Gaunt VFX Supervisor/VFX Director Showreel
Jeff Gaunt is one of Australia’s leading VFX Supervisors and all round creative talents. With over 20 years experience in the industry, his extensive knowledge of the post-production process is virtually unsurpassed. Jeff thrives on working with D ...

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Zbrush Hardsurface Techniques

Zbrush Hardsurface Techniques by Tom Paul


Tom Paul did made a tutorial for the creation of this ugv's leg system taking inspiration from the boston dynamics big dog/wild cat designs! He cover pretty much my whole hardsurface workflow in zbrush alone.



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The Last Train

The Last Train
The Last Train is a short film that was made as part of The Animation Hub, a new scheme set up by BCFE and Trinity college to promote working relationships between BCFE’s animation students and TCD’s computer science students.

Directed: Giant Creative (giant.ie)
Trinity Col ...

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VFX Breakdown – Adding a Digital Helmet

VFX Breakdown – Adding a Digital Helmet
Elyarch was commissioned by Cityscape digital to add a helmet to a cyclist on a number of provided shots for a promotional film of the Heygate estate redevelopment project in central London. Tasks performed include: 3D tracking, helmet rigging, lighting, ...

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"Bird" - vfx breakdowns

"Bird" - vfx breakdowns


Watch the vfx breakdown of "Bird" directed by Jon Balcome. Lead compositor Patrick Longstreth.



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Batman Begins VFX breakdown

Batman Begins VFX breakdown

With the help of ALICE, MPC’s proprietary crowd system, the team created a swarm of digital bats for Christopher Nolan's reboot, 'Batman Begins'. In order to ensure that they behaved in a realistic way, the R and D team further developed the system to ensure the b ...

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters VFX breakdown

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters VFX breakdown


Check out out VFX breakdown for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

http://www.moving-picture.com/Files/Content/Gallery/201403/t2ozz5pu.5lb_27fd4d02_video.mp4

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory VFX breakdown video

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory VFX breakdown video





MPC carried out an exceptionally wide range of work on Tim Burton's remake; 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' including; injecting life into Willy Wonka’s helpful team of pint sized Oompa Loompas, a flowing chocolate river c ...

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Simulating Blood Flow in Maya by Karyn Ho

Simulating Blood Flow in Maya (Tutorial) - nParticles and Fields for Dynamic Flow Simulation
Blood circulation is a common feature in many medical animations, but is typically represented with every blood cell traveling at the same speed as the next, and with vast aqueous spaces between them. ...

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Decimation Master in zBrush

Decimation Master in zBrush
Check out this new tutorial where you'll learn the secrets to Decimation Master in zBrush, and see how to take a multi-million polygon mesh and decimate the high resolution model into a low resolution model while retaining almost all the details. For more ...

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Dust - Creature Shot VFX Breakdown

Dust - Creature Shot VFX Breakdown

A quick look into the VFX breakdown of a shot from the Dust trailer, an independent film created by Ember Lab. The shot features a CG creature interacting with live action character. Software: Maya, Nuke, FumeFX, Renderman, 3DS Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Mari


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Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1 and Season 2

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1 and Season 2

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1
Brainstorm Digital's before and after shots from season 1 of HBO's hit series "Boardwalk Empire". (courtesy of Home Box Office, Inc)brainstorm-digital.com. Twitter: BrainstormVFX. *WINNER OF ...

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Tutorial: Creating Startrails in After Effects

Tutorial: Creating Startrails in After Effects


A short overview about how to create moving startrails with your star timelapses in adobe after effects.



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UV'ing in ZBrush Video Tutorial by Josh Robinson

UV'ing in ZBrush Video Tutorial by Josh Robinson



Josh Robinson, lead artist at Lucas Films, brings us this in-depth look at two different approaches to UV’ing inside of ZBrush





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20 Very Useful Photography Tips And Tricks

20 Very Useful Photography Tips And Tricks

The summer is here so now is the perfect time to make a lot of photos. If you want to look like a professional photographer, then you must enhance your pictures. Take a look at this article because here you will find 20 very cool tutorials which ...

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Thor - VFX Breakdowns

Thor - VFX Breakdowns
Watch the VFX Breakdowns of Thor. Such an awesome work behind the VFX created for Thor. There are 288 shots that took place in movie which makes the movie super fantastic. Hope you guys would like this. Director: Kenneth Branagh, Production: Marvel Studios. VFX shots: ...

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Quick mech design in ZBrush

Quick Mech Design in ZBrush


In this video tutorial you will learn how to design Mech in Zbrush very quickly. Hope that video will be quite informative to all.



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Levitation Effect- Photoshop Tutorial

Levitation Effect- Photoshop Tutorial



Learn how to make levitate effect in Photoshop. There will a combination of two images and then there will be photoshop process to combine those two to make levitation effect in photoshop. Hope that tutorial will be helpful.



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Game of Thrones, Season 4 – VFX making of reel

Game of Thrones, Season 4 – VFX making of reel
Behind-the-scenes reel for Game of Thrones, which showcases Mackevision‘s latest contribution to the HBO saga’s impressive VFX work. The studio is one of many others who have contributed to the series special effects over the past four seasons.
...

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Blanka: zbrush and photoshop rendering tutorial

Blanka: zbrush and photoshop rendering tutorial

In this video Leo Haslam will be going over how I use zbrush to create render pass's and how to composite them together in photoshop.


 




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Houdini Waterfall Tutorial

Houdini Waterfall Tutorial



This video will teach you you how to set up a FLIP fluid waterfall in Houdini 12 using a specially designed emitter. You will then learn how to use velocity and surface information to generate white water and splashes.





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Nuke 3D Point Generator Tutorial

Nuke 3D Point Generator Tutorial


This tutorial takes a look at Nuke's 3D Point Generator, Projections and Reconcile 3D node.



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Thor The Dark World VFX Breakdown From Blur Studio

Thor The Dark World VFX Breakdown From Blur Studio


Thor: The Dark World is the latest feature from Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Company. And after its first weekend, the film was already considered one of the largest theatrical openings of the year internationally.



Technicolor ...

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300 Rise of an Empire - VFX Breakdown

300 Rise of an Empire - VFX Breakdown


"300: Rise of an Empire" pits Themistokles against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Watch the VFX Breakdown. © Warner Bros Pictures



 

 

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Gorilla in ZBrush

Gorilla in ZBrush
On this video you will see how to quickly sculpt Gorilla in Zbrush. Its kind of timelapse so video will be fast. Hope that will be informative to you. Thanks for watching. Kindly give your feedback in below given comment box.



 
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Frankenstein Speed sculpt Zbrush

Frankenstein Speed sculpt Zbrush
Watch this video for Zbrush character creation timelapse and learn how to sculpt Frankenstein in Zbrush. 2D Concept Art by Adam Ford, 3D Speed Sculpt by Pierre Benjamin.


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Digtial painting tutorial elephant rider concept art

Digtial painting tutorial elephant rider concept art
Digital painting tutorial, this video show you how Xia Taptara paint concept art cinematic scene of elephant rider face off with a knight in the jungle. The finished piece takes me a bit over six hours of painting itself, but longer with ...

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Drawing Portraits Tips and Technique

Drawing Portraits Tips and Technique
Learn how to draw, shade and render portraits traditional and digital. Draw and shade face with pencil sketch or with Photoshop and Wacom tablet. This video explain how to get likeness when drawing and shading portrait. Also the general different between ...

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A Struck Of Luck - Time lapse

A Struck Of Luck - Time lapse
A stroke of luck or a gift from God. The hand of fate or devil's claws. A small timelapse of the girl Carlos Ortega Elizalde modeled last year and the image Carlos Ortega Elizalde did a couple of months ago.

Model in Maya and rendered in FurryBall 3 by GPU. Ba ...

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NICK IDs Breakdown

NICK IDs Breakdown
Watch the NICK idS Breakdown in given below wonderful video.


Breakdown


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The Machine: Bait Studio VFX Showreel and Breakdowns

The Machine: Bait Studio VFX Showreel and Breakdowns
Learn about it in Bait Studio own wordings. We were the lead visual effects team for this stylish British sci-fi thriller directed by Caradog James, contributing nearly 250 VFX shots.

One of the biggest challenges was matching the classic ...

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Jesse Richards Showreel - Animation, Compositing

Jesse Richards Showreel - Animation, Compositing
This is a showreel of Jesse Richards animation, compositing and general post production on various projects Jesse have been involved with over the last few years.


Projects include:
BBC Jackanory - BBC
O2 Advertisement - Partizan
HTC P ...

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The Making of The Green Ruby Pumpkin

The Making of The Green Ruby Pumpkin

This is a small selection of some of the assets, and VFX created by Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma for the short film "The Green Ruby Pumpkin". The entire project was rendered on 7 computers, Running Maya for 3D, Mudbox for sculpting, Mari and Mudbox for ...

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