War Thunder: Battle Is On- FX Breakdown

War Thunder: Battle Is On- FX Breakdown


Watch the War Thunder: Battle Is On - Fx Breakdown by Niall Horn in his own words. 

"Here is my FX Breakdown for my Work on the Gamescom 2014 War Thunder Trailer "Battle Is On". I got an amazing opportunity from Juice and Platige Image in Poland t ...

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Amazing Sculptures by Mark Newman

Amazing Sculptures by Mark Newman
Mark Newman
Artist | Professional | Traditional Art
United States
Mark Newman is a professional sculptor working primarily in the commercial art arena. Sculpting original figurines, maquettes and prototypes for various collectibles, video game and toy ...

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Modeling a stylized character in Maya

Modeling a stylized character in Maya by Edu Shola
Quick way to model a head. it should work great with any polygon modeling software. proper topology is easy to achieve this way which makes facial animation a lot easier.
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Let's Draw: Final Fantasy VII

Let's Draw: Final Fantasy VII
Part 1
Colour comps painting demo.


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How to Draw a Crystal Ball

How to Draw a Crystal Ball
In the below video you will learn how to draw a crystal ball.





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Polygroups in ZBrush by 3dmotive

Polygroups in ZBrush by 3dmotive
Check out another great ZBrush tutorial where you'll get a short and sweet introduction to ZBrush polygroups and how to create them using a combination of must learn methods to achieve the proper grouping for different parts of your mesh.



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Meet the Characters from Laika’s ‘Boxtrolls’

Meet the Characters from Laika’s ‘Boxtrolls’




Focus Features releases a new featurette for LAIKA’s forthcoming stop motion/CG animated feature that delves into the film’s characters.



Based on Alan Snow’s bestselling novel “Here Be Monsters,” The Boxtrolls introduces a community of ...

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Pixar’s New Short, ‘Lava’ Clip

Pixar’s New Short, ‘Lava’ Clip
Watch the first clip from Lava, our new short, which premieres in front of Inside Out next summer. Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, “LAVA” is a musical love story that takes place over millions of yea ...

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Aardman Releases New Teaser for Shaun the Sheep

Aardman Releases New Teaser for Shaun the Sheep
From Aardman, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, SHAUN THE SHEEP THE MOVIE is coming to cinemas worldwide from Spring 2015! Watch the new teaser trailer to see Shaun and The Flock on their hilarious adventure in the Big ...

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Maya UV Texture Editor Basics - Maya Tutorial

Maya UV Texture Editor Basics - Maya Tutorial
Check out this quick start into UVs, you'll learn how to use the UV Texture Editor in Maya. We'll examine the proper way to manipulate UV vertices while NOT affecting the actual geometry and how we can select just a few vertices and expand that to ...

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Cinema4D inflate and explode tutorial

Cinema4D inflate and explode tutorial(C4d inflate tutorial)
How to inflate and explode an object in cinema4d, learn to control display tags to make more elaborated animations in cinema4d and control softbodies pressure and behaviours to make cool animations. Tutorial by Fxchannelhouse for ...

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3D knitting concept in cinema4d

3D knitting concept in cinema4d
This video shows a simple approach to knitting with hair and mograph in Maxon's Cinema4d.





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Scott Robertson: Inspiration and Techniques

Scott Robertson: Inspiration and Techniques
In this lecture below Scott will highlight some of his creative techniques and sources of inspiration he use to execute the type of work you see in his books and on his website/blog.





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ZBrush 4 - Anna Semenovich ZProjection

ZBrush 4 - Anna Semenovich ZProjection
Watch the ZProjection in ZBrush 4.





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Behind the VFX of Star Trek

Behind the VFX of Star Trek
A brief behind the scenes look at the visual effects work created by Industrial Light & Magic on the 2009 blockbuster film, Star Trek - Specifically the 'Jump Sequence.' Interviews with Visual Effects Supervisor and Second Unit Director, Roger Guyett; Assoc. ...

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Elephunk VFX Breakdown

Elephunk VFX Breakdown
Watch the vfx breakdown of Elephunk in the below video. We hope that you will enjoy the breakdowns.













 

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Create an Amazing Cracked Skin Effect in Photoshop

Create an Amazing Cracked Skin Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will see how to create an amazing cracked skin effect in Photoshop. This is obviously not something you are going to do on every portrait you take but when you are looking for a creative outlet adding texture to skin is a l ...

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Masking in ZBrush - Zbrush Tutorial

Masking in ZBrush - Zbrush Tutorial
Check out this great zbrush tutorial where you'll get a quick introduction to Zbrush masking where you'll learn to protect areas of the model, help sculpt details and even it out to make polypainting textures easier and more ...

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3 Amazing Digital Painting Tutorials by Xia Taptara

3 Amazing Digital Painting Tutorials by Xia Taptara
Xia Taptara is a Professional Digital Painting Artist. In this video series we will be watching 3 of his best Digital Painting Tutorial video. We hope that will be very inspiring.

Digital painting tutorial Frost giant concept ...

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VFX Breakdowns - Unexpected Gifts

CGI VFX Breakdowns HD: The Making of - "Unexpected Gifts" - by Nicolas Brunet
Check out this behind the scenes CGI breakdown of "Unexpected Gifts" by the talented Nicolas Brunet!


CGI VFX Animated Short HD: "Unexpected Gifts" - by Nicolas Brunet
Check out this very cool and interesting ...

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LightWave 3D - CG Water Tutorial

LightWave 3D - CG Water Tutorial
Louis du Mont is a Digital Artist. He co-founded and oversees creative at 'We Are Formation', a small production studio based in London, UK.

As well as working on brands like Intel, Nokia and Kia, he's continually developing new ideas for short films and ...

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Friki Selfie - Making of by Santiago Betancur

Friki Selfie - Making of by Santiago Betancur
Software: Zbrush, Photoshop, Keyshot





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2 Awesome Zbrush Tutorial by Santiago Betancur

2 Awesome Zbrush Tutorial by Santiago Betancur
Santiago Betancur is Freelance, Digital Artist , 3D Generalist. Watch 2 of his best tutorial for Zbrush to learn in his own words. Not in English. So hope you stay with the videos to learn the awesome stuff in Zbrush.
Last Breath
I share my ...

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Nira: Zbrush Sculpting a Character for 3D Printing

Nira: Zbrush Sculpting a Character for 3D Printing

Part 1
In part one of this video series we will look at the process for creating a sculpture in Zbrush for 3D printing. Below is the content time codes for quick skipping...


Part 2
Second video in this series on creating a character ...

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"Formation" animation creation in Cinema 4D

"Formation" animation creation in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, You will go though the process of making the "Formation" Animation. This tutorial includes the Cinema 4D and the After Effects part.


Preview:




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OL i Sotsji - VFX Breakdowns

OL i Sotsji - VFX Breakdowns
Watch the VFX Breakdowns of OL i Sotsji in the video below.





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Into the Storm - VFX Breakdowns - Method Studios

Into the Storm - VFX Breakdowns - Method Studios
Watch the VFX Breakdowns of Into the Storm by Method Studios.





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Gabor Reikort Environment TD vfx reel 2014

Gabor Reikort Environment TD vfx reel 2014


My task was to build the whole shot with cooperating with a mattepainter. First I had to provide a lit base render witht he city and the mountains. Then developled the layout and the models. Built the projection setups from different frames and ...

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Titanfall: Free The Frontier (E3 2014) VFX Breakdown

Titanfall: Free The Frontier (E3 2014) VFX Breakdown
Watch the VFX Breakdown for Respawn and Playfight's Titanfall live-action short: Free The Frontier


Original Short Credits:
Hero Pilot: Ryan Freer
Director: William Chang
Producer: Brian Huynh
Technical Director: Hoon Hwang
Creative ...

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Awesome Star Wars Illustrations

Awesome Star Wars Illustrations
As a tribute to all the amazing Star wars movies we have put together a gallery with most stunning Star Wars i ...

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Cool Mixer Brush Techniques for Photoshop Painting

Cool Mixer Brush Techniques for Photoshop Painting
An interesting technique for the mixer brush in Photoshop, picked it up from Mathias Verhasselt, a fantastic artist who works at Blizzard.











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CGNuggets Workshops: Epic Film Creature - Battle Beast

CGNuggets Workshops: Epic Film Creature - Battle Beast
80 minutes of FREE realtime preview of one of the lessons from the first CGNuggets Workshop. This is the final lesson on sculpting where I go into doing wrinkles, pores, anomalies, and general skin texture.





 

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5 Useful Zbrush Tutorials by Ben Douglas

5 Useful Zbrush Tutorials by Ben Douglas
Ben Douglas is a great artist of ZBrush. Here we are presenting some useful tutorial by Ben Douglas of Zbrush. Hope these will be quite useful for zbrush artists.
Posing Characters in ZBrush 4R6
In this quick tutorial Ben will take you through several ...

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How to Render Concept Art Video Series

How to Render Concept Art Video Series
In this video tutorial series you will learn hot to render concept art process.
How to Render Concept Art Using Blending Modes: Part 1 - Multiply Layer
This tutorial is the first part of a series on how to render Concept Art using Photoshop. This video ...

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UV'ing in 3D Coat by Josh Robinson

UV'ing in 3D Coat by Josh Robinson
In this video Josh Robinson go over how to use 3D Coat to quickly and easily layout your UV's.

















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ZBrush Tutorial: Armor Creation Tips & Tricks

ZBrush Tutorial: Armor Creation Tips & Tricks
In this tutorial you will learn how you can create armors for your character. Software used will be ZBrush and 3DS Max.

















Video parts:
Introduction, Base Mesh Setup, Start Masking, ZRemesher, 3Ds Max part, Back ...

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Autodesk 3ds max Tutorial - Physique Modifier

Autodesk 3ds max Tutorial - Physique Modifier by Edu Shola


How to skin a character with physique modifier, its a great skinning modifier inside of 3ds max, we will cover methods such as envelops, links and vertex, moving from basic skin binding to refinement, we will be using a biped rig ...

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Zbrush - create Your own brushes and paint cliffs

Zbrush - create Your own brushes and paint cliffs
After watching this tutorial You will be able to create your own brushes in Zbrush software. Tutorial focus on sculpting that can be used to painting cliffs.











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Transformers 3 - visual effects R&D & Playblasts

Transformers 3 - visual effects R&D & Playblasts by Allan McKay


Transformers 3 - Visual Effects R&D and Playblasts by Allan McKay in his own words. "Some of the many elements I built for Transformers 3 - the entire production went on for 6 weeks start to finish for 4 shots, I ...

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New RealFlow 2014 Showreel Launched

New RealFlow 2014 Showreel Launched


Next Limit just released a new RealFlow 2014 showreel that features some impressive work done using the latest version of their fluid and body dynamics simulation tool.



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19 Sequels That Outgrossed the Original Movies

19 Sequels That Outgrossed the Original Movies
From "Die Hard 2" to the second Thor film, a look at the movies that fared better than their predecessors at the domestic box office. (Source: Box Office Mojo)
'American Pie 2'


While forever changing the way people look at pie ...

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7 Amazing Drawing Tutorial by Stan Prokopenko

7 Amazing Drawing Tutorial by Stan Prokopenko
In this post you will watch 7 amazing drawing tutorials by Stan Prokopenko, He is an artist and teacher. Proko is a resource for artists to get good art instruction videos. When you watch Proko tutorials you’ll notice that he try to make them entert ...

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REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING, PROJECTION MAPPING

OMOTE / REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING & PROJECTION MAPPING


Technology has evolve a lot and once again it is proved. In the video you will see a glance of real time face tracking and projection mapping where the face of model is changed in front of your eyes spontaneously. This is such a ...

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Heads-Up Display | Visual Effects Breakdown

Heads-Up Display | Visual Effects Breakdown
Watch the Stunning Visual Effects Breakdowns of Heads-Up Display. Its been directed by Marc Rienzo. Its super stunning to watch and watching breakdowns is very inspiring. Hope you will find this useful and definitely learn a lot seeing the ...

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Advanced Photoshop Painting - (Tutorial)

Advanced Photoshop Painting - Made Easy! (Tutorial)


Hi all, This time we brings you a tutorial, Painting in Photoshop in-fact advance Photoshop Painting. Which is kinda easy after watching the whole video tutorial. In this video Josiah will explain his technique of painting in Photoshop, ...

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How to Create Realistic Rain in Blender

How to Create Realistic Rain in Blender

In this video tutorial you will learn how to create realistic rain using the new feature called Dynamic Paint.

In this tutorial you will discover:
-How to use Dynamic Paint
-The best particle settings for rain
-How to use bump, mirror and color ...

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How to Make a Water Effect on Face - Photoshop Tutorial

How to Make a Water Effect on Face - Photoshop Tutorial


In this video we show how to make a water effect on a face "water woman".



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Making the Chameleon by Josh Robinson

Making the Chameleon by Josh Robinson


Making the Chameleon by Josh Robinson in his own words. "Today I have a special treat. Not only do I show you how I made my chameleon image. I have attached a video of my narration for you as well. I know, I know. It's almost too much awesome all at ...

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Creature Painting using polypaint with Josh Robinson

Creature Painting using polypaint with Josh Robinson


In this video Josh Robinson take a more detailed approach and show you how you can use Polypaint to build up a more realistic skin texture and even imply translucency on your creatures skin.

Josh Robinson Facebook ...

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The Tiger and the Snow (Breakdown)

The Tiger and the Snow (Breakdown) by Alexey Zakharov

The Tiger and The Snow (Photo to 3D)
Animating photo by using camera projection.













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