Making Giants Part VI| The Vines
Let me lay it on the line, he had two on the vine.Last time we met, in Part 5, made a fully rigged, textured, and animated flower. If you thought that was complicated, wait to you get a load of this...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part VII | The Details
Before you press that render button...So we are getting reeeaaally close to rendering out some frames. But before we do that, we need to make sure that we are really happy with a few tiny details....
View ArticleTwisted Poly talks Shop
Wanna know Nejc Polovsak's secret to amazing work? Me too. Unfortunately, the secret is "work really really hard."Working out of his home office in the capital of Slovenia, Nejc Polovsak is...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part VIII | The Composite Part 1
What do we do with all these frames?Now that we've got over a thousand rendered frames... what the heck do we do with 'em? We can't just throw them into the cut and call it a day can we?Nearly every...
View ArticleMaking Giants Part IX| The Composite Round 2
And now for the finishing touches...We've got a beautiful looking short-film, holy JEEZ! But we're not done... no, not done. There are a couple of shots in this thing that need some love: that CU...
View ArticleMograph IRL: The Godfathers of Hardcore
This is not a test!This was a short but REAL gig I did for a client. The client happens to be my bad-ass buddy Ian McFarland. He's a documentary / commercial / music-video director based out of...
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Giants: How to Make a Short Film
This adventure started with a simple idea. I was a little bit fed up with the traditional "tutorial" model of teaching that I'd been using for so long. There are enormous limitations that you run into...
View ArticleMatt Frodsham gets weird
Matt Frodsham is a Cinema 4D Black Belt. Matt's reel is full of weird and wonderful work, much of it completed with his friends at the incredible Berlin-based Zeitguised. His work is abstract,...
View ArticleThe Code Never Bothered Me Anyway
Ever hear of Houdini? No, not the magician, the software by SideFX. Joey got a chance to have a very nerdy talk with the super genius Christopher Hendryx about his work at Disney as an FX...
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Photoshop Animation Series Part 5: Finishing Touches
Let's finish this!It's time to wrap this animation up. In this lesson we'll start out by going over a few little loose ends that we didn't cover before; like importing footage into Photoshop and...
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