Matrox C-Series Graphics Cards Chosen by Exxact

May 29, 2015, 03:40 AM

https://news.creativecow.net/story/879003

(May 29, 2015) Matrox® Graphics today announced that Exxact Corporation has chosen Matrox C-Series™ multi-display graphics cards as the heart of three new video wall and digital signage systems. One of the new systems, the Exxact MPX3000 with Matrox C680 inside, will be presented at InfoComm (Orlando, June 17–19) in the Matrox booth 4053. Additional Exxact systems will be featured in the Exxact booth 2987.

Rival Kingdoms Vfx Breakdown

May 28, 2015, 04:56 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/rival-kingdoms-vfx-br...

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Make Your Own Wolverine Claws That Extend When You

May 28, 2015, 04:56 AM

http://www.slashfilm.com/make-your-own-wolverine-c...

Of course, not VFX, but practical :-) - If you're looking to spice up your X-Men cosplay, you should check out this tutorial on how to make your own Wolverine claws that extend when you flex.

Start at the beginning in After Effects

May 26, 2015, 09:27 AM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-beg...

The beauty of After Effects is that it's approachable for simple tasks and at the same time has a feature set capable of producing complex film quality effects. In the olden days we had to walk miles through snow to for Adobe After Effects tutorials, if there were any, but now there's tons of worthy free stuff. The biggest gotcha with this material for beginners might be the new previewing features expected in the 2015 version of After Effects CC. General sage advice is to "start at the b...

Disney’s Tomorrowland: Realistic Environments On

May 26, 2015, 09:27 AM

http://www.provideocoalition.com/disney-s-tomorrow...

#CreativeFriday – Moving 3D Objects, Cameras and

May 15, 2015, 10:46 AM

http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/?p=4476

I was asked a while ago to create an article on how to move 3D objects and cameras around in Photoshop CC and, in general how to work with the 3D scene. Having an ability to moving objects around a scene is the basic building blocks of putting something interesting in 3D in Photoshop CC together. Knowledge of this will smooth out the 3D Photoshop experience. The exercise and objective of this post is to take two individual objects, place them both into one scene and align them against ...

VFX on a Shoestring

May 13, 2015, 04:54 AM

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.ca/2015/05/vfx-...

The big L.A. visual effects studios -- Digital Domain, Rhythm and Hues -- are history now, and the big ticket action features now get their effects created someplace else. But what's often overlooked is a lot of vfx is now done in Los Angeles County on small budgets and tight schedules. For example:

SIGGRAPH 2015 — Magnus Wrenninge

May 12, 2015, 04:59 AM

http://magnuswrenninge.com/visualeffects/siggraph-...

I will be presenting a technique for production-friendly volumetric multiple scattering this year at SIGGRAPH.

The Reality of Virtual Reality

May 11, 2015, 07:36 PM

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/the-reality-of...

has some very real companies championing its merits and promoting the technology in the marketplace. Last year, social media behemoth Facebook purchased VR startup Oculus VR for $2 billion, while other players continue to push the bounds of what it means as a developing medium.

GLYPH - MattePainting Toolkit

May 11, 2015, 09:49 AM

http://www.glyphfx.com/

The Mattepainting Toolkit (gs_mptk) is a plugin suite for Autodesk Maya that helps artists build photorealistic 3D environments with minimal rendering overhead. It offers an extensive toolset for working with digital paintings as well as datasets sourced from photographs.