This is a collection of bits and pieces, that are posted, changed and updated as I learn, work and discover. Coloured words have links, this includes topic headings, articles, people and other interesting resources that has been collected for my personal reference.
It is ‘roughly’ in alphebetical order with some topics and software grouped under their relevant headings which is displayed in larger type.
ACMSIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH Vancouver
The Foundry SIGGRAPH 2015
SIGGRAPH Videos for 3D Animation Pipeline, Mobile Gaming and OpenGL
CG SOCIETY:
Day 2 Coverage from Siggraph!
Day 2 of Siggraph. We talk with companies such as Autodesk, Maxon,The Foudry and more.
Introducing Realtime Cinematography | Hellblade | Siggraph 2016| Award Winner
SIGGRAPH 2015 Keynote Speaker, Joichi (Joi) Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explores how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways.
ADOBE
AFTER EFFECTS
EXPRESSIONS
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Using Wiggle to Create Random Movement in Adobe After Effects
- Dan Ebberts’s Expressioneering Design Guide
There are also some resources under Maxon for Cinema 4D that relate to After Effects.
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/tutorials/09.Expressions/
EXPRESSIONS – Video Pilot
After Effects 10 Lifesaving Shortcuts that you’ll be glad to have in your back pocket.
MotionScript: Dan Ebberts’ AE Expressions and Scripting Resource
CreativeCow: After Effects Tutorials
MotionWorks: Motion Graphics Mastery
VideoCopilot: creating tools & training for people who love motion design & visual effects
VideoCopilot: Green Screen using Keylight
Sticky Pictures After Effects Tutorials
The Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects is a powerful compositing tool that allows you to relight a 3D generated image, make 3D aware selections or displace the pixels in 3D space. Combine the use of a Position Pass and a Normal Pass with the power of After Effects’ 3D lights and cameras and change the lighting of your composited 3D graphics.
The Text Animation Tool – Adobe After Effects tutorial
After Effects Tutorial – Basic Typography & Motion Graphics
Kinetic Typography After Effects [motion graphics]
Im Gonna Make it Better (After Effects Animation)
After Effects Text Animation Example
After Effects CC Basic Text Animation Demo 2
After Effects Quick Tip: A Fix for Flickering AI and EPS Files
AUDITION
Creating a multitrack from David Bartolo in Adobe Audition
FLASH
Adobe Flash CC Help Page
Animation in Flash with Andy Sykes:
Adobe Flash CC Help Page
Adobe Flash and AIR Showcase Gallery
LEARN ALL ABOUT FLASH’S DRAWING TOOLS – FLASH CS3
FLASH KIT A Flash Developer Resource Site
60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss: Cheese and Burger Society, Tag Galaxy
Adobe Flash and AIR Showcase Gallery
Flash Player Version History
How to use sound in Adobe Animate
Puddle Mask effect Flash
ALAN BECKER – Flash Basics
ALAN BECKER – Classic Tweens
Best Practices for Flash-based Banner Ads
Flash Tutorial – Character Animation using Symbols
Flash CS5 Beginner – Create a Banner Ad – Part 1
Using the Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS
Flash CS 5.5 Tutorial : MotionTween: Detailed Information
Oney’s Toon Tutorials – Ep 1 – Baby Steps in Adobe Flash
MOBILE APPS
Real Layouts, Real Fast. Design layouts on your iPhone, iPad or iPad Pro with Adobe Comp CC. Use natural drawing gestures to create crisp graphics, pull in images and place text and then send you ideas to the desktop to finish.
PHOTOSHOP
85 brilliant Photoshop tutorials
VERTHEIM: Welcome to the exxential resource for all things 3DS Max, Photoshop and more for CGI students everywhere.
Photoshop CC workspace Learn Photoshop CC Adobe TV
PREMIER PRO
Premier Pro Tips and video tutorials for film and broadcast professionals
Smart Rendering in Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.1, and later), & Premiere Pro CC
ADOBE PREMIERE PRO TROUBLESHOOTING SURVIVAL GUIDE
Premier Pro Sequences
Clips
The Ripple Edit Tool
The Rolling Edit Tool
The Razor Tool
The Rate Stretch Tool
Titling
Effects
Exporting
ALLEGROITHMIC
Allegorithmic develops Substance, the reference suite for 3D texturing.
The Substance suite includes the software tools Substance Painter for 3D painting, Substance Designer for material authoring and Substance B2M for image-to-material generation, as well as the ever-growing physically based material library Substance Source and the artist-to-artist exchange platform Substance Share.
Constantly on the edge of innovation, Substance technologies empower 3D creators and integrate naturally into production pipelines.
With a fast-growing community, Substance has become a standard in the game industry and is rapidly expanding to the industries of Animation/VFX, Architecture, and Industrial Design
ANIMATION
AUDIO
AUTODESK
Max Man & Maya Man
Autodesk University – Learn On-Line
Create 3d Characters: MAYA: GENERALIST INTERMEDIATE
University: Las Vegas 2015 sessions
Maya Monday – Render Passes in Maya 2016
3ds Max 2016 Quick Tips: Template System – Customize an existing Template
Autodesk 123D is free software integrated with content and fabrication services. For people who want to make things themselves.
AREA NEWSLETTER
Supercharged Animation Performance in Maya 2016
ALIAS, Autodesk
AREA TV – autodesk
AUTODESK AREA NEWSLETTER
WEBINARS
The MCG Network Deployment Guide
Sweat. Swearing. Tears. Indie Game Documentary — Modern Dream Part 3
Maya Monday – Render Passes in Maya 2016
Creating Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide using Autodesk Maya and Stingray
FLAME
Flame is the high-end 3D visual effects software that offers tools for fast, interactive 3D visual effects, finishing, compositing, advanced graphics, colour grading, conform, editorial, and look development.
The Autodesk Flame Learning Channel
MAYA
A Maya Fluid Dynamics Quicksheet: Even though this was written for Maya 7, it should still apply to current versions of Maya.
LEARNING MAYA
Modeling in Maya 2015
What is the difference between parenting and grouping in maya?
Autodesk unveils Maya 2017
Youtube UV Mapping
MAKING OF DAENERYS TARGARYEN BY DANIELE LA MURA
For this project I wanted to learn more about Xgen in Maya. I was curious to try it since Autodesk announced it in the 2014 release and this seemed the right chance to give it a try!
Autodesk Webinar: Entertainment CreationSuite 2014 – link
Maya 2017 – Time Editor Overview
What’s New in Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya
Maya 2012 Tutorial – Grouping and Parenting
Parenting and Grouping Objects
Importing Video Reference into Maya
Maya Learning Channel: Creating Topological Art with XGen
Maya – Using the Layered Texture Node with alpha layers Phil Hoppes
XGen topology art in Maya by Lee Griggs
Creating XGen hair – Part 5: Animating XGen hair using Anim Wires and nDynamics
Interactive Morphing Table Experiments by Michael Marcondes
Maya Monday – two sided shader – MILA material
Maya 2016: Parallel Rig Evaluation
Painting Bifrost colorsets
MUDBOX
Online Resources (Digital Sculpting with Mudbox)
MUDBOX LIVE Wayne Robson
KERMACO Ara Kermanikian
SMOKE
Post Magazine – Review: Autodesk Smoke 2015
By: Barry Goch
Smoke 2013 for the Mac – Getting Started online tutorials
Smoke Learning Channel
Autodesk Smoke 2013 | Key Insights by Rob O’Neill
Digistor Autodesk Smoke Solutions Webinar
Autodesk Smoke and Flame artist Joel Osis does a breakdown on the effects for a commercial he did for Special K – link
“Fix It In Post” Official Film by Autodesk
Smoke Essentials with Alexis Van Hurkman
Amsterdam SuperMeet: Autodesk Smoke Goes to the Movies
Premiumbeat com Presents Editing in Autodesk Smoke Special Guest Brian Mulligan, WHTR TV
Autodesk Smoke 2013 | Key Insights by Rob O’Neill
AVID
BLACKMAGIC
Editing in DaVinci Resolve 1 Year Later
BLENDER
BLENDER TRAINING and NEWSLETTER
Blender Wieght Transfer Tutorial Torchlight
BLENDERSUSHI / AN 360 VR Gallery (LIVENODING227)
5 TIPS FOR MODELING IN BLENDER, WITH PIERRICK PICAUT
Gleb Alexandrov
BRAVE RABBIT
BROADCAST BEAT MAGAZINE
CELEBRATING CREATIVITY
CINEVERSITY
COMPUTERS
TidBITS
Begun in 1990, is an online newsletter and Web site, devoted to the person behind the most personal of personal computers, the Macintosh. relating events and products to real life uses and concerns. New TidBITS issues go out every Monday night; articles appear on the Web site throughout the week.
External Graphics Cards for Laptops
Put Ubuntu on Flash Drive using Windows
COMPUTER GAMES ASSETS
SUPER USERS is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users.
Manjaro Mania ::: Dual Boot Install
Seven part series from Edward Blench look into using 3DS Max for creating Computer Game assets. Edward Blench.
Corona SDK
Mobile apps create a unique opportunity to build beautiful, engaging experiences. Thousands of children’s app developers and eBook authors, from India-based tinytapps to Avokiddo, use Corona SDK.
CG Society
also under Drawing, Design, Creativity and Film Manking
- Beeple explains his latest project, Zero-Day 2015
- Getting to know the Game Artist from Supermassive Games
CG SOCIETY forums
CG EVERYTHING
CG MEETUP
CGPunch – YouTube Channel by David Zwierzchaczewski
CHASE GROUP MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: V-RAY
CINEFEX
COMMET, MICHAEL
comp.graphics.apps.alias
TOOLS and TRAINING FOR 3D with GREYSCALEGORILLA
COMPOSITING
COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD
CREATIVE CRASH: high quality 3d models, scripts, plugins and more
DALET ACADEMY
COURSES
DESIGN
Including drawing, design, creativity and film making.
DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA As Australia’s peak industry body for professional design, the DIA represents Australian design and designers both domestically and internationally We exist to help Australia’s professional designers to succeed in business and to enjoy their working lives, while collectively growing Australia’s reputation as a Design Nation. The DIA brings together design practitioners with people and organisations who employ, commission, support and promote designers. As such, our membership includes design practitioners and participants in Australia’s design industry.
DIGISTORE
DIGITAL PAINTING SIMPLIFIED
DJV IMAGING
Provides open source movie playback software for use in film production, VFX, and computer animation. Key features include:
- Real-time playback of image sequences and movies
- Support for industry standard file formats including Cineon, DPX, OpenEXR, and QuickTime
- Command line utilities for batch processing
- Cross platform support for Linux, Apple OS X, and Microsoft Windows
DUNCAN BRINSMEAN
DIGITAL MEDIA
JIBJAB: is a digital media company dedicated to making funny things worth sharing. We’ve been pioneering online entertainment production and distribution since 1999.
Magnum Pleasure Hunt: Across the Internet http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com.au/
Magnum Pleasure Hunt 2: Across The Globehttp://pleasurehunt2.mymagnum.com/
http://pleasurehunt3.mymagnum.com/
MAGNUM PLEASURE HUNT
DYNAMICS
Pulldownit is a brand new dynamics solver which allows for the creation of fractures as well as massive rigid bodies simulations. By using its technology digital artists are able to simulate fast and easily the collapse of buildings, cracking surfaces or fracturing any kind of brittle material.
Create an Army of Toy Soldiers
Particle Texture Emission in Maya
ENVIRONMENT
ABRI- Australian Battery Recycling Initiative
Batteries – Sustainability Victoria
FILE FORMATS, CODEC and STUFF
You need to find out what the actual Codec is. You can do this by finding an application that can query the MXF.
For example: http://www.opencubetech.com/page20/XFReader
Or if you know the camera it came from you can determine the format this way. If the files are from a camera that has a plugin for premiere then you should just be able to download the plugin from the camera vendors website.
WINDOWS PRORES: FIRST IMPRESSION
THE FOUNDRY
ADF: What’s The Foundry buying? The Tech of ADF
The Foundry (thefoundry.co.uk) is a global developer of computer graphics, visual effects (VFX) and 3D design software for the design, visualization and entertainment industries.
NUKE – thefoundry.co.uk/nuke
HIERO – thefoundry.co.uk/hiero
MARI – thefoundry.co.uk/mari
MODO – thefoundry.co.uk/modo
KATANA – thefoundry.co.uk/katana
FLIX – thefoundry.co.uk/flix
OCULA – thefoundry.co.uk/ocula
The Foundry webinar recordings
MODO Darrel Anderson, original designer of MeshFusion, discusses the art and science of modelling.
The Foundry (thefoundry.co.uk) is a global developer of computer graphics, visual effects (VFX) and 3D design software for the design, visualization and entertainment industries.
NUKE
Nukepedia: Home: over 1,000 free tools for The Foundry’s Nuke
NUKE with CreativeLyonsTuts many nuke tutorials
Victor Perez is so well known and respected in the visual effects industry, it’s hard to imagine there was a day he wasn’t a digital artist. But this official NUKE certified trainer, regular contributor to Nukepedia and member of the Visual Effects Society has a unique story. The story is so inspiring, in fact, he was recently invited to share it in a TED Talk at TEDxVicenza. This week, we invited him to summarize that presentation for us and tell us more about how he came to be, from our point of view, a NUKE hero.
Relative Paths in NUKE
Nuke 10 Beta Smart Vector Tutorial
Nuke 3D Point Generator Tutorial: Blog: JoeRaasch.com Teaching: SenecaVFX.com
ModelBuilder node – Editing Geometry
NUKE Top Tip: Add Realistic Chromatic Aberration to Your CG Composites:
Understanding Premult and Unpremult in NUKE
FROYOK:
FREE TECHNOLOGY for TEACHERS
FILMMAKING
GIMP
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.
GLOSSARIES
Cineversity Training and Tools for Cinema 4D: The following series of definitions and articles covers technical and other terms used both within Cinema 4D, and those you may enounter in the use of other content creation applications and digital compositing applications. Full Glossary
GMAX
An application based on Autodesk’s 3ds Max application used by professional computer graphics artists. Gmax is much more limited due to its singular intended use—game content creation. Infrequently used tools and features, or the ones completely unrelated to creating 3D game models, were removed (these include most, if not all of the more complex rendering, materials, shaders, physics simulation, some of the more advanced geometry tools, in addition to the rendering engine), leaving the core modeling, texturing, and basic animation rigging and keyframing capabilities. In 2005, the promotional freeware software was discontinued after version 1.2, but a licensed version is still available from Turbosquid com.
HDR IMAGES
HOUDINI
HOUDINI – Official Tutorials
HOUDINI – Side Effects Tutorials
HOUDINI – 3D buzz
GAME TUTOR GaTu
IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors
INDIE FILM
LEE GRIGGS
The 3D Art of Lee Griggs: Geological and Microbial Landscapes
LESTERBANKS
Rohan Dalvi Creates:
Animator and trainer for the last 16 years, long time my primary tool was 3dsmax and vray for all of my projects. About five years ago I slowly and steadily started to shift towards Houdini. Now a days I use Houdini for almost all of my personal work. I primarily specialize in Lighting and rendering. On Vimeo
LIGHTING
IES lights
CREATIVE CRASH: This tutorial is about IES profiles use in Mental Ray
UNREAL ENGINE IES Light Profiles
VERTHEIM: Welcome to the exxential resource for all things 3DS Max, Photoshop and more for CGI students everywhere.
LIGHT WORKS
From the Vault: DOS-Based Lightworks System 2003
Igor Auzins (aka ‘Lightworks guru’) here in 2003 with DOS based Lightworks (or was it a Heavyworks?) at Island Films in Balmain. Note the ‘film style’ controller and the very heavy Eizo 4×3 CRTs. The $100K+ system ran on a souped-up DOS 6 computer with ‘Towers’ of 3.6GB and 9.1GB drives costing about $10,000 each! Check out the current Lightworks.
LINKTIVITY PRESENTER
MAGIC PEN for Mac
MAKE PAGES
I created the original content for MakePages.com many years ago when the web was young and people were just learning to create web pages. I offered tutorials on older versions of Flash, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These are all now outdated and more up-to-date examples are readily found elsewhere.
MARI – Painting realistic skin in Mari 2.0 – link
MATTE PAINTING
VUE, a 3D scenery generator software package.
Mr peabody and sherman
MAXON
3D ANIMATION AND VFX WORKFLOWS FOR “DOCTOR STRANGE”
C4D: Selecting Individual Clones Password: PixelGift1
NAB 2016 Rewind – Athanasios Pozantzis: Re-topology, Modelling & the Perfect Planet Earth
Hitting the Marks with Motion Graphics
A Cinema 4D Primer for Maya Artists: Introduction to this Primer with Cineversity
CINEMA 4 D
VERSUS
CINEMA 4D
PIXEL LAB: FREE MODELS
To download the new Amazon Echo model and all of the other ones just go to www.thepixellab.net/free and use the password: pixellove13
- Tobias Larsson modeled a really detailed model of the Cryptex from the Da Vinci Code, check him out on Vimeo here: vimeo.com/tacoindian There are some renders of the Cryptex as well as a little demo video showing how the stepping works. The C4D model is rigged and animated!
- Model pack by Jim Field, the first Playhouse Model Pack he gave away. Now he has Volume 2.0! There are three C4D playhouse models but these are all sitting on the ground so you could use them for regular houses as well. Jim Field created a sweet and totally free “Evil Motorcycle.” Just delete the skull if you want a non-evil chopper. Created an epic guitar model, dual necked with an amp to boot.
- Simon Spencer-Harvey created a really nice Amazon Echo C4D model for you! Echo is a voice controlled speaker if you haven’t heard of it. Interior architecture scenes of wind tunnels created by Simon Spencer-Harvey. Feel free to use them for commercial or personal use as well.
- One carved halloween pumpkin C4D model and one that is not carved. They are 100% free, just don’t use them for re-sale. The model is created by our main man Remco.
- Remco van der Meer modeled a whole collection of beautiful C4D buildings and is giving them away. There are three downloads full of different buildings and towers for you. Best of all they are 100% free! Massive thanks to Remco! They are C4D models and you can use them for personal or commercial use, just don’t use them for resale/stock.
- Sam Brown’s Go Cart models <samwbrown89@gmail.com>
- Phixel Studio, arcade game modelhttps://www.facebook.com/NegroElkhaCGI/
- Michael Sohler, graphics card model, the model is textured with Octane materials, but you can swap out your own if you don’t own Octane. Feel free to use the model for commercial use, just don’t re-distribute etc. If you use it, send us a link, we would love to check it out. You can also e-mail anything you create to Michael here: mailmsolar@gmail.com. facebook.com/medienschoepfer Huge thanks to Michael for sharing this model!
- John created a silver Galactic Axe or hatchet model. The silver has details etched into it based on the material/bump channel. You could also re-texture the handle and make it a wooden version pretty easily if you want that style. Feel free to use for personal or commercial use, just make to sure to thank John and also check out his work at epicjcreations.com
- First we have a great BMO (Beemo) 3D character created by my main man Rob Redman. Have fun playing around, practicing lighting/rigging etc.
- Mike Udin, Audio rig for AM/audio waveforms. It comes with quite a few presets and is a great addition to your mograph library!
- Button Kit: an epic free button/knob/dial kit for C4D.
- Ace5Studios just released a really fun and free C4D character rig called #beefy4D. He’s totally rigged up and ready to roll, so if you need a fun character check it out.
- Modern house Cinema 4D model courtesy of the man, Remco van der Meer.
- Beautiful, nostalgic, retro portable television model and crazy Sci-Fi Orb thing which used the “Thin Film Shader” which is new in R18
- PORSCHE CAYMAN GT4 ANIMATION IN A VERY RAINY ENVIRONMENT: Car automotive Animation, TOOLS: Cinema 4D, Octane 3, X-Particle, Blackmagic Fusion, After Effects. SPECS: Render time round about 24 hours, 1 minute each frame on 3 x gtx 980ti. Waterdrops 4K texture loop
- Vol 4: Robert Paraguassu, Trevor Kerr, Casey Hupke and Ryan Summers. Huge thanks to Maxon US and Cineversity (cineversity.com) for recording and sharing the 2016 Siggraph Cinema 4D training sessions!
- Vol 5: Nik Hill, Sam Balcomb, Derya Öztürk, Chad Ashley, Athanasios Pozantzis
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NAB 2016 Rewind – Athanasios Pozantzis: Re-topology, Modeling & the Perfect Planet Earth
Webinars On-Demand
Greyscalegroilla Tools + Training for Cinema 4D
- The difference between the Physical Renderer, The Arnold Renderer and the Octane Renderer
- The Best Crimean 4D Tutorial Ever
- free tutorial on how to create an entire project from beginning to end
- feature videos
Helloluxx: Cinema 4D Tutorials
Pelfusion: 40 LATEST CINEMA 4D TUTORIALS AND BEST TECHNIQUES
envatotuts: Quick Tip: Create A Basic Render Setup Using Cinema4D
EARTH and GLOBES PACK for Videocopilot Element3D: We’ve finally done it! We have converted the Earth and Globes Pack for Videocopilot Element3D! Over 40 3D models covering everything from realistic to artistic, high poly to low poly globes, earths, maps and solar system pieces. We have something for everyone and I hope you enjoy it. If you’re looking for the Cinema4D version, you can find that here.
PROCEDURAL MATERIAL PACK: I’m extremely excited to introduce The Pixel Lab “Procedural Material Pack!” Rob Redman and I have teamed up to bring you a very special pack with over 340 C4D materials to help you speed up your workflow and focus on being creative! These 100% procedural materials take full advantage of the new Reflectance channel in C4D! Procedural means that they are infinitely tile-able unlike many other material packs which use image textures and can create seams when you tile them.
EVENTS and VENUES PACK: I’m excited to launch The Pixel Lab “Events & Venues Pack!” I’ve teamed up with Simon Spencer-Harvey and we have created over 50 C4D elements including 15 full 3D environments that will hopefully save you tons of time on your projects. This pack is extremely versatile with elements for concerts, events, conferences and exhibitions.
LOW POLY SCENERY PACK We have created over 75 low poly C4D models and Element 3D version, that will hopefully save you tons of time on your projects. We also included 6 full scenes that have different color schemes that you can pick from.
LOW POLY EXPLAINER PACK Simon Spencer-Harvey and I are very excited to launch the new Low Poly Explainer Pack! It’s massive, with over 100 C4D elements including a hand rig, isometric room generator, character generator (with 20+ animation presets), vehicle rigs, tree and grass generators, and 65+ objects to populate your scenes! We also made 5 full tutorials if you want to learn more about the product or how to use it. I truly hope it helps you out on your projects and you find it useful! Below are all of the included objects followed by the tutorials.
TECHNOLOGY PACK for Videocopilot Element 3D. This product was created by Remco van der Meer and converted to Element 3D by Vic Garcia. The pack has 49 technology themed models prepared for Element. These renders were done straight out of After Effects:
GRAPHS and CHARTS PACK: Every single model has an xpresso rig so you can easily change the bar, point, or line heights with sliders. The sliders are also connected to the numerical values, so they go up and down whenever you raise a bar or move a point! We are also including a fully pre-animated version of each and every model so you can just add them to your scene and already have the animation set up! That means you can either use the included xpresso rig, or you can use the pre-animated xpresso rig, it’s up to you since we have included both versions.
Intro to the NURBS Tools in Cinema 4D
How to use Sub Polygon Displacement in Cinema 4D
Free Book Generator Rig for Cinema 4D
Basic Cinema 4D tutorials Part 15 Environment
C4D Fundamentals | 01 – The User-Interface Basics – A Cinema4D Quick Start – Christoph Doe
C4D Fundamentals | 02 – Introduction to Spline Modeling – Christoph Doe
CG101: What is NURBS Modeling?
Camera Movement | Cinema 4D Tutorial on Ch-Ch-Check It
Tutorial: Creating multiple cameras using Stage Object in Cinema 4d and exporting to After Effects
Maxon Cinema 4D R14 Tutorial | Path Animation
Cinema 4D R17 – Spline Tools
A Guide for the Render Engine Jungle – Introduction
<https://vimeo.com/72547110>
Working with Scale and Size in C4D
Speed up your workflow in C4D with this little tip on the “animation” feature that is often overlooked.
Cinema 4D Quick Tip: Physical Sky Object Atmosphere
C4D and AE Tutorial: Tips for Realistic Compositing
C4D Depth Pass Tips and Free Preset Rig
C4D Tutorial: Best Way to Loop Animations
Cinema 4D Tutorial: Free Code Vonc Gelatine Plugin
Cinema 4D Tutorial: R18 Cloner Updates
C4D Workflow Quick Tips
Tutorial for The Pixel Lab Material Pack for Octane
C4D and After Effects Text Titles Tips: Glows and Ambient Occlusion
C4D StreetView4D Plugin Overview
Cinema 4D Tutorial: Tips For Using Soft Body Dynamics
Cinema 4D Quick Tip: Using Displacement
C4D Tutorial: Linking Texture Slots to Save Time and Hassle
Cinema 4D R14 Sculpting Tutorial
C4D Quick Tip: Modifying Textures From .lib4d Models
Rendering with Arnold in Cinema 4D
Tutorial: C4D to AE Null Problems
MODELLING and SCULPTING
CG SOCIETY
3D MODELS
- TurboSquid: Unsure of a model? We offer pre-purchase checks of all our models, giving you additional information about the model and seeing how it will work in a game engine. We also offer free conversions to suit your desired application. Bought a model that doesn’t work for you? Let us make it right!
- Archive 3D
- 3D Objects and Textures Web Resources: Here you can find some web resources for 3D objects (3ds, skp, Ogre XML formats supported) and textures, that can be used in Live Home 3D Standard or Pro Editions. Please note that we cannot guarantee that all 3D models and textures can be properly imported and used in Live Home 3D software. Check the model and texture copyrights on each particular website.
- 3dRender: High-end 3D art and information.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PROGRAMMING
Coding in Style: Adelante Consulting
An interesting article in iiNet’s eNewsletter September 2015
MEL Scripting for Maya Animators by Mark R Wilkins and Chris Kazmier
PUBLISHING
UNDER WRITING
RENDERING
Also see Rendering and Lighting Post and Rendering Process Diary
RIGGING
Creating a Character Rig – Part 10: Basic IK, FK, and result leg joints
Creating a Character Rig – Part 12: Leg FK control
Brian Escribano
Michael Comet, a modeling/rigging artistic/technical director at Pixar Animation Studios and the original creator of Maya Muscle, has bottled these tools’ functionalities to take them a step further. He offers an easy-to-use script called cometRename that can handle all of your renaming needs.
STONE’S THROW MEDIA
SIGGRAPH
SOLID ANGLE Arnold
XGen rendered with Arnold for Maya – Lee Griggs
– Arnold Maya Rendering Tutorial – basic interior sunlight – 3D files avail free at Dropbox
STRATA
Strata Foto 3D CX lets you use a digital camera or any phone camera to capture real-world objects as fully textured 3D models. Its ideal for difficult to model objects like organic shapes, soft forms and hand made items. The included Photoshop plug-in makes model creation even easier. Foto 3D models are ideal for developing packaging, games, illustrations, online catalogs and more.
SUBTITLING
HowToBurnSubtitlesIntoVideo – FFmpeg
Out of Date Video: Premiere Pro Subtitles SRT Files Workflow
Automated Subtitles in Adobe After Effects and Premiere CS4 and up
Youtube CC: Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to reocord, convert and download nearly any audio or video URL to common formats. Currently supported services: YouTube (720p, 1080p, 4K), Vimeo and many more. This free and fast converter allows you to watch your favorite YouTube videos offline on your PC, TV or nearly any other device.
Youtube: turn captions on and off
Creating subtitles and closed captions
How To Add Closed Captions To A YouTube Video
TEXTURING
Abandoned Cinema Scene – Development Video 5 – Texture Workflow with Substance Designer & Painter
Substance Painter Crash Course
3D
CREATE 3D CHARACTERS: MAYA GENERALIST INTERMEDIATE COURSE
SCANNING 3D INFINITE REALITIES Scanning is hard work, perseverance, learning, sacrifice and most of all, patience for what you are trying to capture
VERTHEIM: Welcome to the exxential resource for all things 3DS Max, Photoshop and more for CGI students everywhere.
3D WORLD
3D TOTAL
3DTotal was founded in 1999 as a simple 3D resource website. Over the last decade the site has evolved into one of the premier CG art websites in the world, offering a variety of training products, an inspirational gallery, a free texture library and hundreds of free tutorials on a variety of subjects
VIDEO COPILOT
cgmotionbox: tutorials
TRNIO
Model your world in true 3D using your phone
TUTVID
Photoshop and Web Design Tutorials, Articles and Inspiration
TV TECHNOLOGY
TWITCH TV – Zbrush Creative Techniques, frameworkVFX
TYPOGRAPHY
CB CREATIVE BLOG: Typography rules and terms that every designer must know
UNITY
REAL-TIME FUR: A DISCUSSION WITH NEOGLYPHIC & UNITY
UV LAYOUT
VANARTS
VFX PIPELINE CHANNEL
UV PLUG IN Nightshade UV Editor. Nightshade UV Editor 2.1.2 (maya script). Nightshade UV Editor extends the Maya’s UV Texture Editor with tools, scripts and a UI that greatly speed up the time it takes doing UV work.
Nightshade UV Editor
WEB
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WORDPRESS
WRITING and PUBLISHING
TABLO is a place where you can publish your writing, connect with a global audience of readers and find new opportunities for your work.
eBooks would include interactivity and animation with the level of interactivity being basic. On each page the user will be able to click on objects triggering basic animation. Some examples below:
- https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/endless-alphabet/id591626572?mt=8
- http://originatorkids.com/
- https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/who-stole-moon-free-version/id482612887?mt=8
- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/peppa-pig-me-books/id486850794?mt=8
- http://www.jellybiscuits.com/?page_id=929
GENERAL RESOURCES
Green Screen: How to make a green screen at home
DOWNLOADS and OTHER RESOURCES
ACTIONVFX: THE STOCK FOOTAGE SITE FOR VFX ARTISTS
ActionVFX is a stock footage site created specifically for Visual Effects artists. As we always say, if you need shots of girls touching tall grass, you’re out of luck with us. But if you’re looking for high quality VFX assets to cause mayhem, ActionVFX is the site for you. Our Collections currently include Explosions, Structure Fires, Smoke Plumes, Gun FX, and much more.
ART STATION is the showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists. It enables artists to showcase their portfolios in a slick way, discover & stay inspired, and connect with new opportunities. The home for artists
CAPTIONS, TRANSCRIPTS AND SUBTITLES
CLIP ART
We’re a royalty free stock photography agency that believes professional stock images should be affordable and accessible to everyone. We add over 25,000 top quality images each day from the world’s best photographers and artists.
CGMeetup Youtube Channel
GETTY IMAGES
GRAPHIC STOCK
MITCH MARTINEZ: FREE 4K STOCK FOOTAGE
The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
3D MODELS
- TurboSquid: Unsure of a model? We offer pre-purchase checks of all our models, giving you additional information about the model and seeing how it will work in a game engine. We also offer free conversions to suit your desired application. Bought a model that doesn’t work for you? Let us make it right!
- Archive 3D
- 3D Objects and Textures Web Resources: Here you can find some web resources for 3D objects (3ds, skp, Ogre XML formats supported) and textures, that can be used in Live Home 3D Standard or Pro Editions. Please note that we cannot guarantee that all 3D models and textures can be properly imported and used in Live Home 3D software. Check the model and texture copyrights on each particular website.
- 3dRender: High-end 3D art and information.
NASA Images
SPOON GRAPHICS: Resume Website PSD Template for Access All Areas Members
Enhance your creativity with Unlimited Downloads of 115,000+ HD Stock Footage, Motion Backgrounds, Special Effects, After Effects Templates & more.
TEXTURES and PAINTING
Atlas, The Next Generation
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