The Addon Repository for the 3D Space Simulator Celestia

The Celestia Motherlode: Earth Surface Maps is a post from: Ash Digital

Directed by Alex Roman. CG |Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman.
|Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman.
Music by Jennifer Athena Galatis.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman is a post from: Ash Digital

Update!

A link to this interview with Scott Patton was posted on the thread.

Scott Patton’s Amazing Avatar Digital Sculpts is a post from: Ash Digital

Building Generator is a procedural building generator script for 3d Studio Max.

Found through: Alba’s Twitter feed

3d Studio Max Building Generator is a post from: Ash Digital

3D Max is one of the commonly used software for architecture and interior design field on creating good presentation of architectural projects. Although it is not that easy to use and master the techniques to achieve the best result in a short period of time, it’s still worth to learn.

Found through: #VFX search on my TweetDeck

40 Excellent Examples of Interior Designs Rendered in 3D Max is a post from: Ash Digital

Inspired by MoGraph’s new MoDynamics and the excellent possibilities offered by CINEMA 4D’s XPresso and C.O.F.F.E.E. for creating complex setups we created the film ‘No Keyframes’, which is based entirely on automated setups. Each scene represents a specific functionality, which in itself generates interesting effects. The film shows spheres as they travel through various environments, interacting with elements in these environments and causing different reactions in each of them. Contrary to the approach taken in classic keyframe animation it was important to us to create self-sustaining models whose behavior was controlled by the rules of physics, similar to a real-world physical environment. The results often surprised even us. This film includes a wide spectrum of CINEMA 4D features, which are combined to make the resulting effects even more complex and interesting.

Found through: Alba’s Twitter feed

No Keyframes is a post from: Ash Digital

Most of the time pure krakatoa particle renderings.

Particle tests (6) closed Systems HD!

Some more testings, sections of endless running particle systems, no hand keyed animation involved, just procedural. The shadows for two of the clips are just after effect fakes thus look not too real, but i like it that way.

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:: MatthiasmVideos’s Channel [>]
:: KRAKATOA, Frantic Films [>] KRAKATOA™ is Volumetric Particle Rendering
:: How to use the Krakatoa plugin in 3D Studio Max [>]

Particle tests Collection – Krakatoa is a post from: Ash Digital

Created by Neill Blomkamp, who graduated from the VFS 3D Animation & Visual Effects program in 1998.

Found through: Alba’s Twitter feed

District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp 98 demo reel is a post from: Ash Digital

Ptex has eliminated UV assignment from our studio and significantly increased the efficiency of our pipeline.

Found through: #vfx search on Tweetdeck

Ptex: Per-Face Texture Mapping for Production Rendering is a post from: Ash Digital

The ZSphere modeling tool within ZBrush has ignited artist’s imagination by freeing them from technical restraints

Introducing ZSpheres II is a post from: Ash Digital