A great screen capture from the AfterEffects New York meeting.
In this presentation, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to create this ocean scene in Adobe After Effects with only the tools found in AE – No 3rd-party plug-ins were used. He’ll also introduce you to a cool plug-in for creating realistic water. This was part of a presentation he gave on June 25, 2009 at After Effects New York.
Note from Aharon: This is not exactly a polished tutorial. The presentation I gave at AENY was not captured well, so I just sat down in front of my PC and re-recorded it straight through. There is no editing or audio cleanup here. Also, I drank a bottle of something called Soju about 15 minutes before I did it. I bet you won’t even be able to tell… mostly.
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StudioGPU just announced that MachStudio Pro is available today. You might remember MachStudio Pro as the AMD/ATI GPU Accelerated rendering package we’ve discussedbefore.
StudioGPU announced today the immediate availability of MachStudio Pro™, a professional 3D workflow and rendering package created by artists for artists. MachStudio Pro offers a seamless way to create and interact with cinematic quality 3D objects and environments in a non-linear workspace by leveraging the horsepower of off-the-shelf professional graphics processing units (GPUs) to deliver real-time and near real-time workflow performance on a desktop workstation.
Today is launch day for FireFox 3.5, and Mozilla servers are already feeling the strain. You can see just how popular it is with their newly deployed Real-Time Download watcher. They combine a simple spreadsheet view with linegraphs showing downloads over time, with a geographical map that shows the various downloads geolocated across the globe. Currently I see alot of traffic in the US & Europe, with the occasional blip in South America and Asia.
Quad Software, makers of Grome, have just released the Graphite Renderer.
Graphite is a high-performance outdoor rendering middleware suitable for rendering large terrain surfaces, water and vegetation layers. The library is designed to be quickly integrated into any engine or application using DirectX9 or DirectX10 rendering API for Window PC platform. The renderer is 100% compatible with Grome modeler application but can be modified to accept input from various data sources.
Of course, it’s meant to be used with Grome but they ship API’s and tools to use it with a variety of tools.
Marc Foster teamed with Cut+Run editor James Nelson to create a new commercial for Swiss Air. It’s a beautiful psychadelic combination of visuals from effect production company MK12 with a serene voiceover describing “what the flying experience is with Swiss Air”.
Redway3D needed a special OpenGL Benchmark suited for high quality renderings in industrial uses, so they built their own benchmark based on their Redsdk technology. The result is now available for download from their site. It’s a nice geometric model of an industrial turbine engine and does some very high-end stuff like:
Hybrid rendering with CPU & GPU Raytracing
HDR Rendering, with 128bit floating point precision
Tripwire Magazine has gathered 20 tricks for CSS that you can use to do your data visualization on the web, without resorting to Flash or Java.
In this article you will find more than 20 unique and worth knowing CSS Data Visualization Techniques. The techniques show in this article reallt takes CSS to a new level and even if you’re not going to visualize data you may get inspired from investigating them.
Twitter is quickly becoming, if it hasn’t already, a prime method of communicating to the masses. Supplementing, and sometimes replacing, more common methods such as Blogs. If you’re new to twitter, then here’s a list of some Visual Effects companies running on twitter for you to start with. If you’re a veteran twitter user, then here’s some new names for you to consider!
If you’re looking for sheer beauty in the chaos of Twitter, Mashable has a list for you: 6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations. Focusing on beauty over functionality (or even interactivity), it’s a pretty decent list.
It’s that time again, it’s an open call for User Input and Opinion.
Today is launch day for FireFox 3.5, and Mozilla servers are already feeling the strain. You can see just how popular it is with their newly deployed Real-Time Download watcher. They combine a simple spreadsheet view with linegraphs showing downloads over time, with a geographical map that shows the various downloads geolocated across the globe. Currently I see alot of traffic in the US & Europe, with the occasional blip in South America and Asia.
Marc Foster teamed with Cut+Run editor James Nelson to create a new commercial for Swiss Air. It’s a beautiful psychadelic combination of visuals from effect production company MK12 with a serene voiceover describing “what the flying experience is with Swiss Air”.
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