Tutorial – How to Create an Awesome Fire Effect Using Maya Fluids
Nov 15th
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fire animation inside Maya, and adjust the settings for your own projects. We will create the fire from scratch using Maya Dynamics and Fluids. The fire animation we will create can be rendered using both Maya software and Mental Ray.
Author: Alan Monroig
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Fire Fluid
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Tutorial – Advanced Lighting and Caustics with Mental Ray and Maya
Nov 15th
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use the 3 indirect lighting systems in Maya (Global Illumination, Final Gathering, and Irradiance Particles) and caustics. You will learn how to solve common problems and reduce rendering times while creating hi-quality images. At the end of this tutorial, you will have gained enough experience to decide which of the 3 indirect lighting systems is the most convenient for any situation.
Author: Alan Monroig
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Lighting with Mental Ray
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Tutorial – Model and Texture a Posh Living Room Scene in Maya
Nov 15th
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In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Living Room in Autodesk Maya. You will learn to use Mental Ray, along with the new architectural materials, and also create realistic fur, implement studio lighting for nice and soft shadows and highlights, and then execute the final render.
Author: Alan Monroig
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Living Room
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Tutorial – Create Awesome Cloth Simulations using nDynamics in Maya
Nov 15th
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Dynamics simulations can be a powerful tool when trying to generate realistic looking effects that would be very difficult to achieve manually. In this tutorial you will learn how to use nDynamics’ passive colliders and ncloth objects, in conjunction with fields like air and gravity, to easily simulate realistic dynamic objects such as a windy flag or a water container.
Author: Alan Monroig
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Final Effect Video:
Creation PSD Template Free Download
Nov 8th
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I created a PSD web site template that I wanted to share.
There are 4 different files included, all 4 files have color variations (Blue, Pink, Orange, Green). When you open one of the PSD templates, you should modify all layers with a red tag.
I used the following fonts (Rockwell, Verdana, Calibri, Myriad Pro, Georgia).
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See some screenshots below:
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All template files are provided “as is”. You agree not to hold Alan Monroig liable for any damages that may occur due to use, or inability to use, icons or image data from Visual3D.co.cc/blog.
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Blog Action Day ´09 – Climate Change
Oct 14th
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue.
By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.
Out of this discussion naturally flow ideas, advice, plans, and action. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices, and focusing their audience’s attention on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we covered the theme of Poverty, and similarly focused the blogging community’s energies around discussing the wide breadth of the issue from many perspectives and identifying innovative and unexpected solutions. This year we aim to do the same for Climate Change, an issue that threatens us all.
From the smallest online journals to huge online magazines, Blog Action Day is about mass participation. Anyone is free to join in on Blog Action Day and there is no limit on the number of posts, the type of posts or the direction of thoughts and opinions.
www.blogactionday.org
Top 5 – Visual Effects Colleges
Oct 12th
Here you can find the best VFX colleges in the world. If you think there is missing one you can post it on the comments section.
Vancouver Film School
“Perfectly suited for artists just starting out as well as those with some animation experience, this program is about taking your skills – and reel – to the professional level. You begin by studying traditional arts and computer animation skills, giving you the foundation to pursue any discipline in the animation industry. What you will learn in the first half of the program allows you to discover your passion, and you then elect a specialization in one of the cornerstones of the industry: 3D Animation, Modeling, or Visual Effects.” Vancouver Film School
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SCAD
“SCAD provides a unique combination of computer programming and technical instruction built upon a traditional fine arts foundation. Visual effects majors may choose a minor in a complementary subject such as film and television, technical direction, architecture, photography or storyboarding.
Students work individually and collaboratively within a framework of cooperative activity that reflects the real-world experience of film and digital entertainment production.” SCAD
Gnomon
Gnomon School of Visual Effects is an innovative training facility that stresses the importance of
creativity in computer graphics. We believe, that while technology offers new tools to create your visions, it is our ultimate goal to allow you to interact transparently with the software.
At Gnomon, we know that it is not the technology that drives results, but the artist. Therefore, our instructors are industry professionals with traditional backgrounds who started using the technology to bring their imaginations to life.” Gnomon.
Ex´pression
“Expression’s Animation and Visual Effects bachelor’s degree is designed to launch students toward a successful career in visual effects for film and television, and emerging applications for 3D visualization and 3D animation. Students will learn the fundamentals of art, animation design, and visual effects, and then apply this knowledge to 3D modeling, character animation, motion capture, character rigging, texture and lighting, compositing and more. The animation training at Ex’pression College is designed to mirror work in professional animation and visual effects houses. The animation training is in professional grade labs that boast a one-to-one (student-to-machine) ratio.
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Full Sail University
“If you’re looking to launch a career in recording, music, film, video games, design, animation, entertainment business, or Internet marketing, you’ve come to the right place. Over the past 30 years, Full Sail University has built a reputation as one of the premier media arts schools in the world. Throughout the entertainment industry, Full Sail graduates have made their names working on award-winning films and albums, acclaimed video games and design projects, live productions, working inside major media companies, and more.” Full Sail University
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Tutorial – Model and Texture a Photorealistic USB Cable with Maya and Mental Ray
Oct 11th
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In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photorealistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya. You will also learn to use Mental Ray, along with the new architectural materials, rendering layers, and Photoshop, to create a fast, accurate, and photorealistic depth of field. Check it out!
Author: Alan Monroig
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Final Image:
Living Room
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Hello world!
Jul 20th
Welcome to the visual effects and 3D animation. This is my first post.
Web Templates
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