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3D Model Design Contest : Pixel Lab is all set to start a new steampunk modelling sculpture contest and it's expected to run till february 2018. The theme for the modelling design is 'Steam Punk'. As the name goes, the designs should be complete
VFX: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have zeroed in on ten movies which will be premiered on January 6th, 2018. The Visual Effects team have shortlisted these ten movies and we are eagerly awaiting the winner. After the Visual bake off on Jan 6th, the visual effects committee will vote for their favourite VFX movies and the nominations for the oscar award will be announced on January 23rd 2018. May the best VFX film win....
Animation: Annency is one of the largest animation festival in the world. Entries are accepted for projects in four categories: feature films, short films, television series and specials, and interactive creations/transmedia. It's part of the MIFA which is a prestigious film festival and annency(Animation Du Monde) focuses mostly on animation movies. The Animation festival starts From June 11th - June 16th 2018. You can expect a lot of workshops, animation movie screenings, exhibitions, VR screening, Boutique fun time and lot of knowledge exchange. The official...
Animation: Asiagraph Reallusion Award is one of the most important competitions in Taiwan. The competition started on 2013 and every year talented student animators are awarded. The contest includes local round and 48-hour final round, qualified team will participate in final round with the competitors around the world. 2017 Asiagraph's Reallusion Award winner is the team Adjustable Groove from the Surya University from Indonesia. The short animation-Sidewalk is all about a woman stuck in traffic jam while on her bike and she tries to find alternative routes....
The work of developers is made easy by the introduction of Google's Poly, a new platform by which people can find and distribute virtual and augmented reality objects. Google's VR painting and Sculpting apps Tilt brush and blocks are integrated with poly respectively. This will act as an art library for the people working with Google's ARCore, Apple's ARKit or any other VR development platforms. This platform is aimed at making it easier to club the VR and AR app. The files can be directly uploaded while google will pull objects into a VR workspace and edit...
Stop Motion Animation: Soggy flakes is a stop motion animation comedy which has been written and directed by The Affolter Bros. According to Soggy Flakes story,"In a low-carb, sugar-free, gluten-intolerant world, a group of washed-up, out-of-work breakfast cereal mascots form a weekly support group. Together they lament the golden ages of yesteryear and attempt to figure out how to swallow the bitter taste of today’s reality. But when Captain Kale, an ex-colleague turned sell-out, shows up to the diner where they host their meetings, they’re forced...
Sony goes creative with technology by introducing 3D into smartphone industry. So far there is nothing much apart from 3D games for smart phone users but now sony has started the new trend, 3d photography with a smartphone. The latest Xperia XZ1 smartphone brings a truly amazing 3D-scanning feature which is one of its kind in the smartphone industry. This is obviously a groundbreaking idea to play with objects in the real and virtual world without much knowledge about hardware and software applications.
Highlights:
It lets you create a 3D avatar of yourself...
Cardiff Animation Festivals is established by the team from Cardiff Animation Nights to showcase the best talents in animation from all over the world. The cardiff would represent the growing animation community for industry, independent animators and enthusiasts from broad range of animation world. The animation events are being organised since 2014 by CAF including a dedicated animation strand at Cardiff Independent Film Festival (CiFF). The film festival has screened animation films across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia....
3D: CG Artists and designers there is a new store- KitBash3d which has been launched and now it is easy to learn CG Environments, concept art and matte paintings online. You can easily create skyscrapers, megastructures with amazing spacing.This kitbash3d will help you develop manga, anime, film and even video games. The 3D models have been created by Joshua Cotter and Cover Art by Maxx Burman. The file formats which can be used are .MA, .OBJ and .FBX. You can chose from four kits - Art Deco, Neo Tokyo, Gothic and Arabic. You can start building your own VFX...
3D Animation Movie: Monster Island is an American animation movie, where a young boy named Lucas discovers he is a monster. His father used to give him an inhaler to stay human. One day when he goes to a party, he forgets his inhaler back home and on that fateful night he turns into a monster and scares all children. Luckily his father brings him back his inhaler and he turns into a human again. His father tells him that he is from a monster island in Calvera. Lucas wants to meet his other fellow monsters so he starts his journey to meet his other monster counter...
Spain invites all 3d Video game makers and hobbyists for the mega event 3D Wire, which is a one of the biggest professional market for animation, video games and new media. 3D Wire is open for entries, so animators can start sending their submissions. You can also purchase your tickets 3D Wire Fest here mercado3dwire
2017 3D Wire will be screening 8 short animation films out of 29 international shorts and 12 national shorts.The competition section of the Festival will be developed over four sessions that will be completed with a final screening of the 3D...
Despicable Me 3, Illumination Universal's comedy adventure has officially crossed the $1 billion box office. This is the third movie of 2017 to reach the billion dollar mark, along with Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast and Universal's The Fate of the Furious. Illumination has developed quite the track record with its animated features, which combined have grossed nearly $6 billion worldwide. DM3 is its second film to take in more than $1B and its third to surpass $900M.
The team who brought you Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and...
Ottawa International Animation Festival has a glorious 41 year old record of attracting art lovers and film-makers around the world. OIAF has been hosting film competition featuring the most interesting and original animated features from around the world. The festival celebrates the latest technology in animation at the same time honouring the tradional animation as well. The filmmakers were provided with a distinct venue to show their films, discuss issues, and meet other young filmmakers, animation educators, and industry representatives.
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3D scanning remained expensive technology where getting high quality scans is a challenge. Qlone is launched by Israeli Company Eyecue Vision Technologies. With this app 3D scanning has become an everyday activity which enables user to explore the rapidly growing 3D industry. Quilon app is user friendly, free to download software which uses device's camera and an augumented reality mat to modify 2d photographic images into full three dimentional images.
Scanning an object using Qlone is extremely easy process. Print the included AR mat, place your object in...
"Story of An Idea" was directed by FX Goby and it was the screened during the opening of Google I/O conference which was held in San Francisco, May 2017. This is an interesting concept, where a small stone evolves into something huge towards the end of the animation. A stone transforms into an egg and then they travel through many magical places to finally meets it's grand destiny, which no one could ever imagine. This short animation is more like a reflection upon a life. So anyone can have an idea, it can be big or small and sometimes the smallest ideas might...
V-Ray 3.5 for Maya has been released by Chaos Group. V-Ray 3.5 uses adaptive lighting, which makes the 3d animation characters highly defined and it's quite fast. A new addition is that of Adaptive Lights, a fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights. With Adaptive Lights, V-Ray determines which light sources are most important, so ray-tracing calculations are focused and more precise. When tested on multiple CPU and GPU scenes, render times were typically two to seven times faster.
“At Digital Domain, we used Adaptive...
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