John Bigboote

Lumion V5 teaser: http://lumion3d.com/new-in-lumion-5

Thanks for that review and endorsement, William- is VUE the same software that Serg mentioned above- Twinmotion...? Or are there 3 major arch-cad-pre-vis softwares? As far as not being able to animate within Lumion, you can still import animated characters, right? I see lots of 'avatars' within their videos... are those Lumion 'safe' generated and come with the software-- or could you possibly model/animate characters outside the app and bring them in for use within your Lumion scene. ALSO, have you heard any 'hubb-bubb' on what Lumion 5 will be featuring?

Here is some cool samples of work being done in Lumion: If you look closely, you will notice something 'wonky' with reflections, but- INCREDIBLE lens effects, water, environments, and architectural pre-vis's for their competition. http://lumion3d.com/winners-lumion-competition-2014/

Windows is skipping Windows 9 and going right to Win10... A:M V9 was not a very good release... I say we skip V19 and go right to 20!

They are following Adobe... which followed... HASH!

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/9/6951375/david-letterman-hatsune-miku-anime The other night David Letterman featured a band led by a hologram, Hatsune Miku. I had never heard of her, have you? You will. This video compares pop idols like Justin Beiber to, and suggests the future may be dominated by 'entities' like Miku. Animation plays heavily thruout the scheme, and it is going-on BIGTIME as I write. INTERESTING.

Wow- THAT is art-direction... somebody actually stood there and thought... y'know, if the desktops were overhanging more we'd get a better shadow...

Looks cool, Serg... reminds me of Lumion 3D architectural pre-vis app: http://lumion3d.com/ Lumion has V5 coming out soon... times are exciting in the realtime world right now with all these emerging applications! I know William Detwiler(DetBear) uses Lumion, I wonder what his impression is of Twinmotion

https://youtu.be/z5nBA45DvRo Andrew Kramer has announced a November release for Video Copilot's Element Version 2. Element is an Adobe After Effects plug-in that offers realtime GPU based 3D rendering, right within the After Effects application. Version 1 was a big hit but had obvious drawbacks in that with realtime GPU you can not generate shadows or reflections... well, with V2 he appears to have jumped those hurdles, and threw in realtime sub-surface-scattering and refraction as well! The shadows, refraction and SSS look pretty nice, and the reflections use a bit of a 'cheat' as realtime raytracing is still unobtainable. It is kind of amazing! Prices and upgrades have not been figured yet, and the release date is 'November'... Element 1 was less than $700. What does this mean for A:Mer's? It offers a possible 'alternate render' solution, something some users may never need- others may have been longing for... PLUS- the fact it is REAL TIME is a bit of a bonus! Another new feature being that obj imports in Element will support accompanying .mat files... which A:M's obj exporter is capable of generating. Element ALSO supports .obj sequence imports- so exporting actions, textures, and models from A:M looks all possible... and with Elements new 'physical' materials users may want to leave some of the attributes blank for texturing in Element with their robust presets and easy manipulation. Element V2 may be 'luring' users from C4D, Max, modo, Maya for their rendering needs. Among other new features(there are many I am missing) is a 'primitives' generator, but Element does not claim to be a modeling program at all. The 'speed of realtime' is actually limited by your graphics card and the speed of your After Effects... as he demonstrates at :25 where loads the engine model into his AE RAM-preview... that is the 3D renderer working 'zippity-click' FAST!!! The render QUALITY may be open for debate, especially with inaccurate non-raytraced reflections, and 'who-knows' about the anti-aliasing smoothness (I have Element V1, renders were 'not bad' from what I saw... I got busy learning other apps and it fell thru the cracks...) But from what we can see in this demo... renders look pretty good! Still are some features users are requesting... would be good to see mdd support... but Element V2 looks like something to keep an eye on as a complimentary program to A:M!

I have tried using hair as grass, and discovered the same slowdown. I don't think hair is meant to occupy large areas... better off using fur. However- I don't know if fur will react to forces.

Interesting! Takes quite a while to print, ay? I'd like to see a photo too!

This is insanely cool detail work, and I like the 'slightly off-kilter' look to it... has a real 'corporate' feeling- curious about what the story will endup being. I see there was a gap in the dates of the timeline of about 1 year... did you back-burner and return to this project?

I would be very surprised if it was The Foundry, they had just acquired modo and have their hands full with modo, mari and nuke these days. Unless Messiah offers some features that they would like to integrate into modo... the modo renderer is already pretty good.

Yeah- they were on to something great, I remember Martin was VERY excited about his AMFluid feature when they released it, none of the 'biggie' programs have very good fluid simulations- beyond what A:M has anyway, then there is Blender which has a pretty good one for the price. The problem I see in these great tests is that the particles keep 'solving' over and over and a relaxed state seems unachievable. Just out of curiosity... what do you set the viscosity setting to?

YAY! Way to 'whet' our whistles! Now we begin the process of 'clamouring' for more. Great team, Will and Rob- I expect big things from these two.

I agree the pacing is way too quick, altho that seems the style now a days... it's too bad you spend so much time laying-out a scene, lighting, animating etc--- and then some trendy hipster editor cuts it down to 20 frames in a sequence of other 20 frame cuts. If Genndy really wants to salute the Fleischer brothers, he would do some ground-breaking innovative never before tried stuff... like they did.

Lookin good John... arms might be a lil short. I like the way you go for facial animation straight away.

Great, looks well battle-worn. I'd like to see you render a 360 spin on it! Make sure your specularities are right...

If ONLY twere that easy... SMART people would avoid Apple products... just buy their STOCK! They are poised to take over the world, Pinky! That new ApplePay feature may just cinch it for them.

Check your iphone music... if there is a U2 album that appeared mysteriously and you don't want it... click this link: https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut

I wonder how much U2 paid an artist/photographer/CGI/retoucher etc to do the artwork on their album? Looks like a big ZERO

INTERESTING... and infuriating! George would NEVER approve. They want filmakers/animators to drop whatever they are doing and slam out a video in the next month... for FIVE GRAND???? That's $1,000 per week, for a team of filmakers, actors, grips editors etc to plan, shoot, edit and produce... a music video for one of the BEATLES? Oh, and if you make 2nd,3rd, 4th place your payment is a box set of the record... which has been out for over 40 years. On the day I find that Apple(the new evil conglomerate phonemaker- not the old hippy record producers of the Beatles) placed a U2 album on my phone while I slept (how did they get in the HOUSE?) Now I have to do tutorials and download the dreaded Quicktime Pro erasing itunes software to delete it... I'm already low on disc space on my phone AND my C: drive... how dare Apple help themselves to it? And- U2 does NOT need any more money... Bono hangs with the Pope and admires his art collection and asks 'where did you get all this great art?' or better yet- DOES NOT DARE ASK... now he goes and LOWERS the value of ALL MUSIC for his fellow musicians- most of whom are being RIPPED OFF by APPLE!!!! The more I think about all this... the more I type in CAPITALS... and my keyboard can't take the pounding. It is a sad day for artists.

As far as that missing decal... I get that from time to time but when you render it renders fine.

Yup- post-production.

Thank-You Keith! very simple animated geometry. the fire at top was too.