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MAYA
VFX Soup: Khaos Digital Helps Bones Tell Its Stories
A key element in the hit TV show Bones is the images on The Angelatron, an 8-foot screen that shows detailed images proving how the victim died. Khaos Digital's David Watkinson creates all those images for Bones, and specializes in creating content for screens that play back in real-time during production. Creative COW looks at how it's done.
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Debra Kaufman |
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Lightwave
NewTek's LightWave 11
NewTek has unveiled version 11 of its professional 3D modeling, animation and rendering software, LightWave. Creative COW takes a look at new features including instancing, Bullet Dynamics, and better ZBrush workflows.
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Debra Kaufman |
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NAB Expo
NewTek in 3D and Video
Thousands of members of Creative COW were at the 2011 NAB Show, and we are pleased to bring you some of their reports. In this entry, Debra Kaufman takes a look at NewTek's 3D animation, which is now 3D CG and 3D stereoscopic, NewTek's TriCaster 850 EXTREME, and more.
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Debra Kaufman |
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Art of the Edit | Ergonomics for COWs
The question was asked in the Avid Editing COW: 'After eight years of working on a computer, my wrist hurts within an hour. Anyone else getting carpel tunnel? What can I do to prevent major damage?' Dave Anselmi, a T'ai Ch'i Instructor for over 10 years and whose friend is an Ergonomics Specialist, was quick to the rescue with this great advice.
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Dave Anselmi |
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Cinema 4D
How modo can make your life easier: Texture Baking
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Last time, CreativeCOW leader Mylenium showed you how to texture your logo. So far, modo is more or less just a modeler with a built-in renderer for still images. Since it has no animation or other tools of that kind, you may want may want to transfer your textures and models to other programs. In this video, Mylenium will demonstrate how to do just that.
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Mylenium |
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Lightwave
Doug Graham reviews LightWave 8 Killer Tips
Video editor and COW leader, Doug Graham takes a look at LightWave 8 Killer Tips by Dan Ablan and Randy Sharp. ~ This book is published by New Riders. Doug says, ...Don't read this book or you may find yourself "running out to spend $600 on an upgrade to LightWave 8.'' He did.
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Doug Graham |
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