Photo caption: (l to r) PowerHouse’s Bob Lowery, Ed Mendez Buoyed by a string of high-profile film and television projects, PowerHouse VFX has quickly solidified its place as an industry leader on New York’s VFX scene. Founded last year by Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Ed Mendez, executive producer Bob Lowery and chief engineer […]
MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D R19 at Siggraph 2017
Every year, right around Siggraph, MAXON announces a new release to CINEMA 4D, their popular and versatile 3D modeling, animation and rendering application. This year is no exception as the company took the wraps off CINEMA 4D Release 19 (R19). A new release of CINEMA 4D is big news amongst 3D artists and animators as […]
Blackmagic Rolls Out Major Update to Fusion 9
Blackmagic Design has a history of acquiring high-end sophisticated post production software, releasing a free version or a pro version for a reasonable cost, and then continuing to develop the software with major updates packed with great new features. This was the case with DaVinci Resolve and continues with Fusion, a powerful node based compositing, […]
CINEMA 4D Helps Framestore Create Sci-Fi Spots for GE’s Brilliant Machines Campaign
Here’s a look at how Framestore, the award-winning visual effects company with offices in Soho, has created three cool commercials for GE that take on some of the top blockbuster science fiction movie franchises of all time. I show how Framestore relies on Maxon’s CINEMA 4D to model, animate and render the commercial’s unique imagery…
CINEMA 4D Helps Framestore Create Sci-Fi Spots for GE’s Brilliant Machines Campaign
Here’s a look at how Framestore, the award-winning visual effects company with offices in Soho, has created three cool commercials for GE that take on some of the top blockbuster science fiction movie franchises of all time. I show how Framestore relies on Maxon’s CINEMA 4D to model, animate and render the commercial’s unique imagery…
Don’t Miss Our CINEMA 4D and After Effects Presentation Tomorrow Night!
Don’t miss our next In Person event this coming Tuesday, June 25th when NYCPPNEWS’ senior editor Joe Herman shows just how easy it is to bring top 3D effects into Adobe After Effects..
Joe Herman Delivers Collider NY talk on VFX with CINEMA 4D and After Effects
Animator, filmmaker, MAXON rep and NYCPPNews senior editor Joe Herman is on tap to deliver a talk at the upcoming Collider NY 2013 conference which begins this Sunday, June 9th…
Visual Effects Creators Reap Know-How at Collider NY 2013
The three-day Collider Conference begins this Sunday, June 9th, so you have a chance to sign up to attend something very unique: this event is the very first Siggraph-style gathering in New York aimed at animators, visual effects artists, and motion graphic designers…
New York’s First Ever VFX Town Hall Debuting at COLLIDER Conference
COLLIDER 2013 is the first major effort to bring to the East Coast the best of what attendees at Siggraph enjoy. The VFX Town Hall: COLLIDER 2013 is the free gathering on Monday, June 10th, that will give attendees a taste of the issues the VFX industry must resolve as it faces one of its most difficult periods…
Crowdsourcing and Kickstarter Help Create a New Kind of Sci-Fi Series
Has the time come in which we will see big changes in VFX production? Projects like The New Kind just might do it. Roninfilm’s new VFX production model employs Kickstarter and crowd-sourced visual effects to create…