3d – Muse Creative

Feb 06

Business of Design – Episode 2: Rob Redman

By Eugene Opperman The Business of Design No Comments

Today’s episode features Rob Redman from Pariah Studios UK.

Rob has been in the industry for about 18 years as an artist, designer, animator & photographer. Since 2008 he’s also been creating training material and courses for 3D artists.

We talk about his drive for success, the art of being happy and maintaining a balanced lifestyle. We also find out more about his recent collaborations, a secret project named Henry and what are the focuses of 2017.

Be sure to check out more of Rob’s links below and get in touch with him.

Show links:

Website

RGBHQ

Patreon

Let us know what you think of the show

As we go things will change organically until I find a good groove, but I hope you enjoy the show.

Get in touch on the Muse Creative website, Twitter or Instagram and lets get a conversation going!

Jan 06

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Pebbles Displacement – Substance Designer Time-lapse

By Eugene Opperman Tutorial No Comments

I’ve been working more and more with Substance Designer lately and have been really enjoying the flexibility of the software and how dynamic asset creation is in it.
I was experimenting on creating a Pebbles texture and thought I’d share my creation process with you, you might be able to learn a thing or two in the process.

If you enjoyed this video and/or want to see more time lapses or tutorials please let me know in the comments below.

Dec 16

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Reel Rant – Episode 3

By Eugene Opperman Reel Rant No Comments

In this third episode, I review the amazing work of Will Fortanbary (willfortanbary.com).

Will’s got a great showreel which really showcases his talent and brings his personality and unique style to the fore. I go over a few techniques on how he can improve his showreel and really elevate his overall presentation.

The most important takeaway for me in Will’s showreel is allowing each individual animation time to breath, so that the viewer can absorb it and understand what is going on in the scene.

Overall Will’s done a great job and I’ll definitely look out for his next reel. Be sure to follow him on Twitter.

Also if you have a reel or portfolio you would like me to review, please contact me on Twitter or the contact page

Dec 06

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Reel Rant – Episode 2

By Eugene Opperman Reel Rant No Comments

In this second episode, I check out Bogdan Toma’s 2015 showreel.

This is a great reel with a broad range of skills and talents and with nothing negative coming through, I had to become a little picky and really scrutinise the reel. It was a lot of fun and I hope you’ll check out more of Bogdan’s work and support him. (vimeo.com/tomabobu)

Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Also if you have a reel or portfolio you would like me to review, please contact me on Twitter or the contact page.

Dec 03

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Reel Rant – Episode 1

By Eugene Opperman Reel Rant No Comments

In the first instalment of this video series, I review a motion graphics reel by Sebastien Freuler sebastienfreuler.com – I talk a lot about techniques to improve on his reel and discuss my overall thoughts on it.

Even being the first one off the bat, I really believe this is going to be a great video series, filled with awesome insights and it really is a great way to share my time and experience with the online motion graphics and creative community.

I’d love to hear from you, if you enjoyed the pilot episode and what your overall thoughts are, so please do leave a comment below.

The Question of the Day: What do you think the name of the show should be?

If you have a reel or portfolio you’d like me to review, send me the link via the Contact page
Lets be friends on Twitter

Thank you for taking the time to check out this video, stay tuned for more creative awesomeness.

Nov 12

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Free assets for Cinema 4D

By Eugene Opperman Free Stuff No Comments

We’ve begun uploading some free assets donated by awesome people in the Cinema 4D community.

This week you’ll be able to download a fantastic Edison Lamp 3D model as well as a custom Xpresso rig for creating gunfire.

If you have any great assets to share with our community, please take 5 minutes to zip them and click here to email me directly – to get some exposure and help grow this amazing community.

Have an amazing week and be sure to check back every week for more great and free 3D assets for Cinema 4D.

Please share this with your friends.

Click here to go to our FREE STUFF page

Oct 19

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A guide to happy

By Eugene Opperman Inspiration No Comments

The wonderful people over at Panoply London have created a well crafted piece entitled “A guide to happy”

A little insight (for the nerds)

The video was rendered entirely in Arnold for Cinema 4D, making extensive use of the alShaders and the JF Nested Dielectric (so beautiful, but some frames took up to 8hrs per frame on a 20core machine to render). Most of the animation was done in Cinema 4D with all of the heavy effects stuff done in Houdini and then brought back across using alembics and procedurals.

Nearly all the shots make use of in camera DOF (minus the heavy liquid shots) which we managed to get out in a very reasonable render time using AA samples of 7 (a few used AA 8 that used fine wires). Although this still held a little noise we were about clean it up easily in Fusion.

Panoply made good use of the volume rendering for the “disposable money” scene which also used custom attributes created in Houdini what we then took to C4DtoA to help with the shading (burnt edges).

Overall, a fantastic animation, with so much to learn from and drool over.

Be sure to check out the Panoply site for more inspiring creative and show them some love over on twitter.

Aug 25

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Diffusion Designer Wood Shaders EP – Free Shaders

By Eugene Opperman Diffusion, Free Stuff, Texture, Uncategorized 2 Comments

To celebrate the launch of the Diffusion Designer Wood Shaders EP, we’ve put together five high resolution 6K shaders for VRayforC4D, for you to use in your projects, best news of all is, they’re free.