Motion Graphics category archive

Watchmen VFX breakdown

Very nice VFX breakdown video of a Warner Bros “Watchmen”. It includes the full range of digital VFX including 3D environments and cityscapes, CG Owl Ship, digital doubles and a variety of complex fx work.

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdown

March 30th, 2011 3D, After Effects, Motion Graphics

Brainstorm Digital’s before and after shots from season 1 of HBO’s hit series “Boardwalk Empire”.

The Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren) visual effects breakdown

January 20th, 2011 3D, Motion Graphics

Visual effects breakdown of an amazing production of The Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren).

500 million polys was reached through zbrush’s “HD sculpt” and a very highres displacementmap. It was rendered in Mantra (Houdini), wich enables it to render with less than 6 GB of ram even with this kind of polycount.

Tutorial: Floating 3D text titles in After Effects

January 11th, 2011 After Effects, Motion Graphics

Here’s an amazing tutorial showing how to do 3D camera tracking, import the data into After Effects and create floating 3D titles similar to the ones in “Panic Room” and “Fringe”. Thanks Laurence Greyson for this great tutorial.

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Amazing CG animation – The Third & The Seventh

December 14th, 2010 3D, Motion Graphics

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Watch it fullscreen. Enjoy!