Movies are so quaint. They always have a first act that introduces the characters, their normal state of life, their opposition, everything. Sadly, that’s not real life. We aren’t always able to be introduced to everyone, know what our objectives are all the time or how to easily obtain them. No, real life often starts [...]

I will be speaking solely to Cinema 4D users, but there is a similar tool in every single 3D application for use, so some of this should translate over. xRefs in Cinema 4D are an extremely handy tool when doing production work. They allow an external C4D project file to be referenced in the scene reducing [...]

Voices for Freedom from wearecaptive on Vimeo. From WeAreCaptive.com Leo Burnett’s campaign for Amnesty International addresses the silencing of civil activists worldwide. One such activist, Dhondup Wangchen was imprisoned in 2008 for the making of his documentary ‘leaving fear behind’ which describes the feelings of modern day Tibetans regarding Chinese rule and the then impending Beijing Olympic [...]

If one thing can be said about Adobe Kuler it’s that it has made colors cool again, if they ever were out of style. Forget the old days of using your paper color wheel to find your complimentary, triadic, split complimentary and tetradic colors; with Kuler, you can do it all online, without taking your [...]

We all want the latest and greatest equipment, and I know we all dream of owning really expensive equipment–we’d all love a Red One Camera, the latest version of Cinema 4D or the latest iMac or Mac Pro–but with prices going up in general, budgets being squeezed or if your just starting out in [...]

When the first generation iPad was announced on January 27th, 2010, I had visions of the creative field changing before my eyes and for the better. Now, over one year later, there are finally apps being released by some big software dealers (and some new ones) that are making my dream a reality.

Something so simple, yet so beautiful and full of life. Turn to Dust is just a test project of Jordan Scott to practice his motion tracking skills, but what he comes away with is a piece of art that you can watch over and over again. I often find myself making notes on what techniques or [...]

Richard Krause, director of the super-cool Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles short Fight the Foot, is back and ready for action on his latest short film, Aftershocks. Aftershocks is “a short film [that] features two strangers struggling together to survive as aliens invade their city, creating massive earthquakes and destruction.” If his previous work says anything of [...]

Typography can, and should, be a beautiful thing… unless it was meant to be ugly. Regardless, finding the proper typeface for your project can be a struggle even if you know what you are looking for. If you don’t, it can be disastrous. However, when you do find the perfect type for your project, it [...]

Sometimes an idea comes along that is so interesting and unique that it has to be done; you have to complete it just to say you tried, otherwise you might be incomplete. This is the case with Zeroes 2 Heroes Media’s interactive comic book mystery, Are You Awake, and all its tie-ins which include a [...]

Following on the heels of the Help Japan poster by James White of SignalNoise comes this excellent animation and self-initiated public service announcement by IAMSTATIC which not only is beautifully crafted and animated, but has a beautiful and striking message as well. On March 11th, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear reactor leaks [...]

The great guys over at Keybox, Brett Morris and Patrick Teen, are teaming up with Fuel Your Motionography for a chance to give away ten copies of their excellent iPhone apps, Keybox AE and Keybox C4D! If you are unfamiliar with these apps, you can check out our recent review of the product in the article [...]

Can I solve the mystery before my deadline?   March 10th, 2011 – It Begins I was contacted through email by a gentleman working for Zeroes 2 Heroes Media, an interactive media company, about a project they created called The Dream Detective, an animated comic book style video about a detective who can see murders as they happen [...]

Shot on a GoPro camcorder by the company Betty Wants In in conjunction with the Melbourne Skydive Centre, Experience Human Flight is an amazing trip to what feels like another planet, even though they never leave Earth. Hopefully this video will give everyone a different perspective of what skydiving can offer. Hopefully it will provoke some [...]

In my previous article, I went into details on Surface Normals, which should of described what exactly they are and how they are calculated in 3D programs. If you have yet to read it you might want to, because it will help understand this article on Normal Maps. Normal mapping is an interesting technique to faking [...]