I came across this series with highly effective animated shorts about color. Every transition is a joy to see and the content magnificent.
And read about the subject over at CNN
Take a look at learn a lot!
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Sometimes your texture is almost 100% seamless and tileable. But small differences in light and shadow easily show that this is a tiled texture and it's a 3D image. As humans we always look for patterns and they are easily spotted and by equalizing the texture you make it more believable.
You find the free texture pack here:
If you have a material suggestion, write it in the comments :)
I came across this video on repetition and why we should do it to learn. In school we are often presented with an idea/concept ones. Maybe repeated ones more if we're tested on the subject and no more. That knowledge doesn't stick. So my tip is find resources presented from different angles and repeat. And see this video :)
Cover Photo by WonHo Sung on Unsplash
Poliigon has started creating fabric textures with Object ID maps. They add a more convincing look on your fabric, and they are really easy to create your self. In Arnold render you can connect these to the coat layer in standard surface and I really like the result that gives.
I show how I used it to create a wool material for a Hiroshima Chair by Naoto Fukasawa.
If you have a material suggestion, write it in the comments :)
Here is the free Fleece texture: https://www.poliigon.com/texture/2332
(and I have nothing to do with their site :)
Cinema 4D https://www.maxon.net/en/
Arnold Render https://www.solidangle.com/
Photoshop/Illustrator http://www.adobe.com/
I've added more of the videos I've made late 2016 - 2017.
Fist a short project I did for the talented Miss Tati. It's a simple lyric video with illustrations made by Robert Høyem.
One for CityBox. That's an animation peace that I did for my good friends at Overhaus. It's not often I do character animation so even tho it's 2D it were a surprisingly difficult project.
I made a promovideo for my own product PolarWhite, when I released a new pack called PolarWhite Tables.
This video were one of many videos I did for Kind conceptual branding while I were employed over there the fall of 2016. I did the product renders and animation. At Kind I were turned in to a button clicker, and weren't what it ought to be, and I went back to freelancing when I got some new opportunities.
In this tutorial I show how to create an ice material for Arnold Render. In photoshop I make the material base based on a picture. It's made square and seamless for ease of use. Then processed in Bitmap2Material to create different texture maps. Then mixed together in Arnold Render.
This is a little more advanced then the first material tutorial, and hope you like it.
Cinema 4D
Arnold Render
Anders Langalands
Bitmap2Material
Photoshop
Sometimes you get to try a technique that changes the way you ser new possibilities.
This time it's Lottie. A converter tool created by Airbnb. Yes, that Airbnb.
You can create your animations in After Effects, and by keeping it to simple shapes, masks and keyframes for the animation (no effects supported).
It uses the Json creator tool called Bodymovin that are pluged into After Effects, and Lottie is on the other end handling the app part.
I used it on the Vibble app opening animation. A simple logo reveal for the easy DJing app.
The system have some huge limitations that I've came across . Like inverted mask. That's a no go.
In the logo reveal case I needed subtracting forms, but that didn't work, and I ended making tinytiny bridges that connects the different part, and create one single form. This isn't noticeable for the viewer, but adds an extra step to the process. If possible use layered shapes that are overlapping with it's own fill.
So it's early days, but it's new possibilities on the horizon. And the file sizes are tiiiiny. Like 9 kb for this animation.
You can get the Vibble app in the iOS app store.
I really like video essays. Stories from for instance the Nerdwriter, Vox, Every frame a Painting & more. They explain different phenomenon's in bite size length, that can grab you and make you think about the content.
In this video Beyond the Frame, a new essayist I've come across, he talk about a film making subject that seems to be a hurdle for many screen writers: how to deal with the mobile phone in the story? The smartphone often breaks down, out of coverage or other obstructions that remove the tool we more or less use every day, staring at all the time (anecdotal but probably true for most), remove it out of the story.
I just saw La la Land and most of the problems could be solved by just simple mobile communication, just send a text or similar. Maybe a bit boring, but more realistic. But removing the smartphone can be seen as a missed opportunity.