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Sometimes is fun to help people be entertained. And this time we (Julian Forthun, Erlend Bjelland from Absurd Film hit the nail on it’s head. Only positive response on the video (released yesterday).
Take a look at this (they are in Norwegian):
So a lot of short in a 3d shoots, vfx stuff in a short amount of time!
I helped Stacc creating a show reel. They work in Banking, and other systems and are basicly only screen based. I came up with a concept to work with called; all the screens. Screens can be really static and I had to make that interesting and different. This ended up with many different devices floating around in a red Stacc void showing some of their solutions. Visit Stacc here: https://stacc.com/
I helped Stacc creating a show reel. They work in Banking, and other systems and are basicly only screen based. I came up with a concept to work with called; all the screens. Screens can be really static and I had to make that interesting and different.
This ended up with many different devices floating around in a red Stacc void showing some of their solutions.
Visit Stacc here: stacc.com/
See their FB post here:
Going through old projects and remembered I were a part of this background graphic done for Sixty many years ago, back in 2013.
The screen were 20x2 meter and were a hassle back then.
For more info go to the Sixty site
I’m exploring the possibilities of OSL shaders with Arnold Renderer.
These are shaders often written as small helpers across different platforms. It works with Vray, Arnold Renderer, Render Man, Octane and Blender.
In this case you can create a WindowBox, Interior Mapping or Parallax Mapping really fast. You just follow the instructions to create a room with 5 sides a middle ground and front (curtain), and the OSL file it self is added to your c4dtoa shader folder.
Download it for free here
Another project I’ve done with Metric
Metric is one of the masters of packaging in Norway, and this time is for a Organic Wine Spritzer.
“Oslow is a lightly sparkling spritzer. It pairs organic Italian white wine with organic fruit juice. Developed by Arcus Wine Brands.”
Illustrations: Douglas Schneider
The music video I made for Subshine has fond it’s way onto Billboard Sound website. That’s really cool and I hope more people hear Ole’s music.
Music video by Subshine performing "Florence" © 2018 Apollon Records. Spotify link: https://spoti.fi/2NwYWVQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamsubshine Words and Music By Subshine Produced By Subshine and William Hut Video Directed and Produced by JHåland. Capture/Edit/Cut/design/animation/manipulations: Jøregen Håland. Location: Ulriken, Bergen, Norway. Website: https://www.jhaland.com
I have researched for a new laptop computer for a while, maybe two months. As usual I don't make any hasty decisions for my tools. For years I've been using a MacBook Pro 2011 laptop, it's still in use, but it's time to let it go.
I use Cinema 4D, and the future of 3D renders seems to go ta a GPU accelerated, or a combination with GPU+CPU. My need for a future proof computer is important and that's why the new Macs are useless, to old specs and not future proof. My next computer needs to have some sort of CUDA cores, that's a NVidia technology, and are not on the Macs. On the new Macs they've also gotten rid of that MagSafe, that has been a really smart safety function (been used so many times, not on purpose), and the touch bar seems useless to me.
So I found a work horse, that has everything I need for the future and more. A Dell XPS 15, 4k screen, 32 GB ram and other high specs. But sadly without a MagSafe function, but I can live without that.
I'm used to a MacBook pro and it's build quality and I were shocked how crappy the touch pad were. The Dell XPS 15 picked up fingers that weren't even touching the pad, and often it didn't recognize that I were using the pad at all and I had to drag and drag to get it started. The XPS also has a touch screen that work really well, and since that were so great it demonstrated clearly my frustration with how useless the touch pad were. This irritated more and more.
The material of the computer of it's felt really cheap plasticy. I knew it were plastic, but it's worse then expected from all the review I've read. Not exactly Mac quality.
And the worst problem. Cinema 4D, my main program for work, on Windows 10 in 4K resolution, it's so blurry. Yes, everything is so soft and impossible to look at it's hurting my eyes. It turned out that the way windows is "zooming" doesn't work with C4D and the program isn't ready for 4K yet. A Windows 10 problem, I've seen it on MacOS and it looks good on retina-screen. There's also so many functions native in Windows 10 that isn't ready for 4k resolution either, so the whole OS has a design flaw. I would recommend not to buy a Windows 10 with an 4k screens yet.
Happily I could return the computer without any problem.
Now I just need to find a new laptop.
I came over a problem with the Arnold Hair. You can see in the picture that the hair doesn't pick up the color from the texture, and as usual it's an easy fix.
You add an Arnold Tag, and tick the Export UVs. In the hair material you add your texture to the standard hair shader.
Good luck!
