I’ve been trying to get a deeper understanding of how Maxon Cinema 4D works for quite some time now, and yap, it is indeed an easy-to-use 3D software. As mentioned many months ago on this blog, I’ve been having a lot of fun with it and was even able to create some cool content for work since. And you can’t talk about Cinema 4D without mentioning the great work done by GreyScaleGorilla. Those guys rock !
Here’s the latest personal visuals:
Some of these are animated and will be part of my next personal showreel ! 🙂
In collaboration with a good and talented friend, Martin Ureta, we’ve made a film to remind people that Manta Rays and Devil Rays need our attention to prevent their extinction.
This video was made using animated photos only. All shots taken by Martin Ureta in two locations: Hawaii and Maldives.
This film was produced by WildlifePhotography, that aims to raise awareness about endangered species and environmental issues through film and photography.
I’m once again sharing the wonderful work of a close talented friend, Rui Pacheco.
“Klariion is the most recent musical project of Rui Pacheco. Fascinated by the strong rhythms and hypnotizing melodies, Rui defines Klariion as a project of electronic music full of organic elements without labels or borders.”
Excellent artwork by Ani Lang Photography. Check her website! I also recommend watching his beautiful music video, made by his friend Catarina Coutinho:
Rui is the perfect example of someone devoted to express his passion through social media. I just love people like that! 🙂 Good luck for your promising artistic career bro 😉
Well, this is a huge and complex subject. The video game industry has been marveling us for the last years with incredible computer-generated imagery, executed with a flawless sense of cinematic directing, storytelling, music composition & performances. It is really hard for me to dare classify these astonishing productions, there are too many aspects to look at, and not only at the technical and emotional level. I’ll just try to base the following selection on CGI technical aspects, web popularity, overall cinematic experience and production. I think the important thing here is to mention all the great companies out there responsible for these amazing films and just have fun discovering or reliving these cinematic trailers.
I just had to make a reference to this versatile and visionary artist! You might know him from his music (Woodkid), however his creativity overflows in many many ways. It’s already an impressive career for this 30 year old french music video director, graphic designer, photographer and musician. For those who haven’t yet seen the full extent of his work, just check out Yoann Lemoine‘s personal site here. Hope it will inspire you as much as it inspired me.
I should have mentioned this before, a genuine raw stop-motion film by a friend of mine, Olya Tsoraeva! “Plastic Crash” was beautifully done, and we all know the song that inspired this film (Radiohead – Creep). Click to see the film.
A friend of mine, Julien Duret, just released his film-documentary entitled “The Polish Hammer”! It’s a great one, congratulations buddy. 😉
Synopsis:
” THE POLISH HAMMER ” is a full immersion documentary short film following the life of Filip Hryniewicki and his journey as a Muay-Thai boxer with his brothers from Singto gym.
Another way of watching boxe, narrated by Filip himself*.
Now these guys (Grey Scale Gorilla) have great stuff that you’ll definitely want for Cinema 4D, and it’s totally worthy following their blog.
This is one of my first experiments with Cinema 4D, a cute lonely alien creature abandoned on Earth:
What I have to say about this software, is that it felt intuitive and simple enough for a noob like me. Great tools and templates that allow immense possibilities for a motion graphic designer. I still have a long long way to go, but I feel I can already create interesting things.
This is a video render of my little blue furry alien:
Well, it’s a start! But the goal is to get to this level (if I stop being a lazy ass):
Also done with Cinema 4D! Clearly the possibilities are tremendous, even if it’s not as complete as 3Ds max. You can also check the breakdown of this animation here.
William Wegman is an well-known artist living in New York, that contributed to create delightful photos, paintings, films and drawings.
He had an unique collaborator, his dog Man Ray, and together they found a shiny spark of inspiration that brought to life beautiful photos and films. After Man Ray died, Wegman had several other dogs and the fruitful collaborations kept going. Wegman also published several books. This is the first artist I would like to mention on this blog.
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Want to know more about him? Just follow the links on his website or take a look at his gallery.
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