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40% off during our ADAMANTIUM special!
What? What the heck is this? Well, it’s a special combination sale this spring. You see, our trusty Karate-Mechinator, Adam Gibson, is getting more cyborg implants (hip replacement last year went well, so now for the other side) in a few weeks, and we want to make sure he’s got nuclear fuel cells to make it through to fully operational status. Do your part, by picking up some of Adam’s goodies for a big discount. Every bit helps.With NAB right around the corner as well as the highly anticipated release of LightWave3D 2025, there is just so much stuff goingRead More
Practical Production Techniques Vol. 23 – Top Gunner 3 Fighter Combat
Practical Production Techniques Vol. 23 from Kelly “Kat” Myers is a shot study and recreation of a VFX shot from The Asylum’s “Top Gunner 3” which was released in the early fall of 2023 on various streaming networks worldwide. In this title, Kat gets straight into it with a scene where an experimental 6th Generation US Fighter Jet (but production decided to use the YF-23 Black Widow model, which was the design loser in the F-22 competition back in the early 1990s) launches a missile and destroys a Russian Su-53 Felon fighter jet. Several areas of LightWave3D production are coveredRead More
Practical Production Techniques Vol. 21 – VFX Editing and Previs
Practical Production Techniques Vol 21 is a 5.5-hour (plus bonus video!) tour de force of VFX Editing and other Previs process and logic to approaching the shot breakdown and logging methodology found in modern visual effects budgeting and supervision. But this title is much more than that!Taking the last “big sequence” of VFX needed to complete the short film “Curse of the Phantom Shadow” which itself contains over 80 Visual Effects shots for 4 minutes out of the 30+ minute film that has over 400 vfx shots (so far); this process is critical for many reasons. Shot logging into aRead More
