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Blog: Nvidia GauGAN
GauGAN, named after post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, creates photorealistic images from segmentation maps, which are labeled sketches that depict the layout of a scene.https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/
Inspiration: Creating the Robot for I Am Mother
I Am Mother, the acclaimed sci-fi film, is streaming on Netflix now. Rather than a prop, dummy, or fully CGI character, Mother is a complex specialty robot suit, worn by a real human performer. Featuring more than 300 components, LED lights, animatronics, 3D printing, and model-made elements, the suit takes 45-60 minutes to be bolted onto the actor.
DIGITAL MEAT: Q2 2019 Livestream
This Livestream is an update about changes to the website and an opportunity to test out streaming in general. There is also a Live Chat so I can answer a few questions.
Inspiration: Creating The Spider-Verse
If you haven't seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse yet, stop what you are doing and go watch it. This film is a wonderful example of technology meeting art to create a sprawling colourful world. The animation is absolutely beautiful, some of the techniques and artistic choices are discussed and outlined in the video below.
Inspiration: Love, Death & Robots
Love, Death & Robots is an adult animated anthology television series, the artwork and animation is absolutely stunning and the style varies between each episode. I highly rate this series and would recommend rushing over to Netflix to view this beautiful eye candy.
Inspiration: Blade Runner 2049 Before & After VFX
Come behind the scenes of Blade Runner 2049 and find out just how they managed to revive the old 'Rachel' and get her to look just exactly as she did if the first movie. See how they take footage of Ryan Gosling in front of a green screen and turn it into the futuristic movie we all know as 'Blade Runner 2049'with some amazing GCI and VFX from these incredible VFX show reels.
Digital Meat: Website Update Q1 2019
This video is an update about some changes and updates to the website, I also talk about coming changes in the future.
Digital Meat: Update Q4 2018
This video is an update about some changes to the website and the fact I can now more easily communicate with my users through a new mailing list I have set up.
Inspiration: K/DA – POP/STARS (ft Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns)
This music video has a fantastic mix of cell shaded and photo real rendering, I’m especially fond of the section in the middle with the neon paint on the train, enjoy!
Inspiration: Nigel Stanford Robots Vs. Music
This music video by Nigel Stanford has some really nice and stunning visuals in it, it is well worth a watch (and listen) plus there are a bunch of videos on YouTube outlining the making of this music video.
Cinema 4D R20 Announcement
Maxon have announced the release of Cinema 4D R20! There's lots of new features such as a node based material editor, the new Volume Builder and Mesher based on open VDB, Fields Falloff functionality, new CAD import options, sub-surface scattering, motion blur and multi-pass output for ProRender, improvements to the motion tracking engine and the new Multi-Instances feature.
Digital Meat: Update Q3 2018
Hey guys, this video is just a quick update about what to expect over the coming weeks, some info about some changes to the website, my plans for my future in 3D and how it effects content, and some good news about the YouTube channel.