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The last couple days I have not been feeling well so I spent some time watching tutorials for Cinema 4D and played around with HDRI lighting and got some really cool results. I used a lot of models that came with Cinema 4D for these lighting tests but I think I got some cool results.

MoGraph Dynamics

Here is a test video I rendered out with some simple texturing and MoGraph Dynamics. I'm loving what the Cinema 4D plugins are capable of with very little animating.

Pills Cinema 4D Test from Curtis McCain on Vimeo.

Curt Nova trying to go 3D

So the last few weeks Ive been spending a lot of time learning Cinema 4D and I'm proud to say..ummm... well.....I'm getting there. Anyways I'm not what I would consider competent yet so if any one has any good tutorial sites let me know. So this is what I've gotten so far in between working on other projects so there is more to come soon. And at the rate I'm going through tutorials they are sure to be a lot better than these.

Gambit Costume Unvieled

Heres a video test of me in my costume...let me know what you think, I'll post some photos soon.

Revisiting Eternal

After running around this morning trying to track down various things for Halloween I came home and started going through footage from my Eternal trailer to get clips together to send to Megan Lee Joy (meganleejoy.com) for her reel. I should have sent the footage to her ages ago but I wanted to get some more VFX shots finished up so that she had more then what made it into the trailer. So I spent the night making various tweaks to the footage that was almost done and finishing up some shots i'd Started in AE. Then finally cut it all together into one long clip that was sort of a rough cut of the various types of footage such as dialogue, Fight scenes etc and uploaded it to dropbox. Which is still taking it's sweet time to process the upload. After going through all this footage again it made me realize that it would be so much fun to work on a short vampire web series based on Eternal. I then realized there are tons of vampire shows and web shows and movies and well everything at he moment so maybe that wouldn't be the best use of my time but still it would be a lot of fun and given half the chance I'd start filming immediately. Maybe I should set up an Eternal donation box and save my pennies until I could make the feature and/or web series. Anyways leave me some comments or suggestions about what you think should happen to Eternal.

If you haven't seen it click the link to view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0LUhRVUSzc


-- Curt

I woke up this morning at went out filming with Jesse Tobler (@JesseTobler) we had a lot of really good conversation and spent some time walking around and filming some scenes to work with in After Effects but just mainly for the enjoyment of being out filming. We got some really great stuff so I'm excited to sit down and do some editing with him I think we'll end up with some really rad footage to post. I also went and picked up a CD with some photos on it for another After Effects project that I'm working on. It will be a commercial that will air in Douglas, Lane, and Coos counties for a small business in the Roseburg area I'm pretty excited to get working on it I will in short be taking some photos and animating them in fun ways with a magical prince and princess sort of feel to them but I'll tell you more on that later as it comes along. I'm hoping to get a good solid start on that tomorrow depending on how the day plays out.

- Curt