New decade, new reel! Happy to share with you a compilation of the animations we've done for the last couple of years😊 #showreel #motiondesign #cinema4d #arnoldrender

Last year, we partnered with Velvet Agency to create 3D animations and visuals for Lancôme's 2023 Black Friday campaign. We combined sleek designs with robots and drones to showcase Lancôme's products in a fun and original way🤖#cinema4D #arnoldrenderer

🌸 We teamed up with Kérastase to create the 3D reveal for Elixir Ultime. CGI flower, fluid sims, subsurface scattering, and glass refraction—the perfect recipe for a CPU meltdown. ✨ Full breakdown: https://t.co/tLMckWj2Zc Made with @sidefx @arnoldrenderer @MaxonVFX

✨🧊🆕🧊 ✨ A major 3D update to After Effects Beta just went live! We're introducing physically-based rendering and image-based lighting and shadows with a new Environment light type. Give things a try and let us know how it's working for you! https://t.co/NsUCIexhrf

Project Spotlight 2023.02 - We were pleased to work with Seiya agency for @Prada, creating 3D animations for #Pradabeauty Valentine's Day campaign❤️ Case study: https://t.co/lhrsLPFe8w #motiondesign #cinema4d #arnoldrender

Finally, if you want to see what the final render looks like, check out the film we created for Omelet and Don Papa on our website! 🎥🌴🍹 https://t.co/bR6h6nWXMX

The Asset Server that comes with Deadline and AWS works really well, and keeps a cache of all your assets in an S3 bucket. When we needed to start a new render, Deadline was only uploading the files that changed, and the render was launched in just a few minutes. ⏱️🖥️🚀

The final scene (.c4d, .vdb, .abc, .ass, etc..) was around 70Go. Not that big, but enough to be frustrating to package for public renderfarm each time we needed to do a new render. This project triggered our switch to Deadline with AWS. A cloud farm that feels like a local one!

We used a variety of software tools to create the 3D world of Sugarlandia: World Creator for the terrains, SpeedTree and Forester for the vegetation, Substance for texturing, Houdini for simulations, Maya for animation, and then brought everything back into #Cinema4D and Arnold.

To assign materials to the alembic animations exported from Maya to Cinema 4D, we used the powerful #arnoldrender Operators. It allowed use to load the alembics at render time using Arnold procedurals, and assign automatically the materials based on names inside the .abc

📹 We used only one camera, animated over 1800 frames! To simplify the process, we used two splines: one for the camera position and another for its target. One of my favorite #C4D features, the Motion Camera tag's dynamic properties, helped us smooth the final result.

A few geeky facts about this project : the full render was launched in one go from a single scene. We splitted everything into different .c4d files (forest, sugar canes, barrels, etc..), that were all combined together in one #cinema4D project using a lot of nested X-Refs.

🤖 Any available freelance developer experienced with Linux on AWS ? We're looking for help to upgrade our render farm AMIs from Amazon Linux 2 to a more recent distribution, ideally Rocky Linux. Emails us if interested! https://t.co/FaAOREibTh #linux #c4d

The potential risks and limitations identified by the researchers while developing DALL·E 2 are also very interesting to read, as these technology can have a real impact on our society :

We can only speculate on when these tools will be able to produce smooth animations in any visual style, from a text description input. It might be a challenge to with temporal flickering between frames, but it'll happen. Ideas will be left to humans, for now😌

If you can think about it, an AI will make it, maybe even faster than your mind. Check out the result when @BorisMPower ask for "A loaf of bread in the shape of a bunny, electrified with lightning throughout it, sitting atop a wooden kitchen counter" https://t.co/S7H3A56hB8

Almost every digital creations seem to have the potential to be created in a natural language in the near future : images, websites, articles, games.. this space is evolving really fast. Check out theses fun experiments by @AndrewMayne https://t.co/KQvTbfkIl2

Great reflection from @sama "A decade ago, the conventional wisdom was that AI would first impact physical labor, and then cognitive labor, and then maybe someday it could do creative work. It now looks like it’s going to go in the opposite order"

I'm totally blown away by the advance of AI image generation from natural text language🤯DALL·E 2 by @OpenAI offer a glimpse on how the content generation will be disrupted in an almost magical way. Below are some incredible examples from their website : https://t.co/ODx59OMfRC

Create with Asus ⚔ We partnered with talented director @CamilleMarotte and @zoomfilmsprague production, to help them create vibrant CGI visual effects and 3D animations for their client @ASUS Discover the full project here : https://t.co/gdMpZNeZSj

We have a new open position for a full-time 3D Motion Designer in Paris🤗And we're also looking for various other profiles #cinema4D #motion #vfx You can check all our current offers here :