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Speeding Up Your 3D Renders using Octane 4 Render Engine in 3DS Max

Speeding Up Your 3D Renders using Octane 4 Render Engine in 3DS Max

A quick Tutorial showing how you can speed up your renders in 3DS Max using the Octane 4.0, featuring 2 of my favorite features: Denoiser and Dynamic Subdivision ~ I am using GPU rendering with Octane to render a short film based on Pacific Rim, [...]

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Home Made Head Mounted Camera Rig with iPhone X, iClone Motion LIVE, LIVE Face

Home Made Head Mounted Camera Rig with iPhone X, iClone Motion LIVE, LIVE Face

“Never ever be accused of not using your head” Katwe Style… I brought my old home made head mounted camera rig from retirement and updated it to support an iPhone X. I am now using it to do combo full body and facial mocap using [...]

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Trip to Rome, Italy ~ a Photo Essay

Trip to Rome, Italy ~ a Photo Essay

My wife and I wrapped up our Anniversary vacation with a last stop in Rome, Italy. It was so awesome to see the colosseum and all the other historic buildings in Rome. We decided to walk instead of taking a tour bus and I must [...]

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Trip to Florence, Italy ~ A Photo Essay

Trip to Florence, Italy ~ A Photo Essay

I finally made it to Florence, Italy with my Wife as we celebrated our 18 Anniversary. As a traditional artist, I had always dreamed of one day visiting Florence to see with my own eyes, works by the old art Masters like Leonardo da Vinci, [...]

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Facial Mocap with an iPhone X and Face Cap

Facial Mocap with an iPhone X and Face Cap

This is a quick test I did using an iPhone X and Face Cap, I captured myself singing Amazing grace. I rendered the scene in 3DS Max using Octane with a single light to capture the mood. At least now we are getting back the [...]

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Octane 4 ~ How To Use AI Denoiser to Speed up Your Renders

Octane 4 ~ How To Use AI Denoiser to Speed up Your Renders

I am so impressed with Octane 4.0 and the new Denoiser feature. I was able to render this Alien animation in the Octane 4.0 Standalone version at less than 30 seconds per frame at a frame size of 1280 x 720. GPU rendering ROCKS!!! Don’t [...]

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HUMANS ~ Short Sci-fi Film ~ Animated in iClone 7 & Faceware Facial Mocap Plugin

HUMANS ~ Short Sci-fi Film ~ Animated in iClone 7 &  Faceware Facial Mocap Plugin

This is a quick Facial mocap test I did for a short concept sci-fi film entitled “Humans” ~ I used iClone 7 and the Faceware Realtime for iClone Plugin, plus the Faceware Mocap for Faceware plugin. This pipeline has a lot of potential and shows [...]

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Doubling as a Motion Capture and Facial Performance Capture actor ~ Art Direction, Floreo VR Autism App

Doubling as a Motion Capture and Facial Performance Capture actor ~ Art Direction, Floreo VR Autism App

This is what my week has been like.. doubling as both an animator and a motion capture and facial performance capture actor .. creating content for our Virtual Reality game at Floreo – I am wearing one of my favorite t-shirts that I purchased on my first [...]

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Zbrush on iPad Pro, Tablet Pro & Duet

Zbrush on iPad Pro, Tablet Pro & Duet

In this video I demonstrate how you can use Zbrush on the iPad Pro, with Tablet Pro and Duet Display to achieve the common commands that require Keyboard shortcuts like Shift, Ctrl.. etc ~ Don’t forget to Subscribe to My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SolomonJagwe ~ Visit [...]

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Blessed to Work with this Awesome Team ~ Art Direction, Floreo VR Autism App

Blessed to Work with this Awesome Team ~ Art Direction, Floreo VR Autism App

Team Floreo ~ There is something so rewarding when you create 3D Art that makes a difference, in this case, using VR (Virtual Reality) Gaming to make a difference in the lives of children with Autism, and their incredible parents. We were honored to serve [...]