Have you ever wanted to know how to convert a still image to an animation and be able to "fly through" it in 3d?

In a sea of XSI training materials, only one brand rises above to cater to real world problems in a production environment. cmiVFX created this new ICE video to fill a void in the Softimage | XSI training vertical market. While doing so, we sought the help of ICE Master, Thiago Costa, who is currently dealing with ICE on several projects in a professional production pipeline. This very exciting release is a must have for any and all XSI users and should be the primary tool for anyone migrating from other procedural based FX software packages. When it comes to high end CG and VFX training, there is only once choice… cmiVFX

This new video discussed several areas of Visual Effects in regards to doing facial / muzzle replacement techniques while in a compositing environment. We will show you how to stay in Nuke for the entire voyage of capturing the motion and turning it into a monstrous transformation.

This visual adventure goes way beyond button clicks and tool locations, by captivating the viewers creative side. This video creation was designed to showcase talent at work.
Featuring Ubisoft’s very own 3D Modeler, Sebastien Giroux, the journey begins with a simple polygon, and turns into a complex mechanical warrior right before your eyes. Edited for time, so that your not waiting around for answers to your questions, we trimmed all the fat and added a killer soundtrack to inspire the mood even further. When it comes to training, AND entertainment, there is clearly only one choice. cmiVFX! Say it to yourself or scream it from a mountain top. It just feels right!

Have you ever wanted to know how to convert a still image to an animation and be able to "fly through" it in 3d? Learn how to set up beautiful camera projections inside of Autodesk 3DS Max. Practice the techniques and theory about camera mapping and you will understand how to solve complex 2d to 3d conversions for a wide variety of shots. With this training video you will get the solid foundation you are looking for, from beginning to advanced knowledge about how to utilize Matte Painting Extraction techniques. The use of this video will translate skills to almost any CG Animation package.

cmiVFXlaunches its latest training endeavor showcasing the ever popular MochaPro application from Imagineer Systems. We have been in communicationwith Imagineer for many years trying to produce a well formatted, muchneeded training solution for their fantastic line of products. When wesaw that Mocha Pro had all the tools in one location, we knew it wastime for us to start the training franchise for this line of tools.

Learn how to animated matte paintings with Nuke's robust 3D scene compositing tools.
Lecture speaks about file formats, 2d perspective extraction, compositing concepts, 3d compositing, and FBX techniques related to Nuke.

PyroCluster is the volumetric shading module for Cinema 4d. Pyrocluster enables photorealistic volumetric effects such as fire and smoke, as well as Hollywood-style explosions (think gasoline bomb) and stylized science (and science fiction) 'energy' effects like force fields, beams of electricity, and wormholes. It is a fully featured, yet extremely easy to use module, and it is fully integrated within Cinema 4d, unlike many of the other third party volumetric plug-ins available.

This course brings the talented artist into the fold of the technical-side of Maya. Learn the basics of Python, and its place in your 3D workflow, with visual examples and real world problems. Get a kick-start on adding some automation into your life, and solving common problems in a fraction of the time. By the end of this video, you should have a deeper understanding of one of the languages Maya speaks under the hood, and how to start viewing your scenes in terms of glorious Python code!

This visual adventure goes way beyond button clicks and tool locations, by captivating the viewers creative side. This video creation was designed to showcase talent at work.

The days of excuses are over! If the lack of a production-tested Global-Illumination-Renderer kept you from using Blender, the wait is over! Blender-Users have been utilizing other Apps like Max or C4D that have the V-Ray-Renderer-Plug-in. Where is the good news for you? Now that the V-Ray for Maya Standalone version is out, you can use an elegant and surprisingly good working exporter-script to render your Blender scenes with the V-Ray for Maya Standalone. Yes, you heard right, rendering with V-Ray from directly within Blender has become possible! Use your favorite tools and your beloved Blender-workflows, and produce stunning and superfast renderings with one of the most used and favored renderers out there! And not only that, when you finished rendering use the Blender ??s built-in compositor to do color-correction, effects and compositing. The possibilities are endless! Need a fast; reliable, easy to setup, high-quality renderer, then V-Ray is for you.

cmiVFX Releases New Thinking Particles and XPresso Video Kit for CINEMA 4D R11

Introduction to XPresso
Understanding how to navigate and create inside XPresso is crucial to managing Thinking Particles. With clear step by step execution, we will instruct you on the principals of working with XPresso networks and how they divide into the connections you would potentially seek.

PyroCluster is the volumetric shading module for Cinema 4d. Pyrocluster enables photorealistic volumetric effects such as fire and smoke, as well as Hollywood-style explosions (think gasoline bomb) and stylized science (and science fiction) 'energy' effects like force fields, beams of electricity, and wormholes.

Within this training video Thiago Costa explores the development of a toolset that deals with scalar data in ICE, by showing it in the context of a weightmap tool. He will guide you through his exploration process and implementation of how to use per-point values to capture and store data between different sources, to diffuse data across the mesh, work with time information and much more.
This training video takes focus on this specific toolset that goes from the basic to intermediate level of how to build an ICE system.

Maya DMM Introduction cmiVFX releases a digital bombshell on the video training industry for the Digital Molecular Matter System (DMM) for Autodesk Maya AND 3DS Max. Creating Destruction and Deformation Animations takes almost no time at all with this ground breaking (pun intended) technology. Now you too can use the same advanced simulation technology that high-end visual effects studios use to bring your artistic creations to life. The DMM Plug-in is fully integrated with Maya and 3D Studio Max and can take advantage of features such as fields as well as keyed kinematic movement.

cmiVFX launches its next highly anticipated Softimage Training Video?. or should we say More than just Training Video.This visual adventure goes way beyond button clicks and tool locations, by captivating the viewers creative side. This video creation was designed to showcase talent at work. Featuring Ubisofts very own 3D Modeler, Sebastien Giroux, the journey begins with a simple polygon, and turns into a complex mechanical warrior right before your eyes.

cmiVFX Releases New Thinking Particles and XPresso Video Kit for CINEMA 4D R11

cmiVFX launches its next highly anticipated Softimage Training Video?. or should we say More than just Training Video.This visual adventure goes way beyond button clicks and tool locations, by captivating the viewers creative side. This video creation was designed to showcase talent at work. Featuring Ubisofts very own 3D Modeler, Sebastien Giroux, the journey begins with a simple polygon, and turns into a complex mechanical warrior right before your eyes. Edited for time, so that your not waiting around for answers to your questions, we trimmed all the fat and added a killer soundtrack to inspire the mood even further. When it comes to training, AND entertainment, there is clearly only one choice. cmiVFX! Say it to yourself or scream it from a mountain top. It just feels right!

cmiVFX launches its latest training for the SideFX Houdini premiere digital visual effects animation software package. If two were not enough, we come back with the highly anticipated third, killer sibling, for the series! Following the amazing success of the first two titles from cmiVFX Hip Tricks, we bring another blockbuster release for you to master! Everything you want to know, delivered fast and furious, (as usual) through our ground breaking, ever evolving web based delivery player system. In this video, you’ll learn how to make production ready user friendly tools that will captivate your audience, time and time again.

PyroCluster is the volumetric shading module for Cinema 4d. Pyrocluster enables photorealistic volumetric effects such as fire and smoke, as well as Hollywood-style explosions (think gasoline bomb) and stylized science (and science fiction) 'energy' effects like force fields, beams of electricity, and wormholes.

Houdini is not just for visual effects. With the availability of Houdini for all platforms and the variety of training materials now available, Houdini is making headway into the world of motion graphics. The procedural nature of Houdini, combined with its powerful dynamics system, make Houdini an important player in visualizing data and allowing graphic artists to express themselves in new and powerful ways. In this tutorial series we are going to look at a current design trend – data connections – and build a procedural system in Houdini to accomplish this task while harnessing all the additional benefits Houdini has to offer. We’ll learn how to draw connections between relational points of data (in this case, by proximity), create text readouts of the data, and combine this system with Houdini’s dynamics network. At the end of the tutorial, the viewer will know how to create a reusable digital asset to handle this effect, and hopefully learn a few new tricks along the way!