The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded Victor Gonzalez, Ignacio Vargas and Angel Tena with a Technical Achievement Award for the creation of RealFlow, hailing it as “the first widely-adopted, commercially-available, easy-to-use system for the simulation of realistic liquids in motion picture visual effects”. The Next Limit Team went on an exciting trip to Los Angeles to pick up the award at the official awards ceremony and dinner at the Beverley Wilshire Hotel, and of course we took lots of pictures! Take a look at the selection below and if you are hungry for more Academy Awards glamour, then visit the official Next Limit Blog at http://nextlimitblog.blogspot.com
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Click to enlarge.The creators of the introduction to the Academy Award-winning film Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street decided to use an Academy Award-winning application to simulate the icky flows and thick drips of blood that make the sequence so eerie. RealFlow proved the right choice. See for yourself at www.realflow.com/n_cs_sweeney.htm
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Click to enlarge.www.benchwell.com is the place to be for (prospective) Maxwell Render users looking to compare hardware performance. Would you like to find out how your machine compares to others? Do you want to know what hardware to invest in to get the most out of Maxwell Render? Check out this website’s excellent benchmarking overview!
Yes, the third edition of the RF_Magazine is out already, focusing specifically on Rigid Body Dynamics! The magazine starts with several easy-to-follow examples and goes on to cover more complex projects. In short: an essential resource for the professional RealFlow artist. Take a look at the magazine or purchase (€32) through www.rf-magazine.com.
Some of the industry’s best-known Italian CG experts have teamed up to write a book about Cinema 4D and its application in architecture. A special chapter is dedicated to Maxwell Render, offering valuable tips on how to get the most out of the engine and the C4D plug-in. Cinema 4D per l’architettura, so far only published in Italian, is indirectly available through www.maxwellrender.com/commercial.html and costs €35.
Oh yes, it’s nearly that time of the year! Siggraph 2008 is around the corner and preparations are in motion. Taking place from 12 to 14 August in Los Angeles, California, Siggraph is the yearly event for industry leaders, professionals, and everyone else remotely interested in CG. Next Limit will exhibit in a larger-than-ever booth – number 937 – and of course we hope to see you there! www.siggraph.org/s2008
Kaga Electronics and Borndigital (official distributors of Next Limit products in Japan) will have a booth at the 16th IVR (Industrial Virtual Reality Expo), from the 25th to the 27th of June in Tokyo, Japan. There will be a demonstration of Maxwell Render and you can also participate in a Maxwell Render seminar. Don’t forget to stop by!!! Contact Borndigital: nl@borndigital.co.jp
The Maxwell Renderfarms are on the rise and ready to offer you amazing quality in super-short time spans at extremely low prices. These farms are all authorized by Next Limit. Take a look at what’s currently on offer:
Based in the UK, “Europe’s fastest growing remote renderfarm service.”
www.rendernation.com
Based in LA, “Super-charged, fully loaded and ready to render your 3D design and animation.” www.renderrocket.com
Based in France, “The first entirely automated rendering service optimized for Maxwell Render.” www.ranchcomputing.com
From kung-fu kicks to ace egg explosions, RealFlow is being used all over the place. Recently, Click 3X utilized RF to simulate liquid chrome for a spot for Ford F150 trucks…. Anthony Chappina, only just out of school, used RealFlow to shoot a bullet through an egg in slow motion for his final project. And finally, RF got into a serious kung fu fight, smashing water against the knees and elbows of an actor for an ad for KungFu HD for Rainbow Media. Check out these case studies and more at http://www.realflow.com/n_casestudies.htm
That’s right! Your favorite MXM Gallery material campaign is back! Upload one material and get hundreds of materials straight to your computer. But pay attention: the rules have changed! Because the MXM Gallery has turned into an enormous (heavy!) library of more than 2700 materials, we have decided to divide them into a number of different categories. You can download any category of interest simply by uploading one new material to that category. That way, you will only get the materials you are really interested in. Runs until the end of May. Check it out now at http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com
Digital Tutors has released a new training DVD for RealFlow called “Fundamentals of RealWave in RealFlow”. Get up to speed with the essential workflow to RealWave in RF4 and learn time-saving techniques for creating surface-based fluid simulation such as oceans, waves, foams and splashes. For more information or to purchase the DVD ($55,99) please click here
"On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing…enjoying the jungle’s great joys…When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.”
Coffee pouring out of cups, the water in the pool in the jungle of Nool, water sloshing in fish bowls…. The Ice Age successor and hugely successful Blue Sky Studios hit Horton Hears a Who has plenty of pretty RealFlow fluid movements and simulations to create the wet and damp jungle where Horton has his Dr Seussian adventure. Click here for more.
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