Launching VFX book to number 1 best-seller spot on Amazon
Launching a book to Amazon has several different stages. i. Writing the best book you can ii. Converting it into an ebook iii. Selecting a place to sell it - Amazon vs the rest iv. Finding your target audience - twitter vs the rest v. Marketing to that audience I'll deal with each of these stages in turn
How to set up your own VFX Studio - business considerations
In this post I am going to guide you through the process of how to set yourself up as a your very own VFX studio. In practice this post can relate to setting yourself up as your own business, whatever industry you are in, but seeing as this a VFX oriented site I'll use the business model of a VFX studio for the purpose of this exercise.
How to put VFX and animation into your film
I've been asked so often how to integrate VFX and CG into film by low and no budget filmmakers. I've written a quick guide on how you can put in VFX and CG into your movie, whatever budget you are working at this process will work for you. Follow this simple process
VFX Cloud Studio 2.0 - What it means for Producers and Artists
This post is about what is in it for an independent film producer to come directly to the artist and what can the artist do to make sure the work is delivered to schedule and budget?
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Putting a budget together at the start is definitely a useful (if not wholly inaccurate) exercise. It helped me plot out what I needed to do, all the tasks that would be involved in making this happen. And there were a lot of tasks that needed to be done.
Monday, 17 March 2014
Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 2c - collisions, how to playblast in Houdini
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 2b - Particle expressions, key frames and graph editor

Monday, 3 March 2014
Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 2a - Particle Set up

Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: part 1c - Grouping and Transforming

Maya to Houdini Conversion course: Part 1b - Getting around Houdini

Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 1a - where commonly used items in Maya live in Houdini

Sunday, 5 January 2014
Nitro Dust - how to make an animated movie in 4 days

Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Fable Legends announced

Monday, 29 July 2013
How to put VFX and animation into your film

Friday, 19 April 2013
VFX Cloud Studio 2.0 - What it means for Producers and Artists

Friday, 1 March 2013
Launching VFX book to number 1 best-seller spot on Amazon
Friday, 4 January 2013
How to set up your own VFX Studio - business considerations
Sunday, 30 December 2012
London Newmian Games
Friday, 27 January 2012
Naiad R&D

Thursday, 26 January 2012
Jelly on a plate served by Houdini

VFX and CG from Film Producers and Filmmakers
Latest reviews for VFX & CG Survival Guide for Producers and Filmmakers from Amazon
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