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Welcome to the Motion Magnet Ep.07

Welcome back to the latest roundup of exceptional content and CG news and resources from across the internet. After a short break MOTION MAGNET is back. Hope you enjoy the content I’ve put together for you.

OFFF 2024 happened and it was great fun!

I make it a point to attend OFFF every year. It feels like home to me, a place where I connect with my tribe—people who share my enthusiasm for Art, Design, Animation, 3D, and more. It's three days filled with geeking out, good food, and beer 🙂 and I LOOOVE Barcelona.

Early Bird tickets for OFFF 2025 now available btw! Let me know if you’re going and we can meet there!

On another news, I've been having a blast cooking up some awesome texture packs for Cinema 4D and Houdini, and guess what? They're almost ready to make their big debut! I have so much fun creating shaders.

I’ll be launching two packs: Artist’s Ceramics Materials Pack and Portuguese Azulejo Tiles Pack — Both packs will have Redshift C4D, Redshift Houdini and Material X versions. They are all 4k PBR Textures so you’ll be able to use them in any DCC.

I’ll make sure to update you on the release date. Follow me on Insta and X to keep updated!

Finally! I've launched a new Subscriber Area on my Behance page where you can explore some of my shaders and expect some goodies every month. These shaders aren't included in the upcoming packs, but they're of the same high quality, giving you a taste of what's to come when the packs are released.

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The Latest in CG & Motion Design

Cinema 4D 2024 finally released!!!

What’s new in C4D 2024?

Check the the unmissable 4h long Chris Smith’s overview of everything new in C4D 2024

UE 5.4 is out!

Cool new stuff from Insydium!

Insydium is coming out with some pretty sweet tools, take a look at this YT playlist.

Merk did it again!

SpatialTracker: Tracking Any 2D Pixels in 3D Space

SpatialTracker is a method for recovering dense and long-range pixel motion in videos that estimates point trajectories in 3D space to mitigate issues caused by image projection. It lifts 2D pixels to 3D using monocular depth estimators, represents the 3D content of each frame efficiently using a triplane representation, and performs iterative updates using a transformer to estimate 3D trajectories. This allows for the use of as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) constraints and the learning of a rigidity embedding that clusters pixels into different rigid parts. SpatialTracker outperforms existing methods in challenging scenarios such as out-of-plane rotation. It also identifies different rigid parts in the scene by clustering their 3D trajectories and can be used for camera pose estimation in dynamic scenes.

Generate 3D Models using AI with Spline 3D!

Animated Gaussian Splatting

First look at integration of volumetric video content achieved with Gaussian Splatting in Unreal Engine 5. The demonstrated method involves efficient reconstruction, compression, streaming, and playback of 4D Gaussian Splatting, showcased within Unreal Engine 5 real-time environment.

The Latest Tuts

C4D

Check Thanos Octane courses!

I haven't messed around with Octane for a while now, but I'm down to give it another shot just to hear my buddy Thanos walk me through how he does things.

Keep your colors on brand! 👇

Houdini

Great Introduction to Solaris and Karma by “Inside The Mind” YT Channel. Definitely check it out!

Mardini happened and It’s a must watch!

OFFF 2024 Houdini Hive presentations

I was fortunate to watch some of these presentations live, they’re worth every minute of your attention.

Unreal Engine

Resources

Keep an eye on helloluxx store.

I'm talking about helloluxx again, and for good reason! Seriously, it's one of the top spots for motion design goodies. They've got a killer collection of assets and courses from some of the best artists out there. Oh, and don’t forget to check out their discounts!

TFMSTYLE

Another great asset library everyone should check.

My new Behance Subscriber Area!

CG Tools and Plugins

Merk’s Airen 4D in in Pre-Order!

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Freelancing and Business

Major Players annual report placeholder coming out in May

Events

Atlas - Animation, Visual Effects & Gaming Festival third edition will take place on May 10th at ETIC (School of Technologies, Innovation and Creation) in Lisbon.

With the aim of bringing together global talent in animation, visual effects, and gaming, the festival highlights Portugal's exceptional professionals who are making a significant impact on the national and international stages.

Organized by Dialogue creative studio in collaboration with ETIC, the Atlas Festival serves as an annual gathering to foster knowledge exchange, community building, enhance national educational institutions and open doors for students and future professionals.
We aim to establish bridges of contact and engage in serious conversations about training and work in this field.

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