Saturday, 15 June 2013

Tikis and Mikis - Fund this project

Salvador Simo (www.salvadorsimo.com) is a great Director and Animator that I worked with at MPC. He is currently producing a new animated children's Web series.

If you like good children's animation and want to see more of the project below help by making a donation to Tikis and Mikis on Kickstarter

Check out the video below :)

Monday, 27 May 2013

Nightmare Hunters

ICM Studios is currently helping on the VFX production of the feature film Nightmare Hunters, by Ewan Gorman. Check out the trailer below, also visit their website:http://www.blackrockfilms.co.uk/

Friday, 24 May 2013

Great talk about the state of the VFX industry

Friday, 26 April 2013

Handsome VFX - Amaizing Visual Effects

My good friends in Stratford upon Avon have set up this great vfx company - check out their website :)

http://www.handsomevfx.com/Showreel_Corporate.html

Handsome Vfx Showreel from Handsome VFX on Vimeo.

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Ocean Maker - Support the Animators

Director and animator Michael Cawood is helping Lucas Martell produce his latest short animation - Ocean Maker. If you want to help them finish off the rest of the short animation please support them on indiegogo :)

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-oceanmaker-animated-short-film

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

FX Tools - Dynamics Tool for Maya

The latest release has just had an edit to where the help guide can be found. I will have time soon update the tool soon - iron out a few of the bugs!

Latest version of the tool

ICM Studios FX Tools 0.3.1. it is not completely done but it works :)

This build includes a fix for the bug that stopped the tool working if there was already a locator named locator1.

Previous build

Right click and save this file. then put it in your scripts directory. This file is for the latest version 0.3 userSetup.mel

Latest version of the tool can be downloaded ICM Studios FX Tools 0.2. This is just a basic update, I have removed the bake Geometry script as it still needed work.

It is free to download and use - all we ask is that you credit ICM Studios if you use the tool. All you need to do is add a userSetup.mel file in the maya scripts directory and source the FX_Tools_EffectsMenu.mel I will update this blog every time there is a new release of the tool. I hope you enjoy it :)

Thursday, 31 January 2013

ICM Studios Demolishes Building!

I hope you enjoy our latest addition to the library of destruction! Yet again, we have used Fracture-FX to simulate the demolition. I can't recommend a better plug-in for Maya to fracture and destroy your assets. you can get the software at http://www.fracture-fx.com/. The shot was rendered with Mental Ray and comped in Nuke. I used motion vectors to add the motion blur as well as adding a little depth of filed using Mental Ray's depth pass. A little bit of colour correction and lens distortion was added too.