Manuel Mousiol contacted me the other day to share his time-lapse HDRI car animation. Manuel’s company, Creative Control likes to work on passion projects in their spare time, and this result is certainly one of the best examples I’ve seen utilizing Hyperfocal’s time-lapses. Manuel has 10 years of experience rendering …
Read More »Making Of Gloria Victis
Benjamin Bardou has released the making-of for Gloria Victis, which you can watch here: I emailed Ben with a few questions surrounding the creation of the film. What is your background and skill set? I’m living and working in Paris, France. I had an artistic education. I’m specialized in matte …
Read More »Benjamin Bardou’s Gloria Victis and Other Works
Benjamin Bardou’s short film, Gloria Victis, is finally out now! Ben used VRay’s Sun/Sky system to do some of the earlier time-lapse shots, then Hyperfocal’s image-based, HDRI time-lapse skies from 2:20 onwards. Check it out: You can also view a preview, VR/360 degree video with some details in my last …
Read More »Bardou’s Gloria Victis with Hyperfocal’s Time-Lapse Skies
Check out this cool little 360 degree video teaser (click and drag to pan around) for Gloria Victis by Benjamin Bardou: Translated from Ben’s video with Google (you’ll need to somewhat translate a bit yourself!): “VICTIS GLORIA (Glory to the Vanquished) is a short film of 5 minutes in which …
Read More »Mecha Wars Competition
Check out 3dConceptArt’s Mecha Wars Competition for a chance to win Hyperfocal Design products, including your choice of Time-Lapse HDRI Sky Domes! Other prizes include stuff from Allegorithmic, Quixel, KeyShot and more! Choose the ‘mech faction to design for and submit your entry. I’ll be keeping an eye on this …
Read More »5 more skies + adding value to the HDRI Time-Lapse Sky bundle
5 new HDRI time-lapse sky domes are on the way shortly, making the total 10. I have wondered what to do with the current bundle of 5, and if I should make a new bundle of 5, but a few things made me think that just the one bundle would be better. …
Read More »Tweaking HDRI skies and time-lapses
I do like to talk up how great our HDRI skies are for 1-step image based lighting and how you don’t need additional lights and so on, however every project is different and sometimes you might like to tweak a few things! Over the years I’ve had a number of emails …
Read More »Time-Lapse HDRI skies, 9 months in… they’re finally ready!
How time passes eh? Well that went past in the blink of an eye! I certainly didn’t plan on these taking so long, but here we are! Looking back I’m glad I postponed so many times, as each time I did so, we realized a problem or improvement that I …
Read More »New time-lapse samples coming soon + test animation
In case you missed it the other week, free HDRI time-lapse samples were made available to download by signing up here. Since releasing these day length samples, I’ve decided that they probably weren’t the best choice, as the super fast cloud motion means there is some fairly intense flickering visible …
Read More »Free Samples for Day Length, HDRI Time-Lapse Sky!
In-case you missed it, I finally released samples for a day length, time-lapse HDRI sky dome! They are from the time-lapse below: Provided in the sample time-lapse are frames 1-586 from a full, day length HDRI time-lapse sky. The frames are provided at a rather small 1024×512 resolution, as even half resolution frames …
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