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3ds Max is a very powerful 3D animation rendering & production software, with its modeling, animation, particle dynamics and other functions. However, these functions cannot complete the CG producers’ requirements. In order to improve the quality of CG output and speed up the workflow, many companies have developed a number of very useful plug-ins. These plug-ins can be used as a replacement for 3ds Max’s basic tools, and also provide features that are not available in 3ds Max and enhance the original functionality, and those plug-ins are supported by most of the cloud rendering platforms. Here are some commonly used 3ds Max plug-ins. 1. V-Ray Renderer V-Ray was developed by Chaos Group and is the most popular rendering engine in the industry. It provides high-quality graphics and animation rendering for excellent CG producers in different fields. In addition, V-Ray can also provide a separate rendering program for users to render a variety of pictures. 2. MultiScatter...

Required software: 3ds Max, V-ray, Fumefx, AE, Video Gogh (Video Gogh is an AE watercolor oil painting plug-in produced by RevisionFx Analyzing Reference Sheet  1. The character model can be divided into two layers: The first layer is the VR standard material rendering of skin, where the mapping is required to paint. The second layer is the outline of character model's rendering, where the VRayEdgesTex is added (as the below figure). Finally, the AE overlay handling is required. 2. The rendering method is the same as above, PFX is used to create the dress on the character model. 3. Render method is the same as above, Fumefx is used to render the background ink effect, with different color overlay after. 4. The production method is the same as above, and the skirt part is rendered separately by using Fumefx. 5. The production method is the same as above If you are short of render power, please feel free to try some cloud rendering service.

We are so thrilled to announce that Fox Renderfarm just help finished rendering the 3D animation music video named Hard Drive which was animated by EnchantedMob . EnchantedMob is a popular YouTube channel that owns 500,000+ subscribers and mainly focus on Minecraft style 3D animation music videos. The new video Hard Drive has earned more than 1 million views within one week, how popular it is! It has become an ear worm and stuck in my head for days. Let’s have a look about this awesome video firstly. And we did a short interview with Seth about himself and EnchantedMob as below. FoxRenderfarm: Hi Seth, would you please give a brief introduction about yourself and EnchantedMob? Seth: My name is Seth. Sometime in 2010, my older brothers downloaded a 2D animation program called Pivot. With the program, you could create stick figure animations very easily. We all would create whatever funny animation we could think of. It was all for fun and laughter. I was 11 at this time. ...

The Rookies is a global competition for young designers, creators, innovators, and artists. After got awesome achievements in 2016 which received a total of 1,824 entries from 479 schools in 77 countries. The Rookies 2017 competitions finally kicks off. And FoxRenderfarm  is proud of being the Exclusive Render Farm Partner  for the great event in 2017. About The Rookies The Rookies is the acclaimed international competition for young creatives. Founded in 2009 to showcase the most talented student designers, illustrators, film makers, animators, developers, digital artists, and launch them into the career of their dreams. The Timeline of The Rookies 2017 Open for Submissions: March 7 Submissions Closed: May 29 Final Judging: June 21 - June 30 Winners Announced: July 7 How to Join The Rookies 2017 Competition 1.Visit The Rookies official website: http://www.therookies.co . 2.Create an account. 3.After that, create your own portfolio page for showing...

We are honorable to announce that FoxRenderfarm is cooperating with weeklycgchallenge.com and be one of the sponsors for this great event now. What is WeeklyCGChallenge? WeeklyCGChallenge is an awesome event held every 2 weeks (revised lately because of the votes by weeklycgchallenge Facebook fans) with a specific topic, every CG artist can join it by submitting your own CG artwork (2D & 3D are both available) during this period. After submission, a jury will select the three best entries for every challenge. Note: Traditional art is not allowed in this event. What You Will Get from WeeklyCGChallenge? First of all, there are a lot of different prizes you can choose, such as the FoxRenderfarm rendering credits, textures.com credits, 3d models etc., please check the full prizes here . Secondly, you will be one of the members in the Hall of Fame as the winner, this is a great honor for CG artists who did great in those competitions, your artwork would be viewed by ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) recently released the official notice that 27 animated films participate 89th Oscar Best Animation Award which creates the highest record. To my surprise, 3 of these submitting animated films are rendered by FoxRenderfarm : Monkey King: Hero Is Back  (China), Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV   (Japan) and Bilal (Dubai). Back to 2014, Mr. Hublot  rendered by FoxRenderfarm won the 86th Oscar Best Animated Short Film Award. At this time, let’s hope animated films rendered by FoxRenderfarm can win this special award again. As a great CG film in China animation history, Monkey King: Hero Is Back  has won the 30th China Golden Rooster Awards for Best Art Film and the 16th China Ornamental Column Awards for Excellence Fearure Film. Now Monkey King: Hero Is Back  sets Chinese animation record to compete with Hollywood film studios for Oscar B...