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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...

Rendering and previewing in a flash! The craze for Marvel’s superhero movie Deadpool swept over the world; As the first full CGI realistic human feature film in Asia, Legend of Ravaging Dynasties dominated the headlines once the trailer came out. These two movies were rendered with GPU rendering engines. Obviously, GPU computing card and GPU rendering engines are gradually used in film production. It is a good start! Now, as the leading render farm in the industry, FoxRenderfarm launches GPU rendering. Let’s start free trial with FoxRenderfarm's GPU rendering. Let’s get it started! What’s the differences between GPU and CPU? A simple way to understand the difference between a CPU and GPU is to compare how they process tasks. A CPU consists of a few cores optimized for sequential serial processing, while a GPU has a massively parallel architecture consisting of thousands of smaller, more efficient cores designed for handling multiple tasks simultaneously. ...

We are glad to introduce Rafael Chies, the creator of Monkey Island scene which has been picked by CGSociety, ArtsStation, Evermotion and 3DTotal, and the work was been retweeted by hundreds of thousands CG artists. How popular it is! Please check the awesome scene here:   Or you can feel free to check the full work on Rafael’s behance gallery here . And thanks so much for Rafael to share some time and give us an interview as below. Q:Hi Rafael, would you please give a brief introduction about yourself? A: Hello! I was born and currently living in Brazil. I always loved cartoons, fantasy and everything that’s wacky and absurd. I mean, real life needs some magic! When I was a kid, I was always drawing, messing with Lego, Play-Doh, playing video games and exercising my creativity but I never thought I could do this for living. Q: OK, so when and how did you get into the CG industry? A: When I finished high school and went to college, I joined a starting co...

LightWave 3D is a cost-effective 3D animation software developed by an American company NewTek. It’s one of the most important 3D animation software in the industry. Due to LightWave’s easy-to-use and powerful functions in biological modeling and character animation, LightWave 3D is widely used in the filed of film, television, advertising, games, animation, etc. LightWave 3D’s rendering module is based on ray tracing and radiosity, which makes its rendering quality perfect. So, LightWave 3D is popular with animation studios, film and television VFX studios and game developers. The magnificent ship model in Hollywood blockbuster “Titanic”, the special effects in “Red Planet”, the game scenes in “Dino Crisis 2” and “Resident Evil - Code: Veronica”...they are all produced by LightWave 3D. FoxRenderfarm is applicable to LightWave 3D! FoxRenderfarm has numerous rendering nodes and huge storage, they can provide a lot of servers as what customers need and save much ren...

DivX is a very common video file format, but this format cannot be played directly in your Apple TV. Apple TV only plays a specific type of format like MPEG-4.  Luckily, there are a lot of programs out there allowing you to convert Divx to Apple TV. Here’s a simple guide on how to convert DivX to Apple TV on Mac by using Apple TV Converter for Mac. What’s Apple TV Converter for Mac? Apple TV Converter for Mac enables you to convert most videos (including HD videos) to Apple TV MPEG-4 and H.264 videos, and convert audio files to MP3, AAC, M4A format for playback on Apple TV. Moreover, you can edit videos before converting with this Apple TV Converter for Mac, which helps split and join source files, crop video screen area, adjust effect and add watermark to video. Highlights of Apple TV Converter for Mac 1. Convert your videos on Mac to Apple TV MPEG-4, H.264 and MOV videos, with both general videos and HD videos supported, including DivX to Apple TV on Mac. 2. Su...

Here’s a simple guide on how to convert 3 GP to Apple TV videos on a Windows machine. You’ll also learn some basic knowledge about 3GP and Apple TV. What’s 3GP and Apple TV? According to Wiki, 3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.  But you are not able to use your 3GP file on your Apple TV since they aren't compatible. If this is the case, you can convert 3GP to Apple TV compatible formats like MP4. Apple TV is a digital media receiver developed and sold by Apple Inc. It gives you  access to everything you want to see and hear — blockbuster movies, TV shows, your music and photos, even news and sports — right on your widescreen TV. Apple TV only accepts a few video formats like H.264 up to 720p at 30 frames per second, MPEG-4 up to 720 x 432 (432p) or 640 x 480 pixels at 30 ...