Happy New Year!!!...
Just wanted to wish everyone a great holiday and all the best to 2010! Things have been slow to update since the arrival of our little boy Benjamin on Dec 9th, 2009 but I am eager to chomp at the bit in 2010 and get some more work and tutorials online shortly. Until then all the...
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Inspiration : Signalnoise...
Growing up through the late 70’s and onto the 80’s subjected me to many things as a child; sounds, sights, color, and thoughts, which still influence me to this day. Whether it was flipping through my uncle’s record collection and admiring the album art, watching countless movies, or getting up early every Saturday morning to watch my ‘weekly allotment of television credits’ in the form of cartoons, there were certain colors, shapes, and forms that stuck with me. Browsing through the art of James White (Signalnoise) takes me back to to that...
New site...
I have taken some time to redo and rethink things over the past couple months in regards to this site. I have gone back and forth on the design trying to create something that was both easy for visitors to navigate, and easy for me to update and upload new content. After much debate I have decided to stick with wordpress as it is simply the easiest framework to build upon. Updating it is far easier than having to use Flash, and I can do it from both home and on the road without having to worry if I have the right software installed. Please pardon any broken links or...
Twilight : New Moon...
I recently had the pleasure of with Prime Focus in Vancouver under our company Delicate Machines, to help develop some fx for the soon to be released feature, “Twilight : New Moon”. While there I got to meet some really great people from the max community and learn a lot of new things. Shouts out to Ian (Solitude), Mark (PartiallyFrozen), Martijn(magicm), BRitz, Belina, Tetzlaf, Mintenko, Rui, Chadwiebe, the rest of the crew, and of course my good buddy/associate, Jon. I learned much from you all! It was an absolute blast to work with everyone, and once the...
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09 9th, 2009 |
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New site, tutorials, and demo reel…...
I have been busy the past few weeks working on the site and completely re-doing it. It has been made more user friendly to any visitors that may drop by. I love the Wordpress framework but I find sometimes it can become cumbersome when it comes to organizing everything; so I have elected to build it again so I can have more control over updates and posting content. I am also working on a new demo reel which is looooooong overdue… last one was cut in 2006 so this one will have completely new material! Lots of cool things to show and I am excited to get it completed....
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08 5th, 2009 |
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Back home!!!...
After 2 months of working out in Vancouver I have returned back home. I will be taking a few days to get settled and then its back at it with a few more new tutorials coming down the pipe dealing with both FumeFX and Rayfire . I will also be uploading a few FumeFX project files of various effects including various explosions and smoke plumes. Thanks to everyone at Frantic Vancouver; met some great people and had a...
Updates from Vancouver...
I have temporarily relocated to Vancouver to do some feature film work using lots of FumeFX and lots of Krakatoa based effects; very cool stuff! Once I am allowed, I will post some of the tests we are doing; it’s really cool stuff! I am also strainging to get my portfolio up-to-date with some of the newer projects I have worked on over the past year or so. Getting this new site fully up and running has taken longer than expected but because of work I haven’t had much time to devote towards it. I have uploaded a few new pieces to my Flickr page which can be...
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Flaming Lips and Stardeath – Borde...
I just stumbled upon this great video linked from Changethethought.com. It’s a cover yes but they have put their own spin on it which makes it very worthy of posting. Check it out… [vimeo...
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05 12th, 2009 |
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Krakatoa + FumeFX + Pflow = ???...
Basic Intro tutorial using Fume to drive a pflow particle system and then rendering it through Frantic Films’ Krakatoa point renderer. Click here to download the tutorial/files or view below via Vimeo. Update 02/04/2010 : I have lost the original maxfile used to create this effect, but here is a similar scene that should do the trick. The effect is a little more detailed but all you have to do is re-sim it and then feed those velocities into Pflow and then render through Krakatoa. Any questions feel free to contact me. Falling Smoke scene file Note: I neglected to...Joël LeLièvre is a digital artist currently residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His portfolio and experience includes multiple feature films, commercials, music videos, and print work.
- Joël: I have uploaded a scene file that can be used to create this...
- meg: Hi all. This is the first great tutorial I've found for krak...
- juan: this is cool. thanks. your voice is like Ben's voice in Lost...
- mattjakob: It's a very nice effect indeed. Would it be possible for you...
- Francois Jolin: Hi Joel, happy new born year to you and your family. Best wi...
- ikksigrekzed: merci beaucoup!...