I won! The Autodesk 3ds max Master award
I am honored to be named 2011 Autodesk 3ds max Master!! Thanks so much to everyone that voted. This is such an amazing award to win. What makes it so special is that you must be nominated by your peers the vote in by the CG community. Thanks again to everyone, I really appreciate your
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Spiderman 3
I worked with the teams at CafeFX and cebas to produce particle destruction animations and lighting solutions for Spiderman 3. In the interior shots of the crane going through the office building, I worked on creating a clean and flicker free global illumination solution to match the background plates and action in Maya. In the
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Nim’s Island
It was a great pleasure to work with the CafeFX team on Nim’s Island. I worked closely with Michael Sean Foley, the CG Supervisor on the film, to create a flicker free global illumination simulation for the CG characters in the film. I also help to create shaders to achieve the proper displacement and overall
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Fluid Dynamics Master Class at EUE 2011
My Fluid Dynamics Master Class has been announced at EUE 2011! Fluid Dynamics in 3ds max with Phoenix FD: Learn how to create complex fire, smoke, and liquid simulations in 3ds max using Chaos Group’s Phoenix FD. Some topics covered will be: Liquid simulation with foam and splashes Rendering liquids with Vray implicit surfaces Igniting
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New Phoenix FD Training Videos
Chaos Group has released 6 new Training videos I created for them on Phoenix FD. Please check them out! Phoenix FD 1.20 - Tutorial for Liquid basic setup from Michael McCarthy TitlePhoenix FD 1.20 - Tutorial for Liquid basic setup from Michael McCarthy Runtime13:07 View count20,740 TitlePhoenix FD 1.20 - Tutorial - Getting Started -
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3d World Underwater Lighting and Tron Effects
I have two new articles and videos in the latest this issue of 3D world magazine. The first is on under water lighting and the other on creating a Tron like glow effect in 3ds max. Please have a look:) Light an underwater scene in 3ds Max Runtime10:09 View count8,003 Create a Tron-style render in
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3D World Review of my latest training DVD
3D World magazine has given a fantastic review my 3ds max training DVD: “Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 – CAT, Slate, Viewport Canvas, Rendering, and More” They give the DVD an 8/10 and say “It‘s well-put together with all the necessary files you‘d expect. McCarthy‘s commentary is good – it doesn‘t drag, it stays interesting and
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Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 – CAT, Slate, Viewport Canvas, Rendering, and More
In this DVD, Instructor Michael McCarthy goes in depth with some of the most important new features in 3ds Max 2011. Michael starts off with an extensive overview of “CAT” and then goes through creating a custom CAT Rig from scratch and even goes into great detail with using CAT Muscles. Next Michael goes into
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