Rowan KarrerJul 12, 2018Via - short animationI stumbled upon this animation on LinkedIn, and found it very pretty so I thought I'd share it here. I've always really liked 3d-for-2d...
Rowan KarrerJun 26, 2018Ethical Nutrients - The Orange Brick RoadThis is the latest project I have worked on with the good people at Mighty Nice. As always, I ended up doing a range of things to get the...
Rowan KarrerMay 2, 2018VR's inflection pointhttps://www.awn.com/blog/vrs-inflection-point I was wondering when this might happen - the collective disillusionment in VR. The recent...
Rowan KarrerMar 23, 2018Peter RabbitPeter Rabbit will be my first feature film credit, and it was good to be up there on the silver screen. It was great to have a chance to...
Rowan KarrerFeb 20, 2018Photoshop plugin for handling multi-channel .exr filesExr-IO is a free plugin for Photoshop which allows for the handling of multi-channel .exr files. It will break them down into layers for...
Rowan KarrerFeb 5, 20182017 industry rates survey for artistshttps://www.ozanimate.com/2d/2017-industry-rates/ This is a result of a survey on how much industry professionals are charging, or...
Rowan KarrerDec 21, 2017Guruware - Ivy for Max 2018http://www.guruware.at/main/ So I don't really know what to say about all that, I can see both perspectives. On one hand if you use...
Rowan KarrerNov 26, 2017The art of Jakub RozalskiI find this guy's stuff just incredible, so I thought I'd post it here. He also has some great little breakdowns on his methodology,...
Rowan KarrerOct 12, 2017Panigale - official releaseThis has been a very long time coming. A little over a year. Which is kind of a lot for an animation that's barely a minute long... But...
Rowan KarrerOct 8, 2017Bercon Maps for Max 2018 (and 2019!)For anyone trying to hunt down the latest binaries of Bercon Maps, I thought I'd do you a solid and post the link to them here, as it's a...
Rowan KarrerOct 6, 2017HDRI HavenGreg Zaal runs a website called HDRI Haven. https://hdrihaven.com/ I first become aware of his work around October 2016, this probably...
Rowan KarrerAug 20, 2017Ryzen 1700 for renderingI've recently upgraded my render nodes to the 8 core Ryzen 1700. In summary, this CPU offers outstanding value for 3D artists. It...
Rowan KarrerAug 19, 2017Immigration for After EffectsImmigration is a tool for After Effects that rapidly gathers sequences within a directory and can import several at a time. It also has a...
Rowan KarrerAug 16, 2017De-flickering animationshttp://revisionfx.com/products/deflicker/after-effects/ I'm going to put this one up here as a recommendation. Raytracing produces the...
Rowan KarrerAug 13, 2017Website redesign / re-codeIf you're seeing this then you're already on my refreshed portfolio website. I ran into an interesting (yet inevitable) problem as I...
Rowan KarrerAug 12, 2017VRay benchmarkThere's probably a lot that I could say about hardware here, and maybe one day I will. To summarise though, I'd say it's incredibly...
Rowan KarrerJul 27, 2017Sprinklr - Mighty Nicehttp://www.cgsociety.org/news/article/3421/square-peg I stumbled upon this article about a job I worked on at Mighty Nice. I was...
Rowan KarrerJul 25, 2017Chaos Group's responseIn the interest of fairness I thought I would share the outcome of my enquiry to Chaos Group. "Thanks for the reply. Actually the...
Rowan KarrerJun 20, 2017VRay announces hybrid renderinghttps://labs.chaosgroup.com/index.php/rendering-rd/understanding-v-ray-hybrid-rendering/ ChaosGroup have released through the ChaosGroup...
Rowan KarrerJun 4, 2017Formula 1 and an 'ancient' camerahttps://airows.com/adventure-and-sport/photographer-uses-a-104-year-old-camera-to-beautifully-shoot-formula-1 I think it's fair to say...