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ProEXR now supports Cryptomatte
https://www.fnordware.com/ProEXR/ ProEXR is a free plugin for After Effects and Photoshop that makes dealing with multi-channel .exr...

Rowan Karrer
Dec 15, 2018


Converting Sketchup models for use in Max
--- Edit --- This is a better workflow, I won't get overly prescriptive here, as the linked video does a fine job. If they ever take it...

Rowan Karrer
Dec 1, 2018


Lego 2 trailer (#2)
Check out the Lego 2 trailer! I'm really enjoying working on this film, and it's great to see some of my shots in the trailer. From what...

Rowan Karrer
Nov 19, 2018


Chaos Group benchmark 20xx GPU's
https://www.chaosgroup.com/blog/profiling-the-nvidia-rtx-cards There are a lot of questions concerning the RTX series cards, and what...

Rowan Karrer
Oct 19, 2018


Nvidia RTX and raytracing
If you're a fellow nerd, you'd have to have returned to nature and be living off nothing but love and water to not have heard about...

Rowan Karrer
Sep 9, 2018


Threadripper 2
I decided a while back that I would stop posting hardware porn on my blog, mainly because only nerds care about hardware and nerds...

Rowan Karrer
Aug 11, 2018


Jorge PepeLife and Poe
I thought I'd share this guy's work. He's a terrific 3D artist for one thing (who seems to have a love affair with cyan lights...?) but...

Rowan Karrer
Aug 4, 2018


Via - short animation
I 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 Karrer
Jul 12, 2018


Ethical Nutrients - The Orange Brick Road
This 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 Karrer
Jun 26, 2018


VR's inflection point
https://www.awn.com/blog/vrs-inflection-point I was wondering when this might happen - the collective disillusionment in VR. The recent...

Rowan Karrer
May 2, 2018


Peter Rabbit
Peter 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 Karrer
Mar 23, 2018


Photoshop plugin for handling multi-channel .exr files
Exr-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 Karrer
Feb 20, 2018


2017 industry rates survey for artists
https://www.ozanimate.com/2d/2017-industry-rates/ This is a result of a survey on how much industry professionals are charging, or...

Rowan Karrer
Feb 5, 2018


Guruware - Ivy for Max 2018
http://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 Karrer
Dec 21, 2017


The art of Jakub Rozalski
I 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 Karrer
Nov 26, 2017


Panigale - official release
This 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 Karrer
Oct 12, 2017


Bercon 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 Karrer
Oct 8, 2017


HDRI Haven
Greg Zaal runs a website called HDRI Haven. https://hdrihaven.com/ I first become aware of his work around October 2016, this probably...

Rowan Karrer
Oct 6, 2017


Ryzen 1700 for rendering
I've recently upgraded my render nodes to the 8 core Ryzen 1700. In summary, this CPU offers outstanding value for 3D artists. It...

Rowan Karrer
Aug 20, 2017


Immigration for After Effects
Immigration 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 Karrer
Aug 19, 2017
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