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Personal Project - Tea Time (animated)
I made this still image a few weeks ago and decided it'd be fun to do a simple animation of the scene :-) The animated tree was added...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 21, 2016


Autodesk acquires Arnold
http://www.awn.com/news/autodesk-announces-acquisition-arnold-maker-solid-angle I think this is a big deal. A really big deal. Although...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 20, 2016


AMD ups the anti with 32GB W9100
http://mygaming.co.za/news/hardware/89607-amds-powerful-32gb-firepro-gpu-will-dominate-vr-production.html The red and green war continues...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 19, 2016


Nvidia drops 24GB Quadro
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10179/nvidia-announces-24gb-quadro-m6000 Big mumma. This is exciting because GPU's are actually starting to...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 14, 2016


Sydney SIGGRAPH - Andrew Silke
http://create3dcharacters.com/ I like to come along to the SIGGRAPH presentations here in Sydney. This was my first one at their new...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 7, 2016


Floor Generator 2.0
I have no idea how long floor generator has been a thing for, but it's definitely been a long time. Certainly the entire span of my time...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 7, 2016


Tea Time
This personal project was primarily a lighting study, but I also wanted to explore the rendering of fabrics. How to convey comfort and...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 7, 2016


Making beds in Marvelous Designer
http://viscorbel.com/bedding-tutorial-marvelous-designer/ Check out this really detailed tutorial on how to make bedding in Marvelous...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 5, 2016


Mirror
This personal project was actually based on a model originally by Matthew Brewer at Arcadia FX. I had a lot of fun making this one, but...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 5, 2016


Blagovest Taskov talks GPU rendering
https://labs.chaosgroup.com/index.php/cg-garage-podcast/cg-garage-podcast-66-blagovest-taskov-gpu/ First up, this guy has a great name....

Rowan Karrer
Apr 4, 2016


Blue Sky Reaches Settlement in Hollywood Studio Antitrust Lawsuit
http://www.awn.com/news/blue-sky-reaches-settlement-hollywood-studio-antitrust-lawsuit I think we've all heard a lot of troubling things...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 4, 2016


Animal Logic and Glimpse
https://www.fxguide.com/featured/a-glimpse-at-animal-logic/ I've been reading about the development of this renderer for years now, since...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 2, 2016


Architecture’s brilliant diva Zaha Hadid dies, aged 65
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/architectures-brilliant-diva-zaha-hadid-dies-aged-65/news-story/eed2afd5f01bf05f99c6...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 1, 2016


Intel release 22 core, 44 thread CPU
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3050466/hardware/eat-your-heart-out-quad-cores-intel-just-dropped-a-22-core-cpu-on-us-boom.html We just...

Rowan Karrer
Apr 1, 2016


Google Nik Colllection now free!
A cool set of tools now up for grabs for the grand price of free. Enjoy, and thanks Google! https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

Rowan Karrer
Mar 25, 2016
Andrew Kramer talks self-improvement
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a visual effects artist that has learned compositing in the last 10 years or so who doesn't know...

Rowan Karrer
Mar 10, 2016
VRay 3.3 for Maya
Awesome! The love affair with VRay continues...

Rowan Karrer
Mar 3, 2016
Wire Cutters
I read once that if you take a cross-section of all creatures in the animal kingdom, all of them will be forever bound to destruction....

Rowan Karrer
Feb 29, 2016


Jeremy Mann
Check out the extraordinary work from Jeremy Mann. http://redrabbit7.com/ Great stuff.

Rowan Karrer
Feb 3, 2016


Fusion 8
I've been using Fusion on and off since version 5. However I really became interested in what the program had to offer, when Blackmagic...

Rowan Karrer
Jan 29, 2016
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