Maxon has released Cinema 4D R11. Among the many new features is a completely new Global Illumination algorithm, rendering much more realistic GI scenes. Better render speeds, 64bit OS X support and the inclusion of a very interesting matte painting system called Projection Man that looks to ease the process of creating mattes, through tight integration with Adobe Photoshop and Bodypaint. Hit the jump for a full feature list.
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SuperBowl XLII pre-game open HD from FoxSportsGFX on Vimeo.

Fox Sport GFX Vimeo Channel
Great work, I especially like the superbowl video from last year.

With this post I’m tagging it as “bookmark“. I think I’ve come up with a plan for organizing some of the information on this site. Hopefully you find every post on this site worthy of saving, but I have the “godfathers” section of the site for this very reason. Which are a few of the many post-production houses around the world that mainly create sports related graphics and winning awards for that work. But with the “bookmark” category, I can tag posts that are not content specific but rather location specific. Meaning, bookmark this companies Viemo or Youtube page. If I added every companies various channels or flickr pages to the “Godfathers” section, it would get pretty long. Lastly, I’ve added Fox Sports Graphics to the “Godfathers” section.

Thanks Clay Lipsky for the contribution.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I’ve been busy at my day job. I’ve re-designed Bridges Media Group’s website using some of the knowledge I picked up here at GraphicsMafia (they both run on wordpress). So it is with full disclosure that I’m posting our website, we’ve done a few sports related projects (which flash by pretty quick in the Demo Reel) but we currently don’t have any sports related featured projects. Why would I post something un-related to sports? Well, I’m starved for content, and I worked damn hard on that site. So deal with it.

I know NFL spring training is starting up, so there are plenty of people working on in-game features (*cough Chicago Bears *cough) and I know people would really like to see some examples.

Looks like the newest version of photoshop won’t be named CS4, but will have a tabbed “consolidated” view.

Found a video on youtube showing off that tabbed interface.

And Adobe’s sneak preview.

Artgerm on Deviant Art

Leo Burnett has a similar looking ad campaign right now. nike has it animated on their site.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Shanghai, China
Creative Directors: Attlee Ku,Tao Lei
Art Directors: HuangCheng, Mellow Yu, Liao Yi Yuan, Kevin
Copywriters: Ray, Elva
Illustrator: Huang Cheng
Photographer: Heizi
Published: April 2008

Also, I’ve started a new category on the site. “Inspiration” for posts like these. Hopefully the category will spark some creativity.

Here is some great work from Gkaster. Thanks for the contribution. I’m told he’s a fellow C4D user. As a novice user myself I’m hoping I can get him to share some of his secrets. I love those reflections, I’m guessing he used the advanced renderer.

Slick spot from Fox Sports Design. Hit the jump to see what they had to say.

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Bryan Matthews has updated his reel with great new work. Thanks for the contribution Bryan.

Another great spot from Lift. I have to say I love the music. Thanks for the contribution guys. 

Don’t forget if you’ve created something or seen something related to sports graphics, shoot it over.

Fox Sports Design is offering an on-air design competition with a chance to win some necessary software in our line of work. It’s only 5seconds and they give you the audio. Whose doing it?

via ventilate

Another great job from the guys at Lift (wiki) here in Chicago. This one is a show package for Coast to Coast college basketball year in review. Thanks for the contribution Jason.

I’ve been a long time fan of Lloyd Alvarez, actually of the scripts that he writes on AEscripts.com. Specifically the background renderer that has found its way onto every AE workstation I come in contact with. I had to buy him a beer (or six). 

Looks like Lloyd worked on the ESPN News re-brand with Trollback. (Via motionograher.)

Jeremy sent over a link to Buck’s “Where happens…” campaign. Super simple spot that looks great. 

Diogo Kalil directed this nike spot for Belief  Watch Steven Jackson. via Cpluv.

Brad Chmielewski from Daily Planet was kind enough to contribute the Chicago Blackhawks 2007 “in game” open. Great job to everybody on the team. How easy is the comp to update? I’m sure every season the Hawks need to alter the project in terms of the new team roster.