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Wow, thank you so much for the kind words Dave! Yeah I tend to fly under the radar a bit and only really post stuff online sporadically. I am based down in Melbourne, Australia though, which I think is starting to build quite a strong mograph community and is beginning to get some of the recognition it deserves. I think there's a lot of other really talented guys down here that also tend to fly under the radar as well.

Yep everything straight out of Octane render and into After Effects, I might do a breakdown video in the future, and probably give away all the models I build for this (I just need to make sure I havent used any non-free textures in any of them before I do that!) Okay, I'll upload a couple of high res shots to the gallery!

Haha, Yeah modelling a bunch of extra 1940s vehicles was just a bridge too far for how much time I was willing to put into those few shots (and high quality vintage car models don't come cheap on Turbosquid) I figured even if I did make a bunch of different Lincolns and Cadillacs and Chevys, most 1940s cars looks so similar anyway our uncultured current-day eyes probably wouldn't even be able to tell they were different cars! Yeah American Gods was definitely my main inspiration for the look and style of this. I can only dream of achieving the amazing colour tones and edit style that Raoul manages to pull off in his work though!

Hey guys here's a personal project I've been working on for a while born of my love for old Las Vegas and it's seedy origins. It's a mock title sequence for a non-existent show about Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano and the founding of the Flamingo hotel and Casino. Created entirely with Cinema 4D and Octane, I hope you like it! https://www.behance.net/gallery/103449251/Flaming Here's a few frames from the sequence (I was only able to attach 4 image here, but you can check out more high res frames in the behance link) :

Thanks guys! Yeah I often enjoy watching breakdown vids more than finished pieces! I figured since the ident itself is only 15 seconds, I might as well make a breakdown vid to give people something a bit more engaging to watch

Hey here's a little animation I made a couple of weeks ago for for a local animation competition. I used C4D and Octane. I'd really appreciate if anyone could take a second to vote for mine here!: http://www.nodefest.com.au/node_ident/intergalactic-mushrooms/ (you don't have to sign up or anything, you just have to type in an email address to vote. You don't get spam or anything from it). Also, here's a making-of video if anyone's interested in the process:

Thanks guys! That's fine about the scene files. I'm thinking I might make a page on my folio website with downloadable scene files for these kind of side-projects whenever I do them. I'll post it here when I get around to doing that! Yeah, I was originally going to make it longer (it was going to be a funny close up fast-cut, back-and-forth shots between the two gunslingers before the quick draw), but I sort of ran out of time, plus the competition required the idents to be only 10-20 seconds.

https://vimeo.com/180872689 Hey guys, I made this little animation last week as a competition entry into a local animation festival here in Melbourne. (btw; you should all vote for my animation to win here: http://woobox.com/5rycma/gallery/naqLCmGb4iU ) This is my first project using Octane render, which is an absolute godsend for such a fast turnaround project like this ( I lit/textured/animated/rendered it in 2 days). The render times per frame where about 35-45 seconds with two GTX 980ti's I didn't end up actually doing any post/compositing/colour correction on any of these shots; they're all just straight out of cinema/octane. It was pretty cool being able to get nice renders, that I was completely happy with, straight out of the renderer without needing to alter them further in post. The live view window was awesome for this too; being new to Octane, you're able to learn really quickly because you can just start adjusting settings and see real time feedback of what each setting does. I uploaded the scene file for the first 2 shot here, if anyone is interested in poking around in there (octane obviously required to render it): http://www.mediafire.com/download/9jj7v5dtm00ni6h/Kyle_Downes_gunslingers_scene.rar Thanks! Kyle.