In this quick tip I’ll show you how to time remap or even reverse your dynamic simulations. It’s a great way to quickly dial in your animations. Enjoy!Read More

We have a really fun tutorial today! Alessandro and I are teaming up to re-create the movie title animations from the movie Upgrade. You’ll learn how to use mospline, emitters, fields, deformers and a little sprinkle of Xpresso to get a fun animation. Enjoy! Here’s the .c4d file download for the render settings if you’re...Read More

In this video I’ll show you a really nice technique to have threads stitching onto a piece of fabric. We’ll use a Matrix, Tracer, Squash and Stretch, Collider and much more to pull it off. Hope you learn something new! Huge shoutout to Alessandro Boncio for sharing this technique with us!Read More

In this tutorial, my friend David Drayton whose brand is “Strangerobjects,” shows you how to import and shade a VDB volume in Blender! If you’ve ever wanted to use our VDBs in Blender, this will get you started. Huge thanks to David. You can sub to his channel and watch more Blender content here: www.youtube.com/StrangerObjectsRead More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a plugin called Stardust to import and render VDB Volumes in After Effects! Huge thanks to Andrew Galloway for his help. Get Stardust here: https://aescripts.com/stardust. Get our VDBs here: www.thepixellab.net/vdb-bundleRead More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use vertex maps, animated with fields, to drive the destruction of a Voronoi object. It’s a pretty sweet effect which you can use in lots of ways. I hope you find it useful! Get our Streets product here: www.thepixellab.net/streets-and-roads-packRead More

We have an awesome new freebie for you today! This is created by Alessandro Boncio, and it’s a 15 pack of free Arnold Render + Cinema 4D materials. It’s a candy pack and it has chocolate materials and gummy bear materials. Super realistic, finely detailed and overwhelmingly delicious; just in time for the holiday season!...Read More

The results are in from our internal judges and we have our top 5 entries! The winning entry is: #1: instagram.com/maxim.romantsov   #2: instagram.com/marcinflisikowski   #3: instagram.com/lmqr_t   #4: instagram.com/andrew_3d_art   #5: instagram.com/renderrealm Congrats to all of the winners. We received SO many incredible entries! Feel free to go to instagram.com/explore/tags/pixellabvfx to see all of...Read More

I’m thrilled to interview Topher, who was the winner of our 2020 VDB Contest with his entry titled Astronauts’ Day Off (Orcas Sighting)   Introduce yourself to us: where do you come from, what’s your specialty and where do you work? Hey hey, thx for having me. I go online by Topher.exe, but everyone calls...Read More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a really interesting paint peeling effect. We’ll use vertex maps, cloth, wind and gravity forces to create a nice reveal effect. Enjoy!Read More