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    garethq In 3D, Grading, Rendering

    A Quick Remake of a Rehash

    While I was doing some more clearing up the many duplicates and 'essential' files off my hard drive, I found an old Cinema 4D project. It was then I decided…
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    garethq In 3D, Rendering

    The Last of the Renderers

    My London Blender User Group virtual event talk is over. However you can watch it again. I spoke about using alternative render engines in Blender. Below is the video of…
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    garethq In 3D, Rendering

    Painting with renders

    Grey Balls
    Why...This started as a simple discussion at the motion graphics meetup I go to in Shoreditch, London. We were talking about the benefits and drawbacks of various renderers. I was…
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    garethq In Grading, Promo

    Hustle up a Quick Promo

    Had a set of teasers to create for one of e.tv's new local dramas, Hustle. Celeste, the director on the job gave me the raw shots she wanted and I…
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    garethq
    garethq In After Effects, Coding, Compositing

    Getting After Effects to work locally in a global world

    While I was creating the end board templates for our eBotswana promos at e.tv, I had a problem that when I wanted to move a layer using numerical values in…
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    garethq In Conference

    Blender Conference 2017 Presentation

    I was very excited to give my first presentation at the Blender conference this year. After looking at my video, watch all the other awesome presentations.
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    garethq
    garethq In 3D, Rendering

    Scribbles in 3D – Hallway

    This was a quick test in Blender and Cycles. I am getting used to the Cycles way of doing things and GPU rendering is starting to feel like a friend.…
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    garethq In 3D, Rendering

    A renderer’s point of view

    I was busy creating some glass backgrounds for one of our channels at e.tv and I thought I would experiment with different render engines. I use Cinema 4D as a…
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    garethq In 3D, Grading, Promo

    Making of 2015’s Brand Campaign – Shot 2

    As I was cleaning up old projects, I thought it might be nice to see how we went from shoot to finished product. So I took shot 2 and compiled…
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    garethq In Automation

    Putting a bug to air – Orad style

    Part of the huge change that is going on at e.tv is our on air graphics system. We invested in 6 Orad 3DPlay systems (Now part of Avid). For those…
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