FGT Community is online now!

We are pleased to announce that the FGT Community is ONLINE now! https://www.foxrenderfarm.com/fgt-community.html If you are in love with 3D art and making 3D art, please join our FGT Community! What is FGT Community? FGT Community is short for Fox’s Got Talent Community, supported by the TPN-Accredited cloud rendering service provider Fox Renderfarm, which is a platform for 3D artists to show their CG talent, consisting of two programs, the FGT Art and the FGT 3D Challenge. In the FGT Community, 3D artists can show their artistic CG talent and appreciate the excellent artworks of other artists, so as to continuously improve their creative abilities, which is the purpose of FGT Community. What is FGT Art? FGT Art is a platform for Fox Renderfarm users to display their impressive 3D artworks rendered with Fox Renderfarm and get free render credits. One winner will be chosen monthly for FGT Art, who will get $100 worth of rendering coupons. What's more, the chosen entry will be shown on our FGT Art Gallery and the monthly winner will also get an interview opportunity to talk and share the artwork on our multi-channel networks including social media platform as well as our newsletter. Click here and submit the artwork to us! What is FGT 3D Challenge? FGT 3D Challenge is a 3D theme challenge held every quarter, all talented 3D artists are welcome to participate. Top three entries will be selected by our jury in every FGT 3D Challenge, and winners will get massive exposure on our multi-channel networks and get great prizes provided by our awesome sponsors. To date, FGT 3D Challenge has been held twice, the Easter Egg Challenge and the Hero Challenge. The new challenge is on the way, looking forward to your participation! FGT Community, a platform to show your creative CG talent!

FGT3D Hero Challenge Winners Announced

We are happy to announce the winners of the Fox’s Got Talent(FGT) 3D Challenge themed on 'Hero'! https://www.foxrenderfarm.com/fgt3d-hero-challenge.html From June 22nd - September 6th, 2020(UTC+8), we received several artworks from various countries. After the selection by our jury, three artworks were picked and would be awarded. Congrats to the winners, but also to everyone who was taking part. The best works were evaluated in the following way: 1. We sent the works to judges, including the caption of the works, so they could read about the hero story behind the work. 2. Each judge had to choose 3 works and assign them to 3 places. Points have been assigned to each place, then we added points from each judge and got the first results. The prize covers fast and easy cloud rendering services provided by Fox Renderfarm and a huge amount of prizes by our awesome sponsors, including TopoGun, Friendly Shade, Graswald, Raysync, ProductionCrate, Textures.com, Texturebox, Marmoset. We will contact the winners in the next few days. Now let's see who are the winners! 1st Place Title: Heroes are everywhere Created by Akhil Alukkaran - Fox Renderfarm $500 Render Coupon - TopoGun SINGLE license x1 - Friendly Shade 1 bundle of texture maps - Graswald ProPersonal license x1 - Raysync Large File Transfer Pro 1-year license x1 - ProductionCrate 2 years Pro membership x1 - Textures.com 1 year subscription with 2500 credits per month ($325 value) ×1 - Texturebox Patreon Membership x 3 months - $200 Marmoset Shop Gift Card What Akhil says: “What makes a hero? It doesn't always have to be something great, even a small act of kindness can also be considered heroic, even if it is just a good thought it shows that there is a hero in you. Heroes are everywhere, you just have to look closer.” What our jury says: Fox Renderfarm Team: “The coloring, composition, lighting, complexity, children, puppies, and storytelling reminded me of the works of Norman Rockwell.” Graswald Team: “Great image with a great message! I love how the feeling of the city was captured with the grafiti, the trash cans and the smoke. The rain sets the mood while in the back, the sun is shining, showing there’s always hope. ” Productioncrate Team: “Strong composition and good narrative, lovely lightning!” Textures.com Team: “This artwork conveys the concept of what makes a hero in one of the purest forms. Great storytelling. ” Marmoset Team: “Anyone that cares for animals is a Hero in our book!” TopoGun Team: “Indeed, heroes are everywhere. Very nicely rendered and detailed.” Texturebox Team: “There are thousands of good people helping who need it. Kids, men, women, they are real heroes.” Friendly Shade Team: “Great concept! I'd change the focus more towards the person with the dogs by framing it differently, maybe cropping the upper part of the image? The environment is drawing too much of the attention the subject deserves.” 2nd Place Title: Cuddly Protector Created by Jeffrey Frias - Fox Renderfarm $300 Render Coupon - TopoGun SINGLE license x1 - Friendly Shade 1 bundle of texture maps - Graswald ProPersonal license x1 - Raysync Large File Transfer 50TB (Pay as you go edition) - ProductionCrate 1 year Pro membership x1 - Textures.com 2500 credit pack ($110 value) ×1 - Texturebox Patreon Membership x 2 months - $100 Marmoset Shop Gift Card What Jeffrey says: “Made for sweet dreams. What our jury says: Fox Renderfarm Team: “In terms of storytelling, this work stimulates the audience’s imagination. The narrative lighting creates a horrible atmosphere that children can accept. The main light outside the window guides the audience to pay attention to the little bear while the lamp leads to the monster behind the door. The setting of the children’s room, the scars on the bear’s body, and the posters on the wall all need plenty of time for in-depth character story background settings. The tension built in the scene also allows the audience to have a creative imagination of the story.” Graswald Team: “I love the idea of this image, and it was executed very well. The pose and the lighting set the mood and I love the details in the room, like the teddy bear holding the toy sword of the child. Great work! ” TopoGun Team: “Good idea, perfect setting, the context (childhood) is where heroes are needed the most in our lives. The artist paid attention to details, lighting and most of all, composition.” Friendly Shade Team: “Love this idea!” 3rd Place Title: Hero's Journey Created by Sathish Kumar - Fox Renderfarm $200 Render Coupon - TopoGun SINGLE license x1 - Friendly Shade 1 bundle of texture maps - Graswald ProPersonal license x1 - Raysync Large File Transfer 10TB (Pay as you go edition) - ProductionCrate 1 year Pro membership x1 - Textures.com 1000 credit pack ($59 value) ×1 - Texturebox Patreon Membership x 1 month - $50 Marmoset Shop Gift Card What our jury says: Fox Renderfarm Team: “The psychedelic atmosphere and the grand view of the scene give the audience endless imagination in both the storytelling and character design. The composition, scene settings, and imagination are close to the level of blockbuster design. It is a masterpiece combining art and imagination.” Graswald Team: “This piece has little context, but it captured me instantly with its tone. Displaying heroism as a journey of self-development and showing the hero so small in contrast to the huge world tells a story about what heroism really is all about.” Productioncrate Team: “Nice subject and structure. would have liked to see more variations in the creatures and riders, their positioning seems too cloned. overall narrative and composition are strong.” Textures.com Team: “Super polished artwork with good value structure, color palette and mood. Could easily be a keyframe for an upcoming movie.” Texturebox Team: “It seems to loo a utopic universe. And every utopic universe needs a hero. It reminds me of avatar anime.” Our Sponsors: TopoGun A stand-alone resurfacing and maps baking application. Friendly Shade High-quality textures for 3D artists. Graswald The best way to create nature in Blender. Raysync Fast File Transfer Solutions with Reliability and Security. ProductionCrate To make top quality video production tools accessible to everyone. Textures.com A website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Texturebox Making great textures for free and premium at a low cost. Marmoset 3D Real-time rendering, lookdev, & texture barking tools. Thanks to all the participants. We really appreciate your imagination and hard work. Meanwhile, A big thank you goes to our sponsors. Finally, we’d like to thank our jury revealing FGT3D ‘Hero’ Challenge winners. Congrats to the winners again! Who’s our next winner? We hope to see you in the next FGT3D challenge! NOTE: FGT Art campaign keeps going. Welcome to share your artwork rendered with Fox Renderfarm and be our Month winner! For more info https://www.foxrenderfarm.com/fox-got-talent.html

Fox’s Got Talent July Winner Revealed: How to Make a Realistic Car Render With Redshift

Fox’s Got Talent (FGT) is the platform for all Fox Renderfarm users to share their artworks rendered with Fox Renderfarm and get awarded free render credits. We are excited to announce our Fox’s Got Talent July Winner Eleven FX, a video production company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The artwork, Audi RS7 TVC, stands out for its perfect lighting and realistic render. Eleven FX offers comprehensive solutions in the areas of editing, visual effects, color all with the simple goal of empowering the creators we work with. Using state-of-the-art technology, they created a streamlined, 4k workflow that meets the vision, budget, and timeline of any client. Here’s the interview between Deep Chahal, one of the Co Founders of Eleven FX, and Fox Renderfarm, in which we can find out how they created this wonderful video. Audi RS7 TVC © Eleven FX Fox Renderfarm: How do you feel about ELEVEN FX being the July winner of Fox’s Got Talent (FGT)? Deep: This is very exciting for us. We are truly honored and grateful that you chose our artwork as the July winner. As an up and coming studio, it is great exposure for us. Fox Renderfarm: How long did you take to finish the Audi RS7 TVC? Deep: The Audi RS7 TVC was a speculative project which means that this was something we created as a piece for our portfolio. It took us approximately one month to complete from the conceptual stage to the final output. Fox Renderfarm: Can you tell us about your pipeline? Deep: Our process involves working together with the client from the conceptual stage to the final output. We start with a brainstorming session and we narrow our ideas down to the top three. We then pitch this with the Client and after approval, we collate reference images and put together a stylesheet followed by the animatic which is then passed on to our animation team. With our first pre-viz, we go through another round of approval with the client and proceed to block the scene with simple Geo and animate the camera. Simultaneously we test the lighting and animation. After another round of pre-viz, we replace the Geo with high poly models with appropriate shaders and we finalize our lighting and animation. This process took approximately one month for the spec - Audi RS7 TVC and this varies depending on the complexity of the scene. Our last stage in the 3D pipeline is rendering and we used Redshift as our engine with Fox render service to speed up our process. Fox Renderfarm: What’s the most enjoyable part while creating the Audi RS7 TVC and what’s the most difficult part and how did you overcome it? Deep: We would say the lighting was one of the most enjoyable parts. There were a couple of major issues we had. One of the issues was rendering time. We tried a couple of render engines but most of them were very slow on our machines. In the end, we tested Redshift and it cut almost 80% of the render time. CGI breakdown for Audi RS7 2020 © Eleven FX Fox Renderfarm: The perfect lighting and realistic rendering of the Audi RS7 TVC are really eye-catching. How did you make them? Deep: A good reference and attention to detail are the key tools we use to attain realistic rendering. We collate a large number of reference images and put together a style sheet. For this particular project, we used Google maps as a point of reference to layout the streets and the buildings, to get a real-world scale. This goes a long way as it helps us emulate real-world lighting and reflections easily. Fox Renderfarm: Which features in Redshift do you find the most useful? Deep: We love everything about Redshift. It stands out in the industry because it is a GPU based render engine and gives faster feedback. This makes room for creative freedom, allowing us to change any setting and get instant results. Fox Renderfarm: Have there been any big changes you’ve noticed through using different versions of Redshift? Deep: This is our first time using Redshift, and we started using it from version 2.6. Fox Renderfarm: Would you give us a brief introduction to ELEVEN FX’s development history? Deep: A dream driven with passion and crafted with pure skills was the very beginning of the founding of Eleven FX - Auckland, New Zealand. At Eleven FX our team is our Whanau (New Zealand Native Language of “Te Reo” word for Family). We are comprised of a diverse group of artists, storytellers, dreamers, and go-getters. Every individual brings a unique set of skills and experiences to the table and it’s not uncommon for the entire team to sit in on a creative brainstorming session. What keeps us together is a true passion for the projects we produce and an unrelenting work ethic that enables the execution of impossible projects and constantly pushes the limits of what is possible. We love partnering with like-minded creators whose passion is overshadowed only by their drive to tell their stories. Eleven FX has the experience, flexibility, and scalability to take on any project; we are always looking for new collaborators and partners. Fox Renderfarm: What's the story of your Company's name, ELEVEN FX? Deep: The number eleven is considered to be a master number in numerology. It signifies balance, strength and purity in vision, which are the three core values that we channel to build our company. Our goal was to be a start-up VFX production house so we decided to represent us as ELEVEN FX. Fox Renderfarm: As a video production company, ELEVEN FX produced lots of excellent TVC and VFX projects. Which project do you feel proudest and would you share with us how you make it? Deep: Every opportunity we get to be creative is our proudest moment and we learn from our shortcomings and strive to apply what we learn in our next project. Fox Renderfarm: What’s the vision for ELEVEN FX? Could you give a brief introduction to the studio’s next step or future planning? Deep: Our next biggest step will be to transition into working full-time at our studio. Currently, this is challenging with the constraints of COVID-19, however, we are optimistic that we will be one of the biggest post-production studios in New Zealand in the coming years. Fox Renderfarm: Could you share with us the CG industry in New Zealand? Deep: It is a competitive market and as a growing post-production studio, it's been challenging to break into the industry. Our growth so far has been through word of mouth. We enjoy what we do and we are passionate about it. Fox Renderfarm: How do you like Fox Renderfarm’s cloud rendering services? Deep: We love using Fox Renderfarm. Setting up render jobs is easy with an intuitive, and user-friendly interface. We were also thoroughly impressed with the customer service provided by Fox Renderfarm, as we received instant advice on any queries.