How to cut Roads into a Terrain - 3ds Max (Part 1) Xoio 2019-09-26 | This video is showing how we can create a continuous terrain that features realistic roads. In that workflow we can even cut roads into steep terrains and create serpentines and mountain streets.In the second part we then make use of the hybrid topology to texture the terrain, animate objects, place fencing and further refine the model: youtu.be/0B1rHBPFMv8If you want to see another road-terrain approach (2011, but still valid !!! ), you can compare here: youtube.com/watch?v=Z32jPfsrk9IIf you want to create a parametric terrain, look here: youtube.com/watch?v=DCNQ3zZuD98If you want to see how we did the bike: youtube.com/watch?v=vt-7NpNQ-ZUWant to see xoio's work: https://www.xoio.deMusic credits:Sound Logo by Borys KozielskiMelody Loop Mix 128bpm by JanimusicLicensed under Creative Commons 0
Repair Geometry and Import Meshes (OBJ, FBX, ...) - Blender Tutorial Xoio 2022-03-14 | We show you a couple of tricks how you can fix some issues when you import geometry from other 3d-packages like 3ds Max or Sketch-Up. Especially when using FBX, OBJ, DWG, DXF or STL this might occur. In this tutorial you see how you can turn triangles into quads again, fix screwed normals and other common problems, when importing a 3d-mesh from another software. Hope, it helps!Music Credits: Energy by Bensound, www.bensound.com
How to do a Mountain Road - Blender Tutorial Xoio 2022-03-07 | In this Blender Tutorial we are showing how you can cut a road / a street into an existing landscape working in Blender. Therefor we create a special "hybrid topology" for our terrain. This gives you additional benefits like better texturing, good UVs and other stuff.Music by Bensound - "Tenderness" - www.bensound.com
Road on a Terrain - Blender Tutorial Xoio 2022-02-28 | In this tutorial you learn how to model a road / street onto a terrain! This workflow would also work for railings, a fence, a wall ... basically anything that you would like to follow a custom surface. Be creative!The setup allows you to adjust both the road as well as the terrain lateron - very flexible! Pretty neat, huh?If you like this, please subscribe and visit our freebie page: www.xoio-air.deIf you want to check out our studio: www.xoio.deCredits: music by bensound.com - thanks for providing free music!
How to photoscan Glass - and other Transparent and Glossy Objects Xoio 2022-02-23 | We came up with this workflow how you can do photogrammetry on transparent and glossy surfaces like glass, glossy finishes and other tricky surfaces. It actually does not really matter if you use agisoft - metashape, meshroom, meshlab or other photogrammetry software - this tutorial might help for all of them.You should be able to clean the source afterwards!We hope this is useful! Regards, team xoioCredits: Music by Bensound (www.bensound.com) - thanks for providing these tunes, for creators, man!
Hard Surface Precision Modelling Tips and Tricks - Blender Tutorial Xoio 2022-01-20 | Learn a set of techniques for Blender to model hardsurface structures like vehicles, robots, machines or architectural structures. This tutorial helps you to stay precise, especially if you are working on angular models. Hope you enjoy it.Check out more free stuff: www.xoio-air.deOur studio's work: www.xoio.de
Mangroovy Beach Resort - CG Architectural Animation Xoio 2022-01-19 | This is an animation from 2017 that we never published - we wanted to capture that laid-back summer feeling and the gentle breezes coming from the beach. Enjoy the luxury of the Mangroovy beach residences in El Gouna! Team xoio
Breathing Images - Stills in Motion Xoio 2021-12-09 | Animated Stills - a blend between a carefully crafted illustration and an animation - we found the description of "breathing images" actually quite nice.To familiarize ourselves with the conept we investigated how we could achieve atmospheric sequences that would loop easily. By using "selfsimilar" animation elements like rain, wind, water, leaves we could achieve an emotional impression that seemed "alive" in loops that would range between 3 and 10 seconds. We hope that we could breathe some life, atmosphere and emotion into our imagery and open up possible ideas for our appreciated clients.
Snow Shader in Blender using a Coverage Mask - 5 minute Tutorial Xoio 2021-04-09 | This is a superfast snowshader / coverage-nodesetup for Blender - works in Eevee and in Cycles!For more of our work: www.xoio.de100% free goodies for cg-artists:www.xoio-air.demusic credits:Half Mystery by Kevin MacLeodLink: filmmusic.io/song/5026-half-mysteryLicense: filmmusic.io/standard-licenseAnd as always thanks to the amazing Blender Team!
Better HDR-Lighting and how to get great shadows - for 3ds-Max, Blender, Modo, and most other 3d. Xoio 2020-03-04 | This tutorial shows how you can improve your HDRIs for many 3d-scenes to achieve great shadows and reliable colors. This should work in most 3d-renderers like Corona, Vray, Cycles, Redshift and many others. You can do this in any image-editing software - we are using Photoshop CS6.Hope this is useful!our work: www.xoio.demore free stuff: www.xoio-air.deMusic credits: E.R.F. by Bensound, bensound.com
Tutorial: Model a Wheel / Tire in 3ds Max in 10 minutes Xoio 2020-02-20 | This tutorial is a short modelling exercise: get a halfway decent car-tire / car-wheel done within 10 minutes. Let's use 3ds Max! On the way I am showing you a couple of less known modifiers as the "vertex weld" or the "clone" modifier. So hop on board and let's get rolling.Clone Modifier is available for free at: www.itoosoft.comFor more of our work and free stuff:www.xoio.dewww.xoio-air.deMusic Credits: "E.R.F." by Bensound, bensound.com (Many thanks!!!)
Automatic Windows - Tutorial in 3ds Max Xoio 2019-10-15 | In this tutorial I want to show you a speedy workflow how you can generate simple "automatic" windows in 3ds Max. The whole setup can then be reutilized for all kinds of future structures.Hope you enjoy this!Want to see our work? : https://www.xoio.deCheck out more goodies at : www.xoio-air.deMusic credits:Moose by www.bensound.com
How to cut Roads into a Terrain - 3ds Max (Part 2) Xoio 2019-10-04 | This is the second part of 2 tutorials. Now that we have the basic topology, let me show how you can benefit from the mesh created and texture, refine and even animate your scene based on that topology.if you want to see our work: www.xoio.deMusic credits: Mule by www.bensound.com
Hard Surface - Panels, Details, Seams - 3ds Max Xoio 2019-09-13 | This Tutorial explains a workflow how to apply surface details as panels, holes and openings to a smooth hard surface model in 3ds Max. Main focus is how to safe your initial shape.Hop you enjoy this!Peter Stulz, team xoiowww.xoio.deMusic Credits:Summer by Bensound.comSound Logo by Boris Kozielski
Procedural Terrains / Landscapes in 3ds Max Xoio 2019-09-03 | Need some cg-terrain fast? Don't have the time and budget to buy landscape tools? Use the good old Noise-Texture in 3ds Max and create compelling landscapes in a few minutes. No plugins required, just plain 3ds-Max.There is more to come - to get notified subscribe!More freebies here: www.xoio-air.deIf you are interested in our work: www.xoio.de
Parametric Selection + Modelling in 3ds Max: Volume Select Xoio 2019-08-27 | The volume select is one of my favourite modifiers in 3ds-Max: fast, parametric, non-destructive and great for memory efficiency.Learn how to use it in this short tutorial
Modelling in Blender – Main Tools and Workflow Xoio 2019-08-20 | Modelling in Blender – Main Tools and Workflow Modelling in Blender is fast and functional. This short intro should get you up to speed utilizing the efficient shortcuts to get things done!It‘s especially adressed at 3ds-Max users who are considering trying out Blender and haven‘t gotten around yet.Let me tell you – it‘s definitely worth the effort!Hope you like this short overview – more videos are hopefully coming up soon!Kind regards, Peterwww.xoio-air.dewww.xoio.de
Multilight Cutout People Xoio 2018-08-14 | Cutouts with an interactive lightmixer, for free on xoio-air.de ! Check them out if you like and leave a comment !
xoio - VR Xmas Loft Special Xoio 2016-12-20 | Demonstration of the Xmas Edition of our VR Loft running on the HTC Vive. See the full Project here:http://xoio.de/vr-case-study/download the VR application for Vive and Rift: http://www.xoio.de/public/xoio_vrloft_xmas.rarrealtime animation: youtube.com/watch?v=C6YUv3_8amM
xoio unreal engine 4 loft 3d animation Xoio 2016-12-20 | Animation created in the Unreal Engine. Music by bensound.comVR Use-case: youtu.be/kTdDeolCVIgSee the Original offline rendered Images here:http://xoio.de/vr-case-study/VR 360 walkthrough:http://bit.ly/2dyfrer
The Vinery - Realtime Animation for VR Xoio 2016-10-06 | This animation was rendered in realtime making use of the Unreal Engine 4. The depicted architecture and scenery was conceptualized and realized by our design team at xoio as part of a competition.In order to create an interesting setting, we decided to move the vinery architecture into an unexpected environment. An icelandic scenario with a strong volcanic touch delivers the right counterpiece to our architecture. Additionally the vast landscape allowed us to make use of the impressive terraforming tools of the unreal engine. The scene can be freely explored using HTC Vive, Occulus or regular displays.If you like the scenery, have a glance at some "real iceland", it's much better live :) : youtube.com/watch?v=y2495sv4vzEFor more info about VR or our work in general feel free to visit our site at xoio.deCheers,Team xoio
Let’s play with the logo! – Openmode Xoio 2016-01-29 | Openmode is providing nextgen display solutions like transparent screens and frameless retail displays. xoio was commisioned to show a range of possible application cases in short sequences.Our team was instantely inspired by the isometric feel of the newly created logo, which is influenced by Bauhaus graphics of the early 20s. We loved the idea of inverting this concept by „3-dimensionalizing“ it again and using it as a stencil for each shot in variations.We were lucky to have a partner that went along with the idea of „Playing with the logo“ which normally is off-limits in brand communication. We thank Openmode for the great collaboration and wish the very best for the young startup!
Kinzo - Erste Campus - CGI - Perfect Office Xoio 2016-01-22 | Kinzo Berlin entrusted us to do this short featuring the amazing atmosphere of their office interior at "Erste Campus". The design shines through friendly materials, flexible working areas and an accustically sophisticated design - the perfect office.We aimed to translate the positive vibes this place radiates into this sunny animation. People integration was a major aspect, because we challenged ourselve to achieve a lively, natural and fresh impression without without putting too much visual focus onto the people.Therefor we carefully placed our "lucky ghosts" leaving traces of busy activity while retaining a calm atmosphere.We thank Kinzo for the great cooperation,xoio, 2016
xoio - the vineyard - Unreal Engine realtime architecture animation Xoio 2015-09-18 | Animation created entirely in the Unreal Engine during the Vineyard Challenge at Ronenbekerman.com Done in 2015 at xoio - Peter StulzLasse RodeFabian SchneiderMusic Credit:"Tempting Secrets"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribition 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Velociraptor - Augmented Reality Project Xoio 2015-05-05 | This cgi- Velociraptor was a done for an augmented reality installation in cooperation with Triad Berlin. The installation is part of an interactive Camp David store inside the Europa Amusement Park. It provides the visitor the unique ability to interact with different jungle creatures, namely the shown velociraptor and a bengalian tiger.Both animals were rendered in various animation loops that seamlessly blended and provided mulitple unique combinations. To improve the blending with the realfootage physical data was mapped precisely: lens informations, lighting conditions and other onsite factors. These data then was meticulously reconstructed in virtual 3d-space to facilitate a true immersive experience.We thank all project participants for the excellent cooperation.
Faces of Iceland Xoio 2015-01-27 | Veröffentlicht am 27.01.2015With "Faces of Iceland" our team aimed to catch a few of the many sides this mysterious and magic island has to offer. As I remember another traveller saying, every second corner of this place offers a completely different impression to you - and still there are so many places we could not cover here.About us:Normally our studio xoio is creating cg-imagery, but we decided to dive into the field of aerial filming in 2014. Spending senseless hours and countless euros tinkering with our phantom 1 we booked a trip to iceland to have as much liberty as you desire to take images from above.Our trip was overshadowed by some inital crash on day 1 which basically wrecked the drone completely. Frustrated we moved on and decided to forget about the smashed up copter, but after few days we took another look at the parts and decided to piece them together again. After spending half the night in a riverbed cleaning the single elements from volcanic ash and with considerable amounts of ducttape we fixed it temporarily. The phoenix .. ehm phantom rose from the ashes again - quite an emotional moment for us! Two weeks of intense filming ensued: Flying, charging batteries, storing footage, Setting up camp, trying to find some sleep in the neverending day of midsummer ...For some more documentation and some extra panoramas of this marvelous place please feel free to visit our website at www.xoio.de/en/iceland.Special credits go to our friend Martin Eigenbrodt, who saw this whole voyage through with us and patiently accepted hours of us fiddling with gadgets in some mosquito-ridden backvalleys :).A final note: Since our copter is is first generation, we really had to put a lot of effort into postproduction. We personally took a lot of liberty to adjust colors or replace some pieces if rotors or legs of our phantom disturbed the impression. Still I guess, the places closely resemble the impression of the actual place in natura - go and have a look yourself!Peace, xoioMusic: "Free at last" by Jeff Heim / Audiojungle
Calm - a winter chalet - unreal engine 4 - realtime animation Xoio 2014-12-22 | This animation has been created in unreal engine 4. It is origined in a fully interactive environment and rendered in realtime. We wish a happy christmas and peace to everyone, Team xoiohttp://www.xoio.de/unreal-winterMusic: Piano Moment - Composed and performed by Bensound
xoio berlin flat - UE4 archviz realtime test animation Xoio 2014-09-12 | small animation created with the unreal-engine - it basicall is a rework of an older project originally rendered with the corona-renderer.http://xoio.de/berlin-flatflat-apartment/made on i7 3930k with gtx660timusic fromm incompetech.com
archviz animation test with unreal Xoio 2014-09-02 | the last week there have been some 3rd 7th like archviz animation snippets around which where made by koola with the unreal enginewe have been very fascinated with that and tried ourselves.. well this little doodle is the outcome of an afternoon with matinee (the unreal-engine animation tool) and of course far from flawless; we just had to share that :Dmusic is fomr the roalty-free music library incompetech.com
xoio - Arch Reel 2014 Xoio 2014-02-25 | This is our architectural 3d-showreel 2014! Visit http://www.xoio.de if you want to learn more about our work. We are showing various shots from our architectural works we did during the last 2 years. This time we focused on exploring various animated moods and atmospheres that are less usual for architectural animations.You find our 3d-showreel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWVSNWHlEMxoio is a visualisation studio based in Berlin. We provide imagery and animation for advertisement, architecture and exhibitions. We warmheartedly thank all artists who participated in these shots.Thanks for watching!
xoio 3d reel Xoio 2014-01-15 | This is our current 3d-showreel! showing various shots from our 3d-works we did during the last year. xoio is a visualisation studio based in Berlin. We provide high quality imagery and animation for advertisement, architecture and exhibitions.Please visit our website at xoio.de for an in depth information about our work. Hope you like our work!We warmheartedly thank all artists who participated in these shots. All 3d-models were custommade at xoio.copyright 2014 xoioTrophy-Animation by courtesy / copyright of FLC Helsinki, 3d by xoioVolkswagen Quicar CI produced by METADesign AG, 3d by xoiomusic copyright 2014 by Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis & Tim Stanzelall 3d-models (except VW Golf VI) were created at xoio
xoio - cameratracking Xoio 2014-01-06 | This is a cameramatching-test we did recently with our crew. The car is full CGI, while the environment is based on filmed footage. See description below!It's not fully polished and there are some fireflies in the rendered sequence we would normally avoid. But for now our guys are happy with this exercise.The process can be roughly described like this:1. We filmed the mini clip with our Canon 7D and a quick steadycam mockup.2. The videoclip was consequently stabilized in AE to smoothen out several shaky movements.3. We tracked the motion in 3d in After Effects and exported the camera and several Nulls back into 3d Studio Max.4. Additionally we created an HDR-360° cube by shooting multiexposure shots on site.5. The HDR-360 was stitched in Photoshop to create a cubical environment map.6. In 3ds Studio Max the HDR was used to recreate the lighting situation 1:1. 7. The Nulls were used to recreate a rough standin for the scene environment. 8. We used a measured distance from the site to scale the scene in 3ds Max accordingly. It's quite important to have some realscale scene to avoid strange size relations.9. Shading was done as usual in Vray, actually the car-shader could have needed some more passion.10. The scene was rendered with several object masks. We made sure to have all relevant passes (e.g. shadow pass, object ids, reflection, alpha) to get all the necessary info to composite the original footage with the rendered footage. Special attention needs to go to all the areas were the two elements merge and blend, especially in contact areas.11. I will not explain the compositing in detail. I can only say, it involves a lot of stepping back and checking, if color values and contrasts match.Hope you like this! Best regards, Team xoio
1 minute of Bilbao - 3d short Xoio 2013-07-01 | A short side project we did in our studio a while back. Inspired by the work of Alex Roman we took up the challenge to animate a short tour around the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum of modern art. We intended to give our animation a fresh twist by showing the museum in context with surrounding artworks by Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois. Despite some technical challenges we hope that we could translate the light mood of this cultural highlight in the last rays of a summer evening.For people who know the location:We took some artistic liberty with a few elements. We repositioned the dog and used some backplates that do not match the urban environment. Sorry, but we are just a little too far off for shooting fitting backplates ;) and hope that we still could catch the feel of the place fittingly. Technical background info:Obviously the special material of the titan cladding is a fair challenge to be reproduced in 3d-animation. The integration of 3d-typographie was a crucial aspect in this little exercise. These descriptive elements were added in 3d-postproduction and had to be combined with prerendered footage. Several camera-effects like depth of field were important to achieve the desired look and was achieved through a elaborate setup of 2d, 2.5d and rendered 3d-footage.We hope you enjoy this 1 minute of Bilbao art-space.Thank you for watching,Team xoio, Berlinhttp://www.xoio.deinfo@xoio.deThanx to the participating artists:Modelling and Shading: Katrin BinzShading and Lighting: Lasse RodeAnimation, Render Management and Lighting: Arnaud BoeglinAnimation, Art Direction and 2d- /3d-Postproduction: Peter Stulz
Icebound - 3d animation study Xoio 2013-04-17 | Icebound -- Joining AraonBased on a visual we did with our partners FLC Helsinki we created this series of animated shots. „Icebound" is a study depicting the korean icebreaker „Araon" on various stages of a journey through northern greenland. Additionally we added a making-of section to illustrate our work for our clients and friends.Main focus of our team was put onto creating a highly atmospheric lightscape, that should reflect the magical experience of being in polar areas. Additionally we strived to bring across the sensation of vast scale of an arctic landscape.We used this project to further enhance our competence in various fields of CGI-work, like physical simulation, Smoke- and Fumesimulations and realfootage montages in 3d-postproduction.Hope, you like our work!http://xoio.de/http://xoio.de/blog
Vray Pattern - Introduction and Review Xoio 2013-01-07 | This is the videoversion of our VrayPattern review that you can find here: http://xoio-air.de/?p=2070Additionally we did some production feature here: http://xoio-air.de/?p=2080And some basic gras-assets for free: http://xoio-air.de/?p=2356Hope we can give a great piece of software some appropriate exposure here!Enjoy, Team xoio
Tutorial 7: Creating procedural Wave Maps with Vray Distance Texture Xoio 2011-12-13 | In this video we show a shader combination that allows you to render procedural waves based on their proximity to objects in 3ds Max. Basically we build a combination of the new Vray Distance Tex with a gradient ramp to get this effect. The calculation is lighting fast and allows tons of other uses as well. To do so, you need any version of 3ds Max and at least Vray 2.0. Enjoy! Peter from xoio
Tutorial 6: Hard Surface Modelling - Clean your imports / Use spherify for modelling Xoio 2011-11-01 | Here we show two hard-surface-modelling tips in one tutorial. The first one shows some good nice features hidden in the old editable mesh menu, useful when dealing with imported geometry, that needs to be cleaned out. Oftenly 3d-packages like Sketch-up or cinema generate reasonable mesh to be used in Max, but get screwed in the transfer. We show a few clicks that may turn your import into something useful again. The other nifty little trick is about circular structures again and the interim-use of the spherify-modifier to get nice, distortion-free round structures. Hope you guys find this useful! Best regards, Enjoy, Peter Visit our site at http://www.xoio.de our blog: http://xoio.de/blog/ (weniger Infos)
Tutorial 5: Conforming a road onto an arbitrary surface (HD) Xoio 2011-09-05 | Here I want to show a simple setup, how you could easily conform a road onto an arbitrary terrain. The biggest advantage is, that you keep full control of all aspects, like terrainshape, roadpath for further adaptions. The Tutorial is done in 3ds Max 2012, but is certainly valid for earlier Max Versions as well. We switched to HD (720i), to give you a better quality. Enjoy, Peter Visit our site at http://www.xoio.de our blog: http://xoio.de/blog/
Lots of Lemons - animation study Xoio 2011-08-02 | A little Testsequence we made recently, inspired by Alex Roman, additional credits go to Christopher Stellwagen for his Shader-Inspiration. The whole study is about MassFX, the new powerful Max Physics Engine and Vray's SSS2 Material in conjunction with Displacement. A little flicker is still there, but it fits quite ok with the old-film look, so we left it in there. Made with 3dsMax, Vray, Post done in After Effects with Magic Bullet Looks and the powerful lenscare by Frischluft. Our Website: http://www.xoio.de Our Blog: http://xoio.de/blog/
demo reel: xoio - spe 2011 - snippets projects experiments Xoio 2011-07-22 | A short compilation of commercial and private projects we did over the last 2 years at xoio. Most elements are completely done in 3d inhouse at studio xoio. Created with 3dsMax, Vray, Fusion, After Effects and Premiere. Special credits go to Christoph Hein, Audiofenster, Berlin for Audio. Enjoy! Our Website: http://www.xoio.de Our Blog: http://xoio.de/blog/
Script 1: Slicemodeller V1.0 Xoio 2011-07-14 | In this little Video we present a little free script we wrote. Download here: https://xoio-air.de/2011/slicemodeller-%e2%80%93-script-v1-0/ What it basically does it automates modeling with planar slices for freeform and other hard-surface modeling tasks which are sometimes fairly tedious in 3ds Studio Max. The script should work on most of the latest Max Versions Hope you like it! Enjoy! Visit our site at https://www.xoio.de xoio air freebies: https://xoio-air.de
Tutorial 3: Hard Surface Modelling - Round and Cylindral Joints in 3ds-Max Xoio 2011-07-07 | Here we will show a few examples how you would model cylindral and rounded objects while retaining a neat topology and polygon flow. The software used is 3d Studio Max 2012, but can be modelled in any earlier Max-Version or other 3d application. Enjoy, Peter Visit our site at http://www.xoio.de our blog: http://xoio.de/blog/
Tutorial 2: Shrubs and Photrealistic Foliage with Particle Flow in 3ds Max Xoio 2011-07-05 | In this tutorial we will show you how you can use Particle Flow to generate foliage based on any kind of geometry using Particle Flow. High-Poly Results are no problem and can easily be transferred into Vray- and Mental Ray Proxies for further rendering. For further info visit our site: http://www.xoio.de or http://www.xoio.de/blog/
Tutorial 1: Two useful Shortcuts and workflow tools in 3ds Max Xoio 2011-06-06 | In our first little introduction video, we show some little shortcut-gems inside of max that are rarely documented, but are very helpful. One of them is the interal calculator. The other section is demonstrating interactive timeline panning and zooming, like you know it from aftereffects. To see more of our work, visit our website: http://xoio.de
