I’m a big fan of the class of ‘unbiased’ render engines, the look of them is just something cool. The caveat as we know is the render times can be huge but the concept is the setup time is where you’ve saved and won. Meindbender has done a bunch of work for Cartoon Network and while their pieces are witty on their own the use of Maxwell to simulate plasticine models is extraordinary. Very cool stuff and story.

There seems to be a lot of dodgy operations out there and as a freelancer, what are you to do to protect yourself. There are many answers to a myriad of circumstances and it can range from doing things yourself or involving lawyers. However, perhaps there are things you can do proactively to help yourself and as this writer has evidenced is it can work in your favour. I present the story of Epilogue Eight, how the artist protected himself.

Please, give it a read.