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Ada Sokół’s masterpieces put the admirer in immediate awe: super sleek and close-to-perfection renderings, soft pastel colors, and bizarre motives allow the viewer a glance into her extraordinary imagination. The Warsaw-based artist evokes an ultra-sensory experience that often ties play in futuristic settings or fantastic sceneries as she doesn’t like to be restricted by our realms. Influenced by all things beauty and maybe a little bit by growing up as Poland's first 3D designer’s daughter, Ada Sokół has mostly taught herself the magic of 3D art and since has been working on her own projects as well as for clients like Burberry Beauty. Meet a very unusual bread of an artist!

After releasing an animated short “Grump in the Night” earlier this year, family-run Something’s Awry Productions is back with “Unlucky Charms,” a creepy horror short that came out just before Halloween. Maxon talked with Kris Theorin, the studio’s lead animation director, about how he and his brothers, Nik and Kurtis, wrote the script and made the ambitious film using Maxon One, Unreal’s MetaHuman and After Effects.

When Swiss athletic shoe company, On, recently upgraded their classic Cloud 5 shoe, they reached out to FutureDeluxe to create four films to showcase the brand’s craft, comfort and engineered detail. 3D artist Jordi Cerdà Gaya was called on to model and texture the features of On’s updated Cloud 5 running shoe using ZBrush and Cinema 4D. Maxon talked with Cerdà Gaya about the project workflow, Gaya’s self-taught career as a 3D artist and his plans for the future.

HBO Max’s true crime miniseries “The Staircase” explores the story of Michael Peterson and the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen, who was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their palatial North Carolina home in 2004. Chicago-based Sarofsky was called on to create an elegant title sequence that spoke to the story’s labyrinthine plot, utilizing reflections, distortions, layers and perspectives to kaleidoscopic effect. The team spoke to Maxon about their work that foreshadows the true crime drama’s themes and a family divided. Created with Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop, Flame and Octane the title sequence is based on a multi-layered, transparent three-dimensional house.

Vincent Schwenk about his abstract and colorful 3D creations that bring joy and fun to this world. His journey started as a 2D designer and evolved into more than just a 3D artist. He combines many 3D programs to create even more abstract artworks that also have a certain naturalness and also lets the whole world learn with him. With Patreon he has found a platform to share his knowledge and expertise.

Dada-Projects believes in an alternative future for 3D design. As a woman-led studio in a male-dominated industry, Christina Worner wants to advocate for more diversity in the industry to inspire broader change. The studio is always trying to push the boundaries of any 3D tool and experiment beyond the expected. This desire to make a difference and her love of 3D have given birth to Dada-Projects.

Looping Lovers is a multidimensional artist-duo represented by Philipp Ries and Thomas Mayer. Their unique style includes elements that float and move freely in digital space, but not just in digital spaces. One of their new projects includes an exhibition in a museum. In this interview, Looping Lovers talk about how they manage to use nonverbal communication in the form of body language in their projects and what tools and workflows they use to achieve a digital sensuality.

When Reebok wanted CG renderings of visuals and animations for their FW20 line, they reached out to Black Math, asking the design studio to come up with creative ways to connect the shoemaker’s heritage look with today’s styles. Playing with CG in various environments and playgrounds, a design-first company of digital wizards connected past and future for the iconic running shoe brand. Maxon talked with Black Math Executive Producer Evan Fellers about how they approached the retro campaign, particularly the workflow challenges they had to overcome and how Cinema 4D helped them stretch boundaries of commercial work in new and exciting ways.

We can barely believe it ourselves, but this is the 8th year that we will inspire you during our Forward Festivals! For this year's theme “Connect, Create, Collaborate” we curated an amazing line-up with over 50 speakers coming to Berlin and Vienna! Forward Berlin will be taking place from September 22nd - 23rd at Kino International. For Forward Vienna we will be from October 6th-7th at the Gartenbaukino.

From the abstract painting to the manifested sculpture with augmented reality and back to the digital world. Interdisciplinary artist from Austria Ju Schnee is thrilled when the boundaries blur. Her alien-formed, near-breathless sculptures can have a tactile therapeutic effect, while her Augmented Reality works enable new perspectives and create an interplay of analog and digital. Ju is always reinventing herself and continues to experiment with her visual language. We talked about creating the cornerstones of art while being out of pocket, using artificial intelligence as an idea generator, and what it means to create in a constantly changing world. Ju Schnee will speak at the Forward Festival Berlin in September. Next to her, you will be able to hear Creatives like Alice Isaac, Fons Hickmann, Anna Ginsburg and many more.

How we use digital technology today determines how we experience it in the future. That’s something, but still very little about Wang & Söderström - artist and design duo who creates imaginaries of the present and future through digital narratives. Natural forces, microbes, virus attacks, habitats and parasites… Anny Wang and Tim Söderström are investigating the relationship between living things, digital technologies and materials in the current and future digital and ecological shift. We talked about doing things the wrong way and how their synthetic realities translate into sculptures, visual imagery and installations that bring craft, body, nature and technology together. Wang & Söderström will speak at the Forward Festival Vienna in October. Next to them, you will be able to hear Creatives like Deutsche & Japaner, Ada Sokol, Jim Stoten and many more.

From having studied design, photography and philosophy, founding a design Studio “Fons Hickmann M23”, over to holding lectures and workshops at several universities, to being a professor at Berlin University of the Arts. Fons Hickmann does it all! He is a member of the Art Directors Club and the Type Directors Club New York. His studio focuses on corporate design for cultural events, they work for clients such as the State Opera Munich and the Vienna State Opera House. His books are about communication design or everything that hovers around design and aesthetics. One thing is certain - Fons won’t stop anytime soon. So get to know this multitalent better in the following interview where he talks about his background before launching a studio, important features in a design, and how he developed many visually unique designs. Fons Hickmann will speak at the Forward Festival Berlin in September. Next to him, you will be able to hear Creatives like Eike König, Anna Ginsburg, Mr. Bingo and many more.

Friedrichsdorf, Germany - March 30, 2022 - Maxon, developer of high-quality creative tools for visual effects artists, congratulates Paul Lambert on winning the 2022 ACADEMY AWARD® for Best Visual Effects for the film Dune, beating out a number of impressive competitors including Spiderman: No Way Home and Free Guy. Paul also took home a Special Visual Effects BAFTA Award for his work on the film at the awards ceremony on 13 March 2022. According to Paul Lambert, it was one of his best experience in post-production, revolving around Redshift tool, which helped out to bring magic to reality.

Digital Art & Design Studios Builders Club are masters of going beyond what is possible in terms of creating, producing and frankly imagining ways to tell compelling stories. Drawing from backgrounds in photography, film, design and digital art, Builders Club reinvent media in all its shapes and forms. Their dynamic and eruptive style is mainly driven by mixing old and new technologies and challenging the status quo. We shot the founders of Builders Club Jonas Hegi and Julian Simshauser some questions and asked them about their take on navigating growth, collaborating creatively and pushing the industry's standards to establish your own. Builders Club will speak at the Forward Festival Berlin in September. Next to them, you will be able to hear Creatives like Mitchell Eaton, Charlotte Rohde, Looping Lovers and many more.

How Donald Trump ended up becoming the 45th President of the United States still remains a mystery to some. The documentary by James Fletcher pictures Trump’s way from kicking off the campaign to actually beating Hillary Clinton. The intro sequence is created by GeeFX Studios’s Graham Clarkin, who designed a visually compelling sequence using the Maxon-tools Cinema 4D, Redshift and Red Giant.

Bursting with bright personality and showcasing her work in a truly unique way, 3D illustrator and animator Eva Cremers is up to brighten your day. Lemonade rivers, dancing viscous bubbles and squeezy sandwiches take you to luscious world of fantastic characters and all sort of delights.

Designer and illustrator Alex Trochut needs no introduction. His works have a crispness that makes them instantly recognizable, and cover the whole spectrum, from cutting-edge brands to type geeks. Through his design and typographic practice, Alex has developed his expressive visual style and aesthetic sensibility with a prescient cultural understanding. In our interview with him, the artist speaks about his career highlights, the future of 3D art and what tools he uses to create his distinctive visuals.

Maxon’s acquisition of Academy Award-winning ZBrush is finalized and bound to revolutionize the entire 3D animation industry. Both ZBrush and Cinema 4D are to benefit from this move, as well as the entire creative community worldwide using them.

What makes Sucuk & Bratwurst one of the most successful 3D artist collectives out there? Sure, there is the fact that Denis and Lukas Olgac, Alessandro Belliero, and David Gönner have been friends since kindergarten and one day decided to join forces and create cool animated things. They haven’t stopped since and over the last years have gained loads of experience creating awesome designs for a wide variety of clients like Mugler, Rihanna or Nike just to do the obvious name dropping. Probably though, the most important ingredient for Sucuk & Bratwurst’s recipe for success is how the artists translate humor into their work and therefore managed to create a very distinctive visual language. Lukas Olgac tells us more.

The current times sure are scary ones to live in. Social injustices, climate change, and a pandemic shape our present into an unpredictable future. Austrian designers Sophie Falkeis and Kris Hofmann have made it their mission to impact the world around them positively with what they do. With AR and multidisciplinary design, both of them are at the forefront of impactful art and trying to bring complex topics to a wide audience. Both have been awarded with this year‘s Content Vienna production grant for outstanding digital design projects. Content Vienna is a funding program by the Vienna Business Agency, a long-standing partner of Forward Festival, and dedicated to the production and ongoing development of digital projects ranging from games to virtual reality and animation. In an interview, Sophie and Kris speak about how design can make the globe a better place.

Maxon, the developers of Cinema 4D, recently published their cutting-edge Christmas clip thanking motion designers, 3D developers and engineers worldwide to celebrate getting creative with Maxon tools, to which ones now also ZBrush is added.

With her face filter Beauty 3000, she broke the internet: Johanna Jaskowska’s futuristic, hyper-shiny, highlight-perfect filter adorned over 500 million faces all over Instagram, including the ones of Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, or Billie Eilish. The artist seems to have a sixth sense when it comes to setting trends and creating hypes in the field of AR. Her creations stretch our perceptions of reality and show us how it can be changed and enhanced. Drawing on cutting-edge tech, Johanna Jaskowska has established herself as a creative at the forefront in the field of extended reality, creating viral face filters, the first-ever digital haute couture, or avantgardist NFTs. In our interview, she speaks about her passion projects, the hybrid reality we live in, and where AR can take us.

One seems to not be getting enough of Sucuk & Bratwurst these days. Brands like Mugler and Umbro are hungry for the Berlin-based 3D artists and lately, also Rihanna got to taste a bite of Sucuk & Bratwurst. With an animated trailer for Rihanna’s limited vinyl record edition, the designers have basically caught the whole internet’s attention and are far from done.

Vincent Schwenk about his abstract and colorful 3D creations that bring joy and fun to this world. His journey started as a 2D designer and evolved into more than just a 3D artist. He combines many 3D programs to create even more abstract artworks that also have a certain naturalness and also lets the whole world learn with him. With Patreon he has found a platform to share his knowledge and expertise.