visual effects
SGI goes for defense contracts to get out of the basement.
a good human head reference site for 3d modelers.
vancouver cg house, lost boys studios, has uploaded their new reel in divx. why don’t all the houses do this?
ILM wins the bid for Hulk and the Harry Potter Sequel?! i wonder why sony didn’t win the sequel, even if they were busy, they should’nt have let a potentially huge franchise slip by.
if ILM gets any bigger, they’re gonna need a monorail system and guys with orange cones running around just to get artists [...]
from down under, animal logic announce ‘MayaMan’, the maya to renderman pipeline tool.
from london, uk, IS distribution releases ‘mokey’. described as resolution independent software that enables you to separate a foreground element from a video or film clip. it is available as a standalone product and as a plug-in for avid AVX, discreet sparks, [...]
santa monica’s blind studios has a great site with a good reel.
illumenal.com touts it’s site as ‘the resource for ultra photo-realistic light & rendering’. this site is loaded with current news, great images, sequences & tutorials. i like the fact that it’s not specific to any platform and that the user contributions are solid. bookmark it and check it often.
pixar’s ‘renderman’ gets an upgrade as well as a new name, ‘PRMan 10′.
an article on ilm’s on-set real-time previsualiztion using a game engine. seems similar to this month american cinematographer article.
compositors should head over to fxguide.com. run by compositors jeff heuser (sol designfx), mike seymour (visualeffects.net) and john montgomery.
this info-heavy site has tips, tricks and tutorials that lean towards discreet products but the concepts are cross-platform. go over there and take a look, i guarantee you will learn something.
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