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Posts Tagged ‘animation’

graphical

In animation on 1 November 2002 tagged animation, artist, film with Comments Off

the weather this week was stellar. the only depressing part of it was that christmas songs and imagery is starting to appear everywhere.
some stuff for ya…
concept/3D artist brian sum has some great stuff in his gallery.
spider is an all cg short film. very cool.
rokysopp’s “remind me” music video features nice animation with an isometric infographic [...]

too bad the car is hella ug-ug

In animation on 11 July 2002 tagged animation with Comments Off

while i was in singapore last month, i was at the cinema and a commercial for the toyota matrix was shown before the movie. as i was watching it, i thought:
- wow, the quality of this animation is great.
- the music is pretty damn good.
- i’m surprised that this is a car commercial and that [...]

interview with pixar people

In animation on 10 July 2002 tagged animation with Comments Off

an interview with Alex Orrelle and Victor Navone, two animators from pixar. not an amazing Q&A but interesting to people who aren’t familar with how CGI houses work.

rman 11

In animation on 3 April 2002 tagged animation, artist with Comments Off

pixar announce support for ray tracing and global illumination in the new version of renderman (release 11)

i want one

In animation on 5 February 2002 tagged animation with Comments Off

brian taylor of rustboy is asking if you like his prototype of an action figure. drop him a line and let him know it’s a good idea.

doh, where am i?

In animation on 20 December 2001 tagged animation with 2 comments

incredible detail and time went into this map of springfield. but how can i check the accuracy? do i have to scan through all the shows to verify this stuff? regardless, it’s a great ‘thomas brothers’ take on the town we’ve grown to love. those with speedy connections can see the big map (1753×1173)

square studios to be sold

In animation on 17 December 2001 tagged animation, visual effects with Comments Off

squaresoft is putting square pictures up for sale.
just another chapter in this dismal story called the ‘cg/visual effects industry’.

great cg short film

In animation on 17 December 2001 tagged animation, film with Comments Off

i’ve been looking for this and forgot about it. scifi.com is now showing the cg short film ‘f8′ by animator jason wen, in it’s entirety.
the film is stunning, the art direction and lighting are beautiful and it can show what one person can do (in two years, i mean)

astoboy! finally

In animation on 10 December 2001 tagged animation, film with 1 comment

sony will make astroboy a feature film. helmed by eric leighton (co-direcor ‘dinoaur’), written by todd alcott (’antz’) and ken kaufman (’space cowboys’).
not exactly the strongest credits on this project and there’s no defined budget but the story of astroboy is interesting enough (of course, hollywood may dilute it ).
also, there’s no mention on if [...]

phone connection woes

In animation on 10 December 2001 tagged animation, film with Comments Off

our phone line was getting worked on this weekend. so our dsl connection was on and off throughout.
not much happened, beautiful day sunday, took pictures (with lomo) and will post when they develop.
in the middle of a huge hard drive cleanup and archiving so i’m a bit disorganized right now with regards to posts both [...]