Friday, February 27, 2009

SIGGRAPH 2008 CAF screening


Just a reminder that our local SIGGRAPH chapter will be screening a selection from the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival at FIT's Haft Theater on March 3.


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Thursday, February 26, 2009

NYC Blender Users's meeting

BB Bunny PosterSomehow Big Buck Bunny came up in the ARIL 319 / 321 class today. As it may be of interest to all Montclair animation students, I thought I'd throw this on here: there will be a NYC Blender User's meeting on Saturday March 7, at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. That is right next to a Metro stop, so easy to reach


I went to the one a little over a year ago, and found it quite inspiring, even though I'm only a half baked Blender user.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Particles

Threw this on my personal blog, so might as well put it here too:



The first one is an example of a particle system rendered using sprites. The second one consists of partigons and was rendered as points with motion blur. The stuff falling out of the guy is rendered as a volume.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Into the computer

This one is for Lauren, via BoingBoing


Computer City

Orginates from Cette Merde est Folle. How's your French?

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Storyboard according to Disney

Via Drawn! I came across this Disney documentary on Storyboarding.



Calling it cheesy is putting it mildly, but there are great drawings in it. Interesting how they talk about storyreel, which seems to be a forerunner of the Animatic. Not quite sure about the claim that Disney personally invented storyboarding, though Wikipedia seems to agree. What about Eisenstein, for instance? Tracing it back to Da Vinci may be a bit of a stretch though.