Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Stop Motion Animation!

So this isn't 3D, but it's a great example of a simple idea that's incredibly well executed!



Enjoy!

Monday, January 25, 2010

Fall 09 Animations

Uploaded a compilation of the animations created in ARIL 321 last semester and put them in the gallery


Saturday, January 23, 2010

Student Gallery Updated

Finally gotten around to updating the student gallery. With the animations I am still a wee bit behind. I did just opload the ones from Spring '09:



No audio, by the way. And the great Hermes animation by Vincent Iachetta is missing. I have unfortunately been unable to locate that file.


The Fall '09 animations will be added soon. I do need to add audio there. A lip sync animation does not make much sense without it, now does it?

Friday, January 22, 2010

A History of Animation

Did I say Animation? I meant Evil! There is nothing 3D about the this animation I found via Drawn! but I enjoyed watching it:



So where are all the posts with ideas for final projects? :)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Were you guys even born?

A friend pointed me to the YouTube channel of VintageCG. This person posted a lot of clips from the early days of Computer Graphics, like this one:



Would you guys believe me if I said this was amazing stuff at the time? Back when it was really hard just to make a virtual cube rotate, let alone a reflective one?


You can also find one of my personal favorites there, created a couple of years later: