Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tip of the Week:


Check out this guy's tips of the week. He's been doing it for a while, and a lot of the stuff he's pointing out is really accessible to newbs like us. This is the same guy who wrote my favorite stretchy limbs tutorials. It's a good thing to keep your eye on - I'm subscribed.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Disney Copy Machine


Disney had great footage they used to trace snow white, apparently they wanted to recoup the cost by re-using that. And some other great animations.

Friday, March 26, 2010


progress update:

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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New personal project, I call it "wise guys"
Going to be done in a family photo esque setting.
Each is a tough guy, I'm thinking of giving em torn suits and knocking the crap out of each one. it'll make the photo that much more intense.

This is just to show off each one, and doesn't represent the final composition.

Looking for some comments



And a quick zbrush render:

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Uncanny Item

Image from WNYC

During this mornings breakfast I heard this great report on the uncanny valley, something that has come up in class so I though I would share it with you. (via NPR, obviously)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Burning Safari

Amazingly, you can find all about the animation I showed in class at burningsafari.com

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Hard bodies turning mushy


As related this one showed op, which is pretty good if that is really all just driven by rigid body sim