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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NYC Blender Users's meeting

Somehow 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.

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.

Into the computer

This one is for Lauren, via BoingBoing

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

One For Now

Here's something...

Entre deux-

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.