This is a really nice action packed animated short Azureas Rising from Black Sun Entertainment The animation is a concept for a feature film trilogy. The work is stunning. Great timing, editing, lighting and texturing work. Good luck guys.
You can learn more about the animation by visiting the Azureas Rising site.
Learn how to create a stormy ocean affect in Maya. This tutorial is simple straightforward, and introduces you to Maya's Ocean Shader.
It took me only a few minutes to create this image. Be sure you click the example video on the tutorial because the tutorial shows you how to attach a camera to the surface of the water to simulate that you are on a boat. Pretty cool - can anyone say "Perfect Storm"?
Click here to check out the tutorial >>
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Watch this and get ideas for presenting your CG models. Pay attention to the lighting, rendering quality, composition, and camera work (specifically - camera timing), and animation. In animating your objects, you can: animate them assembling, animate a morph transition to another object and even animate how an object can be used. Be creative with your objects and have fun with them. If its interesting to you, it will be interesting for the people looking at your work as well.
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Attention to detail plays a big part in the look and feel of a film - everything MUST have a purpose, even when we don't "see" it. In designing Iron Man's armor, pay close attention to the inner workings of the armor and how that lends itself to the aesthetic appeal of the overall design. The thought process displayed in this featurette is what good character design is made of.
http://www.makingof.com/posts/watch/1743/legacy-studios-iron-man-2-suit-tour
The site hosting this featurette is called "Makingof.com", they seem to have lots of featurettes for the movies we love. I'll be checking it often and will post anything that makes me salivate.
Fire it up! Keep drawing, painting and animating!
Randolf
Hi All - This came in this week. If you are a student and in need of the lastest versions of Maya, 3DS Max and Mudbox, be sure you check out the Autodesk site.
Here is the third Last Airbender trailer. Lots of shots we've seen already, but lots of cool fighting and environment shots too.
Enjoy!
Pretty cool stuff here...Take a quick look at these figurative paintings. Well, they're not actual paintings, they're photographs of real people, painted to look like paintings. The result is quite unique and remarkable. Some examples work better than others, but the idea is genius. Thanks Thomas for sharing.
Would you still consider this "painting"?
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Look at more examples by click here >>
Here is some incredible footage of lightning being generated inside Eyjafljallajokull volcano's ash cloud. The pictures are quite stunning.
Oh yeah, if you are like the rest of the media and are having trouble pronouncing this volcano's name, try this. I know, its tough to spell, even tougher to say.
Guru Studio is an animation firm based out of Toronto Canada. They show a great variety of styles and techniques, some which I have never seen. I'm particularly attracted to their simple designs, where they use color and composition to achieve a wimsical look and feel. Nice work guys. Hopefully their work inspires you and triggers new ideas.
To learn more about them, visit their site below:
http://www.gurustudio.com
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Be sure to check out "The Clone Wars - Season 2: Finale", on April 23, 2010, featuring Boba Fett. Looks pretty cool, especially if you are a big fan of the renegade "Empire" bounty hunter and his costume. Looks like this episode will center around his life after SWEP2.
To learn more about the episode, be sure to check here >>:
Thanks to Dr. Duncan's History of Animation class for sharing these with the class. For those of you who have seen the movie, which many of you are big fans of now, you'll love these spots.
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Medal Awards
Speed Skating
Snowboarding
Ski Jump
Bobsledding
How to Train Your Dragon: Olympic Spots
While researching video clips for my animation classes this week, we ran into this clip that features marbles travelling through Rube Goldberg type contraptions. You'll like these a lot, some of the mechanics are simply genius. After you've watched the clip, be sure to check out this Honda commercial created in a similar fashion.
Enjoy & Fire it up!
Randolf 
Kennedy Chiu's demo reel caught our attention this week. He's got a nice sense of material variety and a good feel for timing and design. Be sure you stick around for the motorcycle at the end.
Hey Kennedy keep up the great work.
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Randolf
PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. - Watch original web videos. This latest production by Patrick Short is amazing. It features an amazing concept and is visually appealing. Great particle and composite work. After you see this, you would have wished you thought of this.
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I frequent the "Art of the Title Sequence" website often because it features cutting edge title sequences. I'm often drawn to these because of their simplicity, creativity and for the emotional connection they have to achieve with the viewer in such a short amount of time.
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