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Build a Planetary Scene inside After Effects

Posted on April 25, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Digital Effects | No Comments

VinhSon Nguyen walks through some basic tips on creating a earth or space scene using CC Sphere and a texture map.

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Lego Millennium Falcon Stop Motion Assembly 3d

Posted on February 27, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

Assembly of the Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series in stop motion in 3d. Created using 3ds max and V-ray. It took Francisco Prieto over 3 years, modelling all the pieces by himself. and rendered frame by frame.

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SxSW: Best Film Title Design 2012

Posted on February 23, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Credits, Digital Effects, Editing | 1 Comment

Need some inspiration? South by Southwest Film and Music Festival released a list of the finalists in the Title Sequence Category from Film and Television productions. The final awards will be present on Tuesday, March 13 at 8pm.

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Maya 101: Intro to Maya

Posted on February 6, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

In this Maya tutorial by Daniel Reynolds he shows how to get you up and running in Maya 2012 with a little sword to demonstrate certain principles in the world of 3d.

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“Still Life” Motion-Sensitive Picture Frame

Posted on January 26, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Off Topic | No Comments

This is a demonstration video showcasing Artist Scott Garne’s interactive still life project. It involves a motion-senstive frame that feeds realtime tilt data to a 3D scene.

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The Future of CGI w/ Michael Bay, Jon Favreau, Ray Liotta and Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel

Posted on January 26, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

Ray Liotta, Michael Bay & Jon Favreau talk about the future of CGI with motion capture experts, Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel in this Funny or Die video.

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Making of “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” credit sequence

Posted on January 19, 2012 in 3D Graphics | 1 Comment

The title sequence to David Fincher’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is an amazing mix of dark forms and stylized violence. This sequence which houses over 250 shots alone was created by visual effects house, Blue Studios.

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Drew Berry: Animating Unseeable Biology

Posted on January 16, 2012 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

Molecules exist in dimensions smaller than the wave lengths of the visible light spectrum and because of this they are impossible to photograph. But that hasn’t stopped scientists from thinking about what they look like and what they’re doing. In this TEDxSydney talk, Drew Berry shows an amazing 3d animation of what’s going on at the molecular level inside a cell nucleus as it’s getting ready to split.

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Making of – IMMORTALS

Posted on November 25, 2011 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

This making of video for Immortals by Tippett Studio shows the CGI animation that went into creating the Titans of Hyperion’s army.

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The Science and Future of 3D Films, With Legend3D Founder Dr. Barry Sandrew

Posted on October 27, 2011 in 3D Graphics, Effects and Stunts | No Comments

In this three part article for Forbes Magazine, Mark Hughes explores the details and challenges of 3d films with Dr Barry Sandrew whose company helped add dimension (at least in a spatial sense) to Alice in Wonderland, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Green Lantern, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Conan the Barbarian, Priest, and The Smurfs.

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Touchable 3D Character Projected Into a Real Environment

Posted on October 12, 2011 in 3D Graphics | 2 Comments

RePro3D, developed by a research group at Keio University, is a multi-perspective, naked eye 3D display in which viewers can touch a 3D character floating in midair.

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The Pixar Story

Posted on October 6, 2011 in 3D Graphics | 1 Comment

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company’s relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits.

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Introducing Avid Motion Graphics

Posted on October 5, 2011 in 3D Graphics, Digital Effects | No Comments

Avid Technology Inc. has unveiled Avid Motion Graphics, the company’s new next-generation graphics platform that’s set to replace Deko in its lineup.

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First Digital 3D Rendered Film by Pixar Founder in 1972

Posted on September 5, 2011 in 3D Graphics | No Comments

In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world’s first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed’s left hand. This is the film that they produced.

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