Saul Bass is a much celebrated graphic designer who was responsible for many of the title sequences during the 50s and 60s. For Vertigo, Bass wanted to create perfect mathematically defined spirals and he turned to a computerized gun controller, working with collaborator John Whitney to create what was one of the first computer aided Read MoreRead More
Half of the image below is real, the other half is CG. Joseph Flaherty takes a look at KeyShot, a CGI program that lens an extra bit of realism to 3D models. Computer-generated images are moving out of theaters and onto store shelves and catalog pages, thanks to software that makes it nearly impossible to Read MoreRead More
The animating team at Pixar discuss the challenge of rendering and shading Merida’s hair as well as keeping preserving the performance in CG animation. https://vimeo.com/59720996Read More
From Rhythm and Hues Studios – here is a retrospective by Kevin B. Lee of animals from Babe, Garfield, Narnia, Life of Pi and others. http://vimeo.com/59284310Read More
Will we ever have completely digital actors intermingling with real ones? Will we soon have feature films where dead actors are brought back to life through the miracle of CGI and motion capture? Will computer generated images of humans ever be so good that we can’t distinguish them from the real thing in any way? Read MoreRead More
While “The Avengers” posed many visual efffects challenges, one of the larger challenges was pulling together the “tie-in” shot during the third act of the film. Rather than frames, this single shot is measured in minutes on screen and is one of the longest effects shots in the film. It incorporates both practical special effects Read MoreRead More
If you’re reading this, the Mayans weren’t exactly right about the end of the world – so enjoy this quick look at how computer animators tore up Wilshire Blvd for the now outdated film 2012. ** Correction – the Mayans never said the world was going to end. It was just the end of the Read MoreRead More
Telling the tale of a boy lost at sea with a tiger, hyena, zebra and orangutan requires some serious technical wizardry. This in depth article from FX Guide goes into detail about how animators and artists approached this gigantic task to make the beautiful jaw-dropping scenes of Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” Visual effects supervisor Read MoreRead More
Prime Focus World’s Jon Thum and Neil Miller show us how they brought the sprawling metropolis of Mega-City One to life for Dredd 3D. View this Video Album on VimeoRead More
Tears of Steel is a crowd funded film by users of the open source software Blender The film itself, and all raw material used for making it, have been released under the Creatieve Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Visit the tearsofsteel.org website to find out more about this, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a Read MoreRead More
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Wandering a dark forest, a solitary creature encounters something unknown with only curiosity to lead the way. Gloam is a short film by David Elwell & Gareth Hughes.Read More
