Well, Nick has now discovered the more intuitive qualities of 2D and Flash, and is producing animated gag cartoons with the help of animator Todd Ramsay. A wise move indeed, because compared to the 3D work the Flash animations look great, and have a entirely different pace and energy. The use of interactivity in some of the cartoons works very well too - such as in the torture cartoon from April 29.

Enjoy the work here.

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I told my piano teacher that I don't think piano performance is the thing for me in college.... he understood and said we can keep going and see what happens, but I'm looking at 3D Animation and all that jazz again.

I found the coolest thing in the truck today.  When it's in second gear and RPMs are low, if you punch it, the truck jumps to third and just FLIES forward.  There were several ~ 30 Mph burnouts I did today.  And I went around the turns so fast accelerating that the wheels were screaming for mercy <evil smile>.

I got my APUSH score today.  I got a 2.  I wanted a 3, but I guess I'll survive.  Just amazed I didn't get a 0.

I'm watching Dirty Jobs.  I'd absolutely hate to do what he's doing right now.  Much too claustrophobic.

I washed the truck today.  It needed it.  Bad.  It looks pretty nice :D but I'm gonna finish tomorrow, I gotta get rid of the waterspots (I had to run a few errands and it was too dark to see the spots when I got home), clean the tires, wax, vacuum, wash the windows, and clean the interior leather.  Then do that all to the car.

I might buy the WALL-E videogame tomororw though. =D

You'll be able to:

• Chat with your friends or meet new contacts online.
• Create and decorate your own room - and invite your friends over.
• Personalize your surroundings with an ever-growing catalog of avatars, outfits, furniture, and rooms to build up.

Your avatar represents you. Pick a character that suits your personality or mood and customize it to make it unique. Dress your avatar to express your style. Use your avatar's animations to add some body language to chats! Customize the avatar and stream personal photos and video.

Users can create and share their own places: Anybody can create and publish their own room. Pick a room shell that provides a good foundation and decorate it any way that you can imagine. Invite people to visit your room, they can decorate it too! Add your room to your site. Invite your friends to chat and help decorate

The best part is, if you already use Web History or any Google service that requires a sign-in, then you already have a Google Account, and can sign in now to begin using Lively by Google.

Currently working on a 3d anime character which will then be animated. May upload images of the work in progress for people to look at too. I think this character may become my mascot.

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- Texture size: 1024×1024

- Programs: Autodesk Maya 2008, Photoshop CS 3, Bodypaint 3D

- Texture size: 1024×1024

- Programs: Autodesk Maya 2008, Photoshop CS 3, Bodypaint 3D

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The Animation Show is a medley of animated shorts gathered from around the world and compiled into a 100-minute extravaganza. The men responsible for stitching together this hot bundle of insanity are Mike Judge (creator of Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space) and Don Hertzfeldt. For the fourth iteration, the curator duo hits many home runs with only a few strikes, and whether or not you are an animation connoisseur, the fast-paced programming is sure to engage all lengths of attention spans.

Introduced by a frantic hard-rock-themed title sequence, the creators lets the audience know from the start that they are in for a night of innocent, uncensored fun. One of the early standouts was “Burning Safari”, a 3D short directed by six students out of the French Gobelins L’Ecole De L’Image. It served as a great warm-up, focusing on style and character design/development over a complicated story.

Next came “Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker”, a Cannes Film Festival award winner from Stefan Müller that was arguably the star of the night. Melding 2D drawings with quasi-3D elements to make an extremely stylish feast for the eyes, its color palette was similar to Psyop’s famous “Coca-Cola Happiness Factory”, with an orange warmth consuming everything. On close-ups, pencil marks were visible on the edges of the characters, giving the animation that little bit of human imperfection that frees and refreshes us from the boring world of digital perfection.

Voice acting plays an enormous role in giving animated characters life, as proven in Steve Dildarian’s “Angry Unpaid Hooker”. The character design was quaint and sparse, bringing to mind artists such as Quentin Blake. In the short, a guy’s girlfriend comes home after being gone all weekend only to be welcomed by a new house guest in the form of a yet-to-be-paid prostitute. The characters have skewed body proportions and hilariously rendered nostrils, all complementing the perfectly timed comedy of the voice acting.

The Animation Show also serves as a ripe teaching ground for many fundamental principles of animation. “John And Karen” demonstrates the power of scale in perception of space, as well as the indisputable superiority of 2D animation over 3D in the right instances. “Key Lime Pie” and “Forgetfulness” teach that perhaps animation’s greatest power is the ability to convey inner workings of human psyche, as there are no physical rules or boundaries such as gravity to limit the mind. “Western Spaghetti”—resembling Michel Gondry’s stop-motion animations from The Science Of Sleep—challenges the brain’s ability to perceive everyday objects in unconventional ways.

“Hot Dog”, “This Way Up”, and “Usavich” provide more heart-wrenching hilarity. Some of the weaker offerings were “Blind Spot”, the “Professor Nieto Show”, and “Operator”. “Raymond”, created by renowned visual effects studio The Mill was stylistically superb, but being the animation most closely based on reality, it felt very limiting to be subjected to gravity once again. “Yompi The Crotch-Biting Sloup” made up the cannon ball tied to the foot of the show, dragging it down with obscenity and poor animation quality.

Overall, The Animation Show was fantastic, although I realize that animation is a very subjective art form. Some people favor more abstract animation (check out “Jeu”), others lean more toward concrete characters and motivated stories. As an animation student myself, I found the "film" to be very instructive as well as inspiring and entertaining. I highly recommend The Animation Show to all audiences, and I would encourage both animation and live-action filmmakers to view it as a tutorial in warping the bounds of physical reality.

Click here to see if The Animation Show is showing near you.

GAO

Ecco ad oggi a che livello siamo arrivati.
Io semplicemnete direi: EMOZIONANTE - FANTASTICO - WOW

Opera di un certo Liam Kemp

Se siete scettici cliccate QUI .

Qui lo stesso video ma in una definizione leggermente miglirata.

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Introducing ZBrush (Sybex; May 2008; $39.99) removes that fear and launches the reader head-on into fulfilling their artistic potential for sculpting realistic human, cartoon, and organic models in ZBrush.

ZBrush’s innovative technology and interface can be intimidating to both digital-art beginners as well as veterans who are used to a more conventional modeling environment. This book dispels myths about the difficulty of ZBrush with a thorough tour and exploration of the program’s interface. Engaging projects also allow the reader to become comfortable with digital sculpting in with a relaxed and fun book atmosphere. Introducing ZBrush assuages the apprehension and gets artists quickly involved in creating their own work, as they complete tutorials on painting, Meshes, organic sculpting, hard surface sculpting, textures, lighting, rendering, working with other 3D applications, and scripting.

ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting (Sybex; June 2008; $49.99) covers targeted core topics that give ZBrush users a good overview, along with dozens of hands-on, practical examples that show the breadth and depth of the program. The text focuses on using ZBrush to create exciting and detailed 3D characters and organic objects, with many accompanying full-color illustrations to drive home how to apply the foundations of traditional sculpting and painting to a 3D medium. This book is unique in presenting the steps necessary to sculpt and paint in ZBrush as well as the “why” behind the artistic decisions made at each step. Readers are exposed to the foundation artistic principles that guide their choices of tools and methods. It also shows them how to take their creations into other popular 3D applications such as Maya.

About the Authors
Introducing ZBrush
Eric Keller (Hollywood, CA) has been working professionally as a digital artist and 3D animator since 1998. He is a high-end animator for film, television and scientific visualization with clients including Disney, ESPN, Cinemax, CBS, and ABC. He has worked at some of the top design houses in Hollywood, including Yu and Co., Imaginary Forces, The Syndicate, and Prologue Films. He also created animations for scientific research and visualization at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has written numerous articles and tutorials for industry magazines (High-end 3d and HDRI3d), is the author of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator’s Guide, and was a contributing author to Mastering Maya 8.5 and Mastering Maya.

ZBrush Character Creation
Scott Spencer (Burbank, CA) is Digital Art Director at Gentle Giant Studios. He works in various media including digital characters for film, broadcast, games as well as physical sculptures. Credits include Iron Man, Harry Potter 5, XMen 3, Species4, Pumpkinhead 3, and others. Scott’s latest project is working on the creature and character designs for Sega’s remake of the classic game, Golden Axe. As a leading Digital Sculptor and a longtime beta tester and consultant to Pixologic, Scott is the author of the Official ZBrush to Maya ZPipeline guide as well as several popular video tutorials. He holds a BFA in Animation with a minor in Drawing and Anatomy from The Savannah College of Art and Design followed by further study of classical figurative sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy. He has lectured at Weta Workshop as well as Pixar.

About Sybex
Sybex has been a leading publisher for the global Information technology community for nearly 30 years. Known for its high quality publications that are translated into more than 20 languages, Sybex published about 100 new titles a year and has an impressive backlist of over 450 titles in the graphics, digital photography, operating systems, programming, and gaming categories. Sybex enjoys a very strong presence in the areas of IT and Business certifications and has close relationships with a number of leading technology companies, including Alias, Microsoft, and Juniper. For more information, visit sybex.com. Sybex is an imprint of Wiley.

For more information, contact: Ashley Evens 201-748-6702 aevens@wiley.com

Introducing ZBrush By Eric Keller Wiley; May 2008; $39.99 ISBN: 978-0-470-26279-5; Paperback

ZBrush Character Creation
By Scott Spencer
Wiley; June 2008; $49.99
ISBN: 978-0-470-24996-3; Paperback

Beauty of this movie is...not just the whole movie is made with blender an open source 3D animation kit, the content of the movie is free to use for people to learn and benefit out of it.

You can download the 10 minute movie from their website for free!

Will try and write a review of the movie once I watch - currently its downloading :-)

http://junk.chown.dk/junk.-.eta.h264.mov

He didn't explain what it was, who it was by, or reveal any details, but I won't do the same to all of you. It is a short animation done directed by Henrik B. Clausen, and produced by Junkworks Productions.

Watch and be blown away by the incredibly rendered detail. The opening shots of space are breathtaking, but the cluttered messy interior of the spacecraft is even more to be in awe of.

The entire film is only 4 minutes and 26 seconds long, but I can only imagine how much time and effort was required to make an end product so incredibly beautiful.

This makes me wish I were more into 3D animation.

Während meiner Zeit an der SAE München habe ich mich bei einem Videoprojekt von Michael Reiter, damals 3D-Animations-Student, mit um die Vertonung gekümmert. Und weil ein Synchronsprecher für den selbstverliebten Apfel namens "Red Delicious" fehlte, habe ich diesen Part auch noch übernommen. Insgesamt hat es sehr viel Spaß gemacht, dieser virtuellen Figur "Leben einzuhauchen".

Graphics:

Giving life to any kind of presentation is just simply known as Graphics. Graphics is an image appearance such as wall, stone, screen, paper are used to visualize for entertainment purpose. For example photographs, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, images, drawings, line art, typography and engineering drawings and other images. Graphics design is use on purpose of selection, creation, arrangements of typography.

3D Computer Graphics:

3D computer graphics are basically created with the support of graphic art, digital computers and 3D software. 3D Computer graphics is nothing but to submit the good graphics or the computer graphic techniques which is related to new technology. 3D computer graphic is vaguely differing from 2D computer graphics. 3D is another way to say as a three dimensional. Three dimensional represents a geometric data which is previously accumulated in the personal computer. Three dimensional execute calculations and description 2D images. 2D images are display on real time screening.

3D modeling is one of the computer graphics. 3D computer graphics algorithm is frequently based on the 2D computer graphics. A 3D technique is frequently achieving the effects of lighting and striking. 3D computer graphics is commonly based on 3D computer graphics software which is way to create 3D computer generated imagery.

Application programming interface (API’s) in 3D computer graphics:

3D computer graphics are most fashionable in computer games. 3D computer graphics are very special in (API’s) Application programming interface concept it’s very simple to do the 3D computer graphics. Striking computer games are source of 3D computer graphics. Computer games are very admirable and eye-catching mainly in 3D computer graphics. 3D becomes very fashionable in computer games with realistic work.

API’s has improved their status in computer games and crucial in graphics hardware. API’s has present a program to approach the graphics hardware in a fantasy way.

Computer Games:

A Computer game is supposed to come under the control of 3D computer graphics. Computer game can also call as video game. A video game is an effective entertainment to child and each every person who are interested in computer games. 3D graphics brings each person to beneath the control of computer games. 3D is a great interactive entertainment with computer and video games. Computer game is usually placed in a personal computer.

Animation:

Computer animation is one of the subfield of computer graphics. Computer graphics is supposed to animate the standard image. Animation is used to increase their status in 3D computer graphics and 2D computer graphics. 2D computer graphics is single bandwidth and also quite fast. To increase the speed of animation they introduce the 3D computer graphics. 3D computer graphics is not only in computer target itself and also mainly used in film and other 3D animation. 3D animation film is very popular in their people. Animation also has computer generated imagery (CGI) and that is mainly used for animation films.

Animation also views on the screen of computer and televisions; an image is swapping by a previous image to new image its measured action. 3D animation objects are creating in the computer monitor. 2D animation objects are used create skeleton and not the other part of the skeleton virtual. 3D animation is use to create a head, eyes, mouth and clothes etc. 3D animation are used to made the action what they created.

With the help of key frames they utilize the computer process. In 3D animation all frames and modeling are utilize to complete the animation. You can place an animation under the bandwidth conditions.
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As you will have seen, we have introduced regular weekly webinars for those who are just starting out using Antics and they are proving really popular. Well now we are launching webinars just for Budding Directors to help you hone your skills, with the first one in three weeks. We’ll also be announcing some special offers for you very soon.

So how do you become a Budding Director and get an invite to these new webinars? Simply by meeting one of the following requirements:

• Submit an original video made in Antics. Read this post to find out how to submit and publicise your work. The video does not have to be long, sophisticated or complex (it could be all of 10 seconds). It just has to show that you can manage the different stages of using Antics : creating or modifying a set, directing action, choosing the appropriate camera shots, producing a timeline and outputting it as a final video
• Make 25 posts on the forum
• Provide helpful advice on the forum to others which indicates your knowledge of Antics and/or animation

Antics will be the judge of submitted videos, to check that they contain a reasonable amount of original work, and of forum posts, to see that they contain valid and useful remarks; and hence Antics will decide on the award of Budding Director status. However if anyone challenges our decision, we will be happy to publish all the material for the community to decide.

We will publish more details of the Budding Director program in the next few days but in the meantime, get cracking on those videos to submit and watch out for more details.

Here you will find examples of my 3D artwork, rigging, models and animations, as well as any 2D artwork that I have created, be it drawing with pencils, using paints, or creating images on such programmes as Photoshop and Flash.

The pages 2D artwork and 3D artwork are currently under construction as I have yet to transfer them from my PC to my laptop. However, I hope to have the 2D section up and running by next week.

Please take a look at my work and leave comments as you feel is appropriate.

In this article, let me introduce you to some of the free 3D software that you can download and use for free.

Anim8Or- This software has a really funny name. Nevertheless it is quite an interesting 3D animation and modeling program. The rendering can be quite impressive. You can download it from www.anim8or.com.

DAZ Studio is a free 3d posing and animation software. This is like a freeware version of the very popular Poser human posing program. You can download it from www.daz3d.com.

Blender 3D is the best 3D rendering and animation that money cannot buy. In this the best free 3D program in the world. Trust me, you should download it and be impressed. As a word of caution, this program has a steep learning curve but it is very powerful. You can download it from www.blender3d.com.

Truespace 3 is the easiest 3D rendering and animation program that is free. I am a big fan of Truespace and have been using Truespace for years. One word, this program is very easy to use and yet can produce beautiful results. You can download it from www.caligari.com.

There are many more 3D modelling programs out there in the internet jungle. The fun lies in finding them too.
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See?!! (photograph courtesy of Jeff Landsman)

It's fun to see work we do in a setting like this.

"The Red Channel Hulk spot was full of many challenges. Creating and compositing 3d animation with live action from the movie, designing a lower third animation that complimented movie footage as well as 2 different segments of product footage, building a set for the Gama Glow action figure, composing a bed of music and sound design to support the various imagery and bringing all this together into a slick 30 second commercial. Creating the table top set for the Hulk Gama Glow action figure was the first exciting challenge in the project. The set and the shots needed to maintain the look and feel of the film as well as capture the imagination of the demographic. To best showcase the detail and glow of the action figure I wanted to create a twilight scene of a city in distress. Blackened burnt out buildings, fog in the streets with a blueish green glow and the Hulk in the middle of it all. Using household items sparks the imagination of the children who will be playing with these toys to create their own sets." -Matt Egan

This spot was done tabletop in our studio and all the 3d animation was done in house as well. Gotta love those graphics guys! And quite honestly, I think the guys still play with those hulk hands upstairs when no one is watching.