mocha tutorial: tracking text to a scene

In this new tutorial, Imagineer product specialist, Martin Brennand shows how to use mocha's planar tracker to match titles to camera movement. This is a good video to check out if you are a new user and includes a section on finishing in After Effects.

The Cup

After the five month regular course some students work in this animation piece during three months, all characters are based on psl-man rig vimeo.com/channels/psl#9032686 Made in Blender 2.50

Multipass rendering in Maya and Mental Ray

This tutorial shows a workflow for rendering 3D scenes in separate passes and compositing these renderings for finer control. The 3D rendering will be done in Maya, using Mental Ray and its “mia_x_Passes” materials, that allow the output of all information used by the shader at render-time. The compositing of these renderings will be done in Nuke using OpenEXRs in a linear workflow.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2010/07/tutorial-multipass-rendering-in-maya-and-mental-ray/

This is a new Multiphysics simulation by Lagoa Technologies Inc

The Goon - (2011) Teaser Trailer

The Goon. Blur Studios, the animation house also working on David Fincher's Heavy Metal, has been developing this animated feature for quite a while. But That wait is over as MTV has debuted a totally kick ass 30-second teaser for The Goon to tease the upcoming Comic-Con panel on Friday night (where even more footage will be shown). The voices are Clancy Brown as the Goon and Paul Giamatti as sidekick Franky.