Games trailers

some really cool games trailers are here:

Batelco - INFINITY

MOTIVA: COLIMO

a post render adjuster
http://www.motivacg.com/index_en.php

Learning Scattering and Translucency Part 01

Cool tutorial on Vimeo by CGCookie






their channel looks interesting as welll

Tron Legacy trailer

camera projections/Matching

Tutorial for Max (but it's plain enough to apply it to any 3d program)

 

in addition 2 commercials that uses Camera Projections:

New balance sneaker Projection mapping_01

The Official Ralph Lauren 4D Experience




The Official Ralph Lauren 4D Experience - Behind the scenes

"Winnie the Pooh" Official Trailer

Isotropix Clarisse

Isotropix Clarisse is a new breed of high-end 2D/3D animation software that reinvents the traditional approach of creating final images. In a single integrated application, Clarisse provides you with all the means to paint, animate, texture, surface, create layers, render and compose.

Powered by its unique approach, Clarisse, offers many new possibilities to you improving greatly your productivity, such as painting, within the same software, a texture affecting global illumination, displacement or reflection, while you interactively see the result with the full compositing on. You can even work simultaneously on two distinct images when one is being rendered!

For more information visit http://www.isotropix.com

Modeling from Photographic Reference in 3DsMax

Pratik Gulati takes a look at how to reproduce a model from a reference image, even if you don’t have any information on the camera used! Let’s take a look…

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/3d_cg_tutorial_autodesk_3dsmax_studio_modeling_ref_photo/

Salesman Pete

one of the best i've seen in a long time, great look, style, action, direction, everything...simply WOW...



Pete Blog - design, wip, concept

trailer for Salesman Buck from the same creators

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

It's a stop motion graphics!!



This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

We've collected some of the best images from the project and made a book of them you can buy: bit.ly/​mfmbook

Read more at the Dentsu London blog:
dentsulondon.com/​blog/​2010/​09/​14/​light-painting/​
and at the BERG blog:
berglondon.com/​blog/​2010/​09/​14/​magic-ipad-light-painting/​

Israel Breslav - CG portfolio

real nice artwork
Israel Breslav - CG portfolio

Fstretch - maya plugin

fStretch is a new maya deformer that let one create astonishing stretch and squash setup very easily. All the resulted deformations are then sculptable and fast. The plug-in can also be used for creating believable wrinkles. The algorythm is fast and can be used on heavy meshes without major slowdown. The plugin will run realtime on a reasonable mesh. With fStretch, you can now setup awesome facials rigs easier than never before! A setup that can take you days to make will now be created much faster and have better deformations.
Try and see !

http://www.cgaddict.com/

Programmable Motion Effects

"Although animation is one of the most compelling aspects of computer graphics, the possibilities for depicting the movement that make dynamic scenes so exciting remain limited for both still images and animations. In our work, we experiment with motion depiction as a first-class entity within the rendering process. We extend the concept of a surface shader, which is evaluated on an infinitesimal portion of an object's surface at one instant in time, to that of a programmable motion effect, which is evaluated with global knowledge about all portions of an object's surface that pass in front of a pixel during an arbitrary long sequence of time.

With this added information, our programmable motion effects can decide to color pixels long after (or long before) an object has passed in front of them. In order to compute the input required by the motion effects, we propose a 4D data structure that aggregates an object's movement into a single geometric representation by sampling an object's position at different time instances and connecting corresponding edges in two adjacent samples with a bilinear patch.
We present example motion effects for various styles of speed lines, multiple stroboscopic images, temporal offsetting, and photorealistic and stylized blurring on both simple and production examples."

J. Schmid, R. Sumner, H. Bowles, M. Gross
Programmable Motion Effects
To appear: Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, USA, July 25-29, 2010), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, no. 3

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.