Monday, July 5, 2010
Pixar - A Human Story of Computer Animation
[Recorded May 16, 2005]
Brad Bird, Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, Andrew Stanton and Michael Rubin talking about what makes Pixar such a great storytellers.
Brilliant!!!
The Secret of Pixar Storytelling

Pixar directors, writers and artists shared their storytelling experience and expertise during a series of keynote talks and panel discussions as part of Screenwriting Expo 5, sponsored by Creative Screenwriting Magazine. In this brief overview of the all-day seminar, Greg Singer reports how Pixar manages to capture lightning in a bottle.
http://www.pwaltersdesign.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:the-secret-of-pixar-storytelling&catid=36:directing&Itemid=89
Some old stuff - disney

here's a great post about the history of disney/pixar, real good reading/viewing post..
need to make more time for it...
http://hereitbegins.blogspot.com/2008/05/snow-white-at-70.html
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Kaeloo


Kaeloo is a 3D animation series that follows the adventures of Kaeloo the frog and his two friends, Moignon the squirrel and Coin-Coin the duck. But when Mister Cat, who is always up to no good, devises various strategies to hurt Kaeloo's friends, Kaeloo turns into a powerful and terrifying monster!
Pilot in English:
In this episode (broadcast on CANAL + clear Sunday, June 27, 2010) Kaeloo and his friends decided to play Prince Charming.
'Rango' Official Full Trailer
Coming Mar. 4 2011 from Paramount - The first official full trailer. The Story of a chameleon with an identity crisis. Starring: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Alfred Molina
Monday, June 28, 2010
Star Wars: The Old Republic Cinematic Trailer - E3 2010
Over five minutes of action including Sith versus Jedi.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Top Ten Tips of Texturing

"The main goal of this article/tutorial is to give you a few hints and tricks that might help you to make your own textures look better. What you'll read are things other people taught me, or that I had to discover for myself. They are not the only way to handle some of the problems, but over the years I've found that these work best". - Jeroen Maton
RoadKill UV Tutorial
RoadKill UV Tutorial from Ezra Cove on Vimeo.
In this tutorial, you are introduced to Roadkill UV, a freeware application that serves as a fairly simple, straightforward, and fast way of unfolding 3D models and laying out UVs. Roadkill can be used in conjunction with any program that can import/export obj files, such as Maya, 3DS Max, or Softimage. This video demonstrates the unwrapping of simple objects – a cube and a torus – then steps you through using Roadkill to unwrap an entire character.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Official Trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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