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.

3ds Max 2009 Tutorial - setting building planes

in this tutorial we'll go over how to setup building planes using orthographic images, the importance of scales and layers,how to assign textures and shaders, how to make sure the bitmaps are shown in the highest resolution, how to assign shortcut keys to important commands.
source files can be downloaded here (i'm not the owner of their copyrights):

lughertexture.com

Download free most big and beautiful hires texture for your 3d. Here you can download all type of texture map you need to use in your software Cinema 4D, LightWave, Maya, 3D Studio MAX, Rhino, Bryce, Poser, 3D Studio R4, and other. create titles or logos with lughertexture.com.

http://www.lughertexture.com/index.php

Philips Carousel

Philips Carousel




Making of




http://www.cinema.philips.com/gb_en/

Cool Skateboard ad

Jacksonkarinja of Rabbit morph an entire city into a living skate park in the 2-minute, live-action trailer “Transform” for Ubisoft’s new Shaun White Skateboarding video game.

Credits

http://motionographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/SWS_DIR_Edit_ALT_06171.mov

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

Dynamic Curves 101

a tutorial by me about converting splines in to dynamic curves

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

thr3shold-media

cool site with lot's of tutorials for cg applications
thr3shold-media

Star Wars: The Old Republic Cinematic Trailer - E3 2010

Over five minutes of action including Sith versus Jedi.

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.