Speaking of animation - blog

very interesting blog by four artists from the animation industry.
In the blog you can find behind the scenes footage, interviews with creators, trailers and much more....
Speaking of animation

Disney's Tangled Trailer (Teaser) June 2010

Disney's Tangled Trailer (Teaser) June 2010 Directed by Nathan Greno,Byron Howard
Produced by Roy Conli
Executive Producers:John Lasseter,Glen Keane,Philip Lofaro
Written by Dan Fogelman,Brothers Grimm (Fairy tale)
Narrated by Chris Collins
Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy
Music by: Alan Menken
Glenn Slater Lyrics
Editing by Tim Mertens
Studio Walt Disney Animation Studios
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s) November 24, 2010

ocatne Render - the interactive physically based render engine

Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render photorealistic results fast...really fast. This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of traditional CPU based renderers.
Link
thanks to Guy for the link

Mari - new 3D painting/texturing tool from the foundry

Mari is a brand new 3D texture painting tool from The Foundry. Originally developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded by Avatar, Mari was designed as a full 3D paint tool with a responsiveness and feature-set that puts even the best dedicated 2D paint systems to shame. Mari is extremely scalable, coping easily with an obsessive level of detail literally tens of thousands of textures quickly and elegantly.







thanks to Tzachi....

82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

Everyone must be in need of some sort of escape from the real world, because while searching through the net I found a wide range of amazing works based on movie and video game characters, as well as comic book superheros and villains! Some of these are better than I could have imagined, and some push the characters’ attitudes and looks in directions you would have never imagined! Absolutely brilliant!!
Link

Allen McKay - VFX tutorials

Allan Mckay is sharing some great tutorials on his website, Allan is like a guru for VFX and fumefx,

Link

FumeFX Tutorials

Realflow forum - fumeFx tutorials

creating a youtube links with time referance and HD

in order to create a link to a youtube video that will start playing at a specific time all you need to do is add "#t=" and the number of seconds into the clip.
for example, let's say I want to show someone a specific shot from my reel, let's say it's at 1:14.
so 1 minute + 14 seconds = 74 seconds.
my reel link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Eaq16uAP4

so the link should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Eaq16uAP4#t=74

for HD links all you have to do is add "&hd=1" to the end of the link, assuming that it has a HD version. so my link should be now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Eaq16uAP4&hd=1#t=74
(notice that the HD tag is coming before the the time reference, otherwise it won't work.)
happy linking!!

Pixel Bender : ft-UVPass shader for After Effects

This shader let you re-texture your rendering directly in After Effects. It use a UV pass as default input and a texture as second input. UV pass could be render from pretty much any 3d package.

Link

DuIK - IK in AFX

DuIK tools are great set of tools for AFX, the main thing about them is the ability to create IK rig in AFX,
here are 2 vimeos that show how to work with the IK tool






DuDuf site

Free 3D models

Assembly of free 3D model fro CGTalk, most of them are characters (each part contain about 10 models or more)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Cel Shading in Maya with Christophe Desse

CgChannel posted what look like a really interesting tutorial for maya 2011 by Christophe Desse

Lot's of tutorials - AFX, Blender, Cinama4D, max

so here goes a bunch of tutorials from all over the net, most of them are AFX but some of them are about VFX, so they are combining different applications.

http://www.bluefx.net/blog/category/tutorials/






http://visualfxtuts.com/176-mograph-vfx-tutorials-omgwtf

http://visualfxtuts.com/thanksgiving-82-tuts

http://visualfxtuts.com/vfx-tut-roundup-for-the-last-2-months-271-tutorials

http://visualfxtuts.com/255-new-tutorials-and-thats-not-even-all-of-them






http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/51-after-effects-tutorials-from-elsewhere/

http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/28-tracking-and-matchmoving-tutorials/#comments

Azureus Rising - Proof of Concept

For best viewing - Please watch in 720 HD, Full Screen, on High Volume.

Azureus Rising is the proof-of-concept for an all new feature film trilogy.

Azureus is the story of a young man who after escaping death and enduring a life changing journey - matures into a heroic freedom fighter. Azureus Rising is an epic tale of self discovery, obligation and love against all odds.

For more information please visit the Azureus website at www.azureusrising.com or e-mail us at info@thesunsetsblack.com

designer and conceptual artist - Thang Le

Thang Le portfolio