Read more here:
www.cartoonbrew.com
A place share your work, your ideas, and most anything else.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
RealD stock drops as people realize 3D movies are just expensive and little else.
Read more here:
www.cartoonbrew.com
Refocus a photo after it's taken with a Light Field Camera.
"Light field cameras offer astonishing capabilities. They allow both the picture taker and the viewer to focus pictures after they’re snapped, shift their perspective of the scene, and even switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D views."
Check it out here:
www.lytro.com/
Check it out here:
www.lytro.com/
Friday, July 29, 2011
Animation Block Party This Weekend
From CARTOON BREW
Animation Block Party, the most significant US animation festival on the East Coast, returns tonight for its eighth year in a row. The festival will take place over the next three days in Brooklyn with six programs of animated shorts and three after-parties. The festival is also exploring some new directions this year, in the form of a trade show and gallery exhibition:
On Saturday, July 30, 2011 – ABP will hold its first ever animation trade show and art gallery exhibition at BAMcinématek from 12pm-8pm. Trade show attendees will include Animation Mentor, NY Bike Jumble, L-Magazine, DaVinci Artist Supply, Green Mountain Energy, The Community Bookstore and many more.
The ABP gallery exhibition will feature content from animation talents such as Doug Crane, Howard Beckerman, Deborah Ross, Maori Stanton, Jeff Scher, Mike Lapinski, Caroline Foley, Michael Langan and London Squared alongside festival photos from Jazzmine Beaulieu. The Saturday ABP trade show and art gallery is free and open to the public.
For a list of all the films in competition, screening times and ticket info, visit theAnimation Block website.
From BAM
Animation Block Party Trade Show and Art Gallery Exhibition
Part of BAMcinématek and Animation Weekend
Sat, Jul 30 at 12—8pm
ABP will hold its first ever animation trade show and art gallery exhibition at BAMcinématek from 12pm-8pm. Trade show attendees will include Animation Mentor, NY Bike Jumble, L-Magazine, DaVinci Artist Supply, Green Mountain Energy, The Community Bookstore and many more.
The ABP gallery exhibition will feature content from animation talents such as Doug Crane, Howard Beckerman, Deborah Ross, Maori Stanton, Jeff Scher, Mike Lapinski, Caroline Foley, Michael Langan and London Squared alongside festival photos from Jazzmine Beaulieu. The Saturday ABP trade show and art gallery is free and open to the public.
Movie tickets must be purchased separately.
BAM Rose Cinemas Lobby
Free
Angel Turntable
I'm very close to finished with this turntable. I might tweak the color a little more, but probably not much more than that. There are always improvements I'd like to make, but I think it is time to move on.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
"Second Hand" A short film with a unique graphic style by Isaac King
Second Hand from Isaac King on Vimeo.
"I posted the trailer for Second Hand a few months ago, and knowing Isaac King’s track record as a commercial animation director, I had high hopes for it. Having seen the entire short now, it pleases me to report that Second Hand ranks amongst the most fully conceived and visually arresting shorts that I’ve come across this year."
Read more here:
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
“Eyrie” by David Wolter (Student film from Cal Arts)
"Here’s a Cal Arts student film from this past year’s producers show that really impressed me with its storytelling. Obviously I wasn’t the only one impressed. David Wolter just started work this week in Dreamworks story department."
Courtesy Cartoon Brew:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/student/eyrie-by-david-wolter.html
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Conan O'Brien as cartoon superhero "The Flaming C"
"Conan O’Brien’s visit with Bruce Timm last December resulted in this faux-trailer forThe Flaming C which debuted Friday at the Comic-Con."
Friday, July 22, 2011
Peter Jackson releases a photo of the Dwarves from the up coming Hobbit movie.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
"B-surfaces" modeling and retopo plugin for Blender
This plugin looks pretty nice. I just wish Blender was easier to use :(
Find out more here: http://www.bsurfaces.info/
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Turntable B&W compositing test
More stuff I'm working on for my demo reel. This was just a quick render out of Shake to check the bump mapping. I liked the way it looked so I thought I'd throw it up here.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Finally got my lazy ass back into motion!
Phew, been a while since I've checked into here. I'm sorry to have missed out on so many great posts, especially made my Justin (who has some true discipline keeping up with the posts!). Glad to see everything's still active. I found some very useful resources in the last few weeks, I'll be sure to post them soon.
In the meantime, I've started working on my Ashley Wood-style robot (something I posted 10000+ years ago on this blog). Finally posed him (her?), and forcing myself to finally learn the lighting/rendering aspect of ZBrush.
Up to this point, my process was:
Modeling and pose was done in Maya.
Texturing (coming soon!), Materials & Shaders, Lighting, and Render Passes done in Zbrush.
Composited in After Effects.
Fine tuning done in Photoshop.
My vision for the final image is nothing like this one -- this whole image was a test run on figuring out the workings of Zbrush and its Lighting and Rendering systems------ wait, didn't I already tell this story?
HAHA by the way, please excuse the CRAPPY shadow and background. Just quickly slapped those in there because I was tired of seeing my robot just floating in empty space. Didn't get to throw on its supply/ammo belt yet, and still have to do the dents/scratches/rust texturing. oh well, one step at a time I guess.. :p
I'll be checking out everyone's posts soon enough and comment on at least a few of em -- just a little overwhelmed on how much I have to catch up on! (*gulp*)
In the meantime, I've started working on my Ashley Wood-style robot (something I posted 10000+ years ago on this blog). Finally posed him (her?), and forcing myself to finally learn the lighting/rendering aspect of ZBrush.
Up to this point, my process was:
Modeling and pose was done in Maya.
Texturing (coming soon!), Materials & Shaders, Lighting, and Render Passes done in Zbrush.
Composited in After Effects.
Fine tuning done in Photoshop.
My vision for the final image is nothing like this one -- this whole image was a test run on figuring out the workings of Zbrush and its Lighting and Rendering systems------ wait, didn't I already tell this story?
HAHA by the way, please excuse the CRAPPY shadow and background. Just quickly slapped those in there because I was tired of seeing my robot just floating in empty space. Didn't get to throw on its supply/ammo belt yet, and still have to do the dents/scratches/rust texturing. oh well, one step at a time I guess.. :p
I'll be checking out everyone's posts soon enough and comment on at least a few of em -- just a little overwhelmed on how much I have to catch up on! (*gulp*)
Monday, July 18, 2011
Something I've been working on for my Demo Reel:
Not sure if I am completely satisfied with this. The dust in the back ground doesn't really work the way I would like so I may change that. Let me know what you think.
Friday, July 15, 2011
John Carter Trailer released
Disney's John Carter, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs book, is being written and directed by Pixar alumni Andrew Stanton (director of "Finding Nemo and "WALL-E").
Thursday, July 14, 2011
My Latest Project
So I was feeling a bit nostalgic and decided to create a model of the car I used to drive. The modeling is done, now I gotta unfold the UV's. Fun!! I'll post up a wire frame later on.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Transformers 3 Concept Art. It's all pretty over the top, but well executed at least.
See More Here:
http://www.joshnizzi.com/TF3.htm
Looks like the TF3 content is back up. You can also view various other interesting concept art at his website (see the list below)
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Awesome Automated Z-Depth Shader Mel Script...and it is FREE :)
Z Depth in Maya using Mental Ray can be a pain in the ass, but recently I found this script that automatically creates custom Z Depth Shaders for you. Perhaps the coolest thing is that it preserves the transparency of any alpha channel your textures might have. A HUGE time saver. You can find the Z-Depth Mel script at the links below along with many others:
http://boscripts.blogspot.com/2010/02/z-depth-with-maya-and-nuke.html
http://www.bohdon.com/scripts/
Check out a tutorial here:
http://www.bohdon.com/access/blogFiles/boScripts/boZDepthShader/zDepthTutorial.mov
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Paramount Pictures to Launch New Animation Division
"Paramount Pictures is launching a new, in-house animation division, the studio announced Wednesday. It is aiming to release its first title in 2014.
Rango, the animated Western directed by Gore Verbinski wthat was released in March, was the studio's first full-owned CGI animated movie, and it grossed more than $240 million worldwide."
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