You’ve probably never heard of Houston native Steve Johnson, but I know you’ve heard of his work. Predator, The Abyss, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man 2, Where the Wild Things Are, and so on and so on. The point is that he’s had a very long and successful career in practical make-up fx. Now he’s nearing retirement but instead of [...]

For those of you who couldn’t make it to this years Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, I’ve got some good news for you. Lucas Martell’s animated film, “Pigeon: Impossible”, has finally been released for all to see on YouTube!
It’s a really charming short, expertly done, and is honestly just as good as anything Pixar has to [...]

Jess and I just got the first round of pictures from our wedding in New Orleans, and I wanted to post them here so you can all check them out as well! Our photographer got some really great pictures, but I just wish these stills could speak. Because they just can’t do justice to how [...]

LINK: Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face
At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.

Check out this amazing animation done for the BBC called ‘Tree of Life’. It aired during the ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ special in Feburary and it has a really awesome ‘Jurassic Park’ vibe to it. Mostly because the narrator sounds spot on to John Hammond.
But besides the awesome narration, the concept they [...]

Alright everyone, drop what you’re doing and check out the new and REAL trailer for James Cameron’s “Avatar”! Fans have crashed the Apple Movies site for the 1080i HD trailer, but traileraddict.com is up and running. So check it out below and let me know what you think in the comments below! Looks like we’re [...]

Check out “District 9” Director Neil Bloomkamp’s 1998 VFS student reel. It has a big time Michael Bay, a’la “Armageddon” vibe to it. But you can really see this Director’s love and, more importantly, understanding of a strong visual language and cinematography.
I really can’t help but wonder what student reels from my graduating class at [...]

Check out this amazing music video using old school Praxinoscopes that production company Blinkink did for musician Moray McLaren. 2D Animation done by director David Wilson.

Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see [...]

Want to read an insanely great story about how digital artist Christopher Horvath made his career in VFX? Then go over to the CGSociety and read their article! It’s really incredible. And it all started with him riding a skateboard.
LINK: Artist, Inventor, ILM’s Christopher Horvath’s career has taken him from canvas to calculus
That title is [...]

The stunning 3D building projects you just sawwere made by a company called NuFormer in the Netherlands. The process of how they create such amazing animations isn’t widely known for obvious reasons. But if I had to guess they start out by talking a series of photogrammetric images, allowing them to them model a fairly [...]