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 [...]

This week I’ve been watching a great podcast from a very talented 3D artist/Compositor named Lucas Martell. In it he takes you through the entire 5 year process, from concept to final dvd, of creating his animated CG short film, ‘Pigeon: Impossible’.
Now that alone would be really cool, but the short he did also looks [...]

This is why I’m proud when someone asks me where I went to school for Visual Effects. Some really great student work and filmed in my old home away from home, Montgomery Hall! Check it out…

I’m all about recycling on this VFX blog, so check out the ‘UP’ coverage over at Animation World Magazine! You’ll be doing me a favor, because I’m just too damn lazy to write much more.
Hopefully I’ll get a chance to write more after I actually see the movie! Maybe this weekend? Who knows, but I [...]

Tomorrow Pixar’s newest film, ‘UP’ debuts across the country and the frenzy is starting to peak. Even in little old Birmingham, MI at the theater next to Speedshape, theater owners are doing their part to add another check mark in the hit column for Pixar.

Honestly, I wasn’t too excited for this new film and felt [...]

When I say the name Shane Acker, it’s a good bet that you don’t know who I’m talking about. Truth be told I had never heard of him either. Till today when I came across an article about a film whose producer has a very familiar name, Tim Burton.

The film the article talked about was [...]

When the world does collide with an asteroid, whether it’s tomorrow or 3 million years from now. I hope someone will be holding a boom box above their head ‘Say Anything’ style, and rocking out to Pink Floyd’s ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’. Because this spot from Discovery Channel HD just proves that there [...]

I haven’t heard that much about Dreamworks Animation’s new film, ‘Monsters vs. Aliens‘. But the trailer is really great. So check it out before it invades theaters March 27th, 2009!
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LINK: MONSTERS VS ALIENS

This is the best student reel that I’ve EVER seen. And it belongs to an artist named Hannes Appell of Germany.
LINK: LONECLONE VFX – 2008 Reel
Hannes Appell was born in Erlangen, Bavaria on July 11th 1979. After his abitur & alternative
civilian service he worked for NBC Europe in Düsseldorf. During his 3 years at the [...]

I’m in love with the design of this ad.

LINK: llamamelola.com

This is the site I found the below downloadable video below.

LINK: Download HIGH RES Video

Plays with VLC player.

The spot was done by the agency Euro RSCG Zürich. And the clip from YouTube is kind of at a low quality, so here are some high res stills [...]