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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days folks. Been pretty busy. But I have a few minutes free so I’m spending them with you. And to tell you, I like these videos from Japanese artist Makoto Yabuki…

LINK: Makoto Yabuki

Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo ,Japan.
He started his [...]

Check out this French 3D short film by Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres and Fabien Thareau. And then tell me this wouldn’t make a bad ass opening to a video game.

LINK: Oceanside

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 [...]

Get it? Toylogy, trilogy? Eh…eh?! Ok maybe that doesn’t quite work because I am only two letters away from toilet. But it’s still copyrighted damnit! So hands off or pay up!
Now this has been out in the ether for a few days now, but here’s the teaser trailer for Pixar’s next film, ‘Toy Story 3′!
I’m [...]

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 [...]

You know what I love about the internet? The random things you stumble upon. Take this for example, it’s a short experimental from the motion graphics studio, Ubik. I’ll let them tell ya more details about the creation of this really cool little piece called ‘Voxel’ at the link below. But watch the video first [...]

Ed Ulbrich talks at TED about the Oscar-winning technology that his team developed for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Ulbrich is the executive VP of production at Digital Domain, for whom he’s executive-produced Academy Award-winning visual effects for Titanic, What Dreams May Come, Fight Club, Zodiac, Adaptation and other features, as well as music videos [...]