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abAutorig overview, how to create a rig in 5 minutes

Posted on March 17, 2010  | 15 Comments
Filed under Animation, Character design, Education

[update] if you found that video through Google and missed the Pyro abAutorig tutorial make sure you check the following series of posts for a full tutorial with audio explanations and skinning tips. Original post after the link]

abAutorig Pyro tutorial Part I

The following video is a quick 5 minutes intro to the excellent abAutorig mel script.

Double Click on the Vimeo logo to get the full screen video in full HD res.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10220416[/vimeo]

Related post:
abAutorig Pyro tutorial
Autorig tutorial preparation work part 04
Autorig tutorial prep work 03
Autorig tutorial prep work 02
Autorig tutorial prep work 01
Low polygon modeling tools

How to train your dragon, new clips

Posted on March 6, 2010  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation

If you are not worried to see to much of the movie before it hits the theatre, have a look at that new teaser and “Forbidden friendship” a 2mins long shot of the encounter between Hiccup and Night Fury.

How to train your dragon

How to train your dragon

There is something really striking in those clips and I really wonder how this is gonna work out in the final movie. A lot of the shots are lit by an overcast sky and most of the colours are desaturated except for a tiny amount of shots like “Forbidden friendship”. Since not all the shots are similar, I guess it is a deliberate choice but that’s a really odd one especially from Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Is it how they translate watercolours in CG?

The movie is out in few weeks, I can’t wait!

Oops I was about to forget the link to the “How to train your dragon”‘s blog
http://howtotrainyourdragon.tumblr.com/

Autorig tutorial prep work 04

Posted on March 4, 2010  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation, Modeling, Portfolio

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9936173[/vimeo]

This time I am modeling the hands. I am not looking at references yet, just blocking out the shapes.

You will see me starting from a cube, which I subdivide manually to extrude faces and create the fingers.

I push the details on one fingers then duplicate it to create the other ones. Very often you will see me going from low poly to high poly using the 1 and 3 keys in maya 2009.

and here is the second pass
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9924238[/vimeo]

Third pass, refining the shape, cleaning up some edges, adding more detail
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHxU-TFHSM[/youtube]

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Autorig tutorial prep work 03
Autorig tutorial prep work 02
Autorig tutorial prep work 01
Low polygon modeling tools

Gorgeous architectural visualisation

Posted on March 1, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Graphic design

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7809605[/vimeo]

I hadn’t had a chance to check that video before and that’s a shame because this is some stunning work done in my favourite softwares: 3dsmax and VRay.

The artists have an amazing sense of composition, lighting, cinematography. There is no making of for “The Third and the seventh” yet but they made one for the previous “Kahn’s Exeter”.

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“Parka blog” art books review blog

Posted on March 1, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

[flickrvideo width=”470″ height=”300″]http://www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/4260973759/[/flickrvideo]

I don’t need to read review websites before buying “Art of” books but I still love browsing this website for reviews of books I wouldn’t usually buy.

Parka blogs

Rapuntzel “Tangled” first teaser

Posted on March 1, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-LHJyOPNJo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

A first teaser for Disney’s “Tangled” finally surfaced on the net.

I am really liking the painterly rendering. It reminds me a lot of “Monstre à Paris”.

Autorig tutorial prep work 03

Posted on February 28, 2010  | 4 Comments
Filed under Animation, Modeling, Portfolio

CharlesF. Muntz

Here is the nearly final model. Click on the picture for full screen version.

I will work on the hands tomorrow.I am still not entirely happy about the junction between the chin and the cheek bone, the eye/nose area also need a bit more work but that should be enough for the Autorig tutorial.

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Autorig tutorial prep work 02
Autorig tutorial prep work 01
Low polygon modeling tools

Autorig tutorial prep work 02

Posted on February 27, 2010  | 6 Comments
Filed under Animation, Modeling, Portfolio

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9780845[/vimeo]

Here is a video showing the modeling process for my tribute to Pixar’s “Up”.

You can double click to see the video in Full screen but if you first click on the Vimeo logo you will be able to see it in full 1600×1200. You might also be able to download the video from Vimeo, it is in Xvid/Divx, sorry I don’t have Quicktime pro but Virtual Dub or KMplayer allow you to go frame by frame if needed.

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“Waking sleeping beauty” documentary

Posted on February 26, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation, Business of animation

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvQmZkEhIio&feature=related[/youtube]

“Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history.

Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid1980s, offer a behind-the-magic glimpse of the turbulent times the Animation Studio was going through and the staggering output of hits that followed over the next ten years. Artists polarized between the hungry young innovators and the old guard who refused to relinquish control, mounting tensions due to a string of box office flops, and warring studio heads create the backdrop for this fascinating story told with a unique and candid perspective from those that were there.

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Skyfire, Winmo Flash enabled browser

Posted on February 25, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Windows Mobile

You are in the train and your agent is calling you about that unknown company looking for animators. You quickly type their name in Google and oh …  horror…  they only have a Flash website.

No worries Skyfire is fully Flash enabled! You get the number, phone your agent back and arrange an interview! Life is good.

Skyfire the free Flash enabled web browser

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