Modern Martin has a blog!
Modern Martin
hehe, Modern Martin now has a blog so you can see some of the preparation work that went into the making of that great short film
Animation with a moustache Blog
EA
EA
well, I just started working for the UK branch of Electronic Arts, the Bright Light studio located in beautiful Guildford. The only thing I can say is that it is a new IP and it is a really cool project. I am doing a crazy amount of commuting between Guildford and London at the moment but hopefully I will be able to settle down very quickly and find the time for my personal projects.
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HTC Touch HD disassembling
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6892707[/vimeo]
It is amazing how random the posts can be on this blog! Well it’s mine so I am free to post whatever I want 😉
The HTC Touch HD is also known as Blackstone or T8282. This phone is an amazing piece of hardware and is still one of the best phones on the market.
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Low polygon modelling tools
Low Poly tools
Here are the tools I am using in the low polygon modeling videos.
1. Merge Vertex tool
2. Delete History
3. Freeze transformations
4. Extrude
5. Split polygon tool
6. Bevel
7. Cut faces tool
8. Insert Edge Loop tool
9. Select Edge Loop Tool
10. Slide Edge Tool
Nothing fancy, just basic Maya tools. Merge Vertex tool only appeared in Maya 2009 though.
Cloudy with a chance of …. Eyeballs!
with a chance of eyeballs
Have you seen Sony’s latest attempt at swiping Pixar and Dreamworks from the best Feature animation studio’s crown?
Because of it’s really plain looking character design, “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” might have flown under the radars of a lot of animation fans but if you go pass the designs, you will realise that the underdog is a new home run from the Culver city studio. Yes the story is not revolutionary but that movie is once again a great piece of entertainment served with amazing rendering, gorgeous visual effects, funny lines and wacky animation.
One of those wacky shots I am referring to is the Eyeball shot by the dock.
How lucky! David Anthony Gibson, the animator behind it: has decided to share with use some insights.
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Modeling “Rickshaw” timelapse part 02
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6857488[/vimeo]
Moving forward, this is 1 hour of work in 5 minutes. I used Camtasia this time so the result should be a bit smoother. Unfortunately Camtasia pause button didn’t work so 2 hours are missing, you won’t see the entire panel detailing sequence and few other things. Sorry.
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Modeling “Rickshaw” timelapse part 01
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/6825067[/vimeo]
I always wanted to record a modeling session timelapse but wasn’t too sure I would be able to finish a full model while being recorded. I also had no clue how fast I was at modeling and was worried I would make too many mistakes. Just like everything, if you don’t try, you will never know!
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Just got hacked …. geeks will always win
[update] It came to my attention that some people didn’t fully read my post and thought I was in awe at what those kids did. This is not the case at all, read the full post! This was to illustrate that with very very little knowledge, some individuals could easily disrupt our daily routines. Very often what separates us from those “geeks” is a tiny bit of information. In that case just a bit of masking tape would do the trick I am assuming. There are so many fields of knowledge around us and it takes so much effort to stay in the loop that when choosing one path we are at the mercy of people who chose a different one.
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Milt Kahl: The animation Michelangelo
Milt Kahl celebration
The American “Academy of motion picture arts and science” just released some videos from the Milt Kahl retrospective that was held in LA earlier this year.
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Eric Goldberg AAU talk
This is probably one of the best Eric Goldberg talk. I recommend you highly to check out that talk he gave at AAU for the “Industry on Campus” cycle. If like me you only know him through his work on Aladdin or Hercules, you will be pleasantly surprised to see him sharing his first Flipbook but also some of his latest work for a cultural Buddhist center from Hong Kong.
I watched that video few times already and will surely watch it again.
Click on the following link then his name on the right hand side
http://www.academyart.edu/video_industryoncampus.html
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