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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

15 films for 84th VFX academy awards

ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 15 VFX BAKEOFF FILMS
Press Release from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
today announced that 15 films have been selected for consideration for
Achievement in Visual Effects for the 84th Academy Awards.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

"Captain America: The First Avenger"
"Cowboys & Aliens"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
"Real Steel"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"
"Sucker Punch"
"Super 8"
"Thor"
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
"The Tree of Life"
"X-Men: First Class"

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Future of Flash in Mobiles

Check out these articles which points out the future of flash applications in mobiles.

Thoughts on Flash

Adobe Feature Blog

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

THE LIGHT FIELD CAMERA-The camera that turns light into living pictures





The camera that turns light into living pictures

It is a new type of imaging technology called light field imaging. It allows you to change focus after the picture was taken, and also offers 3D stereo for your image. This is totally amazing tech, just think of what you could do with this. It is only a still camera, but what if this was a video camera? How about taking 3D stereo with only one lens? Seriously that would be totally cool, and to change or alter the focus of the image by just dragging your mouse over the image.

Once the picture is on a computer or phone, the focus can be adjusted to center on any object in the image, also allowing for cool artsy shots where one shifts between a blurry foreground and sharp background and vice versa.
The technology also allows photos to be taken in very low-light conditions without a flash, as well as for some eye-popping three-dimensional images to be taken with just a single lens.
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LIGHT FIELD CAMERA

Thursday, August 11, 2011

XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology

Autodesk and Walt Disney Pictures announced an agreement to bring an innovative animation and visual effects technology to the Digital Entertainment Creation community. Autodesk obtained a license with a five-year exclusivity period for the XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology (XGen), used most recently by Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) in the hit animated film “Tangled.”

XGen technology was first presented by WDAS in a research paper at SIGGRAPH in 2003 for the creation of computer-generated fur, feathers and foliage. Since that time, XGen has evolved and been refined on seven features, three shorts and one TV show. It has been used to create the fur, hair, feathers, trees, leaves and rocks in “Bolt,” the trees and bushes in “UP,” the dust bunnies, debris, trees, bushes, clover and flowers in “Toy Story 3,” and the grass and trees in “Cars 2.” In “Tangled,” WDAS used XGen to bring the lavish 3D animated world to life: from Rapunzel’s perfectly groomed golden locks to the film’s lush, vegetation-filled landscapes, including bushes, flowers, vines, grass, weeds, moss, thistle, ground mulch, fallen leaves, sticks, rocks, butterfly fur, airborne dust, leaves and trees, plus props such as roof tiles, arrow fletchings, a broom and paint brushes.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION'S MONKEYS OF MUMBAI


GLENDALE, Calif., July 20, 2011 -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. DWA
today announced that Kevin Lima (Enchanted, Tarzan) will direct the
upcoming feature film Monkeys of Mumbai(working title), the studio's
first-ever Bollywood-style animated musical adventure. Lisa Stewart
(Turbo, Monsters vs. Aliens) and Chris Chase (Enchanted, Tarzan) will
serve as producers on the project. As previously announced, Stephen
Schwartz (Wicked, Prince of Egypt, Enchanted) is serving as executive
producer and lyricist, A.R. Rahman (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire,
Bombay Dreams) is serving as executive producer and composer, and
Gurinder Chadha & Paul Berges (Bride & Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham)
are writing the feature project.
Inspired by the great Indian epic tale of The Ramayana – but retold
through the point of view of its monkeys – Monkeys of Mumbairevolves
around two common monkeys who become unlikely heroes in a last ditch
effort to stop an ancient, thought-to-be-mythical demon from conquering
the world. The project is being overseen at DreamWorks Animation by
development executive Chris Kuser.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Make your own MoCap System with Brekel and Microsoft Kinetic

It allows you to capture 3D objects and export them to disk for use in 3D packages. As well as do skeleton tracking which can be streamed into Autodesk’s MotionBuilder in realtime, or exported as BVH files. Read more

INDIA'S RELIANCE MEDIAWORKS PARTNERS WITH DIGITAL DOMAIN

Mumbai/Los Angeles, July 11, 2011 - Reliance MediaWorks Ltd
, India's fastest growing film and
entertainment services company and a member of the Reliance group, has
partnered with Los Angeles-based digital production studio Digital
Domain Productions to create visual effects
and 3D Stereo Production services studios in Mumbai, India and London,
UK that will cater to motion pictures, television, commercial, and
stereo 3D conversion for catalogue projects from August 2011 in phases.

Reliance MediaWorks offers a full array of visual effects and stereo 3D
conversion services with an existing team of more than 500 artists. The
company will set up a new studio at its Media BPO in Navi Mumbai and
deploy there an additional team of up to 650 artists available for
projects allied with Digital Domain. In London, Digital Domain will
co-locate a visual effects team within Reliance MediaWorks' UK facility.

Reliance MediaWorks studios in both Mumbai and London will connect to
Digital Domain's L.A. facility through Reliance MediaWorks' fibre optic
network that can support seamless high-speed exchange of data.

Digital Domain recently completed visual effects work on Transformers:
Dark of the Moon and its feature film work currently in production
includes Real Steel, Jack the Giant Killer and 47 Ronin. Building upon
its parent company Digital Domain Media Group¹s recent acquisition of
2D-to-3D conversion company In-Three, partnering with Reliance
MediaWorks enables Digital Domain to expand its visual effects and
stereo 3D conversion services to existing and new clients around the
world.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES TO LAUNCH PARAMOUNT ANIMATION

LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2011 -- Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. ,
will launch an in-house animation division, with its first title slated
for release in 2014.

In making the announcement, Paramount Chairman & CEO Brad Grey said the
initiative was part of the studio's long-term strategy for growth and
that the new division, Paramount Animation, will focus on high quality
animation with budgets per picture of up to $100 million.

Paramount Animation's mandate will be the development of the broadest
range of family CGI animated films, with a key piece being titles under
the label of Viacom's Nickelodeon, the number one entertainment brand
for kids worldwide. Paramount will also look to build on Viacom's
already thriving global consumer products business by seeking to
capitalize on merchandising opportunities tied to all Paramount
Animation releases.

The division will be part of the Paramount Motion Picture Group,
reporting to the group's president, Adam Goodman, and will initially
target one release per year. Vice Chair Rob Moore, COO Frederick
Huntsberry and Goodman are now conducting a search for the leader of the
division.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

News this June

VFS TAKES SCHOOL OF THE YEAR FOR THE SECOND YEAR
TRANSFORMERS 3 HAS BEST JULY 4TH EVER
IMAX POSTS RECORD WORLDWIDE OPENING WITH TRANSFORMERS 3
CARS 2 CO-DIRECTOR TO DIRECT FOR DIGITAL DOMAIN'S TRADITION STUDIOS
NOLAN TO PRODUCE KEITH GORDON'S SUPERNATURAL THRILLER
WARNER RELEASES TOM AND JERRY: FUR FLYING ADVENTURES VOLUME 2

Thursday, May 12, 2011

DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS OPEN SOURCE


I dont know how many of you know that Disney has a list of open source programs to share with us.Until i post this even i was unaware of this.The upcoming new texturing mapping system like P-tex,widely used in disney's animated movie bolt,SeExpr a simple expression language,Partio an open source C++ library for reading, writing and manipulating a variety of standard particle formats,Dynamica a plug-in for Maya that provides an interface to the Bullet rigid body engine.These amazing source codes can be widely and is effectively used by artist around world.So opening the list of source codes for you..

disneyanimation

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Photoshop Cloth Painting Technique


Make a cloth effect using some painting technique in Photoshop.This is a tutorial i made for a painting workshop.Please feel free to download it and have a try

DOWNLOAD HERE

Friday, May 6, 2011

SOFTWARE NOTES ON WEB


Make use of this link to get notes on softwares..forwarded by my HOD.
CLICK HERE

Bitmap2Material, a powerful filter!


Allegorithmic is proud to announce Bitmap2Material, a powerful filter for generating seamless, tiling materials from any photo right from within 3ds Max and Maya 2012. A link to Allegorithmic Substances is included within 3ds Max and Maya 2012 for easy access to this terrific material solution. Right now you can pick up Bitmap2Material for the low introductory price of $149, but be sure to get it soon. This offer won’t last!

MORE INFO

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Combustion Tutorials Re-uploaded

Hi all,My freestuffs web folder "free biscuits" has re-formatted to GRAB BOX.So this is where i would be uploading all my free goodies. Please find that i have re-uploaded the old combustion tutorials here. follow the link.
GRAB BOX

Thursday, April 14, 2011

A city generator and tool for creating urban environments




GHOST TOWN
Lopoly or highpoly buildings
Roadtool for making basic road layouts
Easy material system, add your textures and they will be randomly distributed
Add details were needed with basic scripts for facades etc
Works with 3ds max 2011 only


DOWNLOAD

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

3ds Max 2011 certified Associate


I would like to thanks all my colleagues and my supportive HOD for this achievement.Thank mom and GOD.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

THE MEDIA PROGRAMME IS IN DANGER

Press Release from CARTOON and the Annecy Festival

The European Commission under President Barroso's presidency is
considering ending the MEDIA Programme! This decision could have
disastrous consequences on the European audiovisual sector, which
benefits from numerous funds and actions led by this programme. Many
associations have already taken action.

On behalf of the European animation industry, CARTOON and the Annecy
festival / MIFA have launched a petition to stop the proposed abolition
or reduction:
read more

Autodesk 2012


Autodesk comes to GDC armed with new Digital Entertainment Creation products.The latest release keep up with the demands of the post-Avatar bar that has been raised.
read more

Friday, January 14, 2011

what for 2011 VFX?


Cowboys & Aliens


Captain America: The First Avenger


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2


Transformers: Dark of the Moon


GreenLantern


Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides


SourceCode


Sucker Punch

Friday, January 7, 2011

Seven movies for oscar VFX

seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 83rd Academy Awards.
“Alice in Wonderland”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
“Hereafter”
“Inception”
“Iron Man 2”
“Scott Pilgrim vs the World”
“Tron: Legacy”
All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each
of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, January 20. Following the screenings, the members
will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration