Reliance and Fox bringing Spielberg's WARHORSE

The story of a young man and his horse that is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War I.
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The Pixar story - Part 1

I guess this need to be a must watch for all animators!

The Pixar Story- Part 2

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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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.

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.

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