3D Street Art Magic in Dubai Just last month the streets of Dubai came to life at the annual Dubai Canvas Festival which was created and is now managed by Dubai Media office and #BrandDubai. This year the festival once again, drew the inventor of 3D Street Art himself, Kurt Wenner. The festival featured 60 […]
Victoria 7 Is Dead! (Opps) It was time to create art that is outside the comfort zone I normally adjust to. Simply go outside, one foot in front of the other. And see what happens. Turned out Victoria 7 is dead! Well, at least during this render–she’s all fine, I promise! Creating art with blood is […]
Minecraft Inspired Block World Open Beta for DAZ Studio 4.6 It’s So Different, Yet So Familar… Image from: http://www.minecraftgallery.com/minecraft-fort-redhawk/ by Kt5turtle The computer game Minecraft, has hundreds of millions of followers. It’s become a phenomenon, and is one of the most successful games ever created. Despite it’s blocky look and feel, or should we say […]
www.fastcompany.com Chris Gayomali on FastCompany writes about the use of Oculus Rift in journalism, where the Des Moins Register, Iowa, USA, is using virtual reality and the Oculus Rift to reach out to its readers in a five-part interactive story ‘Harvest of Change’. Gayomall writes, “When you put on the Rift, you are beamed into […]
www.nerdist.com When I wrote the post about animating with Daz3D, I was also thinking about stop motion linked with commuter generated images or CGI. So I was pleased to find that the film Boxtrolls is all over the news because it links old school stop motion and the latest in computer-generated imagery. Stop motion As […]
3D animation Abiogenesis A spaceship lands on a world and uses its resources to create a profound change. I must admit I have been so used to all the shoot-em-up images and kill them dead with bodies flying through the air games that I was kind of holding my breath for much of the animation. […]
Spheree A while back we did a post about Siggraph 2014, so here is one technology that was presented there. Found out about this on the IEEE Spectrum website in a post by Jeremy Hsu, who was writing about Spheree, a spherical display that lets you see 3D animations at any angle. This technology was […]
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/movies/httyd/ Animation in 2014 I was interested in looking at a very few of the 2014 animated movies to see who is behind the effects. How to train your dragon 2 Release date: June 2014 Directed by Dean DeBlois, who also wrote the script along with Cressida Cowell. Studio: DreamWorks Animation, with just a few […]
Rice and Matchsticks Following on from the theme of looking at studios in other parts of the world What’s going on in Argentina? This post is sparked by an article on http://variety.com by Emiliano De Pablos. He writes, “Pushing the boundaries of Latin American animation, Argentina’s helmer-writer-producer Javier Beltramino is advancing on “Rice & Matchsticks,” […]
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