The Ronin: Fear/Love

Rob Chiu of The Ronin has been working on short film ‘Fear/Love’ which will be released soon.
In the meantime, he has released the first trailers for the film which you can see on his site: Trailer 1 — Trailer 2 — Trailer 3.

Andrew Chase: Trionic Morphatractable Engineer

Andrew Chase is a photographer/sculpture who has been building fully maneuverable animals from used transmission parts, household appliances and 20 gauge steel for his upcoming book Trionic Morphatractable Engineer.

mono’s new office space

Minneapolis agency mono settles in at our new office space. (flickr photos shot by Chad Holder)

CG Community to Autodesk- “Could you be more like Blender?”

The results are in from CGenie’s user survey on 3d artists satisfaction with the software they use. Above is a graph of the overall satisfaction scores for each software. It’s interesting to see that Blender (the open-source 3d graphics package) consistently tops the list in most of the categories listed from new features to value. Of course some of this is not surprising considering that Blender is free. The offerings from Autodesk (namely Maya and 3ds Max) are grouped over and over at the lowest rungs of ladder. The survey results also include some choice comments from users in which the Autodesk products take quite a beating from those who toil in front of them day in and day out. Like these…

Maya: I’m forced to use this software to make a living but I resent it every minute.

and

3ds Max: A lot of the times it feels like the developers do not listen to the artists. Some tools that have been in max for ages and always had problems, they are just left as they are… Come on let’s fix the old stuff clean up the code and then move onto the new stuff.

It seems the open source model is outpacing the bloated development cycles of the big boys. It’ll be interesting to see if they can find a way to catch up.

LINK to the full survey on CGenie


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Retro Graphics + Daft Punk + Speak and Spell + Kubricks = OBAMA!!!!!


Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – “Aer OBAMA” from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.

What better way to celebrate the inauguration of our 44th prez than a total stop-motion-techno-freak-out? Hail to the chief!

via Eric Alba’s Blog

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