Maya Rigger

I have been rigging for 4 years and love it. I am based in Toronto but can work remote, so just shoot me a quick email petrie55@gmail.com to see my demo and resume.

Not To Scale/Ubik: LateRooms.com “Bubbles”

London-based production company Not To Scale and director Ubik mustered their talents for agency BMB and discount hotel booking service LateRooms.com in “Bubbles.” The :30 advert presents the world’s vacation destinations as microcosmic scenes contained in bubbles that drift lazily through a sun-drenched kitchen.

The soft lighting, stylized modeling and texturing of the CG elements and cheery soundtrack all combine for a subtly nostalgic effect, channeling just the right mixture of whimsy and wonder.

We caught up with Not To Scale for a little behind-the-scenes info and backstory on the project. Check it out here.

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UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010

Last month we posted the Seed Cathedral, check out this video for a more upclose look at the building’s exterior and interior. This breaks the boundaries of a traditional architectural skin like no other and is directly affected by wind currents giving the visitor a sense of entering a living organism rather than a […]

Christian Montenegro

Christian Montenegro is an Argentinean illustrator who’s work spans billboards, editorial, book covers and a quite impressive body of personal and collaborative projects.

SHIHAD ~ Sleepeater

This is great, a new interactive music video for band Shihad’s single Sleepeater. Hundreds of portraits shot with the Phantom. (via Videos.Antville)

Interview with Nicolas Crombez

He is a freelance graphic designer, teacher and recently created a 30000 pixels wide panorama image for albumdiv class=”feedflare”
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Short Film: Pixels

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures ! PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.div class=”feedflare”
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Bobby Bring Dragon to Life For GIFF

[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/dragon_thumb.jpg”]24976[/NEWS]Swedish digital production company Bobby created an incredible piece of animation for the 2010 Göteborg International Film Festival at the start of the year. ‘Dragon’ is a special short produced as an intro and played before each and every film screened at the festival. After a total of approximately 800 plays, it received a great deal of attention and was appreciated by the GIFF crowds.

Dragon is a collaboration between Bobby and festivals agency SCP. The idea grew from the GIFF logo which is a full grown dragon, and was inspired by the 1960’s foetus photos created by the Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.

“In the beginning of the film we wanted to get a nice underwater feeling, with anemones and corals. When we first get a glimpse of the foetus the feeling should be that it is a human and the surprise comes when we show the wings and the whole dragon” explained Bobby animator Richard Blank.

The first challenge was to design the dragon foetus within its surroundings and the Bobby team used different animal foetuses, including crocodiles and birds, for reference.

It was essential that the foetus appeared believable and not plastic or artificial, so the animators worked hard to create a sound sub surface scattering, whilst keeping the render time down. Depth of field was also important to ensure a macro feeling to the piece.

Z-Brush and 3ds Max were used for modelling, all animation was created in Maya; rendering was produced using V-Ray, compositing with Nuke.

About Bobby
Bobby is a digital production company that helps leading brands and agencies to develop and visualize communication ideas for film and interactive media.Bobby consists of designers, directors, artists and producers with a strong focus on motion media.

About Göteborg International Film Festival
GIFF is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia, and with audience figures of over 200,000 each year, is one of the largest events in the annual festival calendar. GIFF offers a film and seminar programme alongside concerts, performances and parties; and encourages new talent with two exciting international competitions: The Dragon Award and The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award.

CREDITS
Creative Director/Director: Fredrik Swerin
Concept: Tommy Östberg (SCP)
Shading/Compositor: Richard Blank
Animation: Richard Blank & Fredrik Swerin
Modeling: Thomas Feiner
Particles: Anders Håkansson

RELATED LINKS
www.bobby.se
www.giff.se

modo 2 Day Course – Dates Announced

Luxology have announced the dates of their ‘Accelerate with modo’ two day introductory course. Delivered by their very own expert trainer, Andy Brown, this course is a great way to learn modo straight from the experts. The event is held at Escape Studios, London on 2-3 June. Find out more: * http://bit.ly/aW2uwa

How Do They Color Correct Like That?


It looks like most of commercials these days use the same color correction preset 🙂
I’ve noticed this photo on deviantart, it looks same. So I’m curious. Ho do they achieve this kind of look?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wctaw7IP0y4
http://www.reklam.tv/player/PlayerPu…CC352B2E568DCC