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Robert Rodrigues is releasing a new Predator movie called, strangely, Predators. I was never a fan of the sequels to the totally entertaining 1987 original, but this looks like a fun ride.

Really excellent facial animation work here.  I’m not sure if this is an individual (if so, bravo!) or a studio trying for some kind of viral response.

Working on Skyboxes today.
Skyboxes are six images that are mapped onto a cube that follows the 3D camera around in a realtime 3D space.  The skybox object is drawn first and then everything else is drawn on top of it.  It simulates a big giant sky.
I’ll post a tutorial in a while, I need to [...]

Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Best.     Movie.    Evar.

A really excellent interview with several of the concept designers for James Cameron’s new Avatar. Super cool to see that Wayne Barlowe was on the team!

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
VISICHUNK

Lot’s of talk back and forth about building planets and good ways of rendering them in the past few days.  Here’s the latest Earth render:

We got the maps from the Blue Marble site over at NASA but the shaders are still not right in my opinion.  Take a look at an actual shot of our [...]

We’ve been working on a lot of new stuff – totally unable to find time to upload.  Here’s a sample of some of the science-focused work we’ll  be doing in the next year:
Electron Micrograph look and feel.  This is spectacularly difficult to tune.
DNA Strand.

Mother Earth.  May she continue to bear our weight.

I have a search on the #VFX hashtag running all the time.  It’s cool to see what other visual effects artists are doing.  Occasionally, a studio will have all their employees fire off a tweet that points back to them, either through a direct link or just the inclusion of a hash tag.  This is [...]