Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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A Fruitful Challenge for Asian-Pacific Students
Dedicated professionals from Lucasfilm, Rhythm & Hues and Rising Sun Pictures help launch Autodesk’s successful animation boot camp. The pros came from Singapore, America and Australia, bringing animation expertise gained on The Clone Wars, Happy Feet, Terminator Salvation and many more high-profile projects. Lucasfilm Animation’s Ben Huber, Rhythm & Hues’ [...]
San Jose State Students Capture Bin Laden
With the aid of SJSU students, writer-director Scott Sublett’s Flash-animated feature hits the festival circuit and gets a DVD release. September 2009 marked a milestone for students at San Jose State University in Silicon Valley, California. That’s when Cinequest Distribution released the DVD of Bye-Bye Bin Laden, a Flash-animated feature [...]
CG on the Fly
SIGGRAPH spotlights real-time animation People who work with real-time animation don’t often see their work projected at SIGGRAPH. Whenever real-time projects have appeared in the conference’s premier show, the Electronic Theater, they’re usually pre-rendered game cinematics scattered amongst vfx-driven movie sequences’an arrangement that Microsoft’s Evan Hirsch calls ‘a two-game sorbet.’ [...]
Guinea Pigs to the Rescue
VFX guru and helmer Hoyt Yeatman discusses the gee-whiz 3-D effects of G-Force. It all started in a five-year-old boy’s imagination. Several years ago, the son of Oscar-winning effects artist Hoyt Yeatman brought a guinea pig home from school, and then started imagining the animal as a commando. ‘He was [...]
Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?
VFX company recruiters reveal how to get’and keep’a job during the economic downturn. Panels focusing on how to get a job are always among the best-attended at SIGGRAPH. But this year’perhaps reflecting the tough economic times’there will also be a panel focusing on keeping a job. Among the panelists will [...]
A Student Project with Oscar Pedigree
The Spine links Academy Award-winning director Chris Landreth to Seneca College once again. When Chris Landreth’s animated short Ryan won the Oscar in 2005, Seneca College in Toronto had special cause for pride. Ten graduates from the school’s Animation Arts Center had worked alongside Landreth in creating his innovative tribute [...]
Fantastic Weather
Pixar’s Peter Sohn sheds some light on the making of his wonderful new short, Partly Cloudy. It seems fitting that Pixar’s newest short, Partly Cloudy, is about things being born. For first-time director Peter Sohn, the production was a study in how ideas get incubated at Pixar and eventually hatched. [...]
Bringing the Force to Singapore
Lucasfilm training goes global. When George Lucas launched Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore in 2005, he felt that working within Asia’s anime culture would help foster the look he wanted for his Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series, which airs in the U.S. on Cartoon Network. To achieve this, [...]
Animation Magazine’s Oscar Watch
Shorts Race Emerges as Sublime Global Sampler. The conventional wisdom about animated shorts is that they can spotlight emerging talent, test new techniques or explore subjects that might be considered offbeat for more commercial films. These bursts of creativity and wit are likely to reflect the international reach of animation, [...]
Insider Tips: Some of today’s top pros share their insights on getting the right animation education
+DreamWorks animator Cameron Hood couldn’t have predicted the circumstances surrounding the return to his alma mater, Toronto’s Sheridan College. But when the school invited DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg to address Sheridan’s students, Hood joined him onstage. This trip came a year before the debut of First Flight, the 2006 [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
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Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
