CG Explorer: CGI Animation, 2D, 3D Computer Graphics and Visual Effects

Michael Ricciotti’s 3rd year graduation short movie, made from January to April 2009 at the SUPINFOCOM-Arles school, in France.

Animation Mentor graduation short film from Gabor Lendvai

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A behind the scenes look at how the BBC created the BBC iPlayer trail for April Fools’ Day, featuring a colony of flying penguins.

A graduation film by Charles-André Lefebvre, Manuel Tanon-Tchi, Louis Tardivier, Sébastien Vovau and Emmanuelle Walker. during an animation course at Gobelins, l’école de l’image 2008.

Discover the latest research in the computer graphics field that may be possible the next features in the software you are using

Digital painting video tutorial about copying the shapes and the lighting of photgraph: going from the macro to the micro. Starting loose and refining in the end.

James Gurney, shows in this video how he painted the poster for the Utopiales event.
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Screen Space Ambient Occlusion – wonderfl build flash online
An open-source online Flash 3D real-time flat-shaded rendering of a procedurally generated geometry.
Great new resource at http://wonderfl.net
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The tutorial will take you approximately 30 minutes to complete.
During the tutorial you will learn how to:

Efficiently use bezier curves
Use the curve to tree script to generate complicated twigs
Create low poly leaves
Properly texture a tree
Hand paint displacement onto an object

See the complete associated article where you can also download Blender scene.
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Vyonix offers image collections of peoples, cut-out, ready to be included in an architectural rendering. The library is free for any use. Download it and read the legal disclaimer: cut out people.
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You see blue and green spiral’s arms. You are wrong:

Art film for MTV International Rebrand / Universaleverything / 2009, direction: Maxim Zhestkov, Matt Pyke – cg: Maxim Zhestkov – sound: Simon Pyke / Freefarm
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Planet 51 3D animated feature film, new trailer.

Create photorealistic seamless textures with the new Genetica: seamless texture, animation, and HDRI environment map editor.

A short movie about the plague. Directed by Olivier Dubocage, Michal Firkowski, Benoît Galland and Gildas Le Franc. Copyright Supinfocom 2008. lapeste.fr/
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The econopocalypse has blazed has a path of destruction through every sector of the economy—leaving Chrysler and now GM in bankruptcy. Now, it looks like the wave of destruction is bearing down on the effects industry, too, refuting the theory that this industry is recession proof.
via Computer Graphics World – Casualties of the Recession.
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Luxology LLC, developer of modern, artist-focused 3D software, has created a new asset sharing Web site that serves as a participatory content-sharing portal and learning resource.

Jumping will make things jump. Original concept for a music video.

French short film by three Supinfocom students: Remi Despret, Vincent Courbis Poncet, Jean-David Solon

CG CON 09, educational computer graphics conference with 24 lectures in Digital Painting, Digital Modeling and Digital Animation scheduled for 2009.

Two pictures with the same face but with different contrast. In one you see a female in the other a male. Learning the tricks of visual perceptions surely helps visual artists.

Listen and watch classical music with animated graphical representation.

New release for Luxology Modo with hundreds of news about: animation, modeling, texturing and rendering.

Trailer videos for upcoming 3D animated feature film Ice Age Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, third installment from Fox / Blue Sky Studios

French Roast Interview by Character Design Blog.
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Learn how to transform a pencil sketch into a high-res painting with a 3D feel, with Michael Kutsche