Archive for December, 2005

New poster for Pixar Animation Studios’ latest 3D short film: One Man Band and image gallery of frames extracted from the movie.

A. I., a frame from the movie. Source: Xah Lee
Read how the new Special Interest Group of IGDA is defining ARGs:
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), or Cross-Media Entertainment (CME), are where the game breaks out of being a dedicated application on your PC, and instead becomes a part of the world in which you live.
The [...]

The article covers rules and principles to follow when you have to design the configuration of objects, lights and environments in an image regardless od the medium you are going to use: 2D illustration, 3D modeling and rendering, drawing.

A very good resource about the history of digital graphics and animation. Utilized for an academic course the website I am suggesting is rich of timelines, anectodes, stories about famous people of 3D CG and a lot of external references.
thanks to Cristian Contini
Visit: A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation

source Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios just released online the first sneak peak of the animated short movie One Man Band to be publicly released in theathers together with Cars.
Watch One Man Band online.