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VIDEO 2D Short Animated Film: La Maison En Petits Cubes by Kunio Kato

VIDEO 2D Short Animated Film: La Maison En Petits Cubes by Kunio Kato

“The House of Small Cubes” is written and directed by Kunio Kato, Japanese. The 12-minute short movie won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Short and many other awards.


Commercial: Carousel, A Philips Cinematic Viewing Experience

Commercial: Carousel, A Philips Cinematic Viewing Experience

A one long shooting sequence with tells a story with a lot of visual effects. That is the latest commercial for a popular TV set brand.


Pixar 3D Animated Short Film Images: Partly Cloudy

Pixar 3D Animated Short Film Images: Partly Cloudy

A frame from the latest 3D animated short movie from Pixar Animation Studios: Partly Cloudy, expected to be watch before the feature film “UP”.


3D Animated Short Film: Kiwi by Dony Permedi

3D Animated Short Film: Kiwi by Dony Permedi

Kiwi is a 3D short animated film created by Dony Permedi as his Thesis. The story of the little Kiwi received an astounding success online.


Reference Images: Flickr.com as a source for Visual Artists

Reference Images: Flickr.com as a source for Visual Artists

An infinite visual resource for visual artists: find images, photographs, textures among billions of images on any subject in any format. Painters, illustrators and CG artists can not live without Flickr.


Textures Review: Amazing Textures

Textures Review: Amazing Textures

AmazingTexures.com offers about 100 free high-resolution textures and much more ad mid-res. If you register for a small annual fee you can download the high-resolution version of any image available.


Disney Animation Technique: Cloning Animations

Disney Animation Technique: Cloning Animations

In this video you can see compilation of all those animations of characters re-used in various Walt Disney animated films.


Free Textures Review: 2Textured

Free Textures Review: 2Textured

About 3000 thousands of images more suitable as reference photographs for 3D modeling or digital painting with many image source for texturing, but with some editing work needed.


3D Animated Short Film: Steel Life (Graduation Thesis)

3D Animated Short Film: Steel Life (Graduation Thesis)

Mathieu Gérard Thesis graduation film. Visually stunning experience with gorgeous 3D graphics and animated effects. See also the making-of.


CG Artist Interview: Davide Pesare, CG Software Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios

CG Artist Interview: Davide Pesare, CG Software Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios

Davide Pesare, a software engineer specialized in CG for VFX and Animation for movies, worked at the Oscar-winning with Happy Feet and worked as Software Developer for Computer Graphics. He is Research and Development Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios for ‘Toy Story 3′.