Archive for the 'Educational Resources' Category

A new section in the CG Explorer Guide helping students to choose a Computer Graphics school to learn skills dedicated to the following application fields: illustration, digital arts, filmmaking, visual effects, advertisements, television, videogames. Finally I am starting to use this dedicated section to collect resources useful to the CG community.

A video directly from the live voice of Pixar artists and directors. Here is how they modeled, shaded and rendered delicious food in 3D computer graphics for their latest animated movie: Ratatouille:

ShareCG just opened. It’s a new website allowing cg artists and creative people to upload their works and to earn some money out of it. I decided to register and I gather some more information besides what is contained in the press release.

Maybe the best film I watched in year 2006. This 7-minutes documentary tells some of the “behind the scenes” about the filmmaking and the special effects. The long takes and the visual style of the film do really makes “Children of Men” an innovative work.

Adrien-Luc Sanders prepared a quiz to determine your attitude in animation. I took the quiz and it said I am a 3D motion specialist: uhm.. maybe!

A rich collection of video tutorials about compositing, camera tracking, visual effects design and production.

An online resource for the figurative artist with high-resolution images and photos of human models. Get the reference you need to design characters for films, animation and videogames.

A technical paper on how to design and draw bird’s-eye views with traditional techniques and 3D software tools. A beautiful gallery of illustrated works is accompanying the article.

Malcolm Kesson, CG technical director publishes a useful and rich set of resources and tutorials for Pixar Renderman software.