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View Conference: incredibly in Turin at day Zero!

View Conference: incredibly in Turin at day Zero!

Hey All! I still have to touch the ground of the conference center of VIEW Conference 2007 and I am already amazed by its guests. I had the honour of meeting some very special people at the airport: Pam Hogarth of Gnomon School, Jessica McMackin, Rendering girl of Pixar, Paul Topolos Master Matte Painter of [...]


VIEW Conference 8 Live reporting by Massimo Curatella

VIEW Conference 8 Live reporting by Massimo Curatella

CG Explorer with Massimo Curatella will be present at the VIEW Conference 8 event in Turin, Italy and will report the best of what will happen in the Torino Incontra conference center. Keep on following us.


Virtuality becomes VIEW Conference and does it with style!

Virtuality becomes VIEW Conference and does it with style!

VIEW Conference (former Virtuality Conference) comes back with its annual event dedicated to the world of: digital content world, computer graphics, 3D animation, visual effects, design and videogames.


Choosing a Computer Graphics school, some questions to help

Choosing a Computer Graphics school, some questions to help

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.


Pirates of The Caribbean 2: the visual effects of Industrial Light and Magic

Pirates of The Caribbean 2: the visual effects of Industrial Light and Magic

A beautiful website entirely devoted to the digital visual effects in the latest cinematographic success “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Chest.


Renaissance: the virtual 3D architecture of Paris in year 2054

Renaissance: the virtual 3D architecture of Paris in year 2054

BLDGBLOG shares some comments on the virtual architecture of Paris in year 2054 seen in the movie Renaissance by Christian Volckman.


Digital Visual Effects Tutorials by cmiVFX

Digital Visual Effects Tutorials by cmiVFX

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


Tips for digital artists’ self-promotion on the Web

Mars Explorer by Marco Genovesi. Digital illustration (3D computer graphics, digital painting, compositing) CG Channel published an article on self-promotion tips and guidelines for digital artists. There are suggestions about what to do when creating an artist’s website: avoid Flash, use a simple and usable user interface for navigating your image / animation portfolio, carefully [...]


VFXY – Your Gateway to Visual Effects

A big hello to VFXY, a new portal / directory made by visual effects industry’s members for VFX aficionados and professionals. link: VFXY – Your Gateway to Visual Effects Be the first to like. Like Unlike


A CALL TO ALL VISUAL EFFECTS CREATORS – MANIFXTO

Tired of BAD EFFECTS in GOOD MOVIES? How sick are you of seeing the BEST EFFECTS in the WORST MOVIES? This sad state of affairs exists because of the widely held belief that visual effects are something that can only be afforded in “Big Effects Movies”. Link: A CALL TO ALL VISUAL EFFECTS CREATORS – [...]