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The Foundry’s Mari Is Coming to the Mac
The Foundry's 3D painting tool, MARI, will be coming to OS X in 2013, the company announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) yesterday. If you'd like to be one of the first to use Mari on your Mac, The …
Bill Plympton’s Simpsons Couch Gag
Animator Bill Plympton created this "couch gag" for Sunday night's Simpsons show opener, recasting Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa as hard-boiled black-and-white characters from a vintage film noir.
The Cautionary Tale of Ebenezer Snoop
"Bahhumbizzle," it's Ebenezer Snoop in a Dickensian tale of "loss, regret, redemption" and, of course, a totally legit Adidas track suit. Other Adidas-wearing legends like tennis star Stan Smith and David Beckham show up to help Snoop find his hibernating …
“War” by Blind Digital Citizen
Chris Dias designed, animated and directed this music video, which sets Blind Digital Citizen's explosive song against the monochrome vagaries of deep space.
How Healthy Is Our VFX Industry?
This might be the toughest, most complicated blog I've ever written. I've been concerned for some time now that something serious is ailing the VFX industry. Too many vintage and new VFX houses are going under, and not just here …
Luxology to Preview NPR Kit for Modo at SIGGRAPH
Luxology will be showcasing two soon-to-be released products at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles that blend traditional animation and illustration techniques with 3D: NPR Kit for modo (shown above), a shortcut to non-photorealistic rendering options like hand-drawn and other stylized looks, …
Coming Attraction: Surviving in VFX
I've watched a lot of VFX companies go under in the last decade and it's a shame. Some were run by friends of mine, pretty much all of them did fine work, too. Others, even some of the principle houses, …
Industry Conferences Abroad – Should You Consider Going?
The answer of course is: “It depends.” There are great conferences in Europe and Asia and I've been to a number of them. They are all presented primarily in English and some have simultaneous translation for those few bits done in …
Rarely Seen Disney Doc The Sweatbox Sneaks Online
Want to watch a full-on Disney animation product collapse and be hurriedly rebuilt to a new spec? Check out The Sweatbox, currently available on YouTube. Filmmaker Trudie Styler (the wife of Sting, who was writing songs for the still-unscripted film) …