Here is yet another awesome trailer for the upcoming game Star Wars: The Old Republic by BioWare. The makers of this beauty is – of course 
– my all time favourite studio; Blur Studio.
“The Battle of Alderaan. The Republic’s gravest hour. In the years before the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant, the Sith Empire sought to crush the Republic’s morale by destroying Alderaan. Check out one of the pivotal battles of this conflict in the second cinematic trailer created for E3 2010.”
- Blur Studio
May The Force be with you…
Talking about turning classic animation into 3D-animation (my previous post about The Road Runner animation). Now it’s Tintin, Snowy (Milou) and Captain Haddock‘s turn to enter the third dimension! 
You can read more about it and see some renderings at Empire:Magazine.
“With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”
- Peter Jackson
I’m looking forward to this
The two classic characters Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner (wiki) from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies have been brought back to life in full 3D by Radium – Reel FX. 
Check it out!
Well, I loved it!
Cheers mates!
This is just amazing! Probably the coolest use of particles I’ve ever seen… or something like that. Matthias Müller is the genius behind this and it is absolutely brilliant!
It is done in 3ds Max with Particle Flow and the following plug-ins; FumeFX from SitniSati, Particle Flow Tools: Box #3 Pro by Orbaz and renderd with Krakatoa from Prime Focus.
Check out some other cool stuff Müller has done here:
http://www.vimeo.com/user624589/videos
http://matthiasm.cgsociety.org/gallery/
One day I will be able to create awesome things like this, just you wait and see!
Cheers!
As you probably noticed by now you can find all kinds of thing on the internet and I’ve recently found a blog that I found to be really inspiring. The old Disney films are truly works of art and they are beautifully animated. But other then that I’m also very fond of the backgrounds. The backgrounds are really beautiful pieces of art by them self, unfortunately you perhaps don’t think about them too much because you are focusing on all the animated action. However, believe it or not, I found a blog that is entirely devoted to animation backgrounds! It is really, really nice to just sit and watch these pictures and take in all the details. You should take a look at; http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/
Here are some of my favourite highlights, from the film Pinocchio.
Check out the rest at: http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/search/label/PINOCCHIO
Enjoy!
Autodesk has posted their Masterclasses from 2009 for free over at The Area. Just sign up (it’s free) and enjoy some tips and tricks from real masters of Autodesk softwares; including 3ds max, Maya, Mudbox, Softimage (nope, it is not called XSI any more), Motion Builder and mental ray. Here is the link; http://area.autodesk.com/masterclasses.
I personally find these two classes to be very interesting, in 3ds max:
Non-Photorealistic Rendering Techniques in Autodesk® 3ds Max® with Gary M. Davis
Giant Robots: Using mental ray shaders to integrate CG elements into real shots with Håkan “Master Zap” Andersson (Swedish guy! )
And I think I have a look at this one as well, its in Maya:
Fracture: procedural, collision event-driven destruction with Kevin Mannens (I do like destruction )
I’ll have a look at the Mudbox class as well if I got the time.
Cheerio!
Gobelins is a French school of animation, both traditional (2d) and 3d animation. Here are some examples of really, really, reeeeally cool stuff from some of the students:
Pyrats
Brilliant short animation set in the Golden Age of Piracy, brilliant animation and interesting characters. I’ve heard some rumours that it might be turned into a feature film—that would be awesome!
Check out their website for HD version and some Making-of material: Pyrats.net
There’s more, keep reading…
Blur studio is one of my favourite companies within the CG industry, they create some truly amazing things! It can be really inspiring to watch so here are some examples that I like to share
A Gentleman’s Duel
Two victorian gentlemen duel each other in order to win the lovely lady’s heart – it is really funny!
Star Wars: The Old Republic (E3 2009 Jedi vs. Sith Trailer)
Cinematic trailer for an upcoming MMORPG from BioWare.
Lead FX Artist at blur is Brandon Riza, he is really skilled with FumeFX and RayFire for 3ds max. Check out his portfolio here: BrandonRiza.com – 3D Visual Effects
I hope you enjoyed these clips. To find out more visit their website; www.blur.com – I think they’re recruiting
Cheers mates!