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Happy new year，虎年快乐！

qiaoka — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:17:55 +0000

在此新春佳节之际，NeoVFX全体成员恭祝所有NeoVFX的网友虎年吉祥，祝大家在新的一年里祝愿大家：大吉大利、事业有成、如虎添翼！

Pranav Mistry的互动世界

manitou — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:26:20 +0000

MIT的印度天才Pranav Mistry搞了很多新玩意。虽然有一些类似的见过。但是他吧世界和数字相互融合在一起的想法还是很棒的！创意不能有束缚。我们需要out of box

go to see

meindbender访谈

manitou — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:23:33 +0000

很是牛逼的团队。下面是他们的一个十分简短的访问。

Meet Meindbender Animation Studio

Time ago this guys impressed us with “Football Vs Rabbit”’s clip. And now, with their last reel, we can only say: wooW !

We would like to say ( again ) from Arte y Animación Blog: Thank you very much Michael for your time !

How many people are the “brain” of MeindBender? What is their animation background?

There are four core people that founded Meindbender. Olov Burman, Calle Halldin, Tony österlund and myself, Michael Bengtsson. We had the fortune to meet each other when we where studying on the excellent 3D animation at the university in Trollhättan/Sweden a couple of years ago. After that, we founded the company.

Two years ago, we were impressed with the “Football Vs Rabbit”’s clip. We had never seen anything like that. It was the perfect combination of Stop-motion and CGI.How did you get the idea of mixing these techniques?

It came quite natural to us. Olov was into stop motion, Calle and Tony really liked both CG and cel, and I ( Michael ) was, more or less, obsessed with realistic shading

Maybe the Cartoon Network saw it and wanted to do the same to their commercials?

Yes, that is correct. It was kind of funny how they found us though. When we released Football/rabbit our homepage went down after two days, because we over consumed the bandwidth of our web-hotel.

We were all glad, of course, for all the downloads from our site., but the problem was that no one could see the contact information. Luckily for us, Cartoon Network didn´t stop there and finally found one of our animators msn adress, and from there it goes on

We saw that you have another Cartoon Network commercial made in Stop-Motion. And it’s very nice. Why don’t you always use stop-motion ?

Time and expression. Stop motion is very time consuming , so if we can get the look right in CG, we save time and don’t have the common boundaries of traditional stop motion. For us it´s all pixels in the end.

We love original stop motion though, and we have the greatest respect for those who create it.

The character rig seems very complicated. When the character explodes and multiplies it’s amazing. Do you use tools like “AniSculpt” to animate? Is the rig as complicated as it seems?

Yes and no. We use a system of partly driven and partly fully controllable blend shapes in Maya. To get those extreme poses we have a master-rig that can switch between different sub-rigs wich are specialized one specific poses. It´s all a pretty straight forward process to set up from a technical standpoint but it gives the artist more or less free hands to do what they do best.
We are always looking to push it further though and now we have our eyes open for a really good rigger to join our team, preferably a little crazy that thinks outside the box, or better yet, doesn’t have one

How many animators do you need to finish a piece like “The Duplicators”?

On that specific film we used two animators.

Every Cartoon Network commercial seems to be animated frame by frame. What’s the background of the animators, maybe they come from 2d animation?

As I mentioned before, we love traditional Stop motion and cel animation, as well as top quality 3D productions. It´s all animation in the end, a visual language.

When will we see a short film with these “yobs red bugs”?

Cartoon Network are interested in doing more for next year, but I think we have to wait and see how the response from the viewers is before doing something longer with them.

You have set high standards with your last Reel. Do you think you can overcome that?

If I would say no I´d better get out business

What is the next step for Meindbender? How do you see the future?

We are currently in the funding stage of our first fully in house produced short. As soon as we have it fully financed we are going all in on this one. Hopefully, it will be a great 2010!

Thank you very much for participate in Arte y Animación Blog !

Thank you and Christmas wishes from Meindbender.

Rodrigo Blaas执导的第一部短片——Alma

victorLuo — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:32:38 +0000

你可能不知道Rodrigo Blaas是谁。他从2002年开始就是Pixar的动画师，而且他还是西班牙业余滑雪冠军。Alma是他执导的第一部短片，由其在西班牙的团队制作完成。

不知Vimeo能否访问，这是视频链接。

在蓝天工作室做了《冰河世纪》以及随DVD发行的短片《消失的松果》后，Rodrigo Blaas于2002年去了Pixar，参与了Finding Nemo，Boundin’s，The Incredibles，Cars，Ratatouille，Wall-E，Up，还有他利用休假的时间在西班牙带领一个团队制作的短片《Alma》。在Pixar的动画全家福里，他总是和老乡Carlos Baena站在一起，在影片的职员名单上，他的名字也总是和Carlos的列在一起。他们是业内知名的高手，西班牙动画师的典范。

Alma短片的官方网站。

Alma的一些精美图片。

在（The International Short Film Database）国际短片数据库中的相关介绍。

短片 Catch Up

thinkingPoly — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:46:39 +0000

嘿！大家好，这次给大家带来的不是什么大片啦，而是我前段时间完成的一个小短片——Catch Up，一袋番茄酱的悲惨故事。

动画的前身是一个小作业，在前期过程中我决定把它稍微丰富一下做成一个完整的短片，但是又不能太复杂，以免半途歇菜，所以最后这么一部看似简陋，但是还蛮有趣的片子就诞生了，我把它放到我的博客上的，可以到这里观看，没有了Vimeo，只能Youku将就下，有点卡，声音也时大时小，不好意思了~

片子下面还有一个简单的制作过程，希望大家喜欢!

AXYZ Salty

manitou — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:45 +0000

Long time no 帖子

一个小广告，就是觉得小角色特别可爱。简单而动人哈哈。很多东西看了都不想发。但是这个小家伙让我觉得有种久违的轻松和温暖。

Sheridan动画08年高材生Vladimir Cooperman的学生短片作品C-Block

victorLuo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:02:22 +0000

Vladimir Cooperman是Sheridan动画学院的08年毕业生，是班里直送Pixar的唯一人选。据他的同学May说，此人水平甚高，功课全优，创意无限，所做的短片《C Block》更是所参展的在世界各大动画节中捧杯而归，从未失手。身材也甚高，这个俄国人大概有2米以上。他的博客就叫做：http://tallrussian.blogspot.com/

日前Vladimir把他的作品放在了YouTube上。有兴趣的去看看。对这样一颗冉冉升起的新星牛人潜力股，建议严重关注。：）

C Block by Vladimir Cooperman

CCTV-品牌的力量

thinkingPoly — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:39:29 +0000

Troublemakers.tv公司为CCTV制作的宣传片，水墨效果非常出色，镜头感十足，后期的制作也十分优秀。

高清的视频可以到公司页面观看，这是制作幕后

欢迎大家讨论，争取有一天我们中国CG人能做出更好的效果。

总会有惊喜，DD带来新款奥迪A4广告

thinkingPoly — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:46:57 +0000

这个月，Digital Domain联同长期合作者Carl Erik Rinsch和他的德国制作公司Markenfilm为奥迪制作了一段新的电视广告，并通过德国汉堡的广告代理公司Kempertrautmann在整个欧洲播放。来传达他们新的标语：，“将高效的技术巧妙地融合。”记忆里奥迪的广告一直都很不错，汽车广告最重要的也许是如何有效地体现出相比其他汽车厂商而言的独特优势，而不是千篇一律的美女帅哥开着飞奔。

详情可以在这里看看，不是幕后哦

变形金刚未公布概念图！~

manitou — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:58:07 +0000

没看过这张概念设计图吧！？真是太酷了。

稍等，什么这不是变3的概念图么？哦，原来这个是“soft effect”阮效果的新作的概念草图。他最近参加了09技艺非凡变形金刚设计大赛。画了两张新作。相当震的手绘设计。

去看看并且投一票吧！！