Rocket Jo by Julien Charles

It’s plenty refreshing to see a CG character that is designed with a sense of caricature in both his appearance and physical movement. …

Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber

How could Sweden, a country that is synonymous with tasteful and elegant design, turn out an animated feature that is so decrepit-looking …

French student film Gary

Gary is a French student CG film created by Clement Soulmagnon, Yann Benedi, Sebastien Eballard and Quentin Chaillet at Supinfocom. The …

British Style Genius Opening

Paul Greer, who is the head of 3D at British design studio BDH, offers a description of how they made the title sequence for the BBC TV …

Yogi CG

Yogi is going CG. Don’t worry, they’re not planning to make it nearly as appealing as the last time Yogi was …

Music is Math by Glenn Marshall

This eye-catching computer-generated animation by Glenn Marshall was created in the open-source programming language Processing. Marshall …

French Roast Production Blog

French animation studio BIBO Films is working on a new CG short called French Roast directed by Fabrice O. Joubert and with character …

Bolt: Storyboard vs. CG

AICN recently posted the above two images as part of a preview of Disney’s Bolt. So, as I understand the animation process at Disney, …

Awesome Animated 3D Illusion on iPhone

David O’Reilly has built a very cool animated walk cycle that takes advantage of the iPhone’s motion sensitivity. O’Reilly …

Revisiting the Uncanny Valley

The UK Times got duped into running an article about one company’s claims that their animation has leapt the Uncanny Valley. The video …

ELA in Love at First Byte

Co-director Fernando Sarmiento descibes ELA in Love at First Byte to me as, “A weird mix between She Ra, Tron and Flash Gordon.” It also …

Freaky Flickers

Oh, so you think you’ve seen bad? I don’t know who’s behind this animated feature, but they are looking for distribution. Desperately …

Bolt Trailer

And here’s the newly released trailer for Disney’s Bolt.

The Tale of Despereaux Trailer

Here is the trailer for Universal’s CG adaptation of the children’s book The Tales of Despereaux. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) is directing, …

Awards Night at the Insectarium

My “uncle” in New Orleans, Wayne Daigrepont, has just checked out the new Audubon Insectarium (“the first major attraction to open after …

Demystifying Motion Capture

“Performance Capture technology is here to stay!” Or so says the Visual Effects Society who will be holding a seminar on motion …

Panda-monium

Nothing is going to deter me from going to see a film about wacky animals who engage in martial arts, not even this video from the Kung …

Spider-Man, Iron Man and Hulk CG

This has been around for almost two months, but I just caught up with it last night and had to share. It’s apparently a viral promo short …

Uncannily Smokey

I can’t describe this commerical any better than Jason Kottke does on his blog: “Smokey the Bear is back! And he’s preventing forest …

Fly Me To The Moon

It’s getting crowded in outer space. In addition to Wall•E and Space Chimps, nWave Pictures is releasing Fly Me To The Moon, a 3-D …

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