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The Making of Tron: Legacy

2011-01-04T18:54:00.001-08:00

The Making of Tron: Legacy from Michael Keane on Vimeo.

Maya Quick Tip: Transparency map in Mental Ray

2010-12-10T19:49:00.000-08:00

Quick Tip for MAYA

In Mental Ray render, if you have a problem with transparency map did not show when render the scene. Check the file map for transparency and check "alpha is luminance" and it's done.

Enjoy

Rockman Online Trailer

2010-11-18T06:01:00.001-08:00

Very great trailer from Rockman Online

Tablet brush lag in Window Vista

2010-11-04T03:45:00.000-07:00

Lately, My girlfriend's PC has a problem with tablet brush lagging while using a photoshop. We had searched for the solution on the internet for awhile and I discovered the solving solution.

If you are using window Vista and has this kind of problem. Just go to "window color and appearance settings" in control Panel and change appearance to Vista Aero. It sound so simple just that but it solved my girlfriend's machine. So try it!

FABLE III TRAILER

2010-08-07T00:16:00.001-07:00

Wow great chicken animation. Good trailer by the way.

Azureus Rising - Proof of Concept

2010-08-06T19:26:00.000-07:00

Really cool animation short.

Tangled rough animation shots

2010-08-03T18:44:00.000-07:00

Very cool upcoming Disney's 3D animation film

Deus EX Human Revolution

2010-06-07T22:28:00.000-07:00

Epic Trailer

Street Fighter: Legacy

2010-05-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

Very cool fan made street fighter film.

The Making of Silent Hill 2

2010-04-19T06:50:00.000-07:00

Via Destructoid. Very good VDO

Alan Wake: Building the Thriller

2010-04-18T06:29:00.000-07:00

Great vdo for Alan Wake the upcoming Xbox 360 action adventure game.

Gaiking the Movie!

2010-03-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

This is the test CG footage for the movie.
Super Cool

French Roast. Oscar Nominated Animation shot.

2010-03-25T14:13:00.000-07:00

French Roast from Piokaz on Vimeo.

http://www.frenchroast.fr/

Never Underestimate the power of Story

2010-03-08T15:57:00.000-08:00

Very Cool Ad.

Transformers 3 Trailer??

2010-03-08T11:33:00.000-08:00

Nice parody . Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 LOL

Sugizo Project

2010-03-07T06:21:00.000-08:00

Wow! I'm amazed by his creations. He always create and experiment new kinds of music.

Listen to this three singles and feel the ultra steam of sound. Can't wait for his new album.

MESSIAH

FATIMA

PRANA

Norman is on the Cover!

2010-03-03T19:00:00.001-08:00

I know that Norman has gone public for quite sometime now and yet he's a star on the Animation book name How to Cheat in Maya 2010. Don't be fooled by the name, the reviews said this book is quite good though. So I will give it a try and order it.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier teaser

2010-02-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

ALMA

2010-01-15T16:46:00.000-08:00

Very good Animation shot.

Some of my friends say the idea is kinda like Gobelins work. Hmmm..... maybe it was inspired by Gobelins work. I can't say more.

By the way, Alma is good animation shot even the idea is not 100% original.

CLASH OF THE TITANS Teaser

2009-11-11T03:33:00.000-08:00

My old favorite movie gets an awesome remake

Assassin Creed Lineage Part 1

2009-10-31T03:08:00.000-07:00

Painting Anime Tutorial by Ino Makoto

2009-10-13T01:59:00.000-07:00

Very talent artist Ino Makoto shows his process of work.
Very good to watch and learn.

Final Fantasy XIII Trailer with English voice acting

2009-10-04T09:48:00.000-07:00

ODST Live Action Behind the Scene

2009-09-30T23:28:00.000-07:00

Video Games | Halo 3: ODST | Making Of The Life Featurette

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Bayonetta TGS 09: Trailer

2009-09-24T13:46:00.000-07:00

New cool trailer.
Anyone think that Bayonetta's neck is too long?

HALO ODST commercial

2009-09-07T08:19:00.000-07:00

One of the best recent commercials in game industry.

Video Games | Halo 3: ODST | Full-Length Exclusive Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Pandore by Gobelins

2009-09-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

Great animation shots

Dawn of War animation references

2009-08-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite game of all time. So I need to post some clips for references purpose for my animation demo reel which I gonna do it after finished my thesis.

The Whispered World Trailer

2009-08-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

The Whispered World is Point and Click Adventure game from German.

Features
- Breathtaking scenery and animations
- Wonderful, hand-drawn 2D backgrounds and character design
- Gorgeous setting in the style of the anime movie "Spirited Away"
- Exciting plot that will keep you hooked for days with its twists and turns
- Classic 'point & click' third-person controls

Looking good. The English version will be released later and also Nintendo DS.

Visual Effect: 100 years of inspiration

2009-08-27T01:26:00.000-07:00

Actually 110 years :D

Great clip.

Fantasy Life, New Level 5 RPG

2009-08-25T15:10:00.000-07:00

Fantasy Life is the new laid back RPG from Level 5 company. Laid back? Yes, that's what they said. So you create your avatar and live a life in a town (Harvest Moon?). Art work looks awesome thought.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland trailer

2009-07-26T16:53:00.001-07:00

Tim Burton, one of the most unique producer in therm of visual style. This Alice in Wonderland looks really amazing. Johny Depp seem like he's born for Tim Burton. Other than him, I can't imagine who is gonna be in Tim Burton's movies.

TRAILER HERE

Book of Eli

2009-07-26T16:48:00.000-07:00

New movie about post-apocalyptic world. Some says it looks like Fallout ripped off. Umm...what the post-apocalyptic world should look like other than this?

Anyway check the trailer it's looking quite good.

TRAILER HERE

and the movie blog HERE

New Marvel ! Anime Style

2009-07-25T16:24:00.000-07:00

Marvel comic goes Japan!
This two projects; Wolverine and Ironman done by Madhouse studio look really really anime.
Madhouse studio is well fame animation studio which created a lot of nice works such as The Girl who Leapt Through Time and Paprika.

Here is the trailers.

Wolverine! Marvel fan, you may not like it.

Ironman is AWESOME!!

Halo Legends Exclusive Trailer

2009-07-24T14:14:00.000-07:00

Upcoming Game-to-Animation trailer from Microsoft Halo Legends.
This is really big project with a lot of awesome studios.

Ninja Assassin Trailer

2009-07-23T13:44:00.000-07:00

Finally! Trailer of Rain's movie Ninja Assassin. Hope it's not end up like Blood: the last vampire.

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Edge of Twilight

2009-07-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

Desaturated render style from upcoming post-apocalyptic action adventure game.

District 9 Full Trailer

2009-07-22T01:03:00.001-07:00

This year Cloverfield with Alien Mather ship.
Awesome Awesome

Despicable Me

2009-07-20T01:14:00.000-07:00

New animation movie which will be in theater next year (we've to wait that long) from Illumination Entertainment. The director is Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud from Ice Age 3 and Horton Hears a Who.
Very funny trailer.

Despicable Me @ IMDB

ATI Driver and MAYA rotation tool

2009-07-19T02:04:00.000-07:00

By any chance, if you are a humble animator and your little work station at home is using ATI 4800 series graphic card, you may get this little but annoy problem in MAYA.

My computer is using Radeon 4870 series and when I updated Catalyst driver to 9.XX series, I've found that in MAYA the rotation tool was acting wired. I could not Free rotate the object and could not select in Axis I want.

I just found out that this problem is occurred because of the graphic card driver so the way to solve it is to uninstall Catalyst driver and use the old driver (8.xx series).

The way to uninstall the driver is not quite easy. You can find the tutorial here

Previous ATI drivers HERE

PS. I don't know that the latest Catalyst driver (9.6) has solved this problem or not (I used 9.5 before.) But if you got the same problem as me, just uninstall the driver and use the 8.12 version.
Problem solve!

SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'

2009-07-13T01:20:00.000-07:00

What's a great MV. Very creative!!

2012 Trailer

2009-07-13T01:09:00.000-07:00

This is quite awhile already but it's awesome trailer. Great CG

New Gaming technologies

2009-06-04T06:17:00.000-07:00

E3 is almost over.
So sad because I almost had a change to go there but I couldn't. Anyway, here is some highlight from the expo.
Every consoles have their own new things. Let see the innovation.

XBOX 360: Project Natal

Wii: Wii Vitality Sensor

PS3: Motion Controller

IMO Project Natal is very interesting with full motion control, voice command and use only one equipment.
New Generation of Gaming is coming!

Prototype opening Cinematic

2009-05-10T17:17:00.000-07:00

Cool, dramatic and nice rendered footage. (make me think about I am Legend :P)
Animation is quite good too. What do you think?
The game will be released on June 9. Don't miss this one.

Dragon Age Origins "This is the new Shit!"

2009-05-10T17:10:00.000-07:00

Awesome trailer of Dragon Age Origins.
It's the new dawn of AD&D PC game so hope it will be great.

The Lord of the Rings: the Hunt for Gollum

2009-05-07T21:32:00.000-07:00

Exclusive fans made short film for Dailymotion.
It's the best fans VDO I've seen.

See in HD

HERE

Trailer

paper-cut animation from Eden to the East ED

2009-05-04T13:23:00.000-07:00

very cool Anime Ending also a great song from the band School Food Punishment.

Stop motion with wolf and pig

2009-05-03T19:06:00.000-07:00

1300 printed photos can create this amazing shot film.

Experimental Game: Shadow Physics

2009-05-02T23:24:00.000-07:00

I always love the game with cool idea and this is the best example of it. Shadow physics using shadow and light in simple environment to create a 2D platforming game.
Keep and eye on this one when it comes out sometime next year.

From
Here

Secret of the new Star Trek. It is Cloverfield!!

2009-05-01T15:33:00.001-07:00

The picture is the opening of the new Star Trek in trailer. Try to look at the name of the building. It is Tagruato !!

What is Tagruato? It's Japanese company that products a power drink name Slusho which is the origin of the monster in Cloverfield in somehow.

Yeah! JJ Abrams is the writer of both films and Slusho appeared here and there in his film such as Fringe. So it's not a big secret or connection ,just like an Ester Egg :P

From
Here

Transformer 2 : Revenge of the Fallen New Trailer

2009-04-30T23:24:00.000-07:00

Very cool trailer.

What is in the box?

2009-03-29T06:38:00.000-07:00

I don't know. I only know that this is a kick ass visual FX testing film. Is it a movie? Is it made by Valve(Half-Life)'s fans? I don't know!!

Nice Facial Expression

2009-03-24T23:20:00.000-07:00

Well let post something relate to our work.
I just finished watching Japanese Series called My Boss My Hero awhile ago. It's really funny drama and Tomoya Nagase, the main actor of this series done pretty good job.
He has really nice facial expression like this.

81st Oscar Slumdog wins 8 awards

2009-02-22T21:41:00.000-08:00

Wow! really amazing. This is the big award for Danny Boyle for wining 8 awards from Oscar.
Congratulations.
And if you didn't watch the film until now, what are you waiting for?

Here list of Oscar winners

Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire

Actor in Leading Role:
Sean Penn from Milk

Actress in Leading Role:
Kate Winslet from The Reader

Directing:
Slumdog Millionaire

Foreign Language film:
Departures

Music (song): Slumdog Millionaire
Music (score): Slumdog Millionaire
Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Sound Editing: The Dark Knight

VFX:
The curious case of Benjamin Button

Documentary Short: Smile Pinki
Documentary feature: Man on Wire

Actor in Support Role :
Heath Ledger from the Dark Knight

Short Film (Live Action):
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Cinematography:
Slumdog Millionaire

Makeup:
The curious case of Benjamin Button

Costume Design:
The Ducthess

Art Direction:
The curious case of Benjamin Button

Animated Feature Film:
Wall-E

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Slumdog Millionaire
Writing (Original Screenplay): Milk
Actress in Supporting Role: Penelope Cruz from Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Music of the month! Fenomenon

2009-02-12T06:52:00.000-08:00

Take a break from animation, movies and games.
Music of the lovely month February is Fenomenon; a nusoul/electronic duo, formed in Stavanger, Norway in 2000.
If you can recognize, yep their musics are in the game Beach life.
I love their ambient-sound style in their works.

If you wanna chill-out, Fenomenon is the nice band for you.

Sleepy Meadows Of Buxton

Picturebook

Pacific Memories

The Midnight Meat Train

2009-02-11T01:29:00.001-08:00

I've just seen the movie The Midnight Meat Train. It is the movie version of Clive Barker's 1984 short story directed by Ryûhei Kitamura (director of Azumi).

If you like the Blood & Gore Horror movie, you should check this movie out. The story is quite insane and nonsense in some parts. I feel the Maya's role (by Leslie Bibb) is very weak but apart of that lead actors Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones did quite good.

Yep, if you want to see bloody, full of disgusting shots and Clive Barker's style twisted plot. The Midnight Meat Train is the movie for you.

One more thing, I've decided to do video clips for REFERENCES purpose of the movies, animations and clips I saw as many as I can.
So here is the first one.

The big moment of The Midnight Meat Train.
*** Warning*** Quite disturbing and bloody ***

Want to animate a killing scene anyone? :P

Street Fighter IV opening cinematic

2009-02-08T13:34:00.000-08:00

Very nice opening scene

R.I.P. Ensemble Studios, you're legend.

2009-02-01T23:47:00.000-08:00

Bad news again for the game industry while Ensemble Studios who created Age of Empires series, the game that I remember played with my friends in University long ago and Age of Mythology one of the best RTS games of all time, announced to shut their door down.

Halo Wars, the big RTS project for Xbox 360 has been gone gold already but who will maintain the game, we don't know right now.

R.I.P. Ensemble Studios. You will be in our heart and good luck for you all.

Visit their blog

HERE

Transformer 2 : Revenge of the Fallen First Trailer

2009-02-01T23:07:00.000-08:00

Awesome Transformer 2 : Revenge of the Sit..... Fallen ^^" trailer finally arrived.
Follow the Fallen

HERE

G.I. Joe Trailer

2009-01-31T20:48:00.001-08:00

Awesome Action movie of 2009

Thanks Jediyuth

Power of Powerpuff Girls

2009-01-20T20:18:00.000-08:00

Do not underestimate this cartoon series because it celebrate its 10th Anniversary right now with the nice box set.

Honestly, I'm not quite a fan of Cartoon Network but this one is different. The Powerpuff Girls has humor, action and funny so the Box set witch contains all 78 episodes in 6 DVDs is really interesting. Hmmm..... Should I get this one?

The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series - 10th Anniversary Collection is No.1 Character series Animation best selling at Amazon right now.

Slumdog Millionaire won 4 Golden Globe Awards 2009

2009-01-12T00:50:00.000-08:00

Congratulations for Danny Boyle

Slumdog Millionaire, a drama of a boy name Jamal Malik who is one question away from the last question to win "who want to be a millionaire" show. The story brings you to see Jamal life and how he knows almost every answers. The movie is beautiful and very entertain from the beginning to the end. It's great cinematography and great story. All elements of the film are beautiful. Every color of shirts, walls, house or even trash are well arranged to get great composition for every scenes. One of my friends said this movie is one of his best movies he ever saw.

Slumdog Millionaire won 4 awards from Golden Globe
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Director - Motion Picture: Danny Boyle
- Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Composed by A. R. Rahman

Again Danny Boyle!
You've created such a nice set of beautiful movies since the beach, 28 days later, Sunshine and this one. I really like all of your movie. Hope you can make it for the Academy Award also.

Really recommend to watch, Slumdog Millionaire is awesome!

This little girl will beats your a** off by game characters.

2009-01-04T12:24:00.000-08:00

OMG what a cute cute cute cute!

She gonna grow up be a super geek game guru.
Must watch this video.

Another Best Games of the Year 2008

2009-01-02T06:51:00.000-08:00

Yeah yeah if you're looking for lists of the best game of the year, you can look at tons of web sites over the internet. So for my site, I think I will come up with lists of some games that almost make it that high. There are a lot of great games that you do not want to miss but there are never appear on the ' best of the year' list. So here it is.

Another best Action & Adventure

Dead Space
IMO the best new IP of 2008. Dead space combines the Sci-Fi survivor horror setting and Action adventure really well. This game is so scary but with the fixing script, it can be less when you replay it again but anyway Dead Space win another best Action & Adventure game of 2008 for me.

Also look: Castle Crashers (XBL Arcade)

Another best RPG

Tales of Vesperia
Not only 2008 but Tales of Vesperia is one of the best Xbox360 RPG games. Believe me, you will laugh when listen to the characters conversations. The Anime look of the game is really pretty, not as many deatails as Eternal Sonata but look more like Anime. The story is pretty good and real time action combat system is really fun. So don't miss this game if you're RPG fans.

Also look: The Last Remnant

Another Best Strategy

King's Bounty: The Legend
Who said Turn-Base strategy genre is dead? Hell no, 2008 is the year of TBS games. The great games such as Heroes V: Tribes of the East and Galactic Civilization II: Twilight of the Arnor, Civilization IV: Colonization and this game King's Bounty: The Legend. King's Bounty stands out from others because of its cutting edge graphic and user friendly... I mean it run smoothly on even the low-mid computer.

Also look: Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East

Another best Shooters

Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 is a great shooting game but it's put aside by Left 4 Dead or Call of Duty: World at War. FC2's graphic is the most bautiful amoung every game in 2008. Game play is RPG base that you can work or get quest for the groups. So this game deserves to get a award. At least from mind :)

Also look: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

9 Teaser

2009-01-01T23:52:00.000-08:00

Tim Berton version of this award short film story. Main character looks similar with sacky boys from Little Big Planet? Hell no! the original 9 was several years ago.

VLC Christmas celebrate icon

2008-12-20T03:19:00.000-08:00

Last night while I's watching a movie "Misery"on my computer, I've found something on the screen.
If you familiar with VLC player, you should try open it during this week (or month).

Yes, the icon is changed!
I think this is the only application icon that celebrate Christmas.
Orange cone with Santa hat? that's cute

Fallout 3: Failed V.A.T.S. Attempt on George Bush

2008-12-18T22:26:00.000-08:00

Did Ohio mention this in the last JD animation class?
I would like to post it different and game's way , Fallout 3's way :)
That's poor shot anyway XD

Fallout 3: Failed V.A.T.S. Attempt on George Bush

At least, 28 movies from game are on the line.

2008-12-18T19:47:00.000-08:00

That's a lot!
Why productions don't see that the movie from game is always suck.
The only movie from game that I like is Silent Hill recently.

Yeah yeah I used to like Mortal Combat the first one a lot but for the forth one in the line, I'm not sure.
Here's the list

Cold Fear (2008)
Fear Effect (2008)

Area 51 (2009)
Castlevania (2009)
Clock Tower (2009)
Halo (2009)
Kane & Lynch (2009)
The Legend of Spyro (2009)
Metal Gear Solid (2009)
Onimusha (2009)
Sabotage 1943 (2009)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Spy Hunter (2009)
The Suffering (2009)
Tekken (2009
Warcraft (2009)/World of Warcraft (2011)

Bioshock (2010)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (2010)
Driver (2010)
Earthworm Jim (2010)
Gears of War (2010)
God of War (2010)
Joust (2010)
King of Fighters (2010)
Mortal Kombat (2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Resident Evil 4 (2010)
Splinter Cell (2010)

more detail here

Bioshock and Gears of war are interesting choice because their stories are pretty good.

Why no one want to make a Warhammer 40K the movie. I think it can be the epic.

See this real terminator, isn't that awesome?

Awesome Bento Boxes

2008-12-17T07:40:00.000-08:00

very amazing Bento boxes art @ geekologies

see more here

How to design a character the Square Enix way

2008-12-07T18:09:00.001-08:00

Very funny and very true :D
The secret of one of the best RPG game company is revealed !

Square Enix Character design

Fallout .....uhh..FAQ?

2008-11-22T15:14:00.000-08:00

Maybe you've already finished Fallout 3 or still playing it. Yes it's really great game.
While surving the internet about this game, I came across this site about Nuclear Fallout FAQ. It's an intentional, very serious research. So if you feel not enough about Fallout 3 just go to this site.
Very cool research.

http://www.radshelters4u.com/index.html

First 8 Mins of Resident Evil: Degeneration

2008-11-22T13:02:00.000-08:00

Can't wait until Dec 20, the day DVD will comes out (according to Amazon)
IGN posts the first 8 minuits of the movie along with Rate R trailer to help you decide about this moive. So let's see.

Part 1

Part 2

Madagascar 2 beat Wall.E for real?

2008-11-11T18:02:00.000-08:00

Today in the lab. I heard people said Madagascar 2 actually beats Wall.E for the opening box office. So I do some research about that.

Dude, you're right but that's really close. For the opening gross, Madagascar 2 gets $63,106,589 and Wall.E is $63,087,526. If ticket is $10 so that's just around 2000 people. Really really close!

But hey! we should wait and see the total box office again right?

Information from
boxofficemojo.com

Terminator Salvation: Behind the Scene

2008-11-11T17:23:00.000-08:00

By Martin Laing; Production design of the movie.

As you wonder, no more Arnold Schwarzenegger here but the better part is we'll get Christain Bale as John Conner. Awesome!

The clip is talking about design of the movie, new robots etc.

Left 4 Dead SF commercial campaign

2008-11-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

Game commercial is not just about a paper in a magazine anymore as we all know. It becomes a huge maket strategy and when a block buster game like GTA IV came out a couple months ago, we've seen its posters everywhere, on a bus, public toilet, huge billboard or even on buildings. And it comes again for Left 4 Dead. I think Valve put alot of money for the commercial this time. Look at the subway station! that's awesome.

Ong Bak2 Tony Jaa is back!

2008-11-07T04:37:00.001-08:00

I really want to see this movie. Almost every Thai people love Tony Jaa. Ong Bak 2 is almost cancled because Tony Jaa (He's a director for this movie himself.) had his financial and life problems. He even disappear from his crew for a little while. But finally this movie is done.

Ong Bak 2 is not a sequel from the first movie. Tony Jaa as 'Tian', whoes family is slain by a King's traitor. He escapes and adopted by a master thief who teach him martial arts. The story is about revenge and combine martial arts with Thai traditional art called "Koon".

Ong Bak 2 will be in the theatre on December 4th.
I really want to see !

Official Site
http://www.ongbak2themovie.com/

Trailer

The Tale of Despereaux

2008-11-04T04:10:00.000-08:00

I hope this animation feature will not be out off focus because of Bolt and Madagasca 2.

It seems like Universal Animation Studio puts down their Barbie story and step up their game for the feature.

'Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books -- reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro's friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig. After Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her...and that even the tiniest mouse can find the courage of a knight in shining armor.'

Emma Watson will give a sound for Pricess Pea (Is she that old already? oh yes! she's already 18!!)
and Matthew Broderick will be Despereaux. (like Lion King's Simba and Bee Movie? yes that's him.)

In theatre December 19. Good one for celebrate Chrismas.

Official Site

http://www.thetaleofdespereauxmovie.com/

Sonic: Night of the Werehog

2008-11-01T18:16:00.000-07:00

It's animated short.
For what purpose? To help promote the Sonic Unleashed which will be released soon? or Sega really want to bring this blue hog in to the animation film business? Who know?

Direct link for the site
here

Transformers 2 Detail

2008-10-31T16:34:00.000-07:00

Transformers 2: The Revenge of the Fallen
The story is two years after the first movie. The story is followed it's name. The Fallen is a name of one of the thirteen 'good guy' robot but he's falled to the darkness. Everyone forgot his name so his name becames 'The Fallen' and he comes to the earth to hunt the autobots.

Exept The Fallen, They will be several new characters.

ARCEE

new member of the autobot. From the look and color, I guess this one is a female type robot who can transform to be a motocycle.

SOUNDWAVE

Decepticons have their new crew as well. This one is Soundwave who can transform to be a radio recorder. He is one of the most famous Transformer. So keep an eye on him.

Did you cry when 'Jazz' died and the end of the first movie?

If so, be happy because he will be back in this second movie.

Sound good huh?

And when it will be in theatres you ask?

I say, June 26 2009 .

Portfolio Tips

2008-10-30T17:32:00.000-07:00

Very good tip to create portfolio.

Link
http://www.moonapples.com/art_portfolio_tips/

Portfolio Presentation (physical media)

Discs:
I get into disagreements with other art directors about which are better- DVD movies or CDs (data discs). I prefer data discs, but I have heard others prefer DVDs. My advice is to include both if possible.

CDs (Data Discs) : I prefer CD data format because it is the easier to use in how my company operates. When we receive portfolios, we share them with many people to provide feedback. The easiest way to share portfolios is to just copy them to our network and ask people to send feedback via email. Imagery can also be much higher-res than what can be put on a DVD movie. Also, we will often forward images around via email to people to quickly show them an applicant’s work.

DVD Movies : I don’t like DVDs because:

1. They are low-res (640 x480). Non-animating work should be viewed higher than this.
2. They are hard to share (one copy) with a group of people, and easy to get lost once shared.
3. Viewer has less control to understand content of images (moves fast; is blurry).
4. DVDs often don’t work on many systems- some work well on PCs, some work well on home entertainment systems, different formats like DVD-R , DVD + R, etc …

That said, I have heard many HR reps say they prefer DVDs. So my only recommendation is if you really want to send a DVD, include a data disc CD as well and make everyone happy. Including an CD with a DVD is a relatively cheap investment.

VHS Movies : VHS is dead. Most people don’t have a VCR in their office, so they can’t view your portfolio.

Case:
There should be a case to cover the discs (DVD cases are good). This case should also be able to hold a printed resume inside it – separately attached resumes can get lost. If you have some small printed images that fit inside the case (a mini-printed portfolio) that can often tell a lot about an artist as well, before they can even get to a computer.

Cover:
The cover of the disc should have all of your contact information. The front and back cover should also have some simple clean images of your best work- a few really impressive images will get your work fast-tracked through the hiring system while a cover with just your name (or nothing) get sorted a low priority. I can’t stress enough how important this cover can be- it is really your first and sometimes only impression.

While many of us are fans of super simple minimal design (like just small text) on a cover, good looking relevant imagery really does sell your work, and gets it a priority.

CD/ DVD Label
Again this should have all of your contact information. It sounds silly, but many people put a disc with no label in their case, and often cases and discs get separated. You don’t need a proper stickler label, but at least hand writing saying your name + info. Again a good image behind the label is also helpful incase the disc and case get separated- people will see the disc and associate it to the work.

Art Disciplines:

Animator:

For some reason I have not figured out, almost everyone wants to be an animator. Not sure if this is odd nudging from schools (often Computer Graphics are still called Animation Departments) or just some deep rooted desire to express human-like locomotion.

It is important for animators to be able to demonstrate they understand weight, physics, gravity, timing, impact, and nailing the performance, as well interesting but realistic move sets. Basic walk, run, and idle cycles are a must for showing off skills. A scene of two characters interacting is also extremely helpful.

My company, as with most large videogame companies, is more interested in realistic human motion as opposed to a highly exaggerated cartoony ‘squash and stretch’ style. Consumers mostly purchase those kinds of games, so that is what we make and need our artists skilled in. Just as a note, there aren’t nearly enough jobs for all the cartoony reels in the world- it is probably the most common portfolio we get.

Many profession game companies use motion capture as a main step for creating their animations, and then animators clean up the files (usually in MotionBuilder, the best software for editing motion capture). Animation skill is still extremely important in working with motion capture data. Any experience you can get working with motion capture data and MotionBuilder would be a huge plus to your resume.

Any “technical” knowledge is also preferred- understating character tessellation for deformation, character rigging, etc. The ability to grasp how animations would be used in the game (how they blend into each other) are all great skills to demonstrate if you feel comfortable in those areas.

A great reference for animators is the 10 Second Club. They have forums where people critique animation, and they even have rigged models to animate to. This is invaluable because great animation can look bad on poorly rigged and constructed characters. For most game jobs, it is recommend to animate on the more realistically proportioned reference models they have.

Animator Recommended Content format:
Animations have to be presented in video files. Ideally this information would be on a CD-ROM or website.

Content Recommendations:
· Animation cycles: walk, run, idle (waiting) etc.
· Single playing animations- Falling down and picking self up, jumping, opening a door.
· Two person interactions (a tackler, a hug, a robust dialog, etc)
· Facial animation information coming soon- highly recommend Jason Osipa’s “Stop Staring” book.

Next Dreamworks animation is...

2008-10-20T00:11:00.000-07:00

Like Kung Fu Panda? So you will also love this Monsters vs Aliens; the next Dreamworks studio feature film beside Madagascar 2 .

Brief story is Susan, the girl who get contact with a meteor and grows 49 feet - 11 inches tall fighting with Aliens.

Sound interesting? Yes indeed!

Awesome Donkey Kong Rap!

2008-10-15T04:36:00.000-07:00

Goh! You have to watch this VDO. It's freaking awesome

must watch at 1.52 , very funny :)

If you like this song, go here to download it.

Donkey Kong Rap MP3

See Ninokuni in action

2008-10-15T04:09:00.000-07:00

Ninokuni: the Another World , the Level 5/Ghibli game debut trailer.

NORA

2008-10-12T14:50:00.000-07:00

Damn! because I wanted to encode this movie file, it made my windows broke.

So that mean this Sci-Fi animation (motion capture) is worth to see?

Yeah the production wise, it's really cool sci-fi theme and story. Rendering, Compositing is cool but animation wise it's crappy (mo-cap :))

Amy Engles‘ short film, NORA, deals with mankind‘s attempts to keep its service androids, also known as NORAs, in check and in ignorance. If a NORA begins to display undesirable qualities such as independent thought, it is ‘chosen‘ to take part in a mission to search a planet for a liveable terrain and atmosphere.

Read more about Amy Engles here

Amy Engles Interview

Up ! Next Pixar movie

2008-10-10T03:10:00.001-07:00

I think many of you will wonder what is the next Pixar movie?
The answer is Up! The adventure of the old man. This's interesting that Up is the second Pixar movie that the main character is human after the huge successed Incredible.
The first artwork is up and also first teaser.

The Time Machine (2002)

2008-10-10T02:42:00.000-07:00

2:43
I've just seen the Time Machine (2002) again for my class. It has one scene when Alexander travels to the future and ! that's alot of bike. If in the future everyone ride a bike like this. Is that so cool? Look at the lock of the bike that need the ID to swip open. I think I like this scene in the movie the most (include the Museum after this scene.) other than that it's quite boring when Alex goes to the far future.

TGS 2008

2008-10-09T14:33:00.000-07:00

Alot of things about games are going on right now in Tokyo. This is some of them which I think they are really cool.

Bayonetta
Another bad ass character with smashing button hack N slash.

FALLOUT 3
Post Apocalypstic, Classic music, Good graphic and Hardcore language. That is what you goonna get from this game. (I will difinitely get it.)

Halo 3 Recon
Halo 3 expansion with prequel story.

Resident Evil 5
Looked at this trailer and I was amazed. The trailer is well done and dramatic. Wish the game is also great.

More and more is coming !

Ni no Kuni: The Another World /Level 5 + Ghibli Game Project

2008-10-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

Awesome! Level 5 studio one of the Japanese elite game developers cooperates with Ghibli studio to develope the game for Nintendo DS. First looking screenshot looks great.

Shoegazer

2008-10-07T06:15:00.000-07:00

What is Shoegazer? Some of you may not know but it's another style of music. It similar to Alternative rock but you will know something is different.

Read more about Shoegazer here

Shoegaze wiki

Here is the example. One of my favorite bands, honeydip

24 Hour Bloodline

2008-10-06T19:20:00.000-07:00

AAU first real game project and only group project in the school right now (Damn!!)
It's Sci-fi Adventure game (I'm not sure yet.) with Isomatric and 2D background.

The lady who came in to my class said the battle system will be kind a like Final Fantasy Tactic.

So keep in touch.

Here's the game's official site.

24hourbloodline.com/

Dead Space

2008-10-06T14:04:00.000-07:00

As you know, Dead space is coming out. It's a sci-fi horror shooting game which remind me of Doom 3. You are the only survivor on the turn-out-hell spacecraft. Crap! this should be nice.

Compare Deadspace with Doom 3

Dead Space

Doom 3

Which one is better?