New Poster - Ratatouille

Here is a link to watch the trailer

Taron -> launched ZbornToy

After showing some pictures and presenting ZbornToy on Siggraph, Taron launched a website www.taronites.com where this tool could be ordered.

There are also a gallery and a demo project as well as a detailed description  what ZbornToy is..

so... take a look.

This is the next level of Composition and PP...

 

don't forget to visit his partner at frischluft.com

This is how pixar does it - Nice little animation tutorial

I found a little tutorial or more a description of how a certain facial expression is animated for Pixar's Incredbles Movie. I found this on VNOG Blog who is actualy an Pixar Animator. Here he share's some very nice information about a scene where Dash takes a suprised face reaction.

See the Blog here and the Tutorial with original movie sequence

This is 10 Frame step by step.... thanks to Victor Navone for sharing...

WIP: BlueLight

Hey I call this one BlueLight... this is going to be updated in the next posts...
comments would be great...

CrawlBot

here is another qucik sketch...

another doodle

Mo Sketches =)... here is another doodle... must practise mo'

TMNT

Does anyone know what this means (TMNT). Oh yes I see, this is going to be another movie post. TMNT stands for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, remember? Whow... I loved them they had a couple of movies back in the years and they also had a TV series...

AND now they are back!

Here is the trailer

this is realy amazing I loved to watch them on TV when I was young. So I have to see it...

CARS

Yesterday I managed to watch CARS. I know I am late but it was worth it...And I was blasted... I love their style of visualising things. But most of all it is the whole package. They have a nice, cute story which is realy catching. And a long the fantastic story they were able to give the cars a heard and a soul. The face expressions and everything was turning cold metal to warm personalities. Everything reminded of cars the lanscape had a shape of cars even some little flying cars were littel bugs. This movie is definitely a must seen for old and young ones... Especially those who like CGI... ;)

Samoo

Here is another sketch... after long time a did a drawing again. I called him Samoo. I am not realy satisfied with the area around the eyes... and a lot of other parts of the face. But hey it is a start again... I need to keep it up =).
Comments would be great!

Pirates of the caribbean - Part II

hey... another post about a movie. This one is dedictaed to the Pirates of the caribbean movie. It is the second part of the sequal and it comes with a lot more cg effects than part one. Main effects where produced by ILM - Industrial Light and Magic . They developed a new motion capturing technique which does not have to have special lightning or other enviroments. The new technique allows "actors" to play there role ones and the captured data can be used - so no bluescreen room sessions are needed.
This is a big advantage compared to KING KONG and Lord of the Rings where Serkis played the his role ones with the other actors and after that the same scene where recorded in bluescreen envirement for mo-cap.

here you can find a detailed article

Beside the mo-cap davy jones is a cg-character which was commented by the critiques as very good make up and etc. So surfacing was done excellent. One of the tools which have been used is ZBRUSH.
Here is an ZBRUSH interview with ILM

AND some HIGH-RES-Pics

Davy Jones

some pirates

and another one

for all people who are interessted in cg effects this is a musst seen. And the end is open for part 3....

Spiderman 3 wears black ...

Hey this turns out to be a great movie year in 2007 and I am posting more and more about Movie's. But since I like CG especially 3D Animation... I am excited to see these movie's. I read something that the had to double the budget for this movie and most of it was spent for CG....

It is not much to see but show's still some interesting pictures ... it is a teaser =)...

but hey take a look and let me know what you think...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/spider-man_3/large.html

Retiree's

I can't believe this. Do you know retiree's who sit in there window the whole day watching the others?
Or whenever people sit in their garden and have a barbecue they are always blame you for beeing to loud. When kids walk through the streets and have some fun - the blame them for beeing to loud. It is always the same. And especialy when the weather is that hot, I mean you can't just be inside...
It is getting realy nice outside (at night). Ok, we have those kids, which are still partying outside around 1 o'clock at night... they sing or they talk (a little louder) but after a while, you know they will be gone. And these retiree's they cannot stand that but...

This morning at 5.45 o'clock 2 older women were talking together. Hey! it is Saturday! I had a hardworking week. And they spoke with such a clear, loud voice that I woke up. I thought ohhh man. Hopefully they shut the f*** up and let me sleep. But it turned out to a whole invasion.

More and more of them came and were talking and talking. Like a chicken farm. Now it was somehow 6.15 and I thought to myself someone has to stop the invasion and bring peace back on earth and to this morning. There were almost like 50-60 of them. But I was not realy able to stop them... because I was still so tyred but this noise was driving me nuts. It was so loud and so many of them... Suddenly I heard a low droning noise. It was almost like a big vacuum cleaner which came to suck them all away... And I was almost right. It was the bus - thank god! It looks like a coach tour which was starting at 6.30 o'clock.
But why the hell do you have to be out there at 5.45? Is this payback? And why so loud? Why can't that be during the week? You are a retieer - you have time! Within 5 minutes there was peace on earth again... the big vacuum cleaner sucked them all away =)

And now we are even - we do night barbecue's and you guy's can go on coach tours...

I know, I might understand it when I am old but that would be another story... (kids)...

so long

Newtek released Lightwave Version 9

Hey there is a new Version of Lightwave released. Currently I am working with 8.5.
This is Post is a little late because it actually had been released some days ago. But I was so busy.. so I did no take any note. Anyway I have to check how it is and I a upgrate is worth it.

Here is Newtek's Website

Pixar's next strike...

Whow looks like another pixar strike... Ratatouille... who knows what that means? I had france in school but I have to investigate for that... Anyway here is a link to the First Trailer

also available at Pixar.com

I think this is going to be another great, cute story with fantastic pictures so far...

I am interessted in how it turns out because the trailers grow with the project. This is something interesting to see in the cars trailer. If you watch the first one even the main actor got a design review... so let's see what we can expect because it is still a Year to go. Release date is Summer 2007 (so far)... stay tuned for mo

But the story is not over

We still have two games to go I am mean Germany has only one left but who is going to be world champion...

This is how it goes... GERMANY::ITALY

Whow... it has been some time now since I wrote my last post. But now I am back on track. Watching the Worldcup last night and seeing how Italy busted Germany was realy shocking.

It was such a power game and in the last minute in overtime - GOAL.
I looked around and all the guys had the same face expression - this could not be true. But it was!
But seeing all the people so enthusiastic for the last weeks was realy great. I hope this lasts longer. Because it is not all about soccer... there was mo(re). Looks like the people just waited for a reason to express there feelings that it cannot be all about politics, war, the gas prices. And it is that sport got the renascence of being a globaly connector between all kind of folks in all kind of countries. This feeling seemed to be so addictive that even people who have nothing to do with soccer started to get into it. They want to participate and they want just to ride that wave.
So lets go surfing as long as this new wind of emotions, motivation and power presents us that great wave to ride.

stuck in the (mo)ment

Somtimes you stuck... stuck in the (mo)ment.... can't get out feel like stone in an endless surounding. It seems that there is no way out... but hopefully there is a light a light of the new day and .....
but that is another picture....

Landscape...

first attemp to draw a lanscape...

Space

Spaceshuttle...

I am still playing around with colors, shading and simple objects to get a feeling for drawing, mood, etc...

This is my picture for the day... for documentation ... took me almost an hour painted openCanvas.



sooner or later will tackle organic stuff.... so expect MO ...

Fly the plane

I got back to OpenCanvas... it is a realy cool, powerful tool...

But I will keep on trying... this time I sketched a plane in a cave....

The perspective is not 100% correct but I will keep it up...

another update

I tweaked a little on that painting... the changes are not as big as in the beginning but the effort to get more detail and a realistic drawings grows

update....

Here is a update on my drawing. I fixed some proportions and soften some highlights spots.

Started a new drawing....

Here are my first steps....

Negotiation Part 2

I draw him some backup... now the inspiration of finding nemo gets more clear

Negotiation part 1

I saw a commercial wall in the city combined with a scene from "finding nemo"...

I draw this sketch called it: Negotiation...


Here is a new sketch...


comments & critics are welcome... =)

First Post .... for the new year

Hey everybody this is my first post for 2006.
I hope all my plans will come true =)... sounds pretty selfish but I do realy hope so and anybody else who reads this blog, too.

I realy hope it is going to be (Mo)re stories and of course (Mo)re pictures...
I do not realy like my style yet but I realy hope to emprove it soon.
The colors are to light and the line style is to ... I don't know... sometimes it remembers me of pictures I used to draw when I was in kindergarden =)...
but I will keep on trying... so expect a lot of pictures (hopefully) =)

So a lot of comments and critics would help me so please feel free to shout out a command ...

By the way during reading some other blogs I find a link which realy caught my attention and is worth pointing out a link.
And the name of the url is realy what you could expect. So be prepared and you will be taught in typewritting... and finaly here ist the link...

http://2addicted.com

my fingers are hurting... =)... but fun =)