Êtes-vous animés?
Monday, March 26th, 2007This is an animation done with Blender 3D. It’s in French. Despite a minor critique or two, I enjoyed this much more than Elephants Dream.
Basic Faces
Thursday, February 1st, 2007I’ve got a pretty simple method which I use to build a variety of faces. It’s not a shockingly new approach — I decide on basic shapes, such as circles, squares, triangle, hexagons, etc, to define the skull, jaw (which informs the hollow of cheek), chin (which informs the shape of the mouth), nose, eyes [...]
Robin Hood and Little John Walkin’ Through the Forest
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006The oft’ overlooked Disney’s Robin Hood was pulled out of the vault yesterday and given a shiny new coat of digital polish.
Oo-de-lally, Oo-de-lally, Golly, what a day!
Transcendence Narratives
Friday, October 27th, 2006I watched Monster House earlier this week, followed by an outing to see Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D (an unnecessary and potentially distracting “improvement”), followed by a repeat viewing of The Incredibles. The rapid succession of three of my animated favorites got me to thinking about narratives which transcend their genre to become something… more.
Monster [...]
Design Balance
Friday, August 25th, 2006I asked yesterday for feedback on this topic and quoted a developer who has this to say at our latest IGDA chapter meeting:
Are we reaching a point where we’re finally willing to take money out of the graphics bin and put it in the story bin?
I got five very insightful replies in the comments… Oops. [...]