RTG Animate - Animation Academy

Always with You : New 2D Flash Animated Short From RTG Students

2012-01-30T17:31:00.000+05:30

Dream to Destiny : New 2D Student Film

2012-01-24T23:35:00.000+05:30

Dream to Destiny from rtganimate on Vimeo.

SUPER COMMANDO DHRUVA

2012-01-17T12:21:00.001+05:30

Super Commando Dhruva one of the most popular comics hero ever in India.I grew up reading his comics he was my icon you said one word against him ...and you will be a dead man eeehahaha.....!.

lets talk about this history a little bit. (explained in theorginof.net)
created by Anupam Sinha and published by Raj Comics. His first appearance was in Issue No 74, “Pratishodh Ki Jwala”. In the first story itself that Dhruvs parents have been murdered by a villain named Jubisco and Dhruva in his rage of fury vows to take revenge and ultimately avenges his parents death by killing Jubisco.Dhruva is a Sanskrit name which means the center or axis, and that center remains constant irrespective of things going around. Dhruva is shown as a handsome young guy having a well toned muscular body. Unlike other comic heroes he does not posses much superpower. The only special power he has is the ability to comprehend the language of birds and animals, which can be attributed to the fact that he was born and brought up in Jupiter Circus and spend a lot of time with animals. The animals and bird are his major allies as they constantly report the crimes which take place in the fictional city of Raj Nagar where Dhruva lives with his foster family.

He is proficient in all major types or martial arts and is good in hand to hand combat. He has great analytic power which helps him in looking for clues at a crime scene and following and nabbing villains. On a number of occasions it is shown that he triumphed over villains more powerful than him by using his wits. He can also breathe under water after his friend Dhananjay gifted him this ability. Dhruva has vowed not to kill anyone so he usually disarm or disable his enemies by using any object found close to him. In the stories he is paired with other heroes, he is always the one who comes with ideas to counter the villains using the powers of other heroes wisely.
To prevent crime in the fictional city of Raj Nagarj he patrols every night on his special motor cycle. Dhruva never uses disguise and is shown as wearing a yellow and blue colored dress. He heads a small team founded by himself, called Commando Force, which helps him in fighting crime in Raj Nagarj. The other members of the team are Karim, Peter, and Renu.

Shweta who is his foster-sister and a science student helps Dhruva with technical aspect of fighting crime. She has given him Star Transmitter, special boots which can become skates, and â€œStar Line which is a rope which helps him in moving in the style of Batman. He also has Star-Blades which are blades in shapes of stars.
Dhruva is adopted by I.G. Rajan after murder of his parents. He lives with his foster parents in Raj Nagarj and has Shweta as his foster sister. Shweta leads a life of double identity. In real life she is shown as a sweet girl with not much liking for adventures. But she has saved Dhruva life on many occasions under the disguise of Chandika (name of a Hindu goddess). Dhruva has no idea about the real identity of Chandika.
Dhruva has appeared in a number of comics along with Nagraj and the pair is very popular. His friends include Black Cat, Dhananjay, Vanputra, Samri, Lori and Commander Natasha who is also his love interest. Some of his main enemies are Grand Master Robo, Chumba, Mahamanv, Chandakaal, NastreDamus and Super Nova.

COMMERCIAL BUSINESS FOR ANIMATORS

2012-01-09T12:21:00.000+05:30

As a freelancer or a working for particular agency making commercial is always a challenge and filled with lots of fun. Most of the people finds commercial during their favorite programs on TV pretty annoying but me as a animator finds it incredibly exciting and engrossing,ogling on idiot box these days had never been so exciting because of these awesome commercials.

Have you ever wanted to do a TV commercial?

Recently Google had published a video on How to do commercial in Five easy steps.

But This instructional video was actually aimed for the commercial making specially for Google TV.
Though its quite educational i want you guys toread a bit more on how to make a commercial aimed for larger broadcast i.e cable TV you tube or commercial on web.

Some tips are here that works quite well for TV commercials are.

Who are you talking to?
Who are you?
What is your brand personality?
What is the offer?
Time to make you commercial.

Who are you talking to? this is the first question you should ask your self,keeping in mind that 20% of your costumers comes out from 80% of your audience.your potential costumers can be new or old but they should be properly informed and involved with you product or service.

second comes what you are?,who are you? what makes you so special that people should go for your product or service in-spite of thousand of other similar products available to them. sometime better.Ask yourself what you are best at then ask why that is important and why that does matters.

Third Brand personalty figure out your brand personalty and convey your massage to make it compelling unforgettable.and here we comes in, creative people.this is where things like music and visual elements comes into play.

Next comes call of action. convey your offer to the costumer so that he can adept the message quite easily you have to be very specific about what you are offering. It should be memorable way to deliver it. that's why we sometime use a slogan or phrase to stick with it in such a way that its becomes the part of our brand.

And Finally comes our participation of creative people Actors directors scripts visual artists, animators visual or cg creators.your commercial should be scripted and edited according to the Above description.
like your message,offers,brand specs etc.these simple steps can provide you a rough but deep insight of how to do commercial.

Exclusive Interview: The Help Director Tate Taylor - CinemaBlend.com

2012-01-05T12:15:00.000+05:30

Exclusive Interview: The Help Director Tate Taylor - CinemaBlend.com

Seeing so many bad movies come from great books, I have to think that any author would be hesitant to let their work fall into the hands of Hollywood. The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be the greatest book of all time, has been adapted three separate times and not a single one has been comparable. In some ways Kathryn Stockett took a similar risk when she sold the movie rights to her book, The Help, even before it came out, but she had one leg up: the man she sold it to and who would end up both adapting and directing the film is her best friend, Tate Taylor.

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with the filmmaker one-on-one to discuss his newest film, which comes out this Wednesday. Check out the interview below in which Taylor talks about working with Kathryn, how he came to know and cast Octavia Spencer and filming down in Mississippi.

The first question I want to ask is, I know that you actually auctioned this book to become a movie and you had a great relationship with Kathryn. I’m curious, when did you start seeing potential in the book as a film?

Literally halfway through reading the manuscript. Kathryn gave me the manuscript, she had no agent or publisher, we were in New York and she said, “Oh I want you to read it. Just tell me what you think, no one wants it.” I started reading it on a plane to LA about somewhere over Ohio I started to get this tingle. I didn’t finish it of course, it’s only a five hour plane ride, but I called her and I was like, “Kathryn, I don’t know the publishing world, but trust me, someone’s going to wise up. It’s beautiful.” She’s like, “I know, I don’t know. I gotta get comfortable if no one’s going to make it.” I said, “Let’s talk about it,” and that’s when the dialogue began. I knew over Ohio.

She mentioned earlier that she’s not too familiar with the film world, how involved was she? Like when you were working on the script, how involved did she become with that process?

Not really involved, she didn’t want to be. She’s like, “I don’t understand movies, I don’t understand scripts.” I just told her, “When I outline the whole thing before I began writing dialogue, I want to sit with you and tell me what you think.” So we met up in Central Park about a month after that and I went over what I planned to do, what wasn’t going to be in the movie, and she’s like, “That makes sense.” Then I let her read the final copy and she really liked it. Then she came to Mississippi out of support and just wanted to watch it. There was never a monitoring situation, she just loved everybody, she can tell all just genuinely love each other.

Just listening to the cast talk, when you’re sitting in the rooms and hearing people in the hallways, you really get the sense that you established this family atmosphere.

It’s like summer camp. We all, we had the best time. We all rented houses and stuff. We would all be over someone’s house having dinner and then we’d have too much to drink, we would be talking and someone would say, “I just want to stay at your house tonight.” “Okay!” It was just crazy, it really was a family atmosphere.

Sissy Spacek mentioned that it’s actually your father that gets together with at the end.

Yeah. The nightcap. That’s my dad.

I heard that actually there were some other people that you knew too.

Oh gosh, yeah. I peppered the movie with friends and family. The woman that raised me with my mom, Carol, is in the movie. Kathryn’s daughter plays the young Skeeter in the flashback, my mom is in the movie. Remember one of the first bad dates Skeeter has, “There’s Lieutenant, let’s go say hi,” and they come over there, that’s my mom who plays the Lieutenant’s wife. And my dad was in it, yeah it was fun.

Did you find that that kind of, just that personal touch kind of added to that whole atmosphere?

Not really that, it was just fun for me, from my nostalgic point of view, to know that I can go back in time when I’m older, at the end of my days, and watch the movie. It just makes it fun to have faces in there that you can remember conversations with.

I know that, on that same kind of note, Octavia mentioned that you were her roommate. I’m curious, how did you approach her? Because I also learned that the character was based on her, but how did you approach her, or did she approach you about playing a character in the movie?

It was just understood. We really are best friends. We were both PAs together on A Time To Kill, came to Mississippi, became buddies, and moved to LA together in 96. So I don’t know, when you have someone that close in your life that you share everything with, it was just, “Oh!” It was more getting Dreamworks to let me do it. Because that was the worry, she had no big credits and everybody wanted to be in this movie. Especially when there’s not so many roles for African Americans. Then I said I’d like to see Octavia do the part, so I took her down to my casting director. She went on and did a scene, showed it to everybody, they went, “She’s amazing.”

On that same kind of note, you mention that there aren’t that many great roles for African Americans, there aren’t a lot of, for women in general. Was that kind of, did you feel it was almost an active mission? Because this film really does, it has an incredible female cast and it uses every single one so brilliantly, I’m just wondering, was that an intention?

Like a goal? It was not. I’ve always been attracted to female characters, as an audience member, so I can just tell you that I was excited to mind, you noticed, which I appreciate, the possibilities, and draw out every ounce of opportunity from each of the characters of this book into the script. I didn’t want anybody just to be a, “This person is Leeroy, Minny’s husband,” and in the book you meet him and you know what he looks like and he has scenes. You know who he is. He’s the wife, he’s drunk, and so I don’t need to know him. I’d rather have more room for these women that I like.

That actually leads me to another question. Obviously this is a four hundred-plus-page book, you’re not going to be able to put in everything, and also it comes from three different perspectives. I’m just curious, for starters, the breakdown of the point of view, in the book it’s separated into Minny, Aibileen, and Skeeter, in the film you have the narration only done by Aibileen. I’m curious, was that always the case?

I knew from the start that I wanted only one person to tell the story. I said, what made this book special to me and what makes it special, period? And I realized, it was because the subject matter was dealt with and told through the eyes of the most important person, the African-American, during this time period. And I’m like, no one has really thought to do that, and that’s what it should have been the whole time. So it was a no-brainer. It’s Aibileen’s movie. That’s why I had to add Skeeter near the end, she just kind gracefully...I didn’t need, it’s Aibileen’s story.

DYou see so many movies where you have stories about minorities that are only told through the eyes of a white person. I love that this film actively goes against that.

What I’ve loved hearing some people say, we screened for a mainly African American audience in Chicago a while back and they went, “It’s so great, usually these are about civil rights leaders, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, but this is about normal, everyday African American women doing something.” So I think that resonated too.

There is, obviously, there are tie-ins to the real world. We have the assassination, I’m curious, how, in addition to working out the book, did you do external research about the time? How schooled in it were you before taking on the project?

I’ve went and talked to people. Only just to hear them talk. A really touching thing, and she’s since passed away, I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old, I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life, she’s like, “I can’t read, I can’t write, I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?” It was so cool. But she shared with me a story, loosely, I put a thing in the movie about it. You know when the maid tells Skeeter about the man who bought the land so she could walk to the water tower? She told me the story. I thought that was so special. It was like, in the twenties. It was a white man. I wanted to get that in there, that there were moments of taking care of each other. So I researched that way.

All of the actresses mentioned that you basically handed out copies of Eyes on the Prize. I’m curious, what was it about that documentary that you thought was so important for them to see?

Because I included, you study this during high school, and listen, you’re just trying to get through the day. I thought the images, and having it all refreshed in our heads again, would just be powerful. It’s easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in Eyes on the Prize happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn’t really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. I just wanted them to know so they would wear it on their skin when they went back there. I also knew that it would make it kind of eerie to go there.

It definitely was a hotspot, so I’m curious, would you have made the film if you couldn’t have made it in Mississippi?

Well, once we were green-lit, of course, I would have done it. No, but I think, it would really, I think the film would have suffered. Not what it ended up as, but what it could have been. I just knew, I knew. Again, it goes back to Dreamworks and Chris Columbus and all of those guys, if it aint broke, don’t fix it. Nobody tried to fix something that didn’t need fixing. It just didn’t. It worked, I mean I know it sounds like it’s made up. It was just a great experience.

When we were talking to Chris Columbus earlier, he was talking about when they first did a location pass, and how they were able to find the location that they wanted to use in a day and a half. So what was your reaction when you found these places that you were going to film?

Well I went and found all of the locations myself before we even had financing or a studio. I knew I wanted to film in Greenwood, I knew it was going to be a struggle to get people to come to Mississippi. So I got Mark Ricker, my production designer who wasn’t even hired yet, and I brought Brunson Green, the producer, and I said, “Guys, I think I know where we’re going to film the movie.” Mark’s like, “Who’s paying for it?” “Oh, it’s not set up! No one even knows about it. But I think we need to go here and present a look book.” So we went, and we found, I grew up among a lot of those homes, so we photographed it and Mark Ricker made a book explaining the character of Mississippi. So when I met with Steven Spielberg and he’s like, “Where do you want to film it?” I went, “Here’s the book,” and I handed it to him. He was like, “Wow.” So that’s kind of, I knew I had to do that. That was one of the things I knew. I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, “Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.” It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

Did you find that as you were filming Mississippi really bled into the film?

Oh gosh yeah. I love what Mark Ricker and [Stephen] Goldblatt, my DP did. I said, “Guys, we’ve got to make it a character.” Whenever we can, how do we put Mississippi in here. Steven came up with that amazing shot, when Skeeter goes home, with the crane pulling up and her going up the stairs. Then Mark realized he was doing the shot, and they all talked about different things to place. Yes, it was a huge character.

Just the production design, I mean obviously you’re setting the movie in a different era. Just looking at now versus the sixties, we’re in a completely different universe. Were there any, was it difficult setting that up? Or did the town actually do a lot for the work for you?

No, the town didn’t do any work. Again it goes to tireless dedication from Mark Ricker, our production designer. He designed everything. I mean, those houses were in place, but what happens with the south was, every home felt like it was a set already, but all the sets looked alike. It’s all antiques. So he had the challenge of differentiating these grandson homes to fit each character, which, in a contemporary film, you just have a lot of crazy art. Or something dark, black. But you can’t here. You have to do this very surgical, precise way of differentiating. He did an amazing job.

You go to some sets where the production design is absolutely impeccable, every single inch is covered with something. They just have little notes scribbled on a wall, it’s like a post it on a corkboard, but when you see the final film, so much of that is cut out because it’s not given any focus. When you’re given such incredible production design, which this film certainly has, do you find that you’re actually specifically trying to focus on those smaller aspects?

Well, we don’t, it was never, there’s really no inserts at all in the movie. There’s the shot of the pie when Hilly looks at it, but we were very careful not to do that. We wanted to make people go there and just be in Mississippi. I knew I loved Steven Spielberg when he was like, “Please don’t do close ups and don’t do all that close, I don’t want to because you’re gonna be great.” And he didn’t. A lot of things played wide, and then you’re seeing this home. You can just feel kind of voyeuristic instead of doing that TV, choppy, blah, blah, blah. You just go there. It’s not intrusive. Unless we try to do them, which is often if not always.

This obviously comes from the book as well, but the tone of the film, obviously there are some moments that are absolutely hysterical, but at the same time, it also has some dedrama, and it is dealing with a very serious subject matter. When you were writing the script, how, was it difficult to find the proper balance between that?

I think again, I had the upper hand because I’m a southerner. In the south, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. If you were to bargain from a retailer, you tell a story. So we all just have this way of talking, and often for a southerner to be affected, you create highs and lows that are back to back, just to kind of have people, you don’t want to rip them. So I just kind of knew that would be important. If you have a piece of material that could potentially be message-y or medicine-y, always love a reversal in writing. Like when, and I think it works, when Mae Mobley’s on the toilet in the yard, and it’s so funny, and then in four seconds, she’s having her ass beat by her mother. The audience just went, “UGH!” That’s what you’ve got to do. I think it’s your job as a writer, to not let the audience get ahead, or feel a rhythm. So it’s kind of the way we talk as southerners, and it’s also, I think, your duty as a screenwriter.

Also, when you’re working, as you mentioned in talking about the book, there’s obviously going to be some stuff that you cut out. Was there anything that you really wanted to hold on to but you had to eventually let go of?

There were just scenes that I didn’t need. There’s a scene where Hilly kicks Skeeter out of the Junior League, that’s in the book, and I shot it. It’s a great scene, it’s one of Bryce’s strongest performances. But we knew already, once she put the toilet in the yard, you just know their friendship is over. So when I took it out, and then Skeeter eating alone in the drugstore and all of her friends come in and she’s not included, that’s so much more painful as an audience member, to imagine that conversation to have happened and to see the aftermath versus, “You’re kicked out. I can’t believe you did that to me.” And that’s a great scene, I hated to lose that one. Just because Bryce was so good, she was really upset and vulnerable. Ultimately it wasn’t efficient.

I keep saying this, and I mean to say it in the greatest way possible, but to talk about Bryce Dallas Howard's Hilly Holbrook, when it comes to characters that you really just want to punch in the face, I haven’t felt this way since Election. What’s great about it is that you never let her get too cartoony, it never gets to some stereotypical place. I’m curious, what was the relationship, how did you work with Bryce Dallas Howard’s character?

She is one of the most fearless and un-sensitive people in the world. When I met her she says, “Tate, I don’t get sensitive. Beat me up. Don’t sugarcoat anything.” So we had this great, great banter back and forth. When I’d want to try something, she’d want to try something. But really, she did so much in so many different ways. In each take, it was embarrassing to cut together. We didn’t really, she’s so smart. She has a mother from Louisiana so she has a touchstone in the world, too. I just couldn’t believe her body language, I don’t know where she went and learned it when she showed up with it. Her hands and everything, and Sissy’s so smart, she copied her. That was all, when they walk out, Sissy saw her, and it’s like Mas. They’re just great actresses, I take no credit for that.

Do you know, what are you working on now?

I’ve got some irons in the fire, I’m writing an original screenplay now, just to do it.

What’s it about?

It’s a dark comedy.

Female driven?

Actually, as usual, it is female driven.

Aliens Vs Predator

2012-01-05T12:13:00.000+05:30

2011-12-15T12:54:00.003+05:30

Breaking Into The Industry: Berjes Enriquez, Lead Development Director

Breaking Into The Industry is a weekly interview series that speaks with video game professionals from all across EA. We hope that by sharing how some of the industry’s biggest (and smallest) players got their start, you can learn how to do the same.

What’s your name and job title?
Berjes Enriquez, Lead Development Director.
And what does a Lead Development Director do?
It has really varied over the years, going from managing art teams, to managing the entire art discipline, to managing engineering disciplines, to helping the entire team hit deadlines and achieve their goals while assessing risks and helping inform decision making throughout the team.
The best part of it has been the people I’ve managed. They make me want to come in to work.
So you literally direct the development of a project.
Well, I would be a little cautious about using the word “direct.” I’m not an expert in the field of Animation, or Gameplay Engineering, or User Interface, so I rely on the leads of those disciplines to make the best decisions for the project. In this sense, they are directing their disciplines. I’m just there to help that process and to make sure there’s nothing preventing them from doing their jobs.
Which part of EA do you work with?
The Sims.
I know you can't discuss what you're working on right now, but can you tell me more about what you do?
Sure! Let's talk about pre-production first. So in pre-pro, the concentration is trying to drill down on a great design that we can deliver on. It’s also a great time to give people opportunities to stretch and explore other areas they might be interested in. For example, an engineer trying design, or an artist trying some project management.
What does a typical day look like for you?
In pre-production? It’s a mixture of making sure that design and production have what they need, so they can lock down a design for the next project; closing out projects that are in their final stages; getting folks growth opportunities in areas that interest them; and a whole lot of other things, but I’ll spare you the details.
Could you also describe the production stage, and how your role changes then?
In production, the concentration is on delivering against the vision, so my role becomes that of a supporter. Everyone sees the vision, and I help them get roadblocks out of their way. At the same time, I try to make sure we’re looking ahead.
Being able to keep the future “us” in mind as we work, be it two weeks, one month, or even one solution down the road, is something we tend to forget to do when we’re focused on the next milestone. Luckily, many people I work with share this philosophy. The Sims environment has always been great at maintaining its culture. The more people that embrace that culture, the less work I actually do. That opens me up to take more off my manager, which opens him up to make more off his manager, etc., etc.
How did you get your start in the industry?
My friend was in QA (he’s also a Development Director now, by the way) and asked me if I wanted to help him. I told him I wanted out of the video game industry, but he asked me to try it for a few months. I’ve been with The Sims ever since. There are at least 14 people from that QA team that are now on the Development team, and it’s The Sims culture that keeps me coming back for more.
What games have you worked on so far?
At EA? Every The Sims game since The Sims 2. Well, maybe that’s overstating it, but it’s much easier than listing them all out. So let’s say… minus two to four titles. PC, not console.
Wow. That’s a lot of The Sims.
Yeah, I’d hate to update my resume. The list alone would take up a page!
So, did you study something in college that helps you in your current role?
[Laughs] That depends on who you ask. I have a psychology degree, so while I don’t feel that relates to games at all, I’ve heard that it helps me manage people.
That said, I don’t think I’m psychologizing people. …Yes, psychologizing. I’m making it a word.
What advice do you have for someone in college who wants a job like yours?
A lot of success in the video game industry depends on work ethic. Whatever trade interests you – be it art, animation, engineering, design, etc. – your work ethic is paramount. Now, I’m not saying ungodly hours on ungodly days. It’s more about the pursuit to constantly improve, reflect, and shoot for quality and efficiency.
Going back a little, you said you started in QA, right?
Correct.
Would you recommend that as a first step for people who want to get into the industry?
That’s tricky. There are a lot of factors that come into play. I’ll say this, though: in my experience, it is the easiest position to get, but one of the hardest positions to get out of. This is when work ethic really comes into play.
There are those who just sit and absorb hours and paychecks, and there are those who really show interest in the project and have the ability to deliver high quality work. That’s the trick, really. QA doesn’t have “hard deliverables.” They have the very open objective of “find every bug in the game.” So work ethic really helps people stand out. The biggest impact you can make is for your work ethic to have a positive influence which helps improve the entire department.
Is there a more ideal way to get into a Development Director role?
The first step would be to get project management experience.
Are you a gamer?
I am. I’m a big, huge fighting game fan. Right now I’m playing Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
I’m also a big comic book fan, but my brother came over to my house and stole Batman: Arkham City before I could play it. He left a copy of Captain America in its place and said I had to play that before I could play Batman. No surprise, as my brother was a producer on Captain America!
Any parting advice for our readers?
Always be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. Then, improve on both.

Taken From www.ea.com ( original post).

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2011-12-14T14:02:00.000+05:30

BATTLE:LOS ANGELES!!----MUST WATCH!

2011-12-01T00:24:00.001+05:30

Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles also known as battle: LA and Internationallyknown as world Invention Battle: Los Angeles.Directed by Jonathan Liebesman . Remember The Rings.? starring Aaron Eckhart,Michelle Rodriguez,(Avatar Pilot gal) Ramon Rodriguez, BridgetMoynahan, Ne-Yoand Michael Peña.

Liebesman’s first big budget ventureis almost a war movie with slight odd twist coz this is a war against …yah.. “Aliens”the outer world species came to destroyed ours. Jonathan Liebesman intended thefilm to be like a war film, and the complete film is shoot in hand held camera styleremember united 93. The actors wentthrough three weeks of boot camp, in order to learn how torealistically operate as a marine platoon. 90% of the alien are computergenerated but the explosion and effects were mostly real though green screenand Roto were used.

The movie starts with Santa Monica Airport used as a basecamp of us Marines. Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart),a 20-year veteran who lost his squad during his last deployment in Iraq. And he was planning toretire, but must replace the platoonsergeant from Echo Company, Marines. Under command of 2ndLt.William Martinez (Ramón Rodríguez), who graduated from The BasicSchool one month earlier. Platoon as to conduct a rescue mission forcivilians at LAPD police station where civilians are hidden.

The complete movie is filled with cutting edge excitementwith perfectly crafted Action with sear exciting plot and screen play. Though thecritical response for the movie was that, special effects are good but script isquiet clichéd. Roger Ebert panned Battle: Los Angeles ina lengthy review, calling the movie "noisy, violent, ugly andstupid", giving the film a mere half star rating. Though he praised AaronEckhart's performance, Ebert heavily criticized the film's writing; responsesby critiques in sites like Rotten Tomatoes were also not good. Though I enjoyedthe movie personally. And I’ll suggest you guys to watch it!, you will love it! Andfor your information, a first person shooting game is already been released developedby Live Action Studios. Eeeeooo!! Battle:Los Angeles has already done a business of200million$ till now, world over. And more than 80 million$ in us alone.

TINTIN-YOU SHOULD KNOW .

2011-11-23T13:03:00.001+05:30

CREATOR

The creator of TINTIN Georges Remi was born in BrusselsBelgium1907

Georges Remi was not a stand out student rather he wouldindulge in adventurgame on the street of Brussels. On higher secondary class he joinedthe boys scouts his Drawing skills caught the attention of is scout teacher andsoon he was busy illustrating for scouts magazine and created his firstcharacter Totor.

TINTIN

Georges left school at the age of 17 and opted pen name“Hergé,” and started working for children’s page on a local news paper LeVingtième Siècle. Tintin inspired by scout boy Totor came out in 1929 it was aninstant hit by the time of 1950 it has raveled all around the world but herge stayedin Belgium ..he established his own studio.And here with his team of assistant artistshe started expand the TINTIN Adventure across all the horizon.

ROLL

Hergé’s had become a great sensation his story was based oncurrent political scenario of that time. He took his readers to all around theworld as TINTIN adventure was about traveling different places around the globefrom Japanese-occupied Chinain The BlueLotus to the Arctic Oceanin The Shooting Star.

The Black Island takesTintin and his canine companion to a foreboding island off the coast of Scotland.A mythical beast — based partly on the Scottish Loch Ness monster — haunts theisland, and Tintin is determined to get to the bottom of the local legend, onceand for all.

Ice Age 4 Trailer 2

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TINTIN---WHAT THEY SAY?

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Chris Rayment
Is it just me or does anyone else find the new Tin Tin movie disappointing?
A great adventure story told in true Spielberg fashion but for me the use of Motion Capture was a misconception. OK, you can't fault such technology but Mo Cao ia ear better utilised in the gaming sector.
The Tin Tin purist will not be happy as the film deviates from its comic book roots - Trad 2D anim would have suited it better but this was never an option for Spielberg. It wouldn't have worked as a 3D movie either.
I would have preferred to tp have seen it as a live action film laden with CGI and V/FX How could Peter Jackson not see this as well? It worked fantastically well for him in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
No doubt Tin Tin will do well at the box office and so we will see more use of Mo cap- remember how Stereoscopic 3D went ballistic after Avatar.
Yet again we can expect the overuse of technology for technologies sake . . . . .Ho Hum such is life.

Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury but the movie is so.. so.. it is made particularly for the children in India.

Shibaji Dey I miss the test of animation in it. i cant compare it with UP.But Tintin is tintin above all in its uniqueness .

Abhishek Nitish Yes we can ...or rather should say, we have to expect the overuse of technology specially wen it is introduced by big players doesn't matter these are introduced in big budget way... these are actually money making techniques and lots of small players will go for it... i agree with you but but our agree-ment is motivated by our love for goodolddays theory which is not going to be viable commercially i guess.

Debabrata Chakraborty i agree with u sir but the thng is that 2much techno is not good...evrythng shud have some limit..

Abhinava Das ‎2d of tintin was more good than 3d.........

Jaybrata Bhattacharyya agree, either 2D or live action with VFX would have been the right choice. Mo capture made the whole thing look like crap, they should have learned it from polar express.

DIGITAL LONDON--Anonymous

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Roland Emmerich's new Adventurer Anonymous where a virtual London was to be created, a London prior to the Great Fire of 1666. for this they build thousand of buildings from a technology called OGEL. This enormous VEX challenge was taken by Volker Engel and Marc Weigert.

We went several times to England to shoot buildings for textures and photogrammetry that were left over from the 16th century," Weigert suggests. "We basically went everywhere from the Scottish border in Wales all the way down to the south and found every little village that we could use for assets to build the city." (excerpts from AWN).

They worked regularly in 3ds Max with both hand and automated work.

"We had more than 300 shots and a second unit team that shot a few back plates in England, but only a few of those were used," adds Weigert."It was all shot in Germany, using both interior and exterior greenscreens. We had entire sequences of 50 to 60 shots where it was just the actors walking or riding in front of greenscreens on stage, and we would build the entire environment for it, which was also accurate. When we were looking at old British films, even up to a few years ago, they were always shot on the same locations with the permission of the Heritage Trust. We didn't want to do that. We wanted to use visual effects to create history as it was, so we built the White Hall Palace, for instance, which was Queen Elizabeth's home. It doesn't exist anymore and is in a totally different place and looks totally different. But we built it accurate to old paintings.

"When you do something in 3D, you can never see it in real time," Weigert suggests. "You have to wait for the picture to render, then you have to wait for all the frames to render to then put it into comp and then to see the results. So we tried to move away from that and do as much as we could with projection techniques in Fusion, which was the software of choice for this project. And we together worked with eyeon to develop new tools, one of which was full 3D water as a compositing package inside Fusion, so we had almost real time feedback on our water of the River Thames; we did 3D backgrounds with projected images must faster. For instance, we'd only render a still frame in the 3D package and then re-projected that in Fusion. And we'd use that and add camera moves.
"We wanted those shots to look as real and as immersive as possible. Roland likes to create these shots to put things in perspective and guide you and give you a sense of scale." (excerpts from AWN)

Mega Gaming Tournaments

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Gaming is in a stage like it was never before several Gaming competition are taking place every where in the world,more and more gamers are falling in to join, playing from right at home or gaming cafes all around the worlds.This is an electronic world where we are living in, so does our gaming habits.

Listed bellow are major gaming events which are taking place.

WCG

Started way back in 2000 in Korea presented by on of the leading electronic appliance company Samsung. This was a huge success, establishing it in every gamers wish list. The WCG bags big sponsorship and offers up to $400,000 in prize money. The event is held every year between October to December.

First four venue of the competition(2000-2004) was in Korea after that it moves on to other venues like US Singapore. WCG conducts preliminary rounds in all the participating countries, the winners of which play in the main event. It's a very well presented event with enough ex-poser.well Indian gamers are participating every year but we have no luck so far.

ESWC

EWCG which stand for Electronic Sports World Cup was started by a french gaming company callen Game service. ESWC has gain huge respect among gamers and all over the world.the rezone alone is not the whooping prize money it offers that is 150 000 euros, ESWC is is also known for its smooth running.it stared in year 2003 is held each year in France. 37 countries with 150 000 gamers participated last year in the event. Indian gamers had no luck in the event so far.

ESWC is hugely popular and gaining more and more popularity.the prize package has raised this year from 150 000 euros to jaw dropping 300 000 euros. SK, zEx, Team 9 are few world known team has participated in the event are world known figure.

MATCH MOVING

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CG car replacement-FastFive

Cinematic technique Match Moving is a Technique that makes insertion of computer generated graphics into a live action footage possible with correct position,scale and orientation according to the related motion.

why we do that?

Animated 3d effects or graphic (three dimensional character or effects) insertion into live footage.

save money--F16 flying footage required into your scene..can you afford that?? no?? then its time build a 3d model in Maya an do some motion tracking.
Architectural Previsualization. ( ground or bird view)
Set extension (Forts of Trons or Ndtv flashy news room.
Crash from vehicle POV.
Matte Painting ...how that end of the world like landscape has build. in Photoshop most probably.
Replacing objects AD 230 there were no electric poles i guess! right?

original live footage of new york street where funny looking alien vehicles made in 3ds max has been inserted

The Process of match moving.

Tracking: Here specific track points on the surface of a real object will be projected in the scene to track the motion of the objects. After tracking i becomes the series of two dimensional coordinates once all the tracking data has been done...now it can be used for 2D motion or to calculate 3D motion.

Calibration: This process attempts to derive the motion of the camera by solving the inverse-projection of the 2D paths for the position of the camera. All parameters necessary to model a virtual or real world

camera, like orientation,focal length etc,and position of 3D points in a space roughly known as cloud points.


small dots( track points done in boujou)

Final Comp 3D text done in Cinema 4D.

Ground plane:Once calibration is complete, it is necessary to define a ground plane. Normally, this is a unit plane that determines the scale, orientation and origin of the projected space. Some programs attempt to do this automatically, though more often the user defines this plane. Since shifting ground planes does a simple transformation of all of the points, the actual position of the plane is really a matter of convenience.

Reconstruction: A reconstruction program can create three-dimensional objects that mimic the real objects from the photographed scene. Using data from the point cloud and the user's estimation, the program can create a virtual object and then extract a texture from the footage that can be projected onto the virtual object as a surface texture.

2D composition programme for Match Moving: Shake, Adobe Aftereffect, combustion etc.

3D composition programme for Match Moving: Maya match mover, voodoo, boujou, Nuke and Blender have Three-dimensional motion tracking capabilities.

VERY ROUGH IDEA ABT VFX

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Don juggle your Brain with....... what this so called VFX is? . just take a look at scene composition from the movie called AVIATOR. and you will get the rough idea of what VFX is and why it is sometime unavoidable during movie making.
first take a look at the picture given bellow.This shot was totally constructed in CG.and why is that??? because no camera in this whole blue world was capable to shoot this XF11 jet plane taking off at the speed of 130 knot which is almost 250 km/h from a incredibly close distance at astonishing 180 degree angle camera track.

Awe! is it possible in real life? no way. take a look at the photographs first.-

Ok so what had to be done was to create an CG plane in 3 Dimension first and use a 3d virtual camera to shoot the scene in a single shot.And that is what special effects supervisor did.

This shot was totally constructed in CG by mapping photographs of the runway, environment, and cloudscape. The plane was also mapped from the original 1/4 model detailed photographs and animated based on the original pre-viz.

now take a look at the image below..A 3d model of XF-11made in maya

. And after that they had to be accurate to mach the color, reflection,lighting on the plane acording to the mapped runway photographs.to look the scene natural.

And this how it looked in the movie.

Interested in gaming??

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Interested in gaming??

Wellyou are an art collage student or had a soft corner for cute animatedcharacters you’ve grown with all these years and ultimately chose to build yourcareer in animation industry. Right?? But as you’ve been taught in your schoolthat Gaming (which is an essential part of animation industry which is expectedto reach 607 million $ in year 2012) is a very lucrative career option foraspiring 3D artists. you may not find it that interesting …why???

Becauseyou say “I don’t like gaming. I don’tplay games; I tried my hand on some racing game before, but didn’t find it thatexciting. Rather I like Mickey Mouse….. Tangled movie kind of stuff.”

“Am I right?” Well, it’s your choice. Butplease let me tell you something before you shift delete this gaming optionfrom your brain. I’m not going to give you lecture on how gaming industry givesyou enormous creative freedom and how exciting it is to build a single high-endgame or how brilliant this world is.. or you should sack your first cute galfriend Rapunzel and replace her with sexy Tom raider. No I’ll never do that. but am going to give you somesuggestion that how you can build interest in gaming so that when you getchance as an animator in gaming industry you show the same level of enthusiasmsyou might’ve show when your chosen in other television or movie industry. Buthow you can do this???? There is one single answer for this question and thatis……

”START PLAYING GAMES.”

Butbefore I start let me tell you something about myself, a couple of years ago Iwas no gamer actually never tried games before, and as 25 year old boy I wasamong the elders who use to think computer gaming is for kids... Or…do they find it interesting..??? This is awaste of time. Or to an extreme...These violent computer games are ruining thisgeneration. Blah blah blah. But as soon as I realize that playing games isactually good for my career enhancement or it is not too bad if we keep-it-oncheck. And it is good learning resource and its an ocean of creativity. Idecided to try my hand a little. As a starter I find it boring, annoyed andfelt like looser. But I kept on playing and I learned few things that I’llshare with you guys that can help you guys on how you can become a gaming freakfrom a complete novice or no gamer.and trust me on this, gaming world is soexciting that can blow your mind off it is a perfect escape and refuse fromyour busy life it is almost like meditation. Culmination of excitement andfilled with so much creativity as well. Trust me guys even if your not playing...You’restill in the loosing side.

..No Gamer To Gaming Freak.

· Don’t start witholder games first. some people think that they should try their hand on olderstuff first which is not true. Try newer… high end Games first. FAR CRY, MOST WANTED-NEED FOR SPEED, CRYSISARE GOOD CHOICE.

· ASK FORHELP...PLZZ DON BE SHY ON ASKING FOR HELP FROM A 16 YEAR OLD GAMING FREAK NEXTDOOR. PLZ DO OR DO SOME GOOGLE .ACHIEVING CHECK POINTS MIGHT SEEM IMPOSSIBLESOMETIME.

· Don just plays please.Take a look at what you see…graphics, lights landscape textures materialslayouts... Enjoy as you enjoy any other art form see how much effort the entiregaming artists has put into this.

· Go to the creator’swebsite and see how they do it.

Five games youshould start with...

CRYSIS

NEEDFOR SPEED

MOST WANTED

FARCRY

CALL OF DUTY

LARACROFT

TO BE CONTINUE.!..........................

10th batch work!!

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A work by beloved Dipon.

10th batch work!!

No Arms No Legs No Worries : Nick Vujicic

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Everyone should get inspired from his life...

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How Walt Disney Cartoons Were Made

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Bursting Balloons Animation

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MARTYRS : The New 3D Students' Film from 9th Batch of RTG Animate Students

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Hi all, here is a good news for everyone at RTG Animate - Animation Academy. Our 9th Batch of students have just finished their 3D project film after many months of hard work. This new movie : MARTYRS is now up on Youtube. All of you should watch it now at : http://youtu.be/4Su309-GLW4 and don't forget to rate it high.