3D Animation Blog

Coraline Blu-Ray UK Release

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:34:42 +0000

Coraline Dir: Henry Selick If you are interested in animation in any way at all, CG or otherwise, I recommend that you buy Coraline on Blu-Ray. The film is a masterpiece of animation. Download the Large Blu-Ray cover Related Posts:Ratatouille Blu-Ray DVD UK ReleaseMonsters Inc. Released On Blu-RayWALL.E Blu-Ray UK Release

Gore Zoid 3D Animation Now In HD

Andy Whiteley — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:05:39 +0000

Gore Zoid 3D Animation in HD on Vimeo The animation was rendered to a HD tga sequence at a resolution of 1280×720. This was then output to an uncompressed Quicktime file which came in at a whopping 2.64GB! It was then converted for upload to the excellent Vimeo site through the Quicktime Pro Player using H.264 6000kbps video compression and AAC 44.1kHz 320kbps for the [...]

District 9 HD Trailer – Neill Blomkamp

Andy Whiteley — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:56 +0000

District 9 trailer 2 directed by Neill Blomkamp Visit Apple Quicktime site to watch the trailer in HD District 9 is the feature film follow up to the award winning 2005 short documentry film entitled Alive In Joberg. The film is directed by former vfx artist and VFS graduate Neill Blomkamp and is produced by Peter Jackson. District 9 was developed after the collapse of the [...]

Yellow Adicolour Ad by Neill Blomkamp

Andy Whiteley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:25:11 +0000

Adidas invited directors to bring their own unique visions to a series of Adicolor commercials based on their creative response to the colours Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink, Black or White. Neill Blomkamp’s brief was Yellow and the following film was the result. Written in collaboration with Terri Tatchell who went on to write the screenplay with Blomkamp for the film District 9. Related Posts:New Website [...]

Monsters Inc. Released On Blu-Ray

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:02:21 +0000

Monsters Inc. Dir: Pete Docter Finally, released today in the UK, Monsters Inc. on Blu-Ray. Includes full DTS-HD uncompressed sound. Download the Large Blu-Ray cover Related Posts:Ratatouille Blu-Ray DVD UK ReleaseWALL.E Blu-Ray UK ReleaseCoraline Blu-Ray UK Release

CGportfolio Featured In Newsletter

Andy Whiteley — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:00:35 +0000

http://features.cgsociety.org/newsletter/newsletter.php?id=613 My CGsociety portfolio featured on the weekley news letter under ‘Popular Portfolios’. I have currently only got one image on there but plan to put more up very soon. http://andywhiteley.cgsociety.org/gallery/ CGPortfolio is currently one of the best ways for anyone wanting to get their work noticed by industry professionals. It is highly recommended that you sign up. Registration is free [...]

Coraline In Digital 3-D

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:52:59 +0000

Coraline Trailer on YouTube Having purposely waited to see a 3-D feature, amongst the recent surge of films (started by Chicken Little in 2005) and since the announcement that Coraline would be made in 3-D, I can honestly say that it was worth the wait as I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The technology behind 3-D, such as the development of digital projectors and filters [...]

Coraline Website Mouse Circus

Andy Whiteley — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:15:59 +0000

Instruct The Performing Mice To Create Your Own Name in the Mouse Circus One of the many beautifully designed sections of the Coraline Website. Related Posts:Coraline Blu-Ray UK ReleaseCoraline - Rapid Prototyping 3D ModelsCoraline In Digital 3-D

Short Film – Machu Picchu Post

Andy Whiteley — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:08:19 +0000

Machu Picchu Post Short Animation Screenshot From Machu Picchu Post Machu Picchu Post is a short film created by 3 final year Supinfocom students. It tells the tale of a Peruvian boy and his pet lama and what happens when a mail plane loses some letters over the boy’s house. What stands out for me, is not only the [...]

Pixar Short Film ‘Partly Cloudy’

Andy Whiteley — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:55:45 +0000

Production Still For The Short Film Partly Cloudy Keeping with tradition, the new short film from Pixar entitled Partly Cloudy, will be shown in cinemas before the main UP feature. Partly Cloudy tells the tale of where delivery storks get their babies from and how the main character ‘Peck’ handles the ‘dangerous’ baby sculptures created by ‘Gus’ the insecure grey cloud. The CGsociety [...]

Monsters vs Aliens In UK Cinemas Today

Andy Whiteley — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:46:23 +0000

Monsters vs Aliens HD Logo Monsters vs Aliens released in UK today. Make sure to watch the film in full 3-D at selected cinemas. An interesting Animation World Network article entitled Dreamworks Goes on a 3-D Rampage details how Dreamworks achieved the 3-D effect in the film. Another article, this time on CGsociety entitled Making S-3D Gel also shows how [...]

The Art of Monsters vs Aliens Book

Andy Whiteley — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:32:39 +0000

The Art of Monsters vs Aliens by Stephen Colbert Example Page From The Art of Monsters vs Aliens The latest ‘art of’ book entitled The Art of Monsters vs Aliens is now availiable. Includes, not only concept art and production sketches, but also making of development CG wireframes, renders and models, which are sadly lacking from the Art of Pixar books. Related [...]

Blogger To Wordpress

Andy Whiteley — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:21:31 +0000

After disappointment with the lack of navigation features and slow publishing in Blogger (using ftp and the classic template) I have finally taken the leap and transferred my 3D Animation Blog to the hosted Wordpress version. Although the initial set-up of a hosted Wordpress.org blog is a lot more long winded than the Wordpress.com version, it is a lot more advanced [...]

Pixar’s New UP Trailer 3 & New Posters

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:34:00 +0000

Pixar’s UP Trailer 3 on YouTube. Screenshot From Pixar’s New UP Trailer. Character Based on Kirk Douglas? Quite a few items in this post as Pixar ramps up marketing for the film. The first half of the trailer features scenes that have been shown in the previous trailers although, in the second half we are treated to [...]

Pixar The Art of UP

Andy Whiteley — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:23:14 +0000

The Art of UP by Tim Hauser The latest book in the excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable. Related Posts:Pixar The Art of WALL.E BookPixar Art of CarsThe Art of Monsters vs Aliens Book

Animation At The Oscar’s

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:09:00 +0000

WALL.E Wins Best Animated Feature Octapodi Just Loses Out On An Oscar WALL.E deservedly received an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, but my favourites, Pixar’s Presto and Octapodi by students at Gobelins L’ecole de L’Image lose out in Best Short Film (Animated) category. Related Posts:WALL.E Blu-Ray UK ReleaseWALL.E Released In Cinemas TodayPixar The Art of WALL.E Book

Coraline – Rapid Prototyping 3D Models

Andy Whiteley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:32:00 +0000

Mr Bobinsky Drops In On Coraline Thousands of 3D ‘Printed’ Face Shapes Were Produced For Coraline Head Awaiting The Interchangeable Face Shapes Video On The Coraline Rapid Prototyping Department Example of Rapid Prototyping On A Connex500 3D Printer by Objet. Rig and Seam Removal and Compositing in Coraline CG Society Article One Step at a Time for the Puppet of a Thousand [...]

Lost and Found Animation By Studio AKA

Andy Whiteley — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:23:00 +0000

Screenshot from the short film Lost and Found Lost and Found is an award winning childrens book by Oliver Jeffers and has been adapted by Studio AKA The 25-minute CG animation, directed by Philip Hunt and narrated by Jim Broadbent will be screened for the first time on Channel 4 in the UK at 2.30pm on [...]

Lost and Found Books and DVD

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:54:32 +0000

Lost and Found DVD Dir: Philip Hunt Narrator: Jim Broadbent The newly released Lost and Found DVD. Lost and Found: The Story of The Film by Oliver Jeffers Also now available is the The Movie Tie In Book. Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers The original childrens story book. Related Posts:Lost and Found Animation By Studio AKAThe Tale of Despereaux TrailerPixar The Art of WALL.E [...]

WALL.E Blu-Ray UK Release

Andy Whiteley — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:36:15 +0000

WALL.E Dir: Andrew Stanton Released today in the UK, WALL.E on Blu-Ray which features some great extras, including Pixar’s latest great animated shorts Presto and BURN.E One of the most facinating extras on the disc is the part where the director, Andrew Stanton totally re-writes the ending (the switch between WALL.E and EVE) and due to his ‘gut feeling’ has [...]