This post is intended to be a way of saving those tabs ive had open in my firefox browser for days. Hopefully by writing this blog, I will be able to restart my macbook pro haha. Anyway I’ll leap right into it. First thing – animation links that are inspiring…
Videos:
Meindbender Studio Showreel – inspiring and unique animation, awesome rendering/lighting, and good attention to detail especially when it comes to camera movement. Good inspiration for how an appealing showreel should be put together.
Adrenaline Lemmings CGI test from Alex Orrelle on Vimeo.
Inspiring animation, composite of character animation and clever video footage to put together a short but incredible display of animation and production skills. I hope one day I can collaborate with some people to produce some good showreel material.
Twitter/General Links:
AnimationXpress on Twitter – A lot of links to animation related information which I intend to have a more detailed look through – other things to look at are…
Animation Mentor blogs which I’ve missed out on andddd…. watch the stack of e-critiques from the 11 second club, they have a LOT of tips and tricks in there for fellow animators: 11 Second Club Feedback
Tutorial links:
1001 Adobe After FX tutorials shared by someone over twitter (apologies I forgot who actually linked it so im sorry if im not giving you credit). Id suggest download as many tutorials as you can because the internet being the internet, they wont all stay around for long.
Modelling Technique – modelling techniques using the Iron Man helmet… This is the EXACT modelling technique I use, especially the closer edges to carve in details after smoothing – I recommend it, creates incredibly efficient and easy models.
I think thats the majority of links that I had open which were noteworthy, so that saves me from having them all open. On another note, I may have some big contracts coming through which require more rendering grunt, so I’m off to do some research about mini-rendering farms and will most likely be posting links here if I deem them useful and informative. Most likely try and base them off the ikea helmer render farm.
Will keep this updated for my crazy thoughts!
- Jarrad
coolies. Interesting stuff there.
Lemmings video makes me want to turn the saturation down soooo bad though.
Yeah I know what you mean about the saturation, a little too much, but I think the reason it was so saturated was to fit in around the high colour displayed on the video footage, but even that looks like the saturation has been increased. Have you checked out the 11 second club comments and criticism? Definitely worth a look.