CG News Dump

Round 6 by Snowball Studios

newsdump — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:56:23 +0000

Some guys from Snowball Studios did it: they produced a full CG short movie in 18 month within their spare time. The result is a cool looking 3:20 short that could open some doors into the gaming industry. The shader legend Master Zap says: Great Work. And yep, he’s right and whats also great ist the Round 6 production blog where they focus on shading, animation and how they put the whole thing together. Here is the contact sheet for Round 6.

Filed under: animation, cinema, design & style, tutorial, video, visualization

6 inspiring CG Car styles

newsdump — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:06:08 +0000

It’s been a while that I’ve found the time to post here. But I have to freeze this collection for myself. It’s not a collection like the 101 Super Realistic CG Vehicles from CGTuts+… but in my opinion less is more. So here we go:

Camaro 2010, Tamás Tóthfalussy (3D)

Old car, Andrey Klimov (3D)

Fillmore Cars!!!, Ricardo Mansilha (3D)

Stylised 68 Firebird, Christophe Desse (3D)

Chevrolet Camaro, Dmitriy Gusev (3D)

Saltlake, Michael Tschernjajew (3D)

Filed under: design & style, picture of the day, visualization

Zamzar – Free online File Conversion

newsdump — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:55:35 +0000

Here is a nifty service that converts what ever document format into a wanted format. A Great tool for online video conversion without waisting bandwith and system resources on your side.

try it for yourself @ www.zamzar.com/

A list of possible video types and formats follows after the break:

3g2 – 3GPP2 Multimedia File

3gp – 3GPP Multimedia File
aac – Advanced Audio Coding File
ac3 – AC3 Audio File
avi – Windows video file
flac – Free Lossless Audio Codec
flv – Flash Video
ipod – MPEG-4 Video File
mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
mp3 – Compressed audio file
mp4 – MPEG-4 Video File
mpg – Moving Picture Experts Group File
ogg – Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File
wav – Windows audio file
wmv – Windows Media File (Microsoft Corporation)

Posted in application, web

6 Technical Perfect Motorcycle Renderings from CGTalk

newsdump — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:57:42 +0000

Here is a collection of some technical perfect motor-cycle renderings that can be found on CGTalk. Click each thumbnail to jump directly to the full resolution image and to find more information about each work.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=549618

Posted in photorealism, picture of the day, visualization

Audi add “Intelligently Combined” by DD

newsdump — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:40:16 +0000

Digital Domain did a clean looking animation for the new Audi tagline, “Efficient-Technology, intelligently combined.”. Detailled information about the production and involved agencys and persons can be found at www.cgarena.com

See the video directly @ youtube after the break

Posted in animation, commercial, design & style, photorealism, visualization

CG Car images for your inspiration

newsdump — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:29:30 +0000

Since nachofotos.com doesn’t allow image links for some time… I have to do it the old way and crop and link these interesting images by myself. Click on each of the thumbnails to jump directly to the sepcific CGTalk thread to see the fullres image…

Posted in design & style, photorealism, picture of the day, visualization

crynetsystems Nanosuit 2

newsdump — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:21:24 +0000

i like the scifi look of the nanosuit that crytec is using for promoting the new crysis 2 game. On the crytec homepage it says that they won the red dot design award… even if I wasn’t able to find any information on the red dot page about the nanosuit as a winner for 2009…

Here are some pics from the videos they have produced for the nanosuit 2.

The full videos can be seen @ http://crynetsystems.com/

Here are some pics from the videos they have produced for the nanosuit 2.

Posted in animation, commercial, design & style, photorealism, tech, visualization

CG Short Artifical Paradise

newsdump — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:56:21 +0000

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

http://vimeo.com/6132324

Posted in design & style, visualization

creativeCrash a merge of Highend3D & fxshare

newsdump — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:48:42 +0000

The title says it all. fxshare and highend3d merged to the new social/business networking side CreativeCrash.

http://www.creativecarsh.com

http://www.highend3d.com

http://www.fxshare.com

Posted in web

Normality for Adobe After Effects

newsdump — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Stefan Minning developed a Plugin for After effects that allows the relighting of CG objects within AE.

Download it @

http://www.minning.de/software/normality#software/normality

Posted in application, tech