Check out this article in Popular Mechanics about some of the animation techniques used on Avatar:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4339455.html
We've experimented with some similar virtual camera tricks at work. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of it over the next few years - along with more performance capture of course.
As for stereoscopic film, call me behind the times, but I still don't like it.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tip of the Week:
Hypershader Connections - Part 2
Here's a quick follow-up to last week's tip:
Hovering the cursor over a connection arrow gives you detailed information about the connection - you'll see the output attribute from one node and the input attribute from the other.
But you can also tell, at a glance, what type of connections are in place.
Hypershader connections are color coded according to data type. Green arrows indicate connections for triple-valued attributes such as color, specular color, or any other rgb/xyz channel. Dark blue arrows indicate single-valued attributes such as diffuse. Light blue indicates a double-valued attribute such as repeatUV. If you're working with merged connections, a bold yellow arrow indicates that there are multiple connections between two nodes.
Hovering the cursor over a connection arrow gives you detailed information about the connection - you'll see the output attribute from one node and the input attribute from the other.
But you can also tell, at a glance, what type of connections are in place.
Hypershader connections are color coded according to data type. Green arrows indicate connections for triple-valued attributes such as color, specular color, or any other rgb/xyz channel. Dark blue arrows indicate single-valued attributes such as diffuse. Light blue indicates a double-valued attribute such as repeatUV. If you're working with merged connections, a bold yellow arrow indicates that there are multiple connections between two nodes.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
37th Annual Annie Award Nominations
The nominee list is in for the 37th annual Annie Awards, to be held Saturday, February 6th, 2010 in LA.
The Best Animated Feature Category consists of:
The Best Animated Feature Category consists of:
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation
- Coraline — Laika
- Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox
- The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios
- The Secret of Kells — Cartoon Saloon
- Up — Pixar Animation Studios
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tip of the Week: Viewing
Hypershader Connections
Ever since Maya 2009, the default view in the Hypershader merges all input and and output connections between two nodes into a single arrow.
Sometimes this is helpful - it eliminates some of the clutter when you have a complicated shading network. But sometimes it's nice to be able to see at a glance how many connections there are, or to be able to select and delete connections individually.
Luckily, you can switch back and forth between the two.
In the Hypershader window, go to Options > Merge Connections to toggle between views.
Sometimes this is helpful - it eliminates some of the clutter when you have a complicated shading network. But sometimes it's nice to be able to see at a glance how many connections there are, or to be able to select and delete connections individually.
Luckily, you can switch back and forth between the two.
In the Hypershader window, go to Options > Merge Connections to toggle between views.
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