Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Monday, March 20, 2017

Pixar Has Come So Far


The original Pixar Image Computer sold for $135,000! They sold less than 300 units.
I think the iPhone5 is capable of rendering faster than the original Pixar Image Computer.

Monday, May 9, 2016

What Makes A Pixar Movie


Some good points but there may be a chink in the Pixar story telling armor with The Good Dinosaur.
First Rule: Why does this story need to be told?  Not sure that it does.


Monday, January 25, 2016

The Beginning Of Computer Animation, Ed Catmull's First Animated Organic Object, 45 Year Ago





Get Ed Catmull's new audio book Creativity, Inc.

A list of some contributions to computer graphics innovations developed by Ed Catmull:

Sub-Division Surfaces
Texture Mapping
Z-Buffering
Catmull-Rom Anti-Aliasing


A reminder of how far computer animation has come in 45 years.





Get Ed Catmull's new audio book Creativity, Inc.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Pixar In A Box? I'll Have Some Please!



Do you want to learn about computer animation?  Well you're in luck.  Here is your chance to learn from the best in the business.  Pixar and Khan Academy have teamed up to provide a series of free video courses that cover a wide variety topics related to 3D animation production.
The current topics include:

Environment modeling
Character modeling
Animation
Crowds
Sets & Staging
Rendering

It focuses on the technical aspects of the various processes and it's very informative for anyone interested in the complexities of advanced computer animation.

You can find all of the instructional videos here:

 Pixar In A Box

More about Pixar @ Pixar


Ken Ralston Interview from 1984

1984 was a great year for movies.  Ken Ralston went on to work for Sony Pictures Imageworks as VFX supervisor.