Roland Guathier, Micheal Kuehn, and Alex Tysowsky have come together to create ‘Hinge Digital’, a new full-service 3D Animation and VFX studio in Prtland, Ore.
Based in the burgeoning creative mecca of Portland, Ore., Hinge Digital has operated under strategic development since 2009. During this time, the company has produced commercial campaigns and interactive projects for clients and advertising agencies including Target, Nike, Microsoft Bing, AKQA/SF and Razorfish Inc. In collaboration with Zimmerman Advertising, Hinge Digital created the fully 3D animated Sales Guide “hh,” for home appliance and electronics retailer hhgregg. To date, the team has produced more than 20 commercials for the campaign, now in its second year.
The new hires bring over 40 years of combined experience in such well-known studies as Walt Disney, Sony Imageworkd, and Laika Entertainment.
Microsoft has put their flag in the sand in a way that won’t soon be surpassed, with the release of their “Terapixel Image” project. A spherical image of the sky, from the Digitized Sky Survey, they combined 1800 images on a 64-node cluster into a massive 802GB file one 1 Terapixel.
The result of the Terapixel project is a full color 24 bit RGB terapixel image of the night sky. The artifacts of the original telescope imaging process have been programmatically removed. The resulting image can be viewed in the WorldWide Telescope and by Bing Maps.TeraPixel is a showcase for Microsoft technologies in many-core computing, in high performance and data-intensive distributed computing, and in scientific workflow management.
A TeraPixel (that’s 1-Million MegaPixels) would require roughly a half-million HD Televisions.
Just got a tip from Pixologic that they’ll be releasing ZBrush 4 for Mac and Windows on Monday, August 9th, and doing some pre-release demos in their booth at SIGGRAPH. They’ve got several artists on hand to demonstrate the product, including:
Bryan Wynia – Character Artist, Naughty Dog
David Lesperance – Environmental Artist
Jeff Feligno – Character Artist, Sucker Punch Productions
Jelmer Boskma – Freelance Artist
Joel Mongeon – Microsoft Game Studio
Leonardo Sanchez Barbossa – Disney Animation Studios
Neville Page – Concept Designer
Steve Jubinville – Lead Character Artist, Meduzarts
Sze Jones – Character Modeling Supervisor, Blur Studios
Tully Summers – Freelance Artist
Zack Petroc – Zack Petroc Studios
Visit their SIGGRAPH page for full details and backgrounds on all the artists, and hit Booth #709 at SIGGRAPH for the demos.
Twitter has finally analyzed the massive amount of twitter traffic collected during the 2010 World Cup, analyzing the various hashtags they created for individual teams and games. Their result: the above infographic cataloging how the traffic broke down during this record-shattering event.
To highlight how much Twitter has been pulsing with World Cup activity over the past month, our analytics and relevance teams put together the infographic above, charting fans’ use of hashflags (like #esp or #usa) during the tournament with a background of TPS over the same period.
* When you look at this graphic, think of it like a soundwave — the louder and more consistent the “sound,” the bigger the impact in all directions.
* Countries’ flags represent use of their hashflag. The size of the flag “waves” fluctuate with the frequency & consistency of tweets containing each country’s hashflag.
A great find by the Guardian, xxnapoleonsolo on Many Eyes has created an interactive chart of all Doctor Who Villians in the entire history of the long-running show.
Here’s a list of all the Doctor Who villains there have ever been since the very first episode in 1963. Whether it’s to help you put your bet on what will make a reappearance next series or just to satisfy hard-core Whovians, hopefully this will help you out.
The chart however doesn’t include villains exclusively in Doctor Who books, audio books and spin-off shows.
Circle Size corresponds to the number of appearances in the series.
A fun short-film on Vimo catalogs 35 great pieces of cinema in a short 2-minute video.
»35mm« is a shortfilm about cinema itself. We picked 35 of our favorite movies and tried to simplify them as far as possible. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film.
Take a close look and tell us if you've recognized them all!
Imagineer Systems will be at SIGGRAPH2010 in a few weeks demonstrating their newest planar tracking and roto system ‘mocha’, which includes impresssive export capabilities for Nuke and tools for 2D-to-3D conversion. Steve Wright had this to say:
“After 20 years of VFX production doing roto by hand, I was blown away by mocha and its planar tracker that has revolutionized the roto process. Each roto shape ‘rides on the back’ of an amazingly effective planar tracker which gives the shape an initial smooth and accurate motion. The roto artist just has to refine the shape’s control points here and there. Exporting either tracking data or the roto shapes themselves to Nuke is a snap. mocha is a major improvement in both productivity and quality for all my Nuke compositing.”
The product is available today for $1095 (new) or $495 (upgrade), but they’re offering a 20% discount this month only. Full release after the break.
Roland Guathier, Micheal Kuehn, and Alex Tysowsky have come together to create ‘Hinge Digital’, a new full-service 3D Animation and VFX studio in Prtland, Ore.
Just got a tip from Pixologic that they’ll be releasing ZBrush 4 for Mac and Windows on Monday, August 9th, and doing some pre-release demos in their booth at SIGGRAPH. They’ve got several artists on hand to demonstrate the product, including:
Imagineer Systems will be at SIGGRAPH2010 in a few weeks demonstrating their newest planar tracking and roto system ‘mocha’, which includes impresssive export capabilities for Nuke and tools for 2D-to-3D conversion. Steve Wright had this to say:
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