ANIMATION: Talk With Kung Fu Panda Animation Head - Dan Wagner (Animatics/ Kung Fu/ Poses/ Rigs/ Animation/ Techniques)

ANIMATION

Dan Wagner was Head of Character Animation. He first started in 2D animation at the age of 8, and switched to 3D on Shrek 2. He started on Kung Fu Panda before the characters had any rigs, so, falling back on his many years as a traditional animator, worked on test animations for main character Po in pencil and paper.

ANIMATION: Deciding Poses For Animation

There are lots of things to take into consideration when you are deciding on poses.
First and foremost, there is the character’s personality, physical traits, and usually a library of movements for that character that provide information on how they move, such as walk cycles, postures, etc, and a character “bible” that you can access at the studio. Those things should always be studied very carefully when you are working on a show so that you have a strong sense of how the character moves.

The Mammoth: 200 MegaPixel Camera

200 megapixel Hasselblad H4D-200MS.

200 megapixels. 

200 Megapixels = 235 By 210 Inch Frame Size (Approx.)

That’s about 190 megapixels more than what most people would ever need. But then this camera is not designed for most people. This camera is designed for those that need that kind of ridiculous pixel count in their images and know what they are doing. Also for those that have $45,000 (About 21 Lakh Rupees) lying around for a camera.

"AVATAR" - Film & Technology: Overlook

Avatar is one of the blockbuster movies of 2009, which has written and directed by James Cameron, the ‘Titanic’ director. It’s mixed with Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Fantasy and the story has taken place in the year of 2154 on planet Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centauri star system where humans are aliens. The name Avatar refers to the genetically engineered bodies used by the humans to interact with the Na’vi – the natives of the Pandora.

 

13 Tips To Save Petrol, To Save Money

These tips are applicable for every domestic vehicle. Try to follow and encourage others for doing the same. SPREAD THE WORD.

1 ) Pump up your tyres

Keeping your tyres inflated is one of the easiest and most important things. Saving petrol means saving money one can do to improve fuel economy.

Sigma Presenting SD1 Camera; 46-megapixel DSLR!

Sigma Corporation of America, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world's most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, is pleased to announce that its flagship DSLR, the Sigma SD1, will be available for purchase for the MSRP of $9,700 in early June. 

Sharp Made Waterproof 16MP Android Clamshell In 3D

Prepare to feast your geeky souls on one of the hottest Android devices you have ever seen. Sharp has just unveiled the waterproof AQUOS PHONE THE HYBRID 007SH (a mouthful indeed) with a 16 megapixel camera and a 3.4” FWVGA stereoscopic display that doesn’t need glasses to work.

10 Tips For Improving Your Digital Photography

Composition Tip #1.
The most important tip for composition in digital or film photography is: understand composition. Composition is how you arrange the elements of your photograph in such a way that you convey the message or the mood that you intend to convey. In a portrait, do you want to convey happiness, loneliness, wistfulness, anger, boredom, honesty, intelligence? In a landscape, do you want to show tranquility, drama, vast spaces? The way you convey these ideas is through composition. The rest of these tips will help you compose better photos.

ANIMATION; What Kind of Workflow Do You Use?

You've probably heard it said that being an animator means being a lifelong student. That couldn't be more true. Workflow is constantly changing process. With every shot or task completed, there's almost always something we end up liking or disliking about the way we went about it. 

Nokia's WP7 Phones To Use U8500 Dual-Core 1.2GHz Chipsets?

The CEO of ST-Ericsson got chatty in front of Forbes and said that Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 devices will be powered by the U8500 dual-core CPU and its successors will go on to power Windows Phone 8 phones too.

Fujitsu LOOX F-07C Dual-Boots WP7, Symbian

Fujitsu’s LOOX F-07C for NTT DoCoMo is indeed capable of dual-booting Windows 7 and Symbian OS thanks to its clever dual hardware design. The Windows 7 side of things is run by an Intel Atom CPU, 1GB RAM and 32GB SSD.

Dell Precision M6600: BEAST LAPTOP

ONE OF THE World's most powerful 17” mobile workstation, the only one with 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme edition, NVIDIA Quadro® 4000M and 1600MHz system memory options. Powerful Intel® Core™ processors and AMD or NVIDIA® graphics that bring performance to a new level.

Intel’s New Pocessors With 3D Transistors

New 3D transistors push Intel’s 22nm Ivy Bridge processors forwards, helps with performance, cost and power consumption.

Processor manufacturers are in this never ending race to produce faster and less power consuming chips for various devices and platforms. Whether it’s RAM or CPUs, we all like things to go quicker and be easier on our pockets. 

Think Before You Animate; TIPS

Few points one should think before starting any animation shot:

    What is in characters mind and who he is : Besides physical attributes of the character

    the characteristic of the character and the present state of mind is decides his attitude.

    A rich man and poor man or a thief and a policeman would have a different attitude in

    a normal circumstance,

10 Ways to Gain Confidence

We all want to become more confident and feel good about ourselves so we can live our very best life. Most highly successful people are known to be confident. They know the art of gaining confidence and the importance of improving their self confidence in the face of obstacles. How to gain this confidence and joining the league of successful people is not difficult.

NOKIA E6; Touch N Qwerty

The E6 is Nokia’s latest business offer and It’s the company’s first smartphone running the new Symbian Anna OS out of the box. The E6 is a touch phone with a QWERTY keyboard and it even has a higher pixel density than the iPhone’s Retina display. CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR FULL SPECS.

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e6-3717.php

Honda CBR250R Road Test

Honda CBR 250R Road Test. Everything you need to know about this latest BADBOY for Indian streets. Just click the link below.

http://bsmotoring.com/news/honda-cbr250r-real-world-test-red-alert/3525/1

LG Optimus : Guinness Record; 1st Dual-Core Phone

  

LG Optimus 2X indeed is the world’s first dual-core smartphone (both announced and released). This achievement was acknowledged by the Guinness World Records – the Optimus 2X is the first dual-core phone available to the public.

Click the link below

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_optimus_2x_scores_a_guinness_record_for_being_the_first_dualcore_phone-news-2614.php 

For full Specifications of LG Optimus 2X SU660, Click the link below

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_optimus_2x_su660-3762.php 

Cover Letters, Resumes, Demo Reels - Tips and Suggestions

Imagine that the people who are going to review your work are the busiest, most disorganized and most inconsiderate folks on the planet. You want to make it as easy and painless as possible for them to look at your materials. Try to avoid anything that might contribute to them being less able (or less willing) to review your submission.

How To Create A Demo Reel: PIXAR

 

This is an article right from the PIXAR. Read Craefully !!!!

Tricks to Animating Characters: JOHN LASSETER

 

This Is An Article By JOHN LASSETER. He Explains The Character Animation Beautifully. Read Carefully & Learn The Techniques From The Master!!!!

Some Tips for CG Modelers

This article has written for modelers, however this can be helpful for other artist who is working with other areas, such as animation, vfx etc.