Tag Archives: animation
Rigging
MOTION BUILDER – 3D character animation software. Capture, edit, and play back complex character animation in a highly responsive, interactive environment. Work with a display that’s optimized for both animators and directors. ADVANCED SKELETON Advanced Skeleton can create rigs with unlimited body configurations, 3 heads, 5 legs, 100 fingers, & anything goes. Not only creatures, but you […]
Drawing, Design and Creativity
DESIGN Composition refers to the layout of the different elements for the overall scene, using suitable sizes and positions of different images and assets. White space is not necessarily a white colour – it is any blank space and can be used effectively to emphasise key parts of the graphic. Creating a frame and sequence that […]
Lighting and Rendering
This post is made up of information that I have collected and continually adding to along my journey about lighting, shaders, rendering. Top 10 reasons to take part in student rendering challenges What judges look for in winning student rendering challenge entries 3drender.com – Three D lighting and rendering including challenges The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI […]
Animation Process Diary
What is Animation? Animation is not necessarily the re-creation of living things; it can be the exaggeration of living things to create more vivid forms. Animation shows us change over time, which could be the position, size, colour or shape. It uses the principle of persistence of vision, such as the Zoetrope to create the illusion […]
3D and VFX
WORLD VFX DAY 2026 VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever Creating a High Quality VFX Sequence on a Budget Tutorial – Creating a Stylized CG Scene In this tutorial, I walk through the process of creating a stylized CG scene from scratch. I cover: The order of steps I […]
Storyboards and Animatics
STORYBOARDS A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios. Storyboards are used for […]
Animation
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION DAY Association Internationale du Film d’AnimationInternational Animated Film Association Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like. That’s because the Earth is orbiting the sun, which is orbiting the centre of the galaxy, which is barreling through the cosmic […]
3d art and animation 