LA Noir,a new game coming out from Rockstar, uses MotionScan to track actors facial movements for game animation. It's like a MoCap studio...in your face!

-Nate

"Survivors" by Errol Morris.

This is one of the most moving short films I have seen. If this doesn't elicit some kind of emotional response from you within it's eight minutes, you may not be a human.

-Nate

best game in the world? yes.

halo can suck it, this game is BY FAR better.

Is this going to be the new standard for distributing your films?

Surprising news hit Hollywood this week with Clerks director Kevin Smith announcing that he will forgo the normal bidding war for this latest film, Red. Instead, we will be dissing the 'old' way of distribution - selling it to a major studio and will be taking it on a pre-release 13 city road-show tour.

One question that they bring up is "as storytellers, why not instead use our creative abilities that resulted in a film in the first place to also creatively SELL that film directly to our public?"

So, it looks like Silent Bob will be not only be buying advertising for his film including billboards,print media and TV commercials, but he will also be renting out theaters across the country to exhibit his film before a full release. I'm also assuming that he will be in full control of the merchandising at the premieres.

Btw - my favorite quote from Kevin Smith on the matter: "Don't hate the studio; BECOME the studio. Anybody can make a movie; what we aim to prove is anyone can release a movie as well."
For the entire article in Studiodaily.com, click here.

Watch more on Kevin Smith's new movie here:

This is the opening cinematic for Fianl Fantasy XIII

for jason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDAM_RN1WM

that link is for Jason because he cant post for some reason.

Gary is a pretty cool guy

This is an insane way to play video games!

Animation 1 Class

This is my final project for my animation 1 class!

R.O.D.

This is my plain project for 3D modeling class at MMI what do you think?

Amazing Bike Ninja

Here's something I find very fascinating... taking your urban ninja "Parkour" skills to the next level by using a modified bike, and doing things no one would ever dream of.  This guy has several videos many of them simply amazing, along with "how he did that" videos too.

I think aside from simply being amazing on a bike as a stunt performer, he has done a great job creating some beautiful videos that keep viewers intrigued the entire time.




I hope you enjoy!!!

Amateurs MY @$$

Something I love about the limitations to creativity, is that there is none!!!

How do the professionals become professional???  In my opinion, they start out as over achieving amateurs doing things the professionals say is too difficult.

Take for instance these guys:




These guys come out of nowhere, and create one of the most amazing (both in choreography and visual and sound fx) lightsaber fights I've ever seen!  Given the fact they didn't have millions of dollars at their disposal, only their own creative drive and hard work, they ended up giving the creators of the actual star wars films a run for their money.

If I am correct about this, I believe once Lucas saw this video, he ended up hiring these guys to work for him, maybe someone can post me to let me know if that's accurate or not???

Anyway, for the fact that these guys are amatuers, this is one hell of an amazing video.  It inspires me to work harder than others and to set a standard for myself in an industry that will ignore you if you haven't the talent.

If you're an amateur trying to turn pro... then your worst work better be as good as this if you're ever going to get hired.