Everyone knows who are Dobby and Kreacher, the house elfs. But do you know how they were created? Framestore explained how it was done in FMX 2011, because they were tasked to created them both. They challenged many difficult tasks e.g. the heavy wrinkling around the eyes and eyebrows, some of which were too thick, proving difficult to animate without intersecting.
Mike (Daarken) Lim published on portal www.3dtotal.com his new tutorial about painting wood in Photoshop. In this cca. 7min long video tutorial the author uses a textured brush to paint rustic piece of wood in Photoshop. The author is well known about his tutorials in Photoshop using brushes to paint almost anything which comes in his mind.
Jose Alves da Silva published on 3D-portal.com a „making of“ of his new project called Making Of 'Le Rabbit'. Ho he said Le Rabbit” cannot be described as the result of an extremely well organized and planned process, even this fact the final result is just brilliant. By his creating he also encountered few problems which can look to experience artist like element but for him it was facing and solving them which he also describes in this „making of“.
Yesterday new Issue of BlenderArt came out. The Issue #33, is called “Everything but the kitchen sink”. You can find inside interesting news from CG, projects which can inspire you by your work and tutorials to inspire and expand your blender knowledge.
Portal www.awn.com brings us a interesting article about Priest, new movie directed by Scott Stewart, in which Jenny Fulle (visual effects producer) and Jonathan Rothbart (visual effects supervisor) tell us how to tackle with this difficult task. Jenny with her team keep the budget through effective management.
