Lifted (Pixar 2006)

An animated short by the Pixar studio, nominated for Oscar 2007.
Info about the short.
by Hristo Momchilov

Water

Nice example of making water with a good flow and realism.
gabRieL

One Rat Short

This is an animated short, that won numerous awards in 2006. Its a good animation.
For the link to the website click here.
by Hristo Momchilov

Environment Modeling

Ok.. now the reason for this post is because i figured since we are all doing an environment for our final exam then this would be a great example to see how this person did it with animation.. the animation wont come in until next semester better its never too late to get a head start.

Eric Provan

This is an awesome demo reel of Eric Provans work.. a bunch of characters he created.. awesome shadowing, texture, and lighting.. good job Eric

Good Maya Character Designs

Man.. When i saw these renders of characters i was shocked to hell.. im going to try and duplicate them.. they even give us maps to use and wires.. awesome stuff.. check them out.. http://www.joshsingh.net/images/?N=A

Lens Overview

I found this while trying to get a set value for focal lengths. It is based off a real camera lens but still applies. It also gives a formula that will help you choose the proper focal length for your scene.

Realistic Snow

Here is a nice tutorial for creating realistic snow. It isn't the best outcome if you follow the tutorial step by step. But is you tweak it a little and use some of your own lighting you can get it to look quite real. I attached the link to the tutorial by clicking on the title and the link to their scene file by clicking on the picture.

Derek Carter

Derek Carter is a really good character designer.. these two characters are a perfect example of different maping textures.. i wouldnt mind giving this guy a call and asking him for some tips and help..

Studio Lighting

If you want to mimic a real photo studio, this tutorial is for you. Create better realism and professionalism in your renders.
by Hristo Momchilov

The art of realism

here is a tutorial, that uses RenderMan. It shows you how to shade and light a 3D model to match its photographic backplate.
by Hristo Momchilov

3D Mustang Project

Hi I'm back after several weeks of no posting(lol), but here is a 3D video, its really cool and amazing the quality of the materials and the use of lights, maybe with some practice and Sabrina's magic we can be able to do the same things, take care Michael Ortiz.

mental ray and maya

A nice video that gives us an example of the quality that mental ray has for rendering and the materials we can create and make them look realistic

Ciao!
gAbRieL tREjO

Tutorial Autodesk Maya 8.5 (textura)

this tutorial is great because I've been trying to load textures and I had the problems that this person in the tutorial has, so it was realy helpful...hope you see it..

Match Moving: Integration of computer graphics into real video footages

Hi,

It is amazing how today films merge computer generated graphics with real world images. Many techniques and software are used to achieve this integration. One of the most important techniques is Match Moving (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_tracking), which consists on the extraction of motion information from a motion picture, particularly the camera movement, and its application to a computer generated graphic to be completely integrated into a footage. It is very impressive the results this technique can achieve.

Here you can see a simple example:



Match Moving can be done with many different software. Maybe the most widespread among the non professional community is the Adobe After Effects, although it is not very powerful. The most commonly used in the industry are Boujou, PFTrack, and Matchmoving, wich can be extremely accurate.

In this video you can see an example of use of Boujou software:



Best,
Julio

Art Attack Intro

I also found this video, I beleive it's a prototipe for this famous program in Disney Channel called Art Attack, I really like it and it was made in Maya, It's very simple bur I liked the movement of the camera and the modeling of the objects. Hope you like it too.

Flowers inside Maya

Hi! I found this tutorial for us to begin with a little bit of animation. This is a short tutorial to make flowers growing in slow motion and moving with the wind, I like it because it's very simple and easy to do. It's using the paint effects that we learned in class. I hope you try it and I hope you like it!

Alejandra

Good use of materials

elizabeth martinez

New Nucleus de Maya 8.5

It is a very simple video that I found after post to blog the other one but I wanted it to post because I believe that are going they to like to see as it generates the movement of the dress, I am impressed.

Between Past and Future - 3D Animation Demo with maya

hey look at this short video... you can see a view of a kind of animation models and it has a nice landscape in the background.

i like how they integrate the model with the whole environment and make the textures and the colors fits one.

i also like how they do the perfect parts of everything and the move of the cameras. you should see it. its good