Pigeon: Impossible
Posted by Herr - Instructor | Filed under General
A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
Production on the film spanned for nearly 5 years and is the first attempt at animation by writer/director Lucas Martell: “When the project started, it was really just an excuse to learn 3D animation, but by the end of the project I had spent so much time reworking and polishing the story that I just wanted people to laugh.”
The end result is a hilarious 6-minute…
Read More »Portfolio Reel
Posted by Herr - Instructor | Filed under General
This is just a cool video showing off some one’s work that I found on the interwebs. All of the following scenes use 3ds Max, Photoshop and XSI. For those of you that are in or have attended cawd, you are very fimiliar with both Max and Photoshop. XSI is just another 3d modeler like Max, but XSI allows you to have more advanced textures and use something called passes (you will see what passes are later in the movie, similar to layers).
Showreel 2008 HD from Peter Roe on Vimeo.
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Read More »JDK Fieldtrip
Posted by Herr - Instructor | Filed under Trips
The entire CAWD class took a recent field trip to Jager Di Paola Kemp in Burlington, Vermont. We were given a full tour of the studio and given a presentation of current projects by Coby. The presentation was given to us in the basement of JDK on the indoor half pipe.
The presentation showed us all [...]
Read More »Toy Story Returning to Theaters in 3d
Posted by Herr - Instructor | Filed under News
Buzz and Woody are about to go 3d. Or is it more 3d, I don’t know, they already are 3d.
It was announced today that Pixar
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