Category: production

http://www.olegmagrisso.com/video_riggingShowreel.html

http://www.brekel.com/?p=780

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-art-of-rendering/

A way to approximate complex lighting in ultra realistic renders.

All SH lighting techniques involve replacing parts of standard lighting equations with spherical functions that have been projected into frequency space using the spherical harmonics as a basis.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4162/slides/spherical-harmonic-lighting.pdf

Spherical harmonics as used at Weta Digital

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-science-of-spherical-harmonics-at-weta-digital/

http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2012/02/hollywood-dataviz-challenge-interactive-shortlist/

http://acatcalledfrank.com/content/filmstrips-visualisation/index.html

http://www.darktable.org/features/

http://dynamicperception.com/

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VFX Artist Aruna Inversin has a great post on Vancouver’s skyrocketing real estate prices:

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https://www.renderman-on-demand.com/

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/12321/how-can-i-start-learning-unity-fast-list-of-tutori.html

If you have no previous experience with Unity, start with these six video tutorials which give a quick overview of the Unity interface and some important features http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/video/

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http://gizmodo.com/5880254/this-awesome-world-war-ii-dogfighting-was-filmed-on-zero-budget

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/tintin

http://store.makerbot.com/replicator-404.html

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/cg_2011_retrospective

https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1

https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2

https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml

https://filmmusic.io/

http://freemusicarchive.org/

http://www.premiumbeat.com/

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio/

http://musopen.org/

http://ccmixter.org/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

http://hissandaroar.com/free-sounds/

http://www.looperman.com/

http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/art-of-destruction-or-art-of-blowing-crap-up/

https://vimeo.com/19447662

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118043598?categoryid=3996&cs=1&cmpid=RSS

On “Avatar,” the vfx team at Weta couldn’t directly import the “template” footage that came from the virtual shoot. Instead, they’d have to re-create the digital scenes and characters from scratch. On the sequels, Weta will be able to bring that template in as a low-res version of the scene and start working on upgrading the image without having to start over.

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http://opencolorio.org/

https://www.provideocoalition.com/color-management-part-11-introducing-opencolorio/

OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a new open source project from Sony Imageworks.

Based on development started in 2003, OCIO enables color transforms and image display to be handled in a consistent manner across multiple graphics applications. Unlike other color management solutions, OCIO is geared towards motion-picture post production, with an emphasis on visual effects and animation color pipelines.

http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html

http://www.addfone.com/iphone/axis3d/

http://www.kickstarter.com/

http://gethighnow.com/holophonic-sound/

http://www.crazyhorseeffects.com/html/reel1.html

http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php

FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With Fabfi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity—thus enabling them to access online educational, medical, and other resources.

http://fabfi.fabfolk.com/

http://code.google.com/p/fabfi/wiki/FabFi