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Brian Henson’s remembrance of his father, Jim Henson.  It is a great tribute to Jim and the last line really stayed with me:

‘Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people’s ideas. I often think that if we all lived like that, not only would life be more interesting, we’d all be a lot happier.’

I did some digital matte painting work on this to turn it into a night shot, then I animated the ball, reactive light and lightning. 

Also on my vimeo site I used Dom’s advice on my last post and added a warm rimlight to the Warrior Sunset.

It’s getting creepy.  Substitute a famous face over your own.  This gives a whole new dimension to the term avatar.  It looks a bit crude here but imagine the technology even five years into the future.  Amazing.

I wanted to do some animation with a more realistic character and some NCloth in Maya. I also wanted to light it so that the warrior was silhouetted against the sunset but still lit enough to see his details. I hope you like it.

Nice Graphic look with simple animation and sophisticated camera. Sweet. Painting style reminds me of the old Graphic Films in Hollywood.

Another great VFX house goes into bankruptcy. When will the madness end?

Via Cartoon Brew:

Heart rending animated 911 stories.

Brooklyn-based Rauch Brothers Animation. Each story is narrated by someone who lost a relative in the destruction of the towers; the recordings are part of the Storycorps oral history project and the animated shorts were commissioned by the PBS […]

My photo got pick of the day on the CBC!!

This video contains no special effects, and no fancy stunts. But it will scare the crap out of you. That’s because you’re watching from a head-mounted camera as an engineer scales an antenna tower over 1,700 feet high. Created for The Online Engineer site, what this video captures isn’t just a…