Imagine in the story of Moses and the 10 Commandments that there were actually 12, and that instead of outlining the mortal sins that would get you a direct bus to Hell they outlined the most important techniques to the illusion of motion. In that case Moses would be Disney and the Commandments would be [...]

CAUTION: Technical Babble Ahead
 
I told you I’d keep you updated with my Ubuntu install. Here’s where I’m currently at. I don’t have a lot of time to fool around with this kind of stuff at home so my progress moves pretty slowly. I have a friend that is giving me a used USB 2.0 external [...]

E-ON Software has just released a personal learning edition of Vue 6. It comes in Infinite or xStream versions. The PLE comes full featured so you can learn and evaluate every bit of Vue without limit. From the site:

Create complete projects, save your work and export to other applications,
Render stills and animations without size/length [...]

While I’m not completely making the switch, I am going to be installing a flavor of Linux on a portable hard drive. I have a couple of projects in mind that I’d like to do using only open source software and I figured if all the software was going to be open source I might [...]

Check out this video over on TechEBlog about Nvidia’s new skin shading solution. It features a high resolution scan of Doug Jones’s head and was captured in a realtime rendering on a GeForce 8800 Ultra card. The results are quite good. I’ve read about this technique of using blurred light passes to fake SSS before. [...]