I'm travelling this week because of my job, so I wouldn't write much here.

This post is just to share a very cool piece of stop motion: Iron Man vs Bruce Lee. Great character animation!

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee
by PatrickBoivin

I saw some cool things that I wanted to share:

I'll begin with the first movie from Sony Pictures Animation after their magnificent Surf's Up: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Looks like fun, with some subtle changes in the visual approach from what we normally see in CG animated movies nowadays. I'm not as excited with this as I was with the first Surf's Up trailer, but I prefer to say something more conclusive after watching the actual film. :)

Another cool thing is the news that Pixar's Up will be the first animated movie ever to open the Cannes Film Festival. Maybe that's an important step to get animated movies recognized as a valid form of film making, and not just "something for kids".

The last for today is a cool interview with Ton Roosendaal. Blender Foundation's chairman talks about a user survey for 3D apps made by CG Geenie website, where Blender stood out with the highest ratings. :)

I've been following for a while two of the (IMHO) most important Blender resources around: Rendering With Blender and Modeling With Blender.

Those videos are the material used by professor Claas Kuhnen on his Product Design classes at Kendall College, and show some very important concepts and Blender techniques.

Besides its focus on Product Design, those concepts and techniques can and should be used in other fields, such as animation or architectural visualization. Whether you are an experienced user or a novice one, I'm sure there are some good things to be learned from those videos.

The links for these resources are already on my favorite list on the right side.

:)

I know you have probably watched the new trailer for Pixar's Up.

I also know how redundant it seems to say that something from Pixar is brilliant. Sounds like "free gift" or "unconfirmed rumor". But this trailer had something above the usual jaw-dropping eye-candy: the dog's animation.

Fantastic. Since Remy on Ratatouille I'm not that amused by a character animation from Pixar.

And now, for justice, I'll press [Enter] a couple of times to get this piece of art a bit further from my humble work on the last post:

:)

I'm pretty away from blogging these days. Lots of work, fortunately. I've just delivered a thousand rendered frames of two characters for a TV ad and, once the final edit is finished, I'll put it here. :)

While it is not ready yet, here comes one of those things that makes me happy just to think about stop motion. Awesome:

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.