Inspiration

To much fanfare and celebration, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been released today.

The sequel to the best selling FPS ever continues to push gameplay and graphic fidelity too the cutting edge of what is possible with today's technology.

FX power house, The Mill, have recently updated their showreel to include some of the most recent work the intercontinental studio has completed.

CGChannel has recently interview Jeremy Cook of ILM and Blur fame.

Part 3 in the excellent Character Modeling series by Ballistic Publishing is now available for pre-order.

And whats more, If you pre-order d'artiste Character Modeling 3 Limited Edition or are one of the first 500 customers to pre-order d'artiste Character Modeling 3 slipcased edition you will receive a link too Giovanni Nakpil’s quadruped creature, and Cesar Dacol Jr’s Pond Guardian models that are featured within the book itself.

The Blender Foundation has released the first official teaser for the the forthcoming Durian project along with an animatic of the first full minute of the film.

3d technology pioneer and guru Paul Debevec has recently given a lecture at TED explaining how the Emily Project was brought to life using state of the art photo source capturing from a spherical lighting rig.

 'The king of the island' is the second short film directed by Raimondo Della Calce and produced by artFive animation studio. The movie tells the story of Gioannin, a shy and lonely child, left no father because of a mishap occurred at sea years before.

Its long but has a great quality to it, enjoy

The crew at Image Engine Design Inc. in Vancouver opened their doors to CG Society on their work on 'District 9'. They showed them the R&D, their textures, their pipelines. This is just the first instalment.

 Michael Pedro is a concept artist/illustrator working in the PC/console game industry. He studied computer animation at the Ringling College of Art and Design, and is currently employed at Sony Online Entertainment in Austin, Texas.

I personally worked with Michael and hes always working just as hard at home as he does at work. His work just keeps getting better, hopefully he will keep the blog updated

http://ultra-prime.blogspot.com/

cool short film by a 1 man team. Artist: http://boa-animation.com/