Friday, October 28, 2016

VFX 2 VR

Our local SIGGRAPH chapter organized an event called "From Visual Effects to Virtual Reality" - "This evening will feature presentations from a number of NYC-area production houses that have long been known for their visual effects and CG work but are now producing VR content as well." - Well worth checking out if you are into VR. Which should be if you are into animation!

Come to FIT's Great Hall, 27th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) on Thursday, November 3, 2016, at 7:00PM

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS

Say, any fans of the original Ghostbusters film? This videos is a stop motion animation that recreates the Ghostbuster film but adds more to the story that may surprise you, which makes it more fun. One more detail that I forgot to mention, this animation uses LEGOS! https://youtu.be/4Nnj1NCfjt4

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Borrowed Time

Apparently some animators from Pixar have been working on this animation over the last 5 years.


https://vimeo.com/187257744

Thursday, October 13, 2016

More Frozen Motion

These fascinating images depict animals in motion is a different way, frozen in time.

Original article on The Guardian: Xavi Bou's photographs reveal flight paths of birds

Monday, October 10, 2016

Animation Nights NY for this October

Data changed:
now October 26!

More Info & RSVP here

Internship Opportunity for Video Production & Graphic Design

From Bryan I. Larco, Municipal Campaign Director for the Monmouth County Democrats and Monmouth University Alum ('13 BA 16' MPP), we received this:

We're currently looking for interns who are interested in working creatively on video and graphic design projects.
Student artists will have relative autonomy in regards to creativity and projects will be included in paid advertisements radio, social media, and potentially even television. If any of your students are interested, please have them email a resume to info [at] MonmouthDems.org.
Posting this of course in now way implies endorsement in any way, I am simply sharing an opportunity

Thursday, October 6, 2016

O Captain, my Captain!

So... did you guys get the title for your upcoming short from Dead Poets Society?

To balance the sincerity of this post, here is the SNL version: