ANNY presents Dec Bijou

The next screening of Animation Nights New York will take place on Wednesday, December 14 at 8PM.

Details can be found on the ANNY blog.

Blizzard Art

For your enjoyment this Thanksgiving: Blizzcon 2016 : All Concept Art and Key Art

SIGGRAPH Student Volunteers

The application process to become a student volunteer at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles has just opened up.

Apply here

RenderMan

RenderMan 21 Non Commercial is finally out, so I tested it with Maya 2017. The image below took almost 8 minutes to render - that is not promising. RenderMan comes with many great material presents, setting up this scene for rendering was a breeze. Saved as openEXR and adjusted in Photoshop.

I rendered the same scene with the now default Arnold Renderer. It does not come with many materials and those have no presets. I used Batch render, which does work but places a watermark in the image. That is barely visible in this image, which was also rendered to openEXR and adjusted in Photoshop. Was a bit more involved to set up and took at least as long render

Adobe MAX 2016-We may not have gotten a cool gift but...

So as a lot of you know, and if you didn't know ,well now you do, a group of Monmouth students, from the Monmouth Review club, went to Adobe MAX this year. While we were there Cut&Paste a company that provides professionals the opportunity to make new connections, gain exposure, and learn from one another, hosted a Virtual Reality drawing competition. Above is my entry and below is what I won.

A complete HP VR Ready Workstation and HTC Vive

Shelter: The Animation

70 animated shorts qualify for an Oscar

Catoonbrew published a list of the record number of films that are competing for next years best animated short category of the Academy Awards: Contenders: A Record Number of Films Are Competing

Rock the vote with 'Video Voto Matic'

Prof. Richison on TV :)

Hawk TV

One of the Animation Freshman is a member of Hawk TV and they are currently "looking for student animation majors to create an animated promo for Hawk TV. There are some students in our club who would be interested in collaborating ideas with the animation students to make an animated promo." Any students who may be interest in this opportunity please contact me.