It is really hard to make people realize the importance of animation pipeline, especially to whom not in this field. As long as you learnt something CG related and some 3D packages(ex, Maya), you will soon pick “animation pipeline”, the industry term, up from somewhere and treat it as a normal process of a group of people. The following image I borrowed from Computer Graphics Quarterly, Volume 44 is some kinda interesting stuff for you to visually perceive the routine process of lighting. In the right column is a normal lighting pipeline. You can tell it starts from opening a Maya, doing some shader init setup, shader setup, lighting layout, … rendering and once again, …. ...

One of Animation Mentor ’s graduates, Gabor Lendvai, created this less than 2 minutes short film which was inspired by one of the most successful early video game, Pong . Enjoy it in this raining day.

這是小葉學長第三次，帶領他課堂上的學生，遠從銘傳桃園校區北上至太極影音參觀的活動。學生一樣是很有活力，眼睛睜大大的，對於這個夢幻行業充滿好奇與想像，同時充滿疑問，更多的是東方人的害羞。 ...

If you do like Computer Graphics very much and wanna find something interesting to practice your English listening, check this out :)

TIFF is a flexible, if somewhat aged, image file format originally # defined by Aldus. Although TIFF supports a wide variety of pixel # layouts and compression methods, the name doesn’t really stand for # “thousands of incompatible file formats,” it just feels that way. thousands of incompatible file formats, 這個的確有挖苦到 TIFF 這個格式 XD

Drupal是一套內容管理系統，本系列文章將以View模組實際示範網站建置，除展示其驚人的彈性之外，也希望能稍微降低其學習門檻，引領讀者們進入Drupal的世界。 我們將在本文中為大家介紹在 Views 中的Arguments，Relationships及Sort Criteria這些強大的功能及使用方式。 上頭這兩篇文章就 Drupal 的 Views 這個模組，做了一個非常有趣的介紹吶~ ...

根據官方的說法 ，Drupal 7 有如下幾點特色： Revamped User Interface 有了 “Seven” 這個 theme，加上 overlay, dashbard 與 shortcut，整個就很威。其中的 dashboard 與 shortcut 很 web 2.0，你想要怎麼樣的 UI，由你自個兒來決定，完全擺脫了預先設想的 UI，高度自由化。硬要挑剔的話，就是少了幾個 preset。試想，對於一位第一次嘗試 Drupal 的人來說，有預設的親切 Admin dashboard，是會獲得不少喝采的。 ...