官方網站: Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey 下文內容，節取自 國立科學工藝博物館 (National Science And Technology Museum) . 本片為台灣第一部以自有品牌行銷國際的3D立體電腦動畫電影。背景為美國及歐洲太空總署耗資超過32億美元的「卡西尼-惠更斯」土星聯合任務，故事描寫年輕光子大衛在數百萬年旅程中追尋自我的故事，大衛在片中充分展現了勇氣、信任和決心。 ...
Framestore Joins the Nuke Crowd , 一則在 fxguide 上頭剛剛上線的新聞，指出 Avatar 的大紅大紫，所帶來的連帶效應之一：Nuke 也跟著又紅了一次。 繼 Sony Pictures Imageworks, ILM 與 Weta Digital, Framestore 也一併採購了 Nuke site license，亦即整個 studio 將不再有 license 個數的使用限制，只要是使用在 studio 裏頭，某個不致於不合理的狀況下，都可以用。 ...
If you couldn’t participate the historical biggest Computer Graphics conference in Asia up now, Siggraph Asia, and you are tired of grabbing just hyperlinks about this big event, how about just photoing this event?
在 Pete Shirley 的 blog 上頭看到一張有趣的圖 ： 你覺得這張圖的打燈有幾分？ 其實，這是一張 Pete Shirley 家裏頭，客廳的一角的照片，影子多麼的不真實！！！ 事實上，現實中，有非常多的“畫面“看起來都超級假的，但當以一個 animation/efx studio 裏的從業人員來看時，卻會使用各種方法，務必要使這種「看起來怪怪的真實」不見！！！ 這真的是非常有趣的一個產業呀……一個以「主觀美感」來決定結果的產業。
We all know that should be a trend for compositing softwares to switch to real 3D compositing. That is, you do composite by not only images/channels/layers but also the (rendered) results of 3D scenes (models, materials, animation, lights and cameras). It is so trivial to forecast this trend and all we are hesitating is the cost of migrations from our current working pipeline. And most difficult part of the migration is human being itself…
最近一直在閱讀，吸收來不及吸收的各種知識，重新審視過去我視為理所當然的觀念，哪裏需要修正，哪裏需要以不同的角度重新解釋一番，其中之一，是 animatin studios 裏頭 RD/TD，或再泛稱一點，所謂的技術人員，他們應該怎麼自處，應該在工作心理與技術能力上學習些什麼。 ...
The interesting is, we, as artists and engineers, do really can convert 2D images into autostereoscopic ones, as long as having skilled rotoscoper with patience and cooperative computer graphics geek. What we did is just as normal as everyone could thought of: define our targeting quality and appearance first and clearly pick up candidate wedding photos with remarks of importance and focus points for each photo, circle out spatial layout according to aesthetics and logistics. furthermore, having well-designed depth gradient is the most important to achieve nice quality result rotoscoping, the most time-consuming but artistic process 3d image warping, or so called depth image based rendering is used to generate the desired multiple novel views finally, (auto)stereoscopic device related content generating Does a pure computer graphics researcher need to know and even involve in those stuff to this extreme? Yes! Because… ...
The Foundry have acquired the technology of Sony Pictures Imagework’s (SPI) Katana 3D lighting & compositing package. Katana’s hardcore lighting node based technology will be integrated into an upcoming version of the Foundry’s Nuke 2D package. We spoke to both companies about why SPI would part with such a great in house tool and why the Foundry needs another compositing lighting system, in this online exclusive. Source: Foundry Acquires Katana from SPI for Nuke . ...