Big Hero 6: Behind the Scenes

Playing with Power: Nintendo Power Glove Animation Tool

Brilliant!
Playing with Power from Ava Benjamin on Vimeo.

animGESTURE: New Figure Drawing Website

A friend of mine Jimmy Almeida has started this new figure drawing website animGESTURE! It should be a great tool for animators and artists. Check out the website below:

// animGESTURE

Free 'Zombie' Character Animation Rigs by PROLETARIAT

Video game company PROLETARIAT has just released a character rig from WORLD ZOMBINATION. The rig includes 7 characters. It's free to download here:

// World Zombination Character Rig 

Autodesk: Pixar Animation Studios, The OpenSubdiv Project

Join special guests, Bill Polson, Dirk Van Gelder, Manuel Kraemer, Takahito Tejima, David G. Yu and Dale Ruffolo, from Pixar Animation Studios' GPU team, as they show how real time display of subdivision surfaces helps artists be more productive, and how this code is open source and engineered for ease of integration.

OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high-performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. The code embodies decades of research and experience by Pixar.

Join us for this informative webinar and see how Autodesk and Pixar are working together to build technology with stunning real-time results.

Animation Supermodel Mannequin?

*Update from a previous post from last July

Interesting article over on c|net about a hands-on input device that could be useful for illustrators and animators. It's scheduled to hit the market in a few months (only $850).

Thought this quote was a bit to presumptuous though  'the foot-tall Qumarion mannequin could radically simplify the process of creating realistic movement in 3D computer-generated models.'

// Meet Qumarion, an animation supermodel via c|net

//Qumarion mannequin input device for intuitive 3D manipulation via diginfo








Last years post about this new tech:

// Pose Your 3D Characters With Your Hands

'Leap Motion' Future Animation Tool?

Can you image posing your 3D character with your hands?! Or sculpting a model in zBrush with this thing? How awesome would that be eh?! 

More info over on Engadget // Leap Motion 3D

Motion Reference for Animators and Artists

Stumbled on this motion library today. Might be handy for some basic tests and cycles. But as you know it's always best to shoot your own reference! Ca-ching!

// Endless Reference's channel

 

Facial Expression Diagram

Fellow animator here at Dr.D (Phillip Hall) showed this diagram to me today. It's a decent reference sheet for the basics of emotions and expressions.