tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17078088391329353382024-03-05T08:28:19.859+00:00- Kevin Hickey Animation...Please note some changes are happening....Kev Hickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12211482784213416771noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707808839132935338.post-55041799226625988052014-08-01T12:38:00.003+01:002014-08-01T12:38:51.317+01:00How to train your Dragon 2 - New Apollo platform<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good article on Animation Scoop on Dreamworks latest software platform Apollo. </div>
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3d Total are launching a kickstarter for their 2nd anatomy reference figure. You can also pledge to receive their previous male figure too. </div>
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Book will contain 100 poses of live models shot from 24 different viewpoints. It also comes with a disc with all the photos. </div>
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Should be pretty useful for any artists that use human figures. Hopefully there is some really dynamic poses, I think it will be a great reference for 3d animation. </div>
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Disney have confirmed that they are planning a sequel to <i>The Incredibles </i>and another<i> Cars </i>Film<i>.</i> Bob Iger (CEO) made the announcement during an annual shareholders meeting. It has been said that Brad Bird is working on story for the <i>The Incredibles 2 </i>but there is no confirmation on who is directing it just yet.<br />
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Since I left you with some very disappointing news about XSI Softimage yesterday, I thought it would be a good time to introduce you to BirdBox Studios! And hopefully brighten up the moods!<br />
They are a great studio based in London which create very funny animation shorts. I really love their framing and timing.
Simple but extremely effective and well executed.<br />
Two of my favourite pieces by them are below. Enjoy!<br />
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Softimage XSI's <b>final </b>release will be the 2015 edition which should be available this April.<br />
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Incredibly sad news to see a truly great piece of software come to an end.<br />
It's a great all round 3d package, clean interface (although may confuse new users), nice to model in, great for setting up multiple render passes, quick to rig and of course has the brilliant ICE system.<br />
Such a shame that the end is near.<br />
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<a href="http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-softimage/overview">Softimage Final Release </a>Kev Hickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12211482784213416771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707808839132935338.post-62052371677663634162014-03-06T15:47:00.002+00:002014-03-07T20:01:07.745+00:00...and the Oscar goes to...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, I am a little late...been busy...<br />
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But Gravity certainly dominated, winning 7 awards including Best Visual Effects and Cinematography.<br />
12 Years a slave won Best Picture.<br />
Frozen won Best Animated feature and Best Song.<br />
In fact, that song contains my favourite piece of animation of 2013!<br />
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Full list here<br />
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The Nominees have been listed!<br />
Animated Features are <i>Frozen, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, The Wind Rises </i>and <i>Ernest & Celestine.</i><br />
<i>American Hustle </i>and <i>Gravity </i>leading the award nominations with 10 each.<br />
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Full list here:<br />
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Kev Hickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12211482784213416771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707808839132935338.post-72161840891861631902014-01-06T16:10:00.000+00:002014-03-07T14:20:27.226+00:00Spring cleaning & new siteSo I have just deleted all my past posts and decided to have a fresh start!<br />
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I am considering keeping this site alive just as a blog site.<br />
Working on a website (or rather a wordpress site) which is still under construction.<br />
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In the future I may decide to move everything over there but for now I shall leave my blog separate and thus cleaner for my site.
This blog will have some work in progress, updates, news and generally stuff I like....so yeah...a blog site!
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(New logos etc shall come when I get a chance)Kev Hickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12211482784213416771noreply@blogger.com0