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[Archive for August, 2008]

NVision Machinima contest winners

Posted by fiezi

I just came back from the official NVScene Awards ceremony and I couldn’t be more happy with the results.
The winner of the Juried Award is Latvian based Egils Mednis’ “the Ship”.
Egils film is one of my personal favorites and I am extremely happy that the jury recognised the exceptional quality in storytelling and design. It [...]

Machinima at SIGGRAPH 2009

Posted by Michael

ACM Sandbox 2008 is barely over, but the 2009 edition is already appearing on the horizon. There are at least two notable changes from the current format:
The first deals with the way Sandbox is now integrated “properly” into SIGGRAPH (as the blurb on its website tells us:)
Since SIGGRAPH 2006, the ACM Sandbox Symposium has explored [...]

Squashing Robots

Posted by Michael

There is a famous exercise from the good old days of Disney hand-drawn 2D animation (which, by the way seem to see some kind of digitized revival in the medium engaging Goofy short How to Install your Home Theater … ): try to draw a flour sack being sad, happy, agitated … a sack as [...]