Cycle by Kevin Yoo

3D Actors

ReForm | Hollywood's Digital Humans

Giuseppe Randazzo Creates Elaborate Arrays of 3D-Printed Stones

Digital Artist Giuseppe Randazzo Creates Elaborate Arrays of 3D-Printed Stones

thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/stone-fields

Of course, we all know Reddit with its incredible catalogue of resources. Here is one about 3D for you to browse and enjoy...

fr.reddit.com #3D Printing

3D printing pen launches on Kickstarter

theinquirer.net

"3Doodler works on almost any surface, including plastic, allowing users to personalise items such as iPhone cases, or anything else they feel like 3Doodling on," Wobbleworks said on its Kickstarter page. "3Doodler can even be used for minor repair work."

Unbelievable accuracy Kennis & Kennis

Dutch artists: Alfons and Adrie Kennis

"This reconstruction is made on casts of the original bones from the Feldhover neanderthal. 

Missing bones were added from other skeletons, Spy neanderthal, Kebara neanderthal and Monte Circeo neanderthal. First (if necessary) we reconstruct the missing and deformed parts. 

After that we drill holes in the cast, we fit pegs in them, which length corresponds with the measurements of skinthickness of today's people (Helmer and Lebedinskaya) or apes. 

After that we apply the muscles. Layers of plastic clay cover the muscles until the pegs are submerged in it. 

The pegs can of course not be absolute guides because they are based on measurements of modern people and apes. 

In this stage we already get a rough impression of the volume and contour of the face and body which can be quite a surprise. The forming of the nostrils, eyelids, lips and ears is educated guesswork. These parts of the face are very important to make a character and a portrait. 

We want real characters so we give them more lively, expressive faces." Alfons and Adrie Kennis

kenniskennis.com

REAL-f when 3D printing meets high definition color printing...

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Links 

dailymail.co.uk

Double trouble? Japanese company creates ultra-realistic (and slightly creepy) replicas of your face

 "...For £2,500 (yes, really) - or $3,920 - the company takes digital stills of your face, then moulds them over a 3D model to create a hard vinyl chloride 'face'..."

facebook: REAL.f.jp
real-f.jp

A milestone in 3D printing

Here comes the copyright infringement question concerning 3D printed objects. As 3D printers are getting much less expensive, one can expect a soon to be time when a certain number of objects will be home made. Of course, objects can be designed with a 3D software, but a shortcut would be to scan the original piece and simply copy it.

But we can expect finding online specialised sites which will offer, free of charge or for a small amount, ready to print 3D files. This new market will probably bring up the same problems we are witnessing with music and video downloading:

As soon as some smart ass will create an equivalent to DivX/ MP3 compression standard, 3D files will be easy to get and millions of artefacts, originally designed and produced by industries, are going to be scanned, available and shared online.

While the already obsolete war on piracy is on, it seems that no one has yet anticipated the forecoming problem, as well as the complete market revolution that will occur. Cheers!
Texte by Armand Dauré 


The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age by Peter Hanna

Erik de Bruijn, co-founder of 3D printing company Ultimaker, working on his 3D printer.
Photo by soulfish

 Read this very interesting article: arstechnica.com

A very interesting illustration: The Penrose triangle

The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, is an impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.

The tribar appears to be a solid object, made of three straight beams of square cross-section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.

How to draw the impossible triangle

Made from three 8-inch boards of wood.

It was done in AutoCAD R14

Using Solidworks

In SketchUp

Penrose Triangle In SketchUp

3D printing

Keying is the Key

Graphic Violence

Made with: After Effects, Premiere, 3ds Max, Rayfire.

Music: "City Sounds" and "Untold Story" by Sycamore Drive

Graphic Violence - Making Of

"Stuff used: A building, a green screen, Sam and Niko, After Effects, Adobe Premiere (yeah, that's right!), Rayfire / 3DS Max."

"The Paint Filter Effect is done with the following After Effects filters (in order): Levels (for contrast), Cartoon (2 steps, fill only), Tint (for color)." CorridorDigital

Music: Sycamore Drive - City Sounds

Computer Generated Imagery

Above Everything Else

Title: 'Above Everything Else' 

Agency: N/A - direct client

Client: Grupo Cosentino

Product: Worktop

Brand: Silestone

Production company: The Mushroom Company

Director/DoP/Art direction/Post/Editor: Alex Roman (maker of The Third & The Seventh)

Original idea/Concept: Alex Roman

Additional CGI: Juan Ángel García Martinez

Music: ZipZap Music 
Spot TV 60"

Brings to evidence  any object can now be generated out of nowhere.

 "Its a combination of Autodesk 3dsmax, V-Ray (Chaos Software), Adobe AfterEffects and Adobe Premiere"   
Tipoomaster (Above Everything Else HD - Mind explodingly realistic CGI by Alex Roman (NOW IN HD)  youtube.com 


More about Alex Roman:
thirdseventh.com

The Third & The Seventh 3d-today.org

15 Social Networks for Designers to Promote Artwork | GraphicMania

graphicmania.net

 via 3d-today-links

Candas Sisman

Flux

Video and sound design by Candas Sisman.
"Plato Art Space is proud to present Candaş Şişman’s video dedicated to famous sculptor İlhan Koman produced for the exhibition İlhan Koman: Hulda Festival, a Journey into Art and Science opening on the 22nd September, 2010.
Avatar is a dance project for Istanbul Bilgi University,Management Of Performing Arts - Bodies and Technologies class."

Avatar

Avatar is a dance project for Istanbul Bilgi University,Management Of Performing Arts - Bodies and Technologies class.  10 min. (2009)

"This was the first dance video experience for me..." Candas Sisman

Visuals: Candas Sisman
Sound design: Mert Kizilay
Choreography: Yigit Daldikler
Concept: Neylan Ogutveren
Performance: Yigit Daldikler

Digital mixed image Candas Sisman

Drawing Candas Sisman

Photo manipulation Candas Sisman

Personal Portfolio CANDASSISMAN csismn.com

Article:

FLUX Abstract Animation Using Cinema 4D and HDRI Light Kit Pro

greyscalegorilla.com

Dried Up

Dried Up

Film Makers – Jeremy Casper, Stuart Bury, Isaiah Powers

Film Assistant – Regina Weller

Composer – Max Justus

Costumes – Anita Powers

“Dried Up” is the story of a quiet old man who, surrounded by desolation and apathy, perseveres to remain true to the nature of his own beliefs and character. He toils daily to forge a last ditch effort to bring hope and life to a faithless, drought ridden old town...

Making Of Dried Up

Puppets

Camera, Software and Rigs

"...One of our first conversations about stop-motion was what software we were going to use. 

We new for a fact that we needed something stable and something that would control our camera. 

One of our classmates kept talking about Dragon Stop Motion. 

He would say stuff like, “It’s the only program you will ever need… you idiots!” He was right (about the software)"

"For the shooting we used a Canon XS..."     

Making Of Dried Up =>  driedup.wordpress.com

jeremycasper.blogspot.com

isaiahpowers.com

stuartbury.blogspot.com

Article:

Animation in Starts and Stops, Simplified

"For Stuart Bury, Jeremy Casper and Isaiah Powers, the path to a student Academy Award for their stop-motion animation cost less than $1,000, although it did require four months of often constant filming in Mr. Powers’s basement..."

nytimes.com

Software

dragonstopmotion.com

Digital Implants

Linus Hofmann - Compositing Reel 2010

Breakdown=>linushofmann.co.uk | PDF

"I am a keen VFX artist looking to specialise in the area of digital compositing. I am especially interested in working as a Nuke compositor in the field of high end feature film. I work well as part of a team, am highly motivated in improving my knowledge of the field and always looking to further my abilities as an artist. I am flexible and willing to relocate..."   Linus Hofmann.

linushofmann.co.uk

10 Awesome Solutions for Creating Your Online Portfolio

 article byTaimur Asghar ( Twitter: @imTaimur )

>>  1stwebdesigner.com

Two Planets on Transit

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.



Worlds on the Edge
This artist’s concept illustrates the two Saturn-sized planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The star system is oriented edge-on, as seen by Kepler, such that both planets cross in front, or transit, their star, named Kepler-9. This is the first star system found to have multiple transiting planets.
Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

Kepler video: Planet Orbits, Part 2

nasa.gov

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Alone in the light

"Yesterday I was feeling really lonely."

"Then I thought about the Mars Rover and realized I had nothing to complain about."

"I wonder what it's up to right at this moment."

 lowbright.com

Cool and Nice Robots Artworks by Hod Lipson | Tektuff

"Hod Lipson  is an American robotics engineer. He is the director of Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Lipson’s  work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity." More => tektuff.com

Featuring the Amazing Digital Art of Andrée Wallin | Graphic Mania

Article by graphicmania.net

Andrée Wallin  andreewallin.com

SmashingShare: 25 Amazing CG 3D Characters Artwork From CGSociety

 Great collection => smashingshare.com

cgsociety.org

Artists:  

Olivier Pabilona
Hossein Afzali
Michael Kutsche
Martin beyer
Nicolas He
Gerald Verstraeten
Iker Cortázar
Tiago Hoisel
Serge Bolgert
Marc Bailey
Jason Martin
Jan Jinda
Julianna Kolakis
Ryan Watkins
Jason Mark
Juan Elias
Mitra Maharaj
Fabricio G. Moraes