Marc Pampols

Just discovered this project, a fan-made short movie inspired in The Lord of the Rings

As they say…

The Hunt For Gollum is an unofficial not for profit short film by a group of enthusiast filmmakers. As a Lord of the Rings Fan Film, we are not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate or New Line Cinema and are producing this project as an entirely non commercial film. As with other fan films we are making this purely for the enjoyment of the material and the experience of making a high quality low budget film. 

About the quality, well, start by watching this trailer:

THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM - FULL Trailer 1 from Independent Online Cinema on Vimeo.

Visit the official site at http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/

Here’s a new image i’ve been working on today

I’ve also made a 1680×1050 widescreen wallpaper, you can download it by clicking here (1,2 Mb)

By the way, gfx portfolio has been updated with a new subsection called “Sandbox” for tests and weird things ;)

If you’re developing a Maxscript and you’re planning to add a copy-protection, this article is for you.

The author, Stig Atle Steffensen from stigatle.net, explains how to add a hardware lock to your maxscript and prevent users to copy

Link to part 1: Copy protecting MaxScripts - Using the license file
Link to part 2: Copy protecting MaxScripts - Making the license file
Link to part 3: Copy protecting MaxScripts - Getting hardware lock info

Digital Tutors teachers have recently launched Introduction to Mudbox 2009, the Autodesk sculpting and painting tool.

3 discs with more than 6 hours of training.

Link: Digital Tutors: Introduction to Mudbox 2009

You can learn more about Mudbox on the official Autodesk website: Autodesk: Mudbox 2009

Check this 2 hrs 6 min making of video from Gnomon School where Blur Studio shares details of the production process behind the Warhammer Online: Age of Rechoning cinematic trailer.

A total of 4 chapters 30min each one, where Blur Studio guests Jerome Denjean, Chuck Wojtkiewicz, Sze Jones, Jon Jordan, Kris Kaufman and Brandon Riza show and explan details about the entire project, crowd systems, scene assembly and some details about FX.

Link: Gnomon School - Blur Studio, The Making of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Trailer

A short animation by Madcrew Studio, available in web format and also in HD 720p, 1080p

Link: Mad Santa

Via: Maxunderground

This Christmas, Telefonica Movistar and Spanish company Dygra Films have reached an agreement for producing a CG Animated Ad, with the help of the creativity from the McCann Agency.

Good ad with a great animation and characters, nice work!

Also, the ad debuted the December 19th at the theaters that have Digital 3D technology.

Via: DDSIGN

Take a look at this:

From: Newscientist

More than once your client asks you to continuously make changes in a scene, either an architectural render or mechanical visualization, then you need to make changes and… render again!

Here is the new solution from the fryrender guys, the new fryrender SWAP product allows you to render a scene using fryrender, save it in a special format, and you’ll always be able to change materials in real time without the need to render the entire scene again, so it’s a great time saver.

fryrender SWAP screenshot (from SWAP official gallery)

Check the original website for more information, samples, videos and more.

Link: fryrender SWAP at Randomcontrol website

Today we have to celebrate the World 3D Day! (3-December)

This year I haven’t celebrate it, too much work to do… maybe the next one, I hope ;-)

Happy rendering!