Interview with Rich Hurrey from Pixar

September 29th, 2008

Today I recommend this 25min video with an Interview to Rich Hurrey (2006), from Pixar, a nice training video for 3d modeling beginners.

This interview was conducted for Siggraph 2006. Brad and Rich discuss his career path up to Pixar as well as some in depth discussion of hard surface modeling with subdivision surfaces.

Luxology Rich Hurrey from Pixar, interview

Luxology Rich Hurrey from Pixar, interview

Watch it in Luxology website | Interview with Rich Hurrey of Pixar

Introduction to High Definition and Blu-Ray authoring

September 29th, 2008

I've always been a fan of audio and video compressing, codecs, technologies, etc... always trying to get the best possible AV quality in less space, but now, as spending so many weeks and months working, coding and taking pictures, I've forgotten a little bit all of this.

That's why doing some search, I've found Iniciación a la HD (alta definición) y a la autoría Blu-Ray (in Spanish) from the videoedicion.org blog (a site with excelent articles and documentation about Video editting)

A great article where the author explains lots of things about High Definition and Blu-Ray technology, a must-read for everyone interested in this world.

Blu-ray logo

Blu-ray logo

StillMotion, breakthrough performance wedding works

September 22nd, 2008

If you are planning your wedding and you want to get a great photo and/or a cinematographic video work, StillMotion is one of the best you can find all around... watch this one!


Julia + Phillip SDE - Toronto May 31st from StillMotion on Vimeo.

You can watch more StillMotion wedding videos here

My theory about downloading fakes from P2P

September 20th, 2008

I'm sure that you have downloaded a porn movie sometime, thinking that its a normal theater movie, probably through eMule or similars.

Well, this is called a fake, and people think that they are created with the purpose to confuse the users, to make a joke or with bad intentions.

I think that there's another possibility... imagine you are working with your computer and your eMule is opened, downloading, and you really want to get porn movies but without your friends can see that, what the people does? they rename "Some.Porn.Movie.XXX.avi" to "Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.3.avi", and doing that, other P2P users that are really interested in "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, they end up downloading a porn movie.

SplutterFish launches “The Ghost of Ghost Challenge”

September 19th, 2008

SplutterFish, the creators of Brazil Rendering System (originally called Ghost), just launched a new and interesting challenge while they are creating some really interesting new technology, called: The Ghost of Ghost Challenge: Render Like it's the Year 2000 

Hurry up! deadline is in October 15, and there are big prizes!

More information here