cool as fuck…

what? you aren’t coming? fail

Hooked / C4D R13

Great animated short showcasing some great work using Maxon’s latest C4D release R13.

UK animation industry needs Tax Breaks

Worrying noises are emerging from the leading UK animation companies as financial pressures grow and the government refuses to give tax breaks to our best and brightest. This in the light as other…

BA submission sleeve

use this .pdf BA cd_sleeve make sure that it is being printed out at 100%, no more no less. do not scale to fit in the printing preferences. Then cut out using the…

PBI – 2 new video tutorials

2 new Photoshop video tutorials added to KCDA covering the techniques covered in the last session: * folder 207, colour correction using adjustment layers * folder 209, image retouching using the Healing Brush

PBI – Assignment 2

Assignment 2, the A3 folded poster booklet needs to handed in, printed out and on disc with submission sleeve on 23rd January *DEADLINE*. This is the last session of Semester 1. Brief outline:…

IGPD – 2 sessions left

IGPD deadline for Assignment 2 is approaching with the end of Semester 1. There are 2 more class sessions left before the hand in date 24th January 2012. I want a full update…

Red Bull Big Tune titles

A good example of what you could do with After Effects using post fx, tracking, grading and colour correcting etc. A great example of where footage can be enhanced to great effect by…

IGPD Ass.2 – 3 weeks left

A very disappointing turnout for the 1st session back! There is lots to do and little time left. Access to tutor time should not be wasted. The last Tuesday session for IGPD and…

Solar Sinter Project

Solar Sinter Project

groboto

I have a license for a really nice but odd bit of 3d software called Groboto they are allowing me to buy 2 licenses as gifts for just $10 – it’s normally $100…

Screen Epiphanies. BFI

a series of interviews conducted by the BFI with actors and directors regarding moments in cinema that influenced their lives. Some very interesting and dynamic insights in conversation through a cross section of…

TM2012 sneek peeks

Transmediale preview

Boiler Room TV

Boiler Room TV Live sets, podcasts and live events. Tomorrow nights set from 8pm inc. DJ Shadow.

‘everything around you was built by people no smarter than you’

great stuff

bad cat, deadly cat..

Nyan Cat, death from above. Made with Cinema 4D and After effects. Nice.

moving still.

steven quinn collage work.

syfy

great video

brilliant

little printer by berg http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ they are the people behind the making future magic project with iPads last year along with dentsu

future cities 11

  onedotzero – future cities 11 playlist   also available in inspiration section above  

code warriors 11

onedotzero – code warriors 11 playlist   also available in inspiration section above

one dot zero – wow + flutter 11 playlist

here’s wow + flutter 11 from one dot zero it’s not the same as seeing it at the bfi but well worth watching there’s one that cannot be added to the list -…

lamp, room, FK IK

it’s the last of the 3d competencies!!!! FK IK WTF!!! there is a famous anglepoise lamp animation and just recently there has been a really good tutorial on modelling and rigging an angle…

css 3 properties

css3 is the future of what you will be doing and it’s never too early to dip your toes in the water so here’s a few nice examples for you to try in…

yr2 – hacking, spam and more

IGPD – creating texture content

Following on from the digital images taken in lesson last week, keep experimenting and developing your own visual resources and content. Here are some of the texturing tutorial resources directly made for this…

PBI – Copyright competency

As a part of the competencies to be fulfilled for Pixel Based Imaging, you are required to write a minimum of 250 words on the uses, rights and wrongs of using copyrighted material…

windows phone / nokia

I’m not sure if it’s going to be enough really – but I like the look of windows phone 7 vista 7 or whatever, it’s not just a cheap knockoff of iOS and…

3d modelling week 7 – flower

  another pdf to download and work through also see folder 009 add it to your scene modellingFlowerSmaller

oh no!!!!

minecraft on the iPhone

mark would like this for christmas please

awesome

perfect and free

this is great – on web designtuts+ a FREE 30 day course taking you through hand coding websites from scratch – a 10 minute lesson a day they are really well done and…

great video

for those of you playing with video at present what I like about it is the simplicity of the idea, the pace of of the cuts, the soundtrack, the composition of every scene…

3d week 7 – are you getting in a flap?

  today we will be looking at adding a little flapping bee to our desert island / shark / plane scene DO NOT WORK IN THE SAME SCENE THOUGH you will need to…

just for reference

just playing about with lighting and renders in c4d R11 (not studio version so no GI, ambient occlusion etc) in advance of me teaching with R11 basic to ND3D students starting this week…

film company credits

  yr 2 students have just been doing some experimental credit sequences for a fictional film production company examples here   corey eyres kader alawazi charlotte everett

great c4d tutorial

a really great tutorial – enjoy!!

yr1 3d – more modelling and animation

today we are continuing with the desert island scene – adding a small propellor driven aeroplane techniques used are bezier spline lathe NURBS boolean operator project spline (NEW) sweep NURBS taper modifier twist…

let’s enhance

perhaps it’s almost as much of  cliche as the subject matter it represents but you can’t help buy love it great editing exercise – could fit in to any number of modules across…

makes me want to get a dog

yes its the star wars AT walker costume … but for a dog more here

berlin!!!!!!!

don’t forget – you need to get your deposits to main site by tomorrow any problems let me know

not a good look

I started to watch sons of anarchy recently – I remain to be completely convinced but I’m sticking with it a big problem is that the character just look so ugly it’s not…

reading week – 22nd to 30th october

ALL YEAR GROUPS I have spoken to all year groups this week about what Andy, Gerda and myself expect you to do during reading week just to recap…. exhibitions etc – look at…

this looks a great idea

more camera stuff – this looks really interesting – you can actually refocus AFTER you have taken the shot – some really clever technology going on in there I also like that they…

game concept

we talked about alternative game concepts in todays lesson here’s a great example of what I was talking about – a game based entirely on sound – no visuals check it out –…

great new video camera / bargain price

for those of you buying £2000 on digital slrs to shoot video here’s a great little film from a new little video camera that costs only £49* as you can see it’s not…

one dot zero

onedotzero is on at the bfi again in november if you’ve never been you are in for a treat - you will wish it happened more than once very year there will be some…

transmediale / club transmediale trip

transmediale and club transmediale websites transmediale - theme is in/compatible – things going wrong, ideas fighting, not altogether comfortable clubtransmediale - theme is spectral – floaty, ghosty and mystic(y) berlin forms are available in 106…

paris underwater

great piece of 3d, compositing, animation, tracking etc – but really the joy is the idea and execution and from a company involved in architectural visualisation – could be a double project, DFS…

week 3 – 3d modelling > polygons, points and edges

today we are looking at simple polygon modelling polygons points and edges watch this short video the guerrilla CG project available on Vimeo has some great, clear and and well made general overviews…

yr 3 – IYAF brief

for year 3 – here is the briefing document we went though together in the lesson for the IYAF website pres brief.rtfd iyaf

50 things every creative should know

some obvious some not so but everyone is spot on #THE50 THINGS EVERY CREATIVE SHOULD KNOW

welcome back

hi everyone hope the summer was good we have a good sized first year – so please welcome them and tell them how great we are we also have a new team member…

you want some?

lorem ipsum by samuel l jackson

SFX piece

now they have gone it might be the time to say just how good this piece from last years yr 3 group is – very  

loving the vinyl look

graphics in C4d used as vinyl in the show this year – looking great