The The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt (Side Effects Software) wil be honored with a Technical Achievement Award for their invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software. From the Press Release: 'This work allowed, for the first time, unified and efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds, together with other computer graphics objects, in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline.'
The story continues, it has been a year since my return from Toronto. Recharged and ready for the next adventure!
I am thrilled to announce that I have been given the opportunity to work as a Houdini FX TD at Double Negative in London (UK). This is like a boys dream coming true. I think almost every 3D artist can recall that he moved into the industry because of a Wow! moment in the cinema. In short this is what Double Negative is really good at, creating life like, breath taking and astonishing effects. Their effects can be found in films like: Harry Potter, Inception, Batman and Iron Man, to name a few.
A sneak peak into how ILM approached the production of their animated feature: 'Rango'. I find it very inspiring. It might suggest an alternative to Pixar's 'Definitive' method to animated features.
