Some insight from John Lasseter on DailyMotion.com. In the first video he repeats a great quote from his mentor Chuck Jones.

DisneyPixar is slowly releasing each answer to the fans questions so check  DailyMotion.com occasionally for the updates.

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Enter the era of "Eye-Def" Computing and digital filmmaking at SIGGRAPH 2009 when director Peter Berg ("The Kingdom", "Hancock", and the upcoming remake of "Dune"), software creator and OTOY CEO Jules Urbach, and AMD's top computer and graphics processors executive Rick Bergman discuss some of the ground-breaking advances in hardware and software that enables sophisticated real-time rendering techniques and new delivery models, and forthcoming client and server hardware that has the potential to put the equivalent of a Hollywood render farm in a home set-top box.

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SIGGRAPH is known worldwide for showcasing some of the most innovative and groundbreaking visual and interactive content. This year, an added focus will highlight music and audio in their significant relationship with computer graphics and interactive techniques.

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This Kajimba trailer is a compilation of the various project clips that they've already released and a few that I hadn’t seen before. It has a folksy feel to it and the animation, characters, textures are excellent as usual. I found it very funny as it plays well to my crude sense of humor. Hopefully they'll get it funded and we can see a completed project in the near future.

Warning: Adult language and humor

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After searching around for a stereo camera technique Sebastian Schneider decided to create his own version.  Time to get out your 3D glasses again.

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LuxRender has started a Materials Database from which you can download materials as well as upload you own content to it.  It looks pretty impressive so far. While you are at the LuxRender site check out the gallery too. There are some wonderful Blender LuxRenders  in the exhibit.

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Karan Shah has created an excellant 96 step mega architectural tutorial on CG Tuts .  "You will go through all the motions necessary to construct a complete, photo-realistic kitchen scene in Blender, and then render it with Yafaray (a free ray tracing, open source rendering engine)."

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JeriH has released his George Rig 1.0. and he's obviously put a lot of thought into this rigging, keeping the animator in mind all the time with simplified controls and a separate window for the entire IK/FK controllers with a nice GUI background. In addition he's completed a companion manual for it.

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Hand Turkey Studios is going to allow live public access to our production as we compete this coming weekend (17-19 July) in this year's 48 Hour Film Project in Richmond, Virginia. We assembled a team and competed last year with the ambitious goal of completing an animation in Blender as our submitted work.

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Gord Goodwin aka feelgoodcomics has released very nice and useful script for weights normalization.

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Brendon Murphy aka Meta-Androcto has created script tool-kits where you can download  scripts by category.

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Learn how to create masks and layer image elements
Animate locations and shapes to match-move live-action footage
Add special effects to stills and video
Sequence and transition between shots
Publish your audio/video for TV broadcast, digital cinema, fill mastering, and webcast.

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Roger Wickes aka PapaSmurf is about to release his  book  "Foundation Blender Compositing" later this month.   He stated to me that its "at the printer's".

Roland Hess aka Harkyman, author of "The Essential Blender" book and "Animating with Blender" is the technical reviewer. Roland also programed the colored shadows in Blender.

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Animate locations and shapes to match-move live-action footage
Add special effects to stills and video
Sequence and transition between shots
Publish your audio/video for TV broadcast, digital cinema, fill mastering, and webcast.

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Here are the latest Blender sightings:

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Georg Wieser aka Hoverkraft recently entered a Linux-themed contest titled "What do you do with Linux?".

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In these two videos, Garet Gratien shows an easy technique to model a dog. " This technique makes it possible to work without exceeding 500.000 faces."

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For the Siggraph 2009 conference the Blender Foundation organizes a half day "Birds of a Feather" and has a booth on the trade show again,   showing the latest results of the 2.5 project, and more!

People interested to get free tradeshow tickets and/or to be in the demo crew can find contact information on this page:

Normally I would not post about Google on this site but this caught my interest in that Google announced yesterday that they are releasing an Open Source Operating system.

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