Jeremy Davidson shares with us his amazing animation/rigging reel!

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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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Customised production is hot at the moment. A new service allows you to design the print on your own shoes – powered by Blender. ProMotion Studios (Jellibots, Beer Rig, Kajimba, Slimers, Lighthouse ) have done it again!

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Blender artist Matray has published his demoreel. Very nice work!

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You may recall reading about the project Kajimba which is still in production at ProMotion Studios. Meanwhile, they are also working on developing a children's show entitled "Jellibots.

""Here at ProMotion Studios we've developed a solid Blender pipeline for our primary 3d tool set. In order to test our pipeline in series format, we've put together a pilot for
a series we're developing called the Jellibots."

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This year's Animation Festival rocked! Organiser Dolf (Macouno) reports.

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If you make an animated series about a bar you'll have to animate beer, I guess. The Kajimba team just released a beer rig (that's a first!), including a nice demo movie. Cheers!

They write:

We just finished a beer rig, plus a few cold ones for ourselves. Made it simple for the sake of the simple animators we have here. The shading of the beer itself is up for debate, seeing as half the studio like theirs blonde, and the other half dark.

We talked about Farsthary's volumetrics work before. He has now teamed up with Matt Ebb (of Elephants Dream and more recently ProMotion studios fame).

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ProMotion studios (of Lighthouse and Slimers fame) have started an ambitious project: a 26 part animated TV series. Check out some early artwork!

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Remember the 'Slimers' commercial by Promotion Studios? James Neale talks about the project's pipeline and Blender's role in it, how they rebuilt Blender to run on their 64 bit quad-cores machines with 8 gig ram (closed source apps, eat your heart out! ;-) and about trademarked Nickelodeon slime properties. A very cool read.

Promotion Studios have finished a new commercial which include some cool Blender fluids.

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Itsartmag has posted a nice making of interview on Promotion Studio's Lighthouse film. The article is a nice look behind the scenes and into the thought process of the short.

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Here is a fantastic work from Promotion Studios. Great job guys!

James Neale (producer), Stefan Wernik (animation director), Matt Ebb (lighting/shading/td), Tristan Lock (lead modeller), Jeremy Davidson (lead animator), Kim Neale (matte painting), with Lee Salvemini (animator), Hamed Zaghaghi (ocean sim development), Enrico Valenza (assistant texture artist)

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(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announced today the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from more than 900 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. An esteemed panel of jury members reviewed each submission to compile some of the greatest works submitted this year.

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(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH officially announced the opening of submissions for FJORG! – the International Animation Contest taking place at the upcoming SIGGRAPH conference, 11 through 15 August 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

FJORG! is an "iron animator" event in which competing teams from around the world have 32 hours to create a 15-second, character-driven animation while adhering to at least one of two themes and facing multiple distractions. The online submission system is now open and submission and uploaded materials are due by 7 May 2008. Submissions are open to the public.

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Matt Ebb, one of the lead artists on the Elephants Dream project, has been busy creating commercial illustrations using Blender.

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(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announced the return of FJORG! – the International Animation Contest at the upcoming SIGGRAPH conference in 2008. FJORG!, is an "iron animator" event in which 16 competing teams from around the world have 32 hours to create the most impressive character-driven animation of at least 15 seconds in length adhering to at least one of two themes and using at least one of 16 sound bites.

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