Short film “The Silent City”, written & directed by Oscar nominated director Ruairi Robinson. It tell story about 3 soldiers traveling at post apocalyptic world, on the outskirts of a once great city.

Beautiful short film animation about one men who is scarred to go through doors – door phobia.

Very good looking a full-cg animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Watch it in full screen HD and remember it is not real .

If you want you can download good quality video from torrent:
temporarygate.com/TheThird&TheSeventh.mp4.torrent

Here is video of post production in steps:

James Cameron "Avatar"

So James Cameron “Avatar” is being showed here for one moth already and still keeps cinemas sold out. It is one of the best movies of 2009 end. It tells story of paraplegic marine Jake Sully who steps into his killed brothers shoos for Avatar program. All action is placed in planet Pandora, which is very blue , same as native humanoid – cat like tribe “Na’vi”. Avatar is artificial “Na’vi” grown from native and human DNA and controlled by humans remotely, by brain signals. As basically CG movie it should set new standard for later movies and it has provided great views, but I was still disappointed by little details like wind. It was only added there some machinery created or it was important to show how flying mountains move and that created quite static jungle. Story in some places had glitches and in many ways was already told in other movies just using different environment.

Lately I have find out this article about “Avatar” being racist, but how can you call science fiction movie with alien races – racist. I really hate it people searching for racism in every place and I find it people who do this are the biggest racist of them all. No one cares about this in entertainment, because it is created to entertain.

And finally it is worth seeing just to know how good CGI should be created, compared to “Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” I have to say it is 80% better at least it does not feel so CGI.

If you saw ET and Aliens movies you will see a lot of references and hidden jokes. Planet 51 is like reverse story of ET with Astronaut from Earth, called Chuck, on alien planet. While he expected to find deserted planet, he finds himself in alien planet at 50’s timezone, but with floating cars, little alien pets and some floating barbecue. For animated story it was quite fun to watch with all the references to sci-fi, ET and Aliens. Sound track was quite fun too with good old music tracks. You can read more on official site.

And I would say it was much more fun than “The Up”.

So today is the day I finally created displacement map in ZBrush and successfully rendered in Maya. This was a test only, so I used very basic model in Maya contains 120 faces or 240 triangles here how it looks.

This is same model in ZBrush divided into almost 500000 polygons and modified to create some cracks and heights.

And here is final result rendered in few seconds in Maya using Mental-Ray rendering engine, not counting ~1h of doing all this . It could look nicer with more tweaking but I wanted to see it works.

Now moving on to creating something more interesting and fun.

Here is guide on how to do it: link.