Archive for August, 2008

Facial Animation Metal Gear Solid 4

Christopher Evans says in the next post Konami used the pipeline to achieve the excellent level osten facial animation of game characters.

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CG elements composing

This is a great tutorial created by Joseph Francis where he teaches the proper way to write articles alpha renderings with any program ended to avoid the classic edges dyed the color of the background. Recommendable!

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Framebuffer hidden function of Vray

In Vray.info framebuffer comment this feature is not enabled by default.
This is a window that lets you preview them as thumbnails which renders except to load them back into the framebuffer maintaining their properties and image channels.

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Compressing HDRI

XDepth is the developer of a freeware codec for compressing video images as well as formats for high dynamic range (HDRI).
The results are excellent, now we can download the codec for integration into Photoshop and LightWave.

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Buenos polygonal modeling tutorials

I leave a couple of good tutorials written by Athey Moravetz.
Dealing with the concept of edge loops and how to increase or decrease the amount of polygons while maintaining four-sided faces.

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