PSYOP JBL chameleon

Not only is this a great spot from Psyop, but the tech they added to create the look of the chameleon is amazing..  
 Unfortunately there are no credits to the artists. so I'm not sure if it was NY or LA or ..  but I'm gonna guess not NY ..
 (update!) 
 Just heard from one of the animators on the job,  So it was done in NYC!

Lead Animator: Pat Porter
animators: Doug Rappin & Chris Meek 
Rigging TD: Lukas Wadya



JBL "Chameleon" from Psyop on Vimeo.

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JBL "The Making-Of Chameleon" from Psyop on Vimeo.

Technical Preview Maya 2018

Tj Galda shows off some upcoming tech for the future of Maya..  shouldn't be that long til we see these improvements released.



spoilers: 

• massive speed improvements in VP2.0 ( like wire deformers) 
• cached playback 
• parallelize more nodes ! 

animators go here for beta of the new caching system 

https://area.autodesk.com/events/gdc-2018/

also be sure to jump back to 24:50 for the new interop updates with Unity 

Denoiser in V-ray 3.4 for Maya

Chaos group added a new post-process denoiser that you can run post or during your v-ray renders in V-Ray 3.4

go here for all the latest updates:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vray_maya.html

Shave n Haircut 10 preview

Shave 10 Siggraph preview from joe alter on Vimeo.

www.joealter.com

Modeling updates for Maya : The Future of Modeling

Weta artist and now autodesk engineer  Andrew Camenisch gives a great overview of whats coming and some of what's already in Maya's modeling tools.

The Future of Modeling by CGMeetup

Look Developement Enhancements for Maya 2016

Daryl Obert goes over some of the new Look Dev developements upcoming in Maya 2016

Bullet Physics Enhancements in Maya 2014 Ext

Another video demo for the upcoming release of Maya 2014 EXT ...  ( hopefully available mid sept)

Maya 2014 Modeling Improvements overview..

Steven Roselle goes over some of the modeling improvements in Maya 2014 , focusing on Modeling Took Kit but also on some of the improvements to existing tools.

• quad draw (new , MTK ) 
• shrink wrap ( new , MTK ) 
• topology based symmetry (new , MTK)
• symmeterize (new , MTK ) 

( update: August 22 2013)
part 2

• updated to bridge tool
• marking menus for modeling tools
• connect
• multi-cut
• edge flow

SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer

Some really amazing technical achievements in this Siggraph Tech Papers Preview Trailer!

I especially like the paper, make it stand, and snow simulation stuff.

MAYA 2014 sneak peek : Grease Pencil

nHair , Alembic, and Bullet physics

Maya AU theatre demo by Marcel

Sculpt nHair using Maya 2013 and Mudbox

This video focuses on working with two new tools we added in Maya and Mudbox 2013; nHair and Mudbox Curves.   The curves in Mudbox makes it simple to get great guides for use in sculpting nHair.  Check out the video and let me know how it works for you.

Maya Animation Technology Preview

Maya Heat Map skin weighting tech demo-

maya fluids - tech demo

nHair -technology preview

whats cool, is what your seeing are the actual curves, so those curls, you can pull them straight!