Roof Studio: High and Low

Brooklyn based  Roof Studio's directors cut of their music video "High and Low" for Australian electronic music duo Empire of the sun.


High and Low - Empire of the Sun - Director's Cut from Roof Studio on Vimeo.

VR interview with Mechanism Digital

        Mechanism Digital has been doing great work in the NYC are for quite some time, and now they are getting into the VR game.   Daryl Obert from Autodesk came down to do a quick chat with Mechanism's Executive Producer, Lucien Harriot  to learn more about the VR projects they are working on . 

NYC Shotgun Group Meeting October 13th

Hey that's right,  a shotgun user group Meeting !



We have a great line up of industry experts joining us in a casual environment to talk about how they use Shotgun in their studios.

We hope to create a setting to share knowledge and experience.

Please feel free to share this invite with team members that might be interested.
I do ask that you register below if you can join us, as I will use this for catering purposes.
Food and drinks will be provided.

Date: Thursday October 13th
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Autodesk Office – 38 West 21st Street, 9th floor, New York 10010

http://gems.autodesk.com/ShotgunCommunityNYC


and if you are interested in the trial version of RV you can find that here:
www.shotgunsoftware.com/signup

United Nations - project Everyone from Aardman Nathan Love

With VO from a man with a very specific set of skills , Aardman Nathan Love goes full zootopia in this United nations Project everyone spot

United Nations - Project Everyone "#WEHAVEAPLAN" from Aardman Nathan Love on Vimeo.

Some Free e-books from Animation Mentor !

Who doesn't want to learn to be a better animator !?   Especially when Animation Mentor is giving the good for free !..

 of course if you are interested I would definitely recommend checking out their curriculum and classes

http://www.animationmentor.com/get-more-information/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=BP&utm_term=Get&utm_content=Characters&utm_campaign=S15

ADN modeler Shape Shifter

ADN modeler tools just keep looking better and better
gumRoad  https://gumroad.com/l/adntools

Steven Roselle does a quick look over the UV improvements in Maya 2017

Some pretty nice new tools for UV editing.. actually makes it look enjoyable

• symmetrize UV Tool  ( easier way to make your UV layout symmetrical) 
• UnFold3D layout options ( better packing and layout options) 
• auto Seams  ( automatically generates uv seams)
• pre rotations for uv packing
• multi tile uv packing
• multi object uv packing
• shell vs object uv distortion display

be sure to subscribe to Steven's blog and youtube channel
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/author/my-oh-maya