Messing Around With Dragons So many zBrush sculpts are littered with detail. I still like the feel of clay smoothed with fingers, with minimal detailing. This is an exercise to emulate that look digitally. Besides, dragons are fun! #AGsketchbook AG
Practically Effective The addition of Digital Makeup in Falling Skies actually expanded the use of practical effects. I know that may shock some of you to read. In a time when computer Generated Imagery frequently replaces the practical world, this syndicated, wrapped series bucked the trend. Practical makeup artists used …
I’d Like To Sleep For A Week. I wrote this article in 2014: As I sit here working another wee hour on a project, I am beginning to envy my cat. As is mostly the case, I am awake because I love what I do, and fitting in another job, …
The Day After Christmas Twas the Day After Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse. The stockings weren’t hung by the chimney (who cared?), for it seems St. Nicholas had already been there. The children were nestled, all snug in their beds, …
Grabbing an Actor’s Performance In 2008 concepts and methods developed working on 3D conversion for IMAX films combined to solve a problem at Zoic studios for the Bad Robot TV series FRINGE. Those IMAX3D films required large amounts of match moved geometry to generate depth information. During that time I …
AG_RapidCapture In The Open Something I am working on, provided an opportunity for a recent article with VFX author Ian Failes covering one of the techniques in my AG_RapidCapture series (in development). Essentially trying to get down to bare bones photogrammetry, best practices, rig designs, and so forth. This article …
