The use of motion control in filmmaking has been around for a long time. One of the first units, in fact, recorded onto a wax cylinder the ...

This week in the land of pumpkins... Our final assignment for this class is to create a realistic texture for a pumpkin that will then be co...

The past week has focused on two influential men in the visual effects industry: Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen. Willis O'Brien ...

This week in the digital world we moved on to converting procedural textures to images that can then be edited in Photoshop and used to crea...

What flavor of pumpkin is your favorite? That's probably an odd question to ask, but that is one of the things we had to tackle this wee...

The use of miniatures in film has been around for a significantly long time. Ever since the early days of film, model makers have been used...

In order to add more depth and realism to a texture, there are two particular attributes that must be added to a texture: Bump map and specu...

One of the disadvantages of matte paintings that early filmmakers found was that the camera could not move, which often created very dull sc...

One of the earliest techniques developed in visual effects was the idea of the matte painting . The above matte painting is from The Wizard...

The alleyway project continues now! This week I spent time creating the textures for the alleyway objects. Using the photos that I had tak...