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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

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Autodesk announces Maya 2013

Today Autodesk introduced all new version of their major software suites. Most of them center around new versions of their flagship products like AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture and Revit, used around the world in industrial design, architecture and general product design. The Entertainment Creation Suite centers around Maya and 3ds Max, SoftImage, Motionbuilder, and Mudbox, software used by 3D graphic artists in the creation of new and upcoming games, animations and the coolest visual effects in future Hollywood blockbuster movies!

Ever wonder how everything you see and touch is designed before it was created? From the buildings on the street, to the infrastructure of your city, to the latest gizmos and appliances you buy in stores everywhere. All professional designers, engineers, architects and artists watch out every year this month for Autodesk to come up with an upgrade to their main software products, giving them the tools to look ahead, envision and build the world the way itll look like in a couple of years.

Above: One of the new features is a new node editor, enabling you to rewire nodes in a more intuitive environment than the Connection Editor. It allows you to distinguish different data types through color coding.

It takes years to design, plan and create a brand new shopping mall or cruise ship to its minute detail, but it also takes a lot of time to develop a full length animated feature or video game, or a theatrical movie. So, while Autodesk may have introduced their latest software versions today, with all new features and such, it may take some time for you to catch up with all the cool stuff people will be creating with it.

Check out the videos below and get more information on the new features in Maya 2013, part of the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite 2013 (playlist contains 5 videos).



The Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite will be available later this year, usually in April. Heres a  complete list of all the new features found in the Maya 2013:

Maya nHair:
Create stunning, highly realistic hair and other curve-based dynamics with the new Maya nHair module for the Maya Nucleus unified simulation framework. Create complex simulations with multiple dynamic entities all working together, with the ability to interact bidirectionally with both Maya nCloth and Maya nParticles. Use a common system of fields, forces, and constraints for all Nucleus modules.

Viewport 2.0 Enhancements:
Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity interactive environment in order to make better creative decisions. Viewport 2.0 now offers a more functionally complete high-performance, high-quality viewport, featuring High-quality depth sorting, support for image planes and animation ghosting and the ability to use the same hardware rendering technology to batch render larger-than-screen-size frames, producing high-quality animatics and previsualizations in less time

New Node Editor:
Create, edit, and debug node networks more easily with the new Node Editor. Choose from three levels of detail. Rewire nodes in a more intuitive environment than the Connection Editor with drag-and-drop connection editing. Distinguish different data types at a glance through color coding.

Bullet Physics:
Simulate both soft and rigid bodies in a single system, with the high-performance, open source AMD Bullet Physics engine. Create highly realistic simulations of cloth, rope, deformable objects, and ragdoll skeletons. Take advantage of discrete and continuous 3D collision detection.

Heat Map Skinning:
Enjoy a more accurate initial binding of geometry to skeletons in Maya 2013, thanks to a new Heat Map Skinning method that is better able to assign skin to the intended bone as opposed to an adjacent but unrelated one and requires less manual refinement.

Trax Clip Matching:
Visualize how Trax clips overlap in Maya 2013 to build complete character performances from individual animations.Clip Ghosts enable you to view the start and end frames of clips as skeletal wireframes in the 3D view. Match clips with the help of these visual cues, or automatically, using a choice of options for translation and rotation.


Alembic Caching:
Read and write the Alembic open source computer graphics interchange framework format, initially developed in 2010 by teams from Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. Distill complex animated and simulated data into application-independent baked geometry. Reduce the overhead and loss of interactivity associated with transferring fully editable scene data between disciplines.

ATOM Animation Transfer:
Transfer animation between characters via the new ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format, in order to repurpose existing animation data as new characters are created. ATOM natively supports keyframes, constraints, animation layers, and Set Driven Keys.


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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

DC publishes historic 900th issue of Action Comics!

As Writer Paul Cornell and artist Jesus Merino conclude their Black Ring story arc, DC brings in Richard Donner, Gary Frank and Geoff Johns as Action Comics hits the 900 issue mark!

If youve never heard of Superman, you might have been in cryogenic sleep for the past several decades, or your name is Dr. Walter Bishop and you fell victim to your own experiments involving brain surgery. Anyway, the flying hero fighting evil mankind couldnt possibly face on its own will have a small party this month celebrating its landmark issue! DC Comics invites you to the party with a special 100 page celebration issue, due April 27th! (right, cover by David Finch).

He may have started out as a simple comic book character but has since grown into a pop culture icon. The S logo on his chest has propably become one of the most prolific symbols of the last seventy years. But not everybody may be privy to the fact that he started out as a character in the first issue of Action Comics, in April 1938.

Action Comics became one of the longest running comic magazines in history, along with DCs other juggernaut Detective Comics (starring Batman), whos currently running Scott Snyders Hungry City story arc in issue # 875.

Superman, named Kal-El (meaning star child), the last survivor of his home planet Krypton, was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe shuster prior to WWII. Seeing his popularity in Action Comics, publisher National Periodical Publications (as DC was known back then) decided to give their hero his own self-titled monthly series a year later, in June 1939. Superman issue 710, featuring Michael Straczynskis Grounded goes live this April 13.


The first issues of  Action Comics (left) and Superman (right) went for $ 0,10 cents each at the time. Mint condition classics are rare these days, only a handfull remain. In 2010, an unknown A grade copy of the premier issue of Action Comics was auctioned for a record $ 1.5 million dollars through ComicsConnect.  This one had layed unnoticed tucked inside an old movie magazine for 50 years. Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster had sold the rights to Superman for $ 130 dollars at the beginning of their careers.

New Superman movie.

Today, Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures announced that Michael Shannon will play Supermans enemy General Zod, in the new upcoming movie Superman: Man of Steel directed by Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen, 300) and produced by Christopher Nolan.

Henry Cavill (The Tudors) will star as Clark Kent/Superman and Amy Adams will portray Lois Lane. Budget has been set at $175 million Dollars, a little under the 209 million for Bryan Singers Superman Returns (2006). Diane Laine and Kevin Coster co-star as Kents parents.
Snyder has stated that anything Superman will do, will be visual effects enhanced CGI. The story will focus on Supermans early days, and will not be linked to previous movies.
General Zod first appeared in Action Comics # 283 (april 1961) and was created by Robert Bernstein and George Papp. Dru-Zod as hes actually named, was a general in charge of Kryptons military forces and attempted to take over the planet. Zod created an army of robotic duplicates but was sentenced to live in exile in the Phantom Zone.

Before Man of Steel will hit the theatres in December 2012, Christopher Nolans third and final Batman film will be released on July 20. Entitled The Dark Knight Rises the movie will not feature unused footage of the late Heath Ledger (as rumored). Christian Bale will reprise his role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. The Post Gazette confirmed last tuesday that TDKR will be shot this summer on location in Pittsburgh. Nolans previous Batman film, The Dark Knight (2008) currently holds 7th place in the top ten highest grossing movies to date, crossing the 1 Billion dollar mark.

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Officially confirmed J J Abrams to direct Star Wars VII



Yes, the news was all over the internet yesterday, as The Wrap created a buzz based on information from a reliable source, but this morning its officially confirmed: J.J. Abrams, creator of TV series Fringe and Lost will be directing the next installment of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars VII. Previously, Abrams directed movies like Super8 and Star Trek: The Future Begins, giving fans hope that the new trilogy will definitely receive a proper treatment.

A few months ago, Abrams said he wouldnt take the job of helming the first movie in a new trilogy, because he himself had been a life long fan of the characters and stories Lucas created and thought that it would interfere with his ability to direct. It was already confirmed that the next two sequels Star Wars VII and VIII, will be written and produced by Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) and Simon Kinberg (X-Men: The Last stand and X-Men: First Class). Last year October, Disney bought Lucasfilm for a reported four Billion Dollars, acquiring the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Check here for the official story.


Disney buys Lucasfilm will release star Wars 7 in 2015

star wars 7, george lucas sells lucasfilm to disney

Star Wars fans prepare to be shocked! Seems George Lucas is serious about retiring, as Disney confirmed today it is buying his company Lucasfilm for four Billion Dollars, half of it payed out in Disney shares.

Disney also said it will release Star Wars VII in 2015, and plans to bring a brand new Star Wars movie to the theatre every two to three years. George Lucas will remain available as creative adviser. By owing Lucasfilm Disney now also owns all the rights to Indiana Jones. It is uncertain whether or not Disney is planning a new movie with the character at this point. Disney already bought Pixar in 2006 and Marvel Comics in 2009. In the official press release Lucas stated:

george lucas sells lucasfilm to disney
“For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next,” said George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm.

“It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I’m confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney’s reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products.”

So, good or bad news for Star Wars fans? Theres certainly tons of material from all the comic books and games that would make for some interesting new movies. But I need to remind you that Disneys recently released sci-fi movie John Carter of Mars, based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, bombed at the box office and was heavily criticised for being fake and too campy while it used all the visual effects and 3D graphics money can buy. Well see what the future brings...May the force be with us!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Aaron Sims new website up and running








Hey guys, just spreading the word here! Aaron Sims, the guy you all love for his amazing work on recent hit movies like Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Clash of the Titans (still one of my favorites) has his new Directors site up, where he shows the projects he directed himself. You should definately check out the trailer of his upcoming short Archetype. On the site you will also be able to watch his full short Paralyzed.

Aaron is a character designer or conceptual artist and digital effects artist. He has worked on all the major Hollywood blockbusters of the last two decades. He worked with Rick Bakers Cinovation Studios and Stan Winston. Working with SoftImage and Photoshop, and combining his knowledge of computer technology with his experience as a sculptor made him the lead character designer on Spielbergs Artificial Intelligence, which changed the the industrys design process. He co-created Stan Winston Digital and led the studio, working on films as Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow and Constantine. He now runs the Aaron Sims Company, which worked on films such as The Incredible Hulk and 30 Days of Night. Among his team are Jerad S. Maranz (lead artist), Alex Mandrajiev (concepts/storyboards), Tsvetomir Georgiev (main modeler) and Joel Chang (head environment designer).

If you like to learn more about Aaron Sims or his approach to creature design, you should definately check out the training dvds he did for Alex Alvarez Gnomon Workshop. They include demonstrations with Photoshop, XSI (SoftImage), Deep paint and Z-brush. Excellent stuff!


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Trick or Treat!


Heres a classic from way back.

Published by Dell Comics (or actually, Western publishing): “Lulu and Tubby Halloween Fun”,  the fun lasted for several issues actually, three to be precise. Published in October 1957, 1958 and 1959 with Pencils/Inks  by Irving Tripp with scripts by John Stanley. All of them part of the Dell Giant line up. Lulu of course also had her own regular series as of 1948.
In 1960 there was another Dell Giant called “Halloween fun with Little Lulu and Witch Hazel” followed by “Little Lulu and Witch Hazel Trick ‘N’ Treat” in 1961. Also there were several regular “Little Lulu Trick ‘N’Treat” after 1962 under Western’s new label Gold Key, following their decision to start publishing comics without Dell. The comic ran as far as 1984, until the end of Western.

Tripp worked for Dell since 1941 and would remain on staff until 1982. After he came back from the Philippines where he had served during WWII, he started working with John Stanley, the original writer of the Little Lulu’s comics for Dell.

Stanley, born in 1914, worked on Lulu until 1959. He started out as an in-betweener at Max Fleisher’s animation studio (as did Tripp). The character itself, was originally created by cartoonist Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell).

Marge first created her Little Lulu cartoons halfway the thirties for the Saturday Evening Post, one of the earliest American newspapers, first published by none other than Benjamin Franklin in 1729.

Stanley returned into the public eye when Bruce Hamilton’s company “Another Rainbow” published the “Little Lulu Library” halfway the eighties. Also, in May 2009 and 2010,  Drawn & Quarterly had a  collection of Stanley’s work for “Free Comic Book Day” that included Melvin Monster, Tubby and Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy. Stanley passed away in 1993, as did Marge, six months earlier, Tripp died in 2009.

The following classic "House of Horrors" was published in Dell Giant 50 from 1961. Now give me my snacks!



James Bond Skyfall storyboards leaked

With all the turmoil of MGM filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of 2010, it took some time getting the new Bond movie going, but Skyfall, the 23rd movie in the series starring Daniel Craig for the third time as Britains top spy will finally be out on November 9th (UK premier is October 26th), while celebrating its 50 years existence. The script was co-written by triple time academy award nominee John Logan, (Gladiator, The Aviator and Hugo) who also wrote the screenplay for this years Oscar winning animated feature Rango. But apparently the story isnt as secret as Bond would ve liked, as someone has been selling off the authentic call sheets and storyboard artwork on Ebay.



The scenes starring the top spy driving a motorcycle under heavy circumstances have been filmed in Turkey, at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, at Fethiye and Adana. The snapshots below clearly show Craig on the motorbike, which in reality appears to be more of a scooter/buggy type of rig, fully equipped with digital cameras. From Russia with Love and The World is not Enough also had exotic scenes shot on location in Turkey.





Fortunately, MGMs lion is still roaring. The restructured studio is now lead by Ann Mather, former Executive Vice President and CFO at Pixar, who also worked for Disney earlier. They sold the distribution rights for Bond 23 and 24 to Sony last year, so the screen credits will definitely be listing James Bond will return once more. Great!

James Bond was created by Ian Fleming, who was a Naval Intelligence Officer himself, trying to break the Nazis Enigma Code while also being in charge of Operation Golden Eye, a plan to sabotage the Nazis during WWII. In 1952 he wrote his first book Casino Royale at his home in Jamaica (where he did all of his writing) which sold out completely within weeks after it got published. He wrote 14 books in total, while his final one, Octopussy and the living Daylights a collection of shorter stories, was published after his death in 1964. Several authors have picked up the book series since then, resulting in the latest (37th) Bond novel from Ian Fleming productions, Carte Blanche by Jefferey Deaver in May 2011. A new yet untitled novel is currently written by Willliam Boyd, which will be out in autumn 2013. Unlike the latest novels, it will be set in the 1960s to portray a more classic Bond story. Boyd, familiar with screenplay writing (he co-authored David Attenboroughs Chaplin) worked with actor Daniel Craig on The Trench, a movie he directed himself in 1999.

Above left: Fleming working away on his next story behind the typewriter at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. Right: After the success of his first novel, Fleming bought a custom made goldplated Royal Quiet de Luxe typewriter, which was bought by Bond actor Pierce Brosnan at an auction in 1995.

Bond in Comics.

Bond has been the focus of many comic books adaptions, most notably through a long lasting comic strip series, published between 1958 and 1983 in the Daily Express and other (British) newspaper. With art by John McLusky and most stories by Henry Gammidge thirteen story arcs were published based on Flemings books between July 7, 1958 and January 8, 1966. When the team of Russian artist Yaroslav Horak and writer Jim Lawrence took over, they adapted the remaining Fleming material and Kingsley Amis Bond novel Colonel Sun from 1968. Between January 10, 1966 and January 22, 1977, they also introduced 20 original stories, with extreme titles such as The League of Vampires.

An original strip by McLusky from Live and let Die published between December 1958 and March 1959 (Click to enlarge).

After publication in the Daily Express was seized, Horak and Lawrence continued to do five more stories until 1979. Lawrence wrote several more stories after that, with McLusky returning to artwork. In 1984 the comic strip definitely came to an end with the Snake Goddess and Double Eagle storyline, with Horak again doing the artwork.


As of 2009, Titan Books has done an excellent job of bringing these great strips back in print in several volumes through their Omnibus collection. Volume three just appeared in March (featuring the Colonel Sun adaption). The next volume will be released in November containing nine stories, from the Isle of Condors (June 12, 1972 - October 21, 1972) to The Black Ruby Caper (February 19, 1975 - July 15, 1975).


Check out the first trailer for Skyfall below, which was released on May 21st (toggle 1080p switch for superior quality).





Sunday, February 2, 2014

Bernado on the cutting edge

Seeing there aren’t too many artists out there working for Disney that also did superhero stuff, I thought I would talk some about Bernado, whos work is featured regulary in the Dutch Donald Duck Weekly magazine. This week they had one of his Mad madam Mim shorts. This guy is amazing, it’s so reminiscent of the 1950s! Anyway, Seeing Bernado (That is José Ramon Bernadó) also did a lot of stuff back in the 1990s for Marvel and DC, I was even more impressed. Because there are a lot of great artists out there working for Marvel, but there aren’t really many that can pull of committing themselves to Disneyesque stuff too. Beside Madam Mim, Bernado also draws a lot of Scamp shorts for the Dutch DD, in the same classic style (see below).


Mad madam Mim first appeared in Disney’s eighteenth animated classic, The Sword in the Stone, which was based on 1938 the novel by English author T.H. White (1906 - 1964). White’s novel was eventually published as part of a tetralogy (a book divided into four parts) called The Once and Future King, although a fifth installment (The Book of Merlin) was published separately after White’s death in 1971.

Disney’s animation followed the same storyline as White’s books, and focused on the education of a young, adolescent King Arthur by the magician Merlin. The animated feature film was released on Christmas day 1963, it would be the last animation they released while Walt Disney himself was still alive. Madam Mim was of course animated by two of Disney’s Nine Old Men (the nine most import animators ever at his studio): Milt Kahl (1909 - 1987) and Frank Thomas (1912 - 2004). Kahl designed the characters from storyboards by Bill Peet (1915 - 2002) who was the only storyman ever at Disney who did all the storyboards for an entire animated feature film by himself, while also writing the script and doing all the character designs! Below: Original Poster for the theatrical release of The Sword in the Stone in 1963.

José Ramón Bernado Neff was born on February 19, 1965 in Villanova I la Geltrú, a small Spanish fishing town in the Catalonia province near Barcelona. Bernado’s comics are full of temperament with plenty of characteristics and really reminiscent of the old 50’s Disney stories, featuring Scamp and other animation characters.

In his youth, Bernado honed his art skills looking at the work of American Comic stars John Buscema (The Avenger, Silver Surfer) and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby). In the 1980’s Bernado started working in the animation field as a storyboard artist and worked on series as Mofli, El Ultimo Koala.
He worked for several animation studio’s, such as Acció, Oniria Pictures and Munich Animation, (creators of the popular animated feature Help! I’m a Fish (2000) with main animator Jesper Møller (from “All dogs go to heaven” and “Ferngully, the last Rainforest”).

Bernado started working on Disney characters in the early ‘90’s through the Comicup studio in Barcelona. Working on Mickey and Goofy stories for Mondadori in Italy and Egmont in Denmark.
For Disney France Bernado would draw the Ducktales stories with L’íl Bad Wolf and Ellsworth (the black bird from Bill Walsh’s Mickey Mouse newspaper strip from 1949). For the Dutch weekly he did stories featuring Dumbo and Basil the Mouse Detective. In 1995 Bernado was offered to come work for American publisher Marvel Comics. Bernado worked with inker Rodney Gates on their Mantra series (issue 23), written by Mike W. Barr (who also wrote for the 1993 Marvel series Break-Thru with penciler George Perez). Bernado would crossover to DC Comics and draw for their series Justice League Task Force (issues 25, 27/30 and issues 33/37). JLTF was a spinoff of Justice League Europe, one of the three Justice League series at that time. Europe ran from 1989 to 1993, while the Taskforce series was published monthly, between June 1993 and August 1996.

A total of 37 issues of the Taskforce series were published. Also working on the series was writer Mark Waid (born March 21, 1962), former editor of fan magazine Amazing Heroes. Waid also served as editor for DC in the late eighties. Waid possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of comics history and trivia and also serves as DC Comics unofficial historian.



Above: Mantra 23 (July 1995) Bernado with writer Mike Barr and inker Rodney Gates, DC Showcase 7 (August 1995). For JLTF 28 (October 1995) Bernado worked with writer Scott Cien. Bernado also did the cover art for this issue.

Bernado also worked on DC’s Superboy from issue 32 to 37 and 39 to 40 (on the ”Meltdown” storyline with writer Ron Marz) and he cooperated on the DC Showcase V1 # 7 with writer Scott Cien in “A Shadow over Eden”. In 1996 he took on Marvels popular character Wolverine. For Wolverine # 98 he worked with Marvel editor/writer and Bucky O’Hare creator Larry Hama on the Fade to Black chapter. Below:  Superboy by Bernado, he also did the covers for these issues in 1996.















In 1997 Bernado did the artwork for Marvels X-Man Annual with writer Christopher Golden. (from
The Punisher: Purgatory and  Wolverine/ Punisher: Revelation) for this, Bernado also created the cover artwork and did the inks himself. The next year,  Bernado expanded upon Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s creation from 1966, The Silver Surfer, in the Silver Surfer/Thor Annual.
For Marvel, Bernado also cooperated with former editor-in-chief Terry Kavanagh for the 1998 two part miniseries Fury/Agent 13, written by Kavanagh, in which Sharon Carter aka Agent 13 brings Nick Fury from SHIELD back from the dead, after having been killed off by the Punisher. (Well, he wasn’t actually dead, he was in trapped in another dimension battling his own experiences from WWII).







Above: X-Man annual 1997 with writer Christopher Golden, for Silver Surfer Annual (1998) Bernado worked with writer Tom deFalco. The Nick Fury miniseries from 1998 with Terry Kavanagh. After 1998, Bernado returned to the European comics scene and started working again on stories for Disney France. For the Dutch Donald Duck weekly he specializes in stories featuring classic Disney characters like Mad Madam Mim, Little Hiawatha  and Dumbo.

By the way, Boom! Studio’s announced theyre putting out a new Chip ‘n’Dale Rescue Rangers series before 2011, done by Leonel Castellani, so okay, there’s another one who can switch styles on demand. Castellani, of course is particularly known for his job on David & Goliath, which he did back in 2004 for Image.