another good source of lighting study

itchy animation

Sg Cinema

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Recently went to Sigapore. Watched an Animated movie called "Dragon Hunters". but so sad that Msia didnt hav that in the Cinema. very fantastic. i love their designs! award winning in europe. shall watch. but the economic is so bad now. the cinema only has 2 families watching including my family...

Official site:http://www.dragonhunters-themovie.com/

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and Sg also created their own budget 3D animated movie called "Sing to the Dawn". spent 4 years and US$5 million. but i missed it...

Holography- showing the maya scene infront of your eyes!

if u r free, check out this. in Chinese is called 全像摄影/ 全息摄影

Holography needs to be seen under laser, and u will see the 3d thing infront of you, just like those star trek movie effect showing the space ship, or thing we see in Maya, but no need texture lighting rendering bla bla bla, it is jus taking the real scene infront of your eyes! (click image for the original site)

Holography uses no camera. Instead, two beams of light from a single laser shine on a piece of film. One of the beams reflects from the object.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Holography course

SHIOK Technology!!!

Studio Lighting Tutorial- Learn how to lit a character as well

This is where i learn to lit a character. cos i think the way of lighting up a character is very close to studio lighting. its about make them look gorgeous.

basic always comes first.

http://lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/benji1.html

want to be a good lighter? learn some science first

some links that make u understand wat a lighter should understand


Interior Lighting In Mental Ray, Tutorial 1: GI+ FG
http://www.treddi.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8436

Lighting and Shaders
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=21&t=650761

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some other nice link

Art Tutorials, Theories, and Book Recommendations
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=166&t=226083

Adjusting LCD- important for digital artist

recently i was suffering from color problem of my LCD... the white looks like yellow in photoshop... big problem for painting. so i hav to find ways to adjust it

there r several LCD adjust software. but for ppl who cant afford to buy it, can try this website:

Tha Lagom LCD Monitor Test Page
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/


and below is a "super detail" of how ur LCD is working...and more solutions and topics offered. but... i really couldnt digest it ^^" but still, it is a good site that i feel i should promote~

Making fine prints in your digital darkroom Monitor calibration and gamma by Norman Koren
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html


for friends who r chinese backgrounds, the site below is shorter and easier to understand~
http://www.xfbbs.com/ArticleShow/213/Article_Show_59272.html


after done the series of checking, now i only get the rough idea of what "gamma" is and the importance of it

some artist

today read some pages from D'artist-- matte painting.

the author was the Senior Matte Painter on "Lord of the Rings"-- Dylan Cole

his work was inspired by several artist n some group, like

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

best known for his huge, panoramic landscapes of the unsettled west.

click image to view Albert Bierstadt Gallery

Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900)

was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works". (quote frm wikipedia)

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Hudson River School

was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group of landscape painters, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. "School", in this sense, refers to a group of people whose outlook, inspiration, output, or style demonstrates a common thread, rather than a learning institution. (quote frm wikipedia)

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some other artist

Caravaggio

dramatic and tenebrism lighting