Deborah R. Fowler
Interesting Articles - serious and silly
Posted 2013Updated Jan 10 2021
- Inspirational video
- Paul Debevec at
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 - on advice to students:
"Create something even if you don't know how to do it yet" - Engineering with Origami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwuT3_AG6w
- PUTRINO LAB https://www.putrinolab.net/
- AI used to detect Covid-19 through cellphone-recorded coughs https://news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029
- LOGICINK tatoes that detect some human system functions https://logicink.com/
- https://www.ctrl-labs.com/
- https://augmedics.com
- AKILI INTERACTIVE From a view conference talk akiliinteractive.com
and EndeavorRX -
first FDA approved game for treating ADHD
- Silly Client to Code - seen this many times, not sure who originated it but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjcCeALLvA
- Silly Silly
memes for programmers https://www.testbytes.net/blog/programming-memes/
- Marble machine to 3D print https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4429805
- https://nexusstudios.com/work/back-to-the-start/
- Extreme
closeup of mouse-brain
- XR talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha_Uyd3qe5k&feature=emb_logo
- Octopus - colored smoke pyro reference as well - https://octolab.tv/
- AR Views on the future https://www.fastcompany.com/90315733/augmented-reality-when-we-asked-magic-leap-facebook-google-and-more?fbclid=IwAR1rdtQzBDogAUT5Cahhc3WGAuf5qx53RWGkvBsAwvJPb79VYLj3wrVGaAk
- AR Check out the cash competition graph in this article (ignoring opinions about MLO) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-augmented-reality-pioneer-magic-leap-may-have-fallen-a-cliff-1158441
- Unreal and real time raytracing and Quixel (March 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fC20NWhx4s
- Unreal - making environments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EES9vjs-ox0
- Houdini Baobab flower https://vimeo.com/321053835?fbclid=IwAR2rjwvEcIK2nmdYatm7dPmXZeBeGk6VQyofzK61HtTLvDWFLqFA6FyiJgQ
- Unreal real time physics engine "Order from Chaos" (March 2019) https://youtu.be/iFKzXnIiH50
- Inspiration for procedural buildings - someone working in Unreal4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEg99X7YMlA
- Instagram Inspiration for VSFX160-E4
- TED talk regarding body language https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are
- The
Tetris Effect
- Foodscapes
by Carl Warner
- How we study the brain -
https://vimeo.com/266752469
- milafilm.com
- thevoid.com
- SIGGRAPH 2017 - News You Need to Know
- SIGGRAPH 2017 - Houdini HIVE
- VIEW CONFERENCE 2017
Oct 23-27
Other cool items that have recently come to my attention:
- NASA ICESat-2 new website is live: http://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov
- VR Houdini
and VR: VR Innovators - Shape Space VR
- VR Occulus Story Studio and Houdini
- VR Controlling VR with Your Mind
- VR Mathematicians Create Warped Worlds in VR
- Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue
- VR Neurosurgeon in Saskatoon using Brain VR cbcnews and StarPhoenix
- Pythagoras Cup filled with Mercury
- TED TALK Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
- TED TALK Interdisciplinary
Importance
- Michelle Borkin: Astronomical medicine
- Periodic
Table Update and in song
- Mocap - http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/11/21/make-create-innovate-motion-capture-vicon.cnn
- Doctor
Strange
and
Houdini (Mike Seymour - fxguide)
- Doctor
Strange
and
Victoria Alonso
- fxguide - VIEW 2016 line up
- VIEW 2016
- http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/News/2016/VIEW-Conference-Announces-2016-Awards-Winners.aspx
- VIEW 2015
- Michael Kurinsky - watch the color script for Cloudy With a
Chance of Meatballs come to life in the link below
- https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/inside-the-colorscript-process-day-1-at-view/
- 12 Principles of Animation by Alan Becker and wiki entry
- VR article
about Baobab
- Presentation tips from
Content Loop and from
fastcompany
- from ZEITGUISED a
breakdown http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/making-of-birds/
- Mocap - fxguide - SIGGRAPH 2016 - EPIC win: previs to final in five minutes (Sept 4, 2016)
- fxguide - Kubo and the Two Strings (Sept 6, 2016)
- Google Spotlight YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJadKNYMahhqtdAhDZSy4cg
- Thanks to Hassan for pointing out the art of the title http://www.artofthetitle.com/
- Batman Lego Movie Trailer
- Rendering tips from Psyop http://postperspective.com/production-rendering-tips-2016-beyond/
- Zootopia - https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-fur-reaching-tech-of-zootopia/
- Google Tilt Brush http://www.tiltbrush.com/
- VR - Hololens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Wndguve8U
- VR - Hololens and skype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QiGYtd3qNI&spfreload=5
- MR - Microsoft
Hololens - "a new medium for artistic expression" ...
"blend your digital life with your physical life"
- Holoportation
Microsoft research
- VR and AR - http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2016/03/24/ar-vr-driving-major-innovations-tech/82229078/
- VR - http://blog.siggraph.org/2016/03/vr-where-everyor-old-or-both.html/
- VR - VR in the medical field Duck Duck Punch
- VR - CGW - http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2016/Volume-39-Issue-1-Jan-Feb-2016-/Its-Here-.aspx
- VR -
CGW - http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2016/Volume-39-Issue-1-Jan-Feb-2016-/Heads-Up-.aspx
- VR - ILM and VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlZY8R-vD8&feature=youtu.be
- VR - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-virtual-reality-is-the-most-powerful-artistic-medium-of-our-time
- VR - site dedicated to VR 360 content - Littlstar - www.littlstar.com
- VR - Glen Keane drawing in Virtual Space
- never say never http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/03/17/fermat-last-theorem-solved-sdg-orig.cnn/video/playlists/thats-pretty-cool/
- http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/16/could-you-fall-in-love-with-this-robot.html
- Earth
Sounds
to
Space
- Mocap - MAZ
and
other
vsfx on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- be "OS" dexterous http://www.techworm.net/2015/12/microsoft-wants-you-to-train-using-its-rival-linux.html
- An online whiteboard https://limnu.com/
(shutting
down
in 2017)
- Balloonfest 1986 http://mashable.com/2015/10/19/balloonfest-86/?utm_cid=lf-toc#n1.iZFqEskqP
- NASA - Colorful Liquid in Space
- NASA - Sees
Holiday
Lights from Space
- Houdini - Gimpville Houdini Fluids
- Houdini - CGBros on Youtube
- Houdini artists of interest:
- Igor Zanic website and
on vimeo
- Alejandro Echeverry on
vimeo
- Aleksandar Rodic on vimeo
- Carlos Parmentier website and on vimeo
- also http://cgterminal.com/2016/01/15/houdini-instant-snow-tutorial/
- https://vimeo.com/bwdesign
- Fractals - excellent
video
- Mocap -
SIGGRAPH 14 - Motion
Capture of Quadrapeds (2014 KEY PAPER)
- From 8 years ago - The Third & The Seventh
by Alex Roman (thank Matt for pointing this out) and breakdown
- BiFrost
(2015)
- Robot Swarms
- SIGGRAPH 2014 Dailies Trailer
- SIGGRAPH 14 - PhysX by Nvidia (2014) (see youtube for many SIGGRAPH examples)
- SIGGRAPH
14 - Defending Continuous Collision Detection
against Errors (2014)
- Renderman news: read below
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/rendermanris-and-the-start-of-next-25-years/ (2014)
- TED TALK tips on talking
- looking at Steve Jobs
- TED TALK with Don
Levy
-
A cinematic journey through visual effects
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4
Penguins
- Silly -
Wonderputt
- Interesting
Autodesk/Naiad/Maya
news
(2015) (thanks Tyler and Josh)
- Silly - Muppets
Swedish chef fans watch here
(2013) (thanks Michelle)
- for those questions you've always wondered
about http://askascientist.co.uk/
- new
RubeGoldberg machines
- Gravity in FXGuide (2013)
- presented at SIGGRAPH Asia
- Flexible Muscle - Based
Locomotion (thanks Dennys 2013)
- interesting
website: Former SCAD vsfx student Hosuk Chang.
- interview with Nemo Gould
- Artist Profile
- Archery
time warp
- Mocap
- Star Wars meets motion capture? Check out what
Lucasfilm is up to here
2013 (thanks Steve M.)
- Mocap
- Image metrics latest facial capture result - Emily
(thanks Steve M.)
- Gears
in Nature!
- SIGGRAPH
2013 - included Katana - Pixar's
Fast
Lighting
Preview with NVIDIA Technology
- TreeSketch
2012
- interesting
vimeo
staff
pick title Fear of Flying (watch the making of - it is
not stop motion)
- Evolution
of Technology commercial and take a look at Big Lazy Robot -
thanks Kyle
- cool cotton - thanks Taylor T!
- Carbon
Scatter 2 an interesting procedural plug-in released Dec
2012 - thanks Parrish
- check out (2011) this cool facial animation - thanks Kate!
- After Effects plugin called Element 3D and Metropolitan add on here thanks Erik!
- Programming - video
interview with Bjarne Stroustrup - Inventor of C++ by
IEEE Computer magazine and here.
Also discussion of when to
use what language.
- Meet Mahoro - A Two-Armed Lab Robot
- Mocap - Motion Capture in the Industry - check out this absolutely excellent article in CGWorld written by Barbara Robertson 2012.
- Useful
Robot
- Human
Dominoes
- Silly -
Old Spice
Grover
- Silly - Draw a stickman
- Houdini - Houdini and Massive crowds(2011 J.Edgar's) (thank you Drew!)
- Silly - For fun type into google
- "do a barrel roll"
- http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/
- "the answer to life the
universe and everything"
- Programming - Dennis Ritchie and C.
- Interested in particles - here's something for you - partio.
- Houdini
- Rythmn and Hues use Houdini
for
crowd
scenes
in
Moneyball
(2011)
- Check out wemomedia (2013)
- More cornstarch - this time slowed down
- BBC
- Test your powers of observation here