Octopus is alive !!!

A CGS feature article on how Rhythm & Hues animated the octopus in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

A gloomy wave and the lighthouse…

I have been always interested in wave. This time I thought of painting a wave with a dramatic feel to it. There is a silhouette of a hill in the background. I wanted to bring a feeling of stormy sea with a lighthouse beaming the lights. I wanted to put more lighting to the painting with more dramatic contrast. The hills in the background are actually burning (Forest fire). A sense of tense is created in this painting. I used photoshop for this digital painting…

Terminator Salvation

A behind the scenes look at how the Terminators were taken from lifeless two dimensional art to 3D/Real killing machines at Legacy Effects.

How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’

In ‘Up,’ the studio had to figure out how to animate the more than 10,000 interdependent balloons that hoist the main character’s house aloft. Click the picture above to find out…

Aliens v Predator :: Tutorial


3DCluster creates the scene of high-living monsters, kicking back in their off-duty hours. Click the image above for the link to the tutorial at cgsociety…