Venturing into the world of BLENDER

What do you folks think about BLENDER? I have been taking a look into it
as an alternative for small projects and I have to say, despite
being open source it can be a serious competitor to more high end
industry standard software. For this reason, we at Puppeteer Lounge have been thinking of
contributing to the Blender Nation by creating Training Workshops
specifically geared towards Blender. For more about Blender goodness, do
consult with Jimmy Gunawan. He has been exploring BLENDER for a while now and he has a great blog. He is a potential candidate for BLENDER training! I hope he lands as an animator for the BLENDER open movie: GOOSEBERRY! Speaking of GOOSEBERRY I would like to encourage every one to support Blender Nation’s Open Feature Movie, GOOSEBERRY! For more about the movie, click here.


Check out this teaser shot from GOOSEBERRY! Looks stunning πŸ™‚


Project Gooseberry Teaser Caterpillar Shot (Full) from Pataz Studio on Vimeo.

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Art Directing – Tom Cardone & Sculpting – Vicki Saulls

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Rigging – Sabine Heller

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Lighting – Jeeyun Sung Chisholm

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Directing – Carlos Saldanha

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Animation – Melvin Tan

RIO 2 Behind the Scenes Stereoscopics – Daniel Abramovich

Pitching Dolpo School to Dolpo Sir

During the opening to Puppeteer Lounge‘s new studio space I presented “Dolpo School” to the Sir of Himalayas, Mr. Binod Shahi, one of my greatest friend!

“Dolpo School” is an animated short currently in production at
Puppeteer Lounge. The short is dedicated to the children of upper Dolpo
(one of the remotest corner of Nepal) and Mr. Binod Shahi who is on an
epic mission to provide proper education to the children of Dolpo!

Click the links below to learn more about Binod Shahi and his organization:
http://dolposir.blogspot.com/
http://snowyak.org/