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Saturday 27 April 2013

Leadership divided in 2 types of strategies

Quite interesting for those who have some leading roles in a company where they work. This linkedin.com article is about 2 general types of approaches in communication with people in their team presented at Chris Argyris seminar.
The first one is pretty much based on mis-use of power and manipulation by censoring information. Some of us could find themselfs practising this model sometimes and the research actually states that a lot of managers work in this way.
The second model shows more human tolerant and open communication learn-from-others approach and seems as an inspiration for improvement. This one by my opinion takes a bit more work, but is worth it if you want to reduce serious mistakes, have good relationships in long-term and less fluctuation of human resources.

Read more here:
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130426144318-36052017-are-you-a-unilateral-control-freak

Saturday 13 April 2013

Maya 2014 What`s New


Probably best source of What is New in upcoming Maya 2014, the Autodesk online help:
LINK

Sunday 7 April 2013

Lagoa - cloud based 3d application

Imagine you collaborate on creating 3d design content in the same way you work on shared Google documents. This is now possible with new ground breaking cloud-based application Lagoa. The only thing you need is your laptop and web browser. All the rendering power is accomplished on cloud, that is, on servers that you are connecting to. More in this article and video below:

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Josh Carrey from REEL FX to teach rigging at Anomalia

Based on announcement from Anomalia, czech animation summer school, rigging guru from Texas, Josh Carrey will be leading their rigging course this year! Great opportunity if you will be around and want to learn from a senior specialist in this field:


ANOMALIA 2013 Advanced Cartoon Rigging with Josh Carey [REEL FX] from ANOMALIA on Vimeo.

Ftrack 1.5 announced

Ftrack - the cloud based pipeline system for shots production and asset management has announced upcoming release 1.5. Lots of cool new features!
http://blog.ftrack.com/