Fabric Engine first deformer tutorial

Here is nice demo of making a simple deformer in Maya using Fabric Engine


Splice Deforms: 01 - Wave Deformer from Fabric Engine on Vimeo.

AirMech tutorials

For all who want to explore this great real time strategy game AirMech, here is great source of help videos by EagleShadow. They explain basic gameplay, buildings on the map, role of each unit, airmech types and different strategies. Plenty videos to choose from:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EagleAirmech1?feature=watch

ILM London facility official

ILM headquarters have officially confirmed with giving some details expansing of their bussiness to London:

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/38377

Here is updated page with job opportunities now open for applications for London:

https://www.lucasfilm.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=5528&CurrentPage=4

Pipeline Fundamentals book

There is this book about pipeline, which still waits for its release in UK, so I ordered it from amazon.com from US - Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games.
Quite interesting, I had a Look Inside and it actually allowed me to go quite far to the Version Control section.
So for anyone interested in this subject I would recommend have a look at this book. You can even check couple of parts for free aparently, before you buy your copy. From my experience there are still a lot of people who don`t understand how pipeline should be built. I have to add that this is about diplomacy and communication and being able to sell (explain) your ideas to CG supervisors and the rest of the pipeline team.

book on amazon.co.uk Kindle Version:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Production-Pipeline-Fundamentals-Film-Games-ebook/dp/B00I9AUQQQ/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

book on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Production-Pipeline-Fundamentals-Film-Games/dp/0415812291/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391997312&sr=1-1&keywords=production+pipeline+fundamentals+for+film+and+games

Sony Pictures Imageworks moving part of their staff to Vancouver

Not a good news from L.A. based Sony Pictures Imageworks. A company behind visual effects for such blockbusters as The Amazing Spiderman is moving part of their staff to their Vancouver offices.
More in the Variety article

Whiskytree Showreel January 2014 on Vimeo

Quite impressive, great full CG environments from Elysium by Whiskytree. Plus other stuff from various projects.


Whiskytree Showreel January 2014 from WHISKYTREE on Vimeo.

Goleam? GOlean!

Spotted this pack from distance and it looked familiar. Being recently testing crowd software Goleam, I though we had a pack in our company from some old evaluation... But  seeing the whole thing revealed something quite different...