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CGTantra 4th Anniversary Blast

The day was finally here that completed 4 years of CGTantra's existence. 4 years that gave us so much to learn, so many opportunities to grow and so many friends. 20th December, the day so close to our hearts at Aklesh Dinesh Modi auditorium at the Mumbai University, Kalina, Mumbai started with the CGTantra logo animation. The event consisted of Informative sessions, Honours and loads of entertainment.

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CGTANTRA CELEBREATES ITS 4TH ANNIVERSARY

The day was finally here that completed 4 years of CGTantra's existence. 4 years that gave us so much to learn, so many opportunities to grow and so many friends. 20th December, the day so close to our hearts at Aklesh Dinesh Modi auditorium at the Mumbai University, Kalina, Mumbai.

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CGTantra 2008: Memories & Showcase

Autodesk Maya Software – Performance Comparison

Autodesk Maya Software – Performance Comparison

Benchmark Hardware Configuration

• Dual Intel® Xeon® X5355 (2.66GHz, 8 core) proccessor
  4 GB RAM
  Nvidia® Quadro® FX4500 graphics card
  Windows® XP 64 SP1 operating system
  Maya Unlimited 32-bit

Each graph has been constructed to show the relative performance compared to that of Autodes ® Maya® 7.0.1 software.
Higher bars in a graph reflect higher performance. For example, a bar whose height is 2 shows performance twice as fast as in Maya 7.0.1. Some of the underlying tests measure frame rate (frames per second); those results have been divided by the frame rate obtained in Maya 7.0.1. Some of the underlying tests measure the overall time taken to complete a task (elapsed seconds);those results have been divided into the time taken by Maya 7.0.1.

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CGTantra @ SIGGRAPH Asia, Singapore

Interview with Todd Mehser from Imageworks

We caught up with Todd Mesher, Senior Visual Effects artist from Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) who spoke to us talking about Autodesk flame and how it helped breathe life into effects for recent smash hits Hancock and I am Legend.

Ram Mohan - The master himself

A master class with the master himself, an event held at Whistling woods on the 5th Dec with a crowd of approximately 300 saw Ram Mohan give out his years of expertise all thanks to TASI. Ram Mohan started off with character establishment with respect to the duration of the film. If it is a very short film there is very little time to establish the character hence the characteristics should be very precise and give out details in a short time. Based on Attitude and body language he sketched out 3 types of character poses which help define a particular attitude. A character with the chest out establishing confidence, strong will etc, then a character with his belly out hence showing laziness and lethargic characteristics. The next was a character with his nose out which shows him to be a Nose poker and a cunning character. Since these are stereotypes he also showed how any of these characters could be used with each other like a character that might have his belly out still can be a confident character. He drew an example, a character inspired by Charlie Chaplin, a small guy, yet displaying confidence and ready to take on the world. A character of Alfred Hitchcock drawn was a round character but shows ample confidence and pride. When voice overs are done for animation movies the people are also shot acting for what they are saying. Robin Williams and Eddy Murphy are good examples of the same who are very good actors and provide for a good reference for the animators.