Anifest India 2010 : 3 Day Treat For all Animation Revelers!

Anifest 2010, though at Chembur received an audience one can only envy! The vast hollow of an auditorium, auditorium's balcony was filled with students. The numbers rising to 800+, being bad at math I assure there would be more than that number. All braving the journey came to a very well organized, logistically sound Art and Culture Centre, Chembur Mumbai. Read More...

An Interview with Bastien Dubois on "Madagascar Carnet De Voyage"

The French connection made ☺ he spoke of his award winning movie Madagascar aptly named Carnet De Voyage. Bastien Dubois after winning at Award Canal+ Annecy, Golden Peg bar Animania, Prix Du Publicite L'office National du film du Canada and Sundance Film Festival, very modestly says; "I can't believe so many people want to come and talk to me at Anifest". Read More...

CGTantra Exclusive - An Interview with the Makers of Loom

1. Congratulations on winning "Best In Show Award" at Siggraph 2010. Please tell us how did you come up with the concept of the movie, what was the inspiration? What was the thought process?

Thanks! When we started tossing around ideas at the beginning, we thought about things that we want to tell, but also emotions we want to express and visual styles we like. Read More...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series on Warner Brothers

WB showcases the most awaited animation intergalactic space saga- Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. On July 3, 2010 WB opened up the doors to galaxy of mysterious adventures. The innumerable fans of Star Wars will now have the privilege to unfold the action packed, thrilling epilogues of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Read More...

An Interview with Ken Priebe Author of The Advance art of Stop-Motion Animation

CGTantra recently got the opportunity to publish the news about Ken Priebe releasing his latest book on Advanced Art of Stop Motion Animation. We were intrigued and after the success of his previous book on Stop-Motion Animation we bring to all the budding students of Stop-Motion Animation an excerpt of the New released book's contents.

In an exclusive interview with Ken Priebe himself we explore the span of Stop Motion Animation. Read More...

An Interview with Ace Sculptor & Modeler - Rafael Grassetti

Rafael Grassitti's exclusive interview where he speaks about his journey & his experience of working for around seventy projects. Read More...

StarCraft Fan Art Modeling/Sculpting Challenge

Here we go with another great Contest. This time we are with the Star Craft Fan Art Concept

The StarCraft franchise is a series of real-time strategy computer games developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is similar to Blizzard's previous hit franchise, Warcraft, except that it has a space opera setting rather than a high fantasy setting. StarCraft was the best selling video game of 1998, and was so successful that Blizzard estimated in 2004 that 9.5 million copies had been sold since its release(4.5 million copies in South Korea) making it the third best-selling computer game in history.

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REVISITING DISTRICT 9

CGTantra brings to you another challenge:

THE VFX WAR

If the above story is to be believed, how are YOU going to perceive it? We don’t have to tell you to imagine, we believe you have already begun the imagination. So start vfxing, we provide you with a footage, a footage of a peaceful noisy polluted Mumbai landscape. You have to return with the same footage but this time Mumbai has been attacked by UFOs. A mother ship with its entourage of more ships is hovering dangerously over the metropolis. We leave it to you what effect this attack has on the landscape.

The Attacks begin on 1st August 2010 and the ravaged footage will have to be submitted on 15th September 2010. You have 45 days. The Contest allows an individual member or a team of 3 people to participate. It is open to students and professionals. The proceedings of the Battle have to be reported at base camp, of course on the CGTantra forum.

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