Rock Band 2 Cinematic by Passion Pictures/Pete Candeland

The new Rock Band 2 Cinematic has just been released. You can view a high-res version here.

CGSociety wrote an article about the animation and how it was produced. You can also find more details about the production company that produced it here.

During production they used this awesome new facial software called Image Matrix. I would love to get my hands on this software for my own production company. You can view some of there demos here. Enjoy, Codad

Pixar News

Great article at THR.com about John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer at Disney and Pixar).

Upcoming Pixar movies

• Up Trailer and Info
• Bolt Trailer
  

Animated Shorts

• "For the Birds" is my favorite
• "Geri's Game"
  

Autodesk You MONSTER You

Holy bat dung!!!! Autodesk is taking over the freaking world. AHHHHHH

Autodesk Signs Agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage

Ok, so I have been using Autodesk 3D Studio Max for over 13 years now and have produced some cool animation in my time but man Autodesk slow down brother. I know you want to be the most powerful CAD software company in the world but I feel your turning into a monster. Don't get me wrong Autodesk I love your software but first off you need to fix the programs you already own. There are more bugs in 3d studio max then in my bed. It drives me crazy. I don't even want to think about all the bugs in the other programs. Who is left? Cinema4D, Lightwave, Blender? You better be careful Autodesk. Artist are very liberal and they don't like monsters. All monsters want to do is eat little children in the middle of the night and that scares them. Codad

Welcome all that enter

Welcome to Animation Needle. My name is Coleman Smith and I will be posting to the world gibberish about animation in the northwest. Its lonely up here in the northwest with all the rain and stuff but it opens up the door to blogging. I am new to this deep dark world of blogging. To tell you the truth blogger started along time ago way back in my college days. This was the year 1995. I remember seeing blogger and saying to myself "I wonder if I will ever use blogger, Naaaa". But anyhoo enough about blogger and more about animation needle. My dream for Animation Needle is to give the outside world a connection to animation in the Seattle and northwestern area. I hope that I can inform and educate all that enter. If you have any news relating to animation submit a post. Thanks for visiting. Codad