There are a few short unforgetable (such as Migrations which I presented in a previous entry) . "Un temps pour elle", by Erwin Charrier is one of them. Erwin graduated from Supinfocom two years before me , so I had the chance to meet him and see how he created this wonderfull short At that time I considered this movie photorealistic and I think it's still a really nice piece lighting wise. Remember that Pixar at that time had released Toy story recently and it wasn't as credible on a rendering level.
I recall the meticulous work Erwin did on the ligthing, simulating global illumination and bounce lighting with omni and spots using shadow maps. This was really striking to see simple tools pushed so far in order to achieve such a great look
I need to mention that Erwin did this movie within one year (from the first synopsis to the final product) and he was alone

For the little story, I kissed my wife for the first time on a full solar eclipse day ( back in 1999), so seeing the short today brings back that memory as well

Director : Erwin Charrier
Production : Supinfocom

one year ago I posted my really first entry on this blog, and then I really started to publish regularly during fall. The report for that one year is mostly positive : over 200 000 visitors for a little more than 50 posts, 125+ feed readers, but less than 100 comments on the whole blog, which compared to the french version of the blog is a really low ratio ( on the french version over 70 000 visitors left about 250 comments).

I'm wondering what could cause the lack of participation and interaction. I can't think my bad english skills could be the only reason. And getting some interaction with my readers is really something important to keep up the motivation and feed this blog. Big thanks to you that are reading me regularly !

So, as I want to better satisfy my few readers, I wish I could gather your views about the content, tutorials and other items you would like to see here. Let me know what are your thoughts and what post you liked the most during the past weeks.

Here is what's on my list for the time being:

• Links to artists (regular post)
• Short movies (regular post)
• Life Drawing (Monthly)
• Series of articles on the pipeline, work in business etc. .. (monthly )
• My work in progress (posting depends on my progress:))
• A review on Brazil 2
• Tutorials bearing on the light and compositing (I have some ideas , but if you have specific requests let me know)
• I intend to offer some "light rigs" for 3dsmax, mental ray and brazil.
• I would also post articles on the basis of interesting event happening at Dreamworks .

I have two or three other ideas, but I would be happy to collect your opinion as well.

Once again it is time... Third entry about my different experiences of production. This time we'll discuss the different types of projects available computer graphics artists. I urges you to participate and share so I can fill the gaps I left because I can't pretend to have enough knowledge in each sector. So don't be afraid to leave comments about your experiences and I will synthesize them and edit the post whenever you'll provide me some extra information.

It's been 7 years since I work in the 3d computer graphic field. From commercials, to feature film via music videos and video game cinematics. Throughout this journey I was able to observe the structure of each of these companies, their pipeline , what was working, or not. I will therefore try to make a synthesis through several posts. This is the second post about that topic. I encourage you to write comments about your own experiences in order to enrich the debate.