VFX studio Double Negative (Dneg) is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible aesthetically and technologically. Having produced Academy Award winning visual effects for films like Inception, Dneg’s reputation within the VFX community is stellar. However, with its newest film, Interstellar, the studio’s weighty contribution to the art and science of film making can now be said to extend into the …

In a recent video, educational filmmaker Brady Haran interviewed Pixar’s lead researcher Tony DeRose who provides a quick introduction to the math behind creating 2D and 3D models within many software apps. The video is a good resource for anyone looking for a basic introduction to the mathematical calculations behind how subdivision surfaces are derived. These calculations are often unknown to …

The PSD format lies at the core of modern design. It was born in the 1980’s and has — for most of that time — been the industry standard for imagery. In fact, it’s a format so flexible and ubiquitous that it often even serves as an interchange format for other non-photoshop apps, such as Premiere and Illustrator. Looking back, …

Your choice of WordPress Theme determines many important aspects of your site. Choosing the right theme can be tricky for newcomers to WordPress, since most people will be attracted by eye-candy alone. A good theme is one that not only looks good, but is also lean and lightweight, easy to customize, flexible, actively developed and well supported. Here at SitePoint, …

A CSS preprocessor helps you write maintainable, future-proof code and it will seriously reduce the amount of CSS you have to write. Where these tools shine best are in large-scale user interfaces that require huge stylesheets and many style rules. via 6 Current Options for CSS Preprocessors.

Sublime Text Edior is well known name amonsgt developers, if you are a developer you cant underestimate the power of this tool. Sublime Text is a cross-platform text and source code editor, with a Python application programming interface (API). Sublime Text is proprietary software. Its functionality is extendable with plugins. Most of the extending packages have free-software licenses and are …

Whether you are creating a character rig for yourself or the animators within your pipeline, you need to take into account some of the important things that go into creating a great character rig. Let’s go over five tips that can help you create the best rig possible via 5 Tips for Character Rigging.