Patrick's VFX Blog

http://www.cgdump.com/ I came across a website that has nice tutorials. Looks like its set to expand and flourish. I'll definitely check back again to see if I can find interesting tutorials here. After navigating the site for a bit, I realise that many of the videos are hosted somewhere else. It really feels like a "dump" (a clean and pleasant one), that people pool tutorials that they find and put it in one place. There's also quite a bit of V-ray tutorials there. More than average tutorial sites. Check it out and let me know what you think. :)

My friend Hock Wong and two of his friends/colleagues Rob Dressel and Brian Pohl, conducted a workshop on the pre-visualisation they did on films like StarWars prequels, Transformers movies and How to Train Your Dragon. This took place at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, School of Infocomm. Here's the link from the Polytechnic website:  http://www.np.edu.sg/home/news/archives/2011/jan_mar/Pages/20110113_1_a3da.aspx I did not manage to attend due to tight deadlines at work, but I wish I had. Animation and CG students are having it good nowadays because of the widespread use of internet for digging up resources and to research. The advancement of technology is also fueling better quality work because artists can just take out a digital SLR camera (they can also shoot videos these days by the way), and just go out there to take reference picture and footage, and motion references. (I own a Canon 500D by the way. My first and only DSLR). Schools and their syllabus are better designed (CG co