Pixar Studio Stories - Toy Story 2 vanishes

Here's a short film/animation from Pixar about the time someone ran RM* on the Toy Story 2 main server and started deleting most of the movie.



Don't run RM* on a linux machine

Jay Wilson - Diablo 3 Director

Interesting interview on Gamasutra's website with Blizzard's forthcoming Diablo 3, director Jay Wilson. Who discusses candidly about crunch time, his definition of crunch, and meeting the high level of quality that Blizzard games are known for.

Find the full article here:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/170258/candid_words_from_diablo_iiis_.php

Side note - can't wait for Diablo 3 !!!




And if you want to read about the making of Diablo 2 read this insightful and detailed article!

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_blizzards_diablo_ii.php

Disassembled

Funny short animation by Junaid Chundrigar, just in time for the avengers season!

Mark Andrews

With Pixar's "Brave" coming out soon, I thought I'd post this lecture from "Brave"'s director Mark Andrews. Both parts are great, but in part 2 he discusses the importance of clear story decisions and discovering "what the story is and how it needs to be told visually".





Great advice for the storytellers in all of us. Oh and Mark gives you permission to "mess up" :)

Thanks to The Rabbit Room for positing this a while back:
http://www.rabbitroom.com/2012/03/good-advice-froom-pixars-mark-andrews/

Gaston - Disney's most unconventional villain

Den of Geek writer Simon Brew, has posted a lengthy and great article about Disney's most unconventional villian, "Gaston" from "Beauty and The Beast".

Read the article here, its awesome!

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1352715/gaston_disneys_most_unconventional_villain.html

Diablo Animated Short

Game Informer dot com have posted an animated short for the upcoming Diablo 3 game. Directed by Peter Chung, who also directed the animated Aeon Flux animated series. Check it out here!

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/08/diablo-animated-short-sets-the-stage-for-diablo-iii.aspx

I'm looking forward to playing this! Blizzard cinematics were one of the reasons I wanted to do CG.

Mafuta

A Calarts First Year film from Kyler Spears



Worth sharing cause it's awesome!