The Pigeon: Impossible Podcast
By Lucas Martell
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Podcast Description
A behind the scenes look at the making of the CG animated short film "Pigeon: Impossible"
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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1 |
#023 - Sound Design | An interview with sound designer David Bewley | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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#022 - Music | An interview with composer Christopher Reyman | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video#021 - Loose Ends | Tips and tricks that didn’t fit into the other podcasts | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video#020 - Animation Techniques | Pose to pose vs layered animation | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video#019 - Rendering | Some tricks for optimizing your renders and dealing with expansive environment shots | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video#018 - Single Pass Lighting | How to light a shot in a single render pass and how that compares to a multipass approach. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video#017 - Pigeon Rig | Some of the tricks we used to rig the pigeon. | 6/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video#016 - Animating The Pigeon | How to create a consistent and unique personality for each character. | 6/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video#015 - Anticipation | How to motivate a characters actions with thought and emotion, as well as physical anticipation. | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video#014 - Why It Took 5 Years | Some big mistakes I made and how to avoid them. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video#013 - Smear Campaign | Realtime motion blur and cartoon cheats in 3D. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video#012 - Follow Through | So the movie is finally finished. | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video#011 - Cloth Cheats | To simulate, or not to simulate. That is the question. | 8/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video#010 - IK Blending | Most of the time I prefer to work in FK but there are some times where you just have to have IK. | 7/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Video#009 - FK Arm Setup | There is a principle in rigging called abstracted controls. | 7/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Video#008 - Synoptic Views | Rigging is tough because you not only have to know the technical stuff, you also have to be able to think like an animator. | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | Video#007 - RGB Passes | Just when you thought 60 passes was enough. | 7/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | Video#006 - Camera Projections | Working on PI for so long has taught me a couple of really valuable lessons. | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | Video#005 - Lighting the Eyes | Who can tell me whats wrong with the eyes in this picture? | 6/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Video#004 - Lighting Hacks | I was going to call this episode lighting rigs. | 6/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | Video#003 - Multipass Lighting | Now its time to do a little something for all you lighting nerds out there. | 6/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | Video#002 - Writing is Rewriting | People always say that writing is rewriting. | 5/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | Video#001 - The Production Triangle | Some things take a little longer than you expect. | 5/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 23 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Absolutely fantastic
Well, this most definitely achieves a gold star in my books. A must watch, and I can't wait for more episodes!
Informative and entertaining, but mostly fascinating!
Entertaining, enlightening and fascinating for all animation and film making lovers. High production values and well planned out visual metaphors keep this animation podcast one to watch for all like minded filmmakers.
Great resource!
I began watching these back when there was a post on Blender Artists forums about this... This is a great resource for anyone interested in animation or film!
