tito.la is John Nguyen – {3d animator} {photographer} {traveler} {foodie}
Thanks to Grace via Diffan for the fun Friday cat video. Happy Friday!
After seeing the Chemical Brothers finally for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, I remembered how cool this music video was. Was made back in 2002 or 2003 roughly (Doesn’t seem that long ago). Also forgot it was direct by, of course, Michel Gondry. Go figure. Miss videos like these. Love [...]
Pretty rad plug-in for Maya. fStretch allows you to perform naturalistic stretching, folding, and pinching behaviors on polygons for Maya 2009, 2010, and 2011. There is a evaluation/demo version you can download and play with. Check out the Youtube videos below and check out the fStretch website at CGAddict.com
Really clever use for the iPad and iPhones for production shoots! Love the MacBeth chart built in for white balancing. Genious app Chris. Apparently Chris works for The Mill in LA. Click here for more info and click here for the iTunes store link Source: Motionographer
This one goes out to all the peeps working in TV and movie production. A clever and obviously bitter guy in the post production industry scripted and made these on XtraNormal for our viewing pleasure. Wonder how close to reality these clips are. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was all true. Enjoy! “We need a [...]
Thanks to my buddy Mute who tipped me about Daft Punk scoring the soundtrack to the new Tron Legacy movie coming out this winter. Did some searching and found a few leaked tracks that are supposedly legit. I’ve embedded them here for your hearing pleasssuurreee…. Enjoy.
Some beautiful macro shots of human eyeballs by Suren Manvelyan. Who knew your iris had living landscapes? Thanks to B1 for sharing the link
For all my 4×5 photo nerds out there, you can use your Nikon bodies as a 4×5 digital back with this Sinar accessory for Nikon and Canon. Source: Sinar
Apparently the world’s largest photo ever taken. Click here to check it out The photo shot over four days has 70-gigapixels. If the finished picture is ever printed, it would make a a poster 156 meters (511 feet) long and 31 meters (101 feet) tall. The amount of paper it would take would cover two [...]
LOL moment for today…
High tech portrait finger painting done on a iPad by David Kassan. Source: WorldsBestEver
Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook Watching this makes me wanna animate! I might have to design a tito.la graffiti logo and animate the shit outta it. Deets from the site: Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion [...]
This is so genious. Go ahead make your own. I dare you. via BarbarianGroup blog
I ROFL’d when i saw this the other day on FB. For all you old school arcade gamers.
Hey y’alls. Just got back from a killer Hawaii trip with some buds of mine for Rebecca Blankenship’s wedding. Inspired me to change up the site too. Much simpler and cleaner then before. Enjoy! I’ll be finally posting a CRAP ton of photos from the past couple years as well.
Wow..this is nuts. LAtimes reports that they successfully tested a laser-based missile defense system mounted on a Boeing 747. Here’s some juicy snippits from the article. A flying Boeing 747 jumbo jet equipped with a massive laser gun shot down a Scud-like missile over the Pacific late Thursday night, marking what analysts said was a [...]
The astronauts on the ISS just uploaded some killer pics to twitpic from space. Really beautiful stuff. I’m jealous. via Gizmodo and Mashable
Pretty fun, clever gag. Thanks Walker for finding this.
Very cool origami animation for Asics. This piece definitely makes me want to get a pair! Agency: Nordpol+ Hamburg CD: Lars Rühmann Director: Tim Schierwater (Nordpol+ Hamburg) Art Director: Sean Kirby (Nordpol+ Hamburg) Producer: Florian Liertz (elemente-e Production) Animation: André Junker, Chrisoffer Wolters (Nform) Stopmotion: Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy (Stoptrick) CD: Lars Rühmann Text: Sebastian [...]
Really fun flash side scroller game my buddy Sal sent me today. I scored 3367 on my second run. Will post high scores on twitter
This will forever go down as the RADDEST character animation ever. This kid killed it. Wait till you see his giraffe animation. SOO SICK.
Forget buying a house in this day and age, when you can get the UNICAT and go all-out MadMax!
Its the Melbourne Shuffle!
Dont say I didn’t warn you.
TITO is a 3d animator/supervisor specializing in motion graphics/fx and has been working professionally since 1998.
