Not merely to proof that I’m still alive, but also to share this wonderful site with you all, I give you this link:

http://www.postdreamer.com

A wonderful website with all kinds of lovely post production videos. Especially the various “making-of” movies are worth watching. I just lost an hour. Well, lost….

Enjoy.

Yesterday I found this pretty interesting interview with Jos Stam.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-01/ff_animation?currentPage=1
A good read.

Over the years I’ve looked into many different open source applications and libraries. And as some of my friends my recall I have been heard swearing at some of them on multiple occasions because they simply do not do what it says on the box or are in a horribly unusable state which is only apparent after spending too much time on them. But there are some great open source initiatives that really stick out. Blender is one of them. Read the rest of this entry »

As some of you may know I’m currently working on converting physical simulations to run on a GPU using CUDA. A very interesting task which leads me to read interestings papers and get into research areas that I would have normally never even really looked at. One thing that I noticed though, when it come to GPGPU, is that almost everything you read on the subject sounds like some kind of infomercial. “Your GPU slices and dices, sends christmascards to your friends and keeps your feet warm at night”. The GPU is often seen as some sort of magic bullet. Does your algorithm lack in performance, throw it onto the GPU and it will run 100 times faster… Once you start programming with it however, you notice that in practice it is not that easy. I found three very interesting sites/blogs that have a slightly more down to earth view on GPGPU and even though I do not agree with all they say, it’s quite a good read:
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For the lazy researcher in the field of physics-based animation this is an interesting site/blog with lots of interesting and up-to-date links to papers, theses and other material.

http://animationphysics.wordpress.com/