10 Till 6: Profiles

Digitally Restored Peter Pan on Blu-ray Soars to New Heights

sartomeister — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:01:44 -0800

A digitally restored and remastered Peter Pan is a must for any animation collector and fan of great family entertainment.

Profile: Cackleberries Animator Gemma Reeks-Coad

sartomeister — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:38:09 -0800

A Cintiq-driven university experience helps an animator find footing in a cartoon education company.

The Search for a da Vinci Masterpiece

sartomeister — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:52:36 -0700

In the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, a feverish search occurs seemingly in slow motion. In order to make progress in the search, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has been inventing a brand-new field of work called “art forensics.” Armed with innovative new portable sensing devices, they are searching for a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci called “The Battle of Anghiari.”

Visual Computing: Redefining the Interactive Experience

sartomeister — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:57:55 -0800

Imagine exploring Paris through a digital window in your living room, using a camera to capture a 3D blueprint of your house to plan your next remodel, or trying on clothing in a virtual dressing room that shows how fabrics flow with your every move. These are a few potential applications of visual computing, a fast-growing field of technology that combines photorealism, HD video and audio, interactivity and computational modeling to enable real-time, lifelike immersive experiences.

The Crossroads of Art and Technology: Creating The Creators Project

sartomeister — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:10:00 -0800

The Creators Project, founded in part by Vice Media, was started to showcase innovative artists and enable them to realize new artwork. When The Creators Project launched in 2010, Vice used a variety of media -- including television, print, online and mobile outlets -- to document the work of more than 100 creators to date, hailing mostly from seven countries (Brazil, China, France, Germany, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States).

Green Means GO! The Technology Behind the World Solar Challenge

sartomeister — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:23:00 -0800

In late October 2011, for the eleventh race since 1987, a group of solar-powered cars designed by groups from around the world attempted to cross the continent, from Darwin to Adelaide, on solar power alone. Some cars made it; some had to resort to being towed on trailers part of the way by gasoline-powered vehicles. Members of one 70-person-strong team from Cambridge University designed, built and drove a car in the race.

LHOOQ Magazine Profiles Canadian’s Fallows, Robinson and Taylor

sartomeister — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:16:40 -0800

Noted animation producer / director / technologist / multimedia guru / man of international mystery Christopher Panzner has launched a brand new bi-yearly digital magazine, LHOOQ (pronounced “Look”), a pluridisciplinary (pronounced “double-you tee eff”) look at mindstyle, lifestyle, arts, literature, anything, everything. The first issue includes a great piece spotlighting three well-known Canadian (pronounced “Kun-ay-dee-yan”) animation-type folks, none other than Mike Fallows, Chris Robinson and L. Elliot Taylor.

Dice Tsutsumi’s Sketchtravel Art Project is Auctioning a Masterpiece of Art History

sartomeister — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:06:54 -0700

Recently, I had an opportunity to talk to Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi, whom many of you know as a driving force behind the Totoro Forest Project and most recently, the Sketchtravel charity art project. An accomplished artist who spends his days applying his formidable skills as an art director at Pixar Animation Studios, Dice gave me an inside look at the unprecedented Sketchtravel sketch book, a historic collection of sketches which is being auctioned off this coming October 17th.

Sarto in Singapore Post 1 – Clone Wars and Chewing Gum

sartomeister — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:50:41 -0800

The boundless energy and enthusiasm I brought to Singapore Monday morning has dissipated somewhat now this fine Wednesday evening, done in by the heat, humidity and non-stop pace of our media tour. It’s late and still quite hot, a sticky hot that’s like summer in Texas, without the pickup trucks or shotguns. It will take a bit of time to properly synthesize everything, so my coverage here begins with a pictorial spread of the first couple days.