Soft shadows discussion

DIscussion of technique to render shadows seperately, blur in PS and bake onto texture - boosting render time phenomenally

Motion trails

Shift AfterImageFilter - flay entry

- website

Spinquad discussion of this and other techniques

Show Weights - new plugin

Spinquad thread here

Video Tutorial: Importing EPS to LightWave

Video Tutorial: Importing EPS to LightWave (Quicktime | 7MB)

Facial Animation article w/Tutorial

"1) A review of the book Stop Staring, by Jason Osipa
2) A review of Timothy Albee's Facial Animation (TAFA) software by Mac Reiter
3) A tutorial using the principles espoused in the book to animate a characters face"

Spinquad thread

His example

Cloth FX tutorial page

Zmapper

Spinquad thread here

2 robots

Great image, textured with procedurals and weight maps.
- I want to know how to do that!

Alien1452

Beautiful 2d artwork on this site - inspirational