About Kettle Overscan is a Softimage plugin I wrote aiming to simplify the process of over/underscanning renders. It applies a property to the camera from which the user can overscan a render by a given percentage or discrete pixel amount. Bugtested and refined at work, so it carries the name, but they’ve graciously allowed me [...]

I love third party renderers. There, I said it. I love third party renderers – especially the kind with rapid development cycles that throw me new things to play with on a regular basis, rather than having to wait for years for negligible improvements. You know what I mean. As it turns out though, they [...]

The Mentos UP2U project that has kept us busy for the past month and some has finally gone live. In a curious interactive concept, viewers are streamed 8 paired point of view films, with the ability to blend between the pairs to choose their favorite. Check it out at chooseup2u.com! For my main contribution, check out [...]

  Big stuff went down last week, as the much anticipated switch finally happened and the lights went off at JS3D, making way for the emergence of the brand new Kettle. This should answer some questions – awkwardly fended off over the past half year or so – about the naming of the shaders and [...]

The Adobe Museum of Digital Media site has won two Webby Awards; the Webby Award for Art and a People’s Voice Award for Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics. Neat! Check out our best of compilation on vimeo: All the 3D, from the huge building to the graceful jellyfish-like devices that guide the viewer around it, was [...]