The Pigeon: Impossible Podcast

An interview with sound designer David Bewley

An interview with composer Christopher Reyman

Tips and tricks that didn’t fit into the other podcasts

Pose to pose vs layered animation

Some tricks for optimizing your renders and dealing with expansive environment shots

How to light a shot in a single render pass and how that compares to a multipass approach.

Some of the tricks we used to rig the pigeon.

How to create a consistent and unique personality for each character.

How to motivate a characters actions with thought and emotion, as well as physical anticipation.

Some big mistakes I made and how to avoid them.

I’ll be fixing the podcast problems for the next hour so sorry in advance if your reader gets flooded with posts. There are some issues with the way feedburner does enclosures so the only way to fix it is to repost.

Realtime motion blur and cartoon cheats in 3D.

I’m currently updating the way I do the podcast feed so that iTunes will recognize things correctly and let you download to the iPhone. If anyone experiences any problems with podcast #13, please let me know so I can figure it out before I go back and fix the older podcasts.

So the movie is finally finished.

To simulate, or not to simulate. That is the question.

Most of the time I prefer to work in FK but there are some times where you just have to have IK.

There is a principle in rigging called abstracted controls.

Rigging is tough because you not only have to know the technical stuff, you also have to be able to think like an animator.

Just when you thought 60 passes was enough.

Working on PI for so long has taught me a couple of really valuable lessons.

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Who can tell me whats wrong with the eyes in this picture?

I was going to call this episode lighting rigs.

Now its time to do a little something for all you lighting nerds out there.

People always say that writing is rewriting.

Some things take a little longer than you expect.