The Making of Rollercoaster Rabbit offers a rare look at animation production in the 1980s. The eight-minute short was one of Disney’s first projects at their short-lived Orlando studio, which allowed visitors to observe the animation process from an overhead breezeway. In the making of video, the production team discusses effects animation, background and character animation, xeroxing, camera work, editing, and how early applications of computer animation were used to create the coaster tracks and cars in the animated short ..read more

Get a preview of the upcoming new features in SideFX Houdini 19.5. This includes updates to the Houdini toolset, from 3D modeling to character effects, fluid simulation, Pyro smoke and fire simulation, the Solaris scene layout system, as well as Houdini’s new rendering engine Karma. The software is due for release later this week ..read more