I will be going to SIGGRAPH this year in LA, representing Dimensional Imaging. Looking forward to that!

I recently did file conversions of a 3D Character (Action Figure) from an upcoming 3D Animated comedy adventure by a well known animation studio.

If you are interested in Facial Animation / Facial Motion Capture, check out this new YouTube video from the company Dimensional Imaging:
Markerless, 4D Facial Motion Capture Workflow
Markerless, 4D Facial Motion Capture
Markerless, 4D Facial Motion Capture Input vs. Output
The video is an example output of their high resolution, markerless 4D facial motion capture process. Created using …

I have been on another work trip to Germany, providing some 3d related software training for a large amount of people.

Just arrived back from a work trip to Germany. I will be going back to Germany again in the near future.

Tonight I have had a first look at Metaballs in Houdini and made a little test animation using it. I am now keen to find out if a set of metaballs could be simulated with dynamics.

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This week I have been on a work trip to Paris, France. Arrived Monday and got back today Thursday. The work I did was related to 3D capturing technology; utilizing top of the line Canon IDs MK III cameras. Flight back was 3.5 hours delayed; and a change of gate had me go through security …

Alley. Personal Project. Painting style image inspired by Van Gogh, created from a personal photograph source by Anders Sundstedt, June 2009. (click image for full size image).

On Monday 30th to Tuesday 31st of March; I have been in Edinburgh exhibiting a 4D Capture system and new motion tracking software. Initial setup was on Monday while demonstrations was carried out on the Tuesday getting up early at 5 am; then taking the train back to Glasgow in the late afternoon.

Stumbled upon this post in the blog of Jasmine Bobe. I can only say I feel the same about the CG human in this movie; amazing stuff:
http://lunarhavok.blogspot.com/2009/01/benjamin-button-and-crossing-of-uncanny.html

It has now just over eight months since Sundstedt.se (and my CG blog) relocated from Sheffield, England to Scotland. The first eight months has been good but really busy. There has been a constant interest to the website and blog; with many inquiries this year; which is positive.
I am still looking for a suitable next …

This morning I’ve been reading up on Maxwell Render User Manual p1 to p23. I also experimented with SketchUp Follow Me tool to generate some wicked shapes. Next I tried out exporting from SketchUp to Maxwell. In Maxwell Studio I also created new cameras and positioned camera and adjusted focal length etc. I do find …

Worked as exhibitor of the DI3D 3D and 4D surface image capture systems at the XIX Congress, Bologna Italy this week. website

Monday night continued to study this very interesting Gnomon DVD. Only a few chapters left and then time to try out some of the things I learned from this…