Baymax Character Development

Baymax Character Development from Minor Gaytan on Vimeo.

Baymax character development by Minor Gaytan.

High-Quality Capture of Eyes

Check out the research video by Disney which shows the implementation of 3d scans of human eyes. The dilation of pupil under different lighting condition is very cool.

Duet by Glen Keane

Duet, a beautiful animated short by the great animation master Glen Keane.

Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

heck out this research video on Computational Design of Mechanical Characters by Disney Research Lab.

The trick really lies in the "curves" to generate procedural movement of these mechanical characters or the Animatronix!

Frozen- Shot Progression

Frozen- Shot Progression from Bobby Pontillas on Vimeo.

Shot Progression for one of the many beautiful shots from FROZEN by Bobby Pontillas.

Get A Horse! CG Animation Test - Mickey Mouse & Horace

Reminds me of good old classic Mickey Mouse animation. CG animation test for Disney's Mickey & Horace.

Glen Keane talks about Animation and CTN

Glen Keane talks about Animation and CTN from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.
For more information about Glen Keane click here!

BOATS

Boats with SPONSORs lol

Mickey Cartoons - Behind the Animation

Behind the animation of Disney's new Mickey Mouse short.

5 Reasons Why Mickey Mouse Co-Creator Ub Iwerks Was Awesome

Truly a great pioneer in animation! Check out the post on Cartoon Brew about the awesomeness of Ub Iwerks who is the co-creator of Micky Mouse.

Antoine Cunningham Rough Demo Reel

One of my student Antoine Cunningham showcases his amazing talent in character animation. He worked on all time favorite Disney movies such as Tarzan, Mulan and many more. Check it out!

Disney Is Producing New Mickey Mouse Shorts

 

Disney producing new Mickey Mouse shorts! Check out the post on Cartoon Brew for more information.

Looks beautiful and CLASSIC! Reminds me of the Golden Ages of Disney animation :)

Disney Face Swaps

This is funny. Check out the face swaps for Disney characters and pick your favourite. lol :D

Paperman

Disney's short film Paperman is simply beautiful! Love at first sight ;)

Walt Disney Animation Studios – Technology Papers Videos

An Artist Friendly Hair Shading System A Programmable System for Artistic Volumetric Lighting Asynchronous Contact Mechanics Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions Interactive Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition Interactive Lighting of Effects Using Point Clouds in “Bolt” Perceptually-Based Compensation of Light Pollution in Display Systems Reflections on Simultaneous Impact Robust Treatment of Simultaneous Collisions More Info!

JoeBowers Interview

Joe Bowers an animator at Disney goes over some of his shots in this interview.

Disney Research wants to build more realistic replica human faces

So this seems like an interesting article on creating realistic and physical face replica or clones!

Soft Tissue Deformation

Techniques and methodology used in character deformation "Soft Tissue" from Disney! Think of The Algorithm that went in to solving this simulation!

Walt Disney Papers

More papers and publication from Walt Disney! More Cool Stuffs. Check them all out, really wonderful and useful resource materials for all artist alike :)

Walt Disney's ElasticSkin

Walt Disney's ElasticSkin presented on Siggraph 2011. Cool stufff! Check it out :)

Originally Posted by Siggraph 2011 Paper

We present a new algorithm for near-interactive simulation of skeleton driven, high resolution elasticity models. Our methodology is used for soft tissue deformation in character animation. The algorithm targets performance through parallelism using a fully vectorized and branch-free SVD algorithm as well as a stable one-point quadrature scheme on a hexahedral grid.

Here's a video-demonstration
The PDF paper
And some tech notes!