Greetings everyone !

My good friend Miquel Campos sent me his best wishes with this animated card he made at Shed Montreal. A great piece of animation done with Gear :) So please remember : SHARE THE JOY !!

On his side, Christopher Tedin just released two new video tutorials on cmiVFX. And guess which rigging system does he uses ?
Have a look at Softimage Combat Animation and Softimage Anatomy of Motion.

Yesterday, I received two videos made using Gear at almost the same time. I particuliarly like those videos as they show the flexibility of the system. In those two projects, the riggers didn't use the temptaes out of the box, but they managed to create there own rig by combining together different components.

The first one is a commercial made at BlackGinger in Cape Town - South Africa.
Darrin Hofmeyr explained me that they used Gear for almost all the characters except the cows at the end.

The next one is a campaign against AIDS by Cezary Albinski. Again I really like the way he managed to use Gear for those praying mantis and excellent lighting by the way.

Slowly we can dicover more and more the final look of the movie A Monster In Paris. High resolution pictures of the movies are now visible on the internet. I really like the atmosphere in the cabaret.

The trailer and the video from the original sound track are in this previous post.

Magoo studio from Sweden teamed up with Psyop on a really nice commercial for an energy drink and they used Gear for animation.
For this project, Jens Lindgren - Lead Technical Director at Magoo - contacted me a couple of months ago as he wanted to use Gear and motion capture data. After a couple of tests he successfully built a pipeline using Gear and MotionBuilder.

You can find more information about the project on Magoo's page.

edit : *Jens made me noticed that this screenshot is actually a composite of several screenshots so it contains errors in the Softimage UI.