DreamLight Creates Award-winning 3D Animated CGI Short Films and Wrote the Book – Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short.

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DreamLight exercises all aspects of 3D CGI short filmmaking through our own in-house DreamLight branded productions. These creative productions allow us to build expertise across the wide range of skills necessary for complete 3D short films including the following: concept creation, story development, character design, set design, 3D modeling, texturing, surfacing, lighting, character animation, facial animation, lip sync animation, general 3D animation, camera animation, special effects, network rendering, compositing, editing, audio production, project management, online distribution, promotion and more. We are then able to bring all these same skills and tools to bear on our client projects whether they are for the Web, TV or film.

NEW Book: Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short

	Michael Scaramozzino, an early computer graphics pioneer and DreamLight’s founder, has recently published a 500+ page book on the subject of short film production. Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short provides an in-depth look at everything that goes into the making of a 3D animated CGI short film. The book examines a number of early DreamLight creative projects, including our first award-winning CGI short film – BlastOff!™, that led to the creation of The Autiton Archives™ 3D animated Web series.
The book then follows the entire production of the series pilot webisode – Fault Effect™ from early concept designs through 3D character design and animation to final compositing and online Web publishing.

The Autiton Archives™ 3D animated series pilot webisode – Fault Effect™

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The adventures of anomalous Autiton™ units NineOh™ (0090)™ and ThreeBeDee™ (03BD)™ who dare to escape the status quo and set out through the fantastic digital realms of cyberspace on an epic quest of freedom seeking discovery. The pilot webisode of the series, Fault Effect, shows the creation of the anomalous Autiton unit 0090. Subsequent webisodes will introduce additional characters as the story line expands. Please subscribe to The Autiton Archives mailing list to follow 0090’s continuing adventures.

See DreamLight Insight: The Autiton Archives - WIP Blog for some behind the scenes content from the book & film including 3D Character Design and 3D character animation techniques.

BlastOff!™ – DreamLight’s First Award-winning 3D Animated CGI Short

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DreamLight’s first 3D animated short film - BlastOff!™ won a Silver W3 Award, an Official Honoree Webby Award, a Merit Award from the 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival, a Best Animation Nomination from the Danville International Children’s Film Festival, screened as an Official Jury Selection in 15 international film festivals and the original, BlastOff! Bed™ was also featured on HGTV’s Look What I Did! TV show.

We created BlastOff! as a test project where we could exercise and refine the skills necessary to produce all aspects of a 3D animated short film, from concept to completion. A primary goal of this exercise was to establish a 3D animation pipeline and render farm at DreamLight that we could use to produce a wide range of client 3D animation projects for the web, CD-ROM, DVD, digital video, TV and film. In fact, we “wrote the book” on setting up a render farm, we wrote the chapter in the LightWave 3D 9 manual about Mastering LightWave LWSN ScreamerNet on Mac OS X.

See DreamLight Insight: BlastOff! An Award-winning 3D Animated CGI Short Film for additional behind the scenes samples including 3D character animation techniques.

If you would like DreamLight to produce award-winning 3D animation for you, please contact us.

DreamLight Interactive Releases New ScreamerNet UB Launcher

DLI_SNUB-Launcher™ is an XCode Aqua GUI front end to interactively configure and launch multiple LightWave 9.3-10 ScreamerNet UB instances for standalone, batch and network rendering. Download your copy today!

Created by the author of Mastering LightWave ScreamerNet Rendering for Mac OS X, Michael Scaramozzino - LightWave 3D Artist Profile.