New attachment support in my favela-generating code, plus a Romanesque model set, and I’ve got a collaboration by de Chirico and Dr. Seuss.

Feast your peepers: a tower of techno-Babel, topped by two posts and a lintel. I’ve now caught up to Neolithic architecture.

It’ll be more impressive in a few days, I promise.

Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

[Via @brangrow.]

Made with my foetal citybuilder script, rendered in with mental ray using the misss_physical shader.

Voxelizer 1.0 is a script written in Python for Maya. It builds an array of animated cubes in the shape of selected target objects. It takes the color of the cubes from the texture and lighting of the object, and respects visibility and transparency. It also allows keyable voxel and gap sizes, by checking the sizes of optional control objects.

Download files here:
Voxelizer1.0.py
Voxelizer1.0_test.ma (Maya 2010)

Instructions and code follow:

Adorableness from animation superman Patrick Boivin who is not French but almost.

Fantastic character animation, design, pacing, and plot from Dark Prince production, led by Jérémy Clapin.

Very economical animation — almost stop-motion.

The code now respects alpha, and can vary the cube size.

Music video by David OReilly.

Barthes on the punctum, from Camera Lucida:

Congratulations to Patrick Jean of OneMoreProd in Paris for beating me to the punch.