Archive for February, 2009

Date: February 26th, 2009
Cate: Flipbook, Maya
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DigiCel FlipBook Helps 3D Animators Work Faster and Better

“Posing a character on the computer takes way too much time because of all the controls that have to be manipulated, I find that I can draw and animate a simple stick figure inside of FlipBook to represent my character and solve the performance in real time. When I’m happy with my performance then I can bring my FlipBook images into Maya as an ImagePlane and use them for reference for my CG version. All the directors love this way of working because they get to see a blue print of the shot very quickly instead of seeing a weird CG blocking pass with floaty computer in-betweens.”

said by Jason Ryan, Supervising Animator, Walt Disney Animation Studio

Let’s see how he can create nice animation, very simple and very fast.

Date: February 25th, 2009
Cate: Softimage
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Online Softimage Educational Recourse

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For Softimage XSI user, this web blog, caffeineabuse, will be another good place to start learning 3D and Animation. Please it out.

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Date: February 25th, 2009
Cate: MacOSX
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Making the smallest Macintosh

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Unbelievable ! So, just make this note on my blog for sometimes in the future if i get dell mini9. i would like to test it for my own.? Let’s start. All you needs are the followings,

1.Dell Mini 9 With 16GB SSD or higher (8GB SSDs will techincally work, but it will take some fiddling not covered by this guide)

2. Retail copy of OS X 10.5.x (NOT an OEM copy that comes with a new Mac)

3.? A USB flash drive 8GB or higher

4. An external USB DVD drive

5.? The “Type11″ Bootloader: DellMiniBoot123v8.01.iso.zip (download link in this forum post)

6. Blank CD to burn bootloader image (I actually used version 8.0 of Type11 on my CD-if your boot process with 8.01 is different than what’s spelled out in this guide, you can download 8.0 here. Both should work.)

7.? Windows PC for preparing the flash drive (if DVD drive works fine, this is optional)

For more instructions to follow step by step please see the website.

Date: February 24th, 2009
Cate: knowledge
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Good starting point for learning Animation

The Animator’s Survival Kit – Animated

i just found this DVDs as? a? good starting point to learn Animation. Especially, if you have already had the book.(titled the same)? These DVDs will help you understand and follow thru the book much easier.

Thanks to Richard Williams, the master who create such a really useful reference for all of us.

16-DVD Box Set Contents:

1. STARTING RIGHT
2. TIMING AND SPACING
3. WORKING METHODS
4. MORE TIMING MORE SPACING
5. BUILDING WALKS
6. FLEXIBILITY IN A WALK
7. SNEAKS, RUNS, and ANIMAL ACTION
8. FLEXIBILITY
9. OVERLAPPING ACTION and WEIGHT
10. TAKES
11. VIBRATES
12. ACCENTS
13. DIALOGUE 1
14. DIALOGUE 2
15. GIVING THE PERFORMANCE
16. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

you can purchase these DVDs from the website.

Date: February 24th, 2009
Cate: Softimage
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Autodesk Softimage 7.5 Launch

softimage75 After the aquisition since the end of last year, 2008, now Autodesk has released the new update to the former Softimage xsi product and renamed it Autodesk Softimage 7.5 which come into 2 versions, Autodesk Softimage and Autodesk Softimage Advanced. They also change the Face Robot to Autodesk Face Robot 2009.

Key New Features in Autodesk Softimage 7.5
UV unfolding technology: Softimage now features UV unfolding technology that enables artists to unwrap polygon models with just a few clicks. This technology works well on complex organic models, which would be difficult to unwrap manually. Softimage 7.5 also provides UV editing tools that help artists quickly create and edit UV maps.

mental ray 3.7+: Version 3.7+ of the mental ray renderer is now integrated into Softimage 7.5. Highlights include improvements to binary space partitioning for faster render times, multiple final gathering refinement passes and new motion-based displacement. These enhancements help users create high-fidelity images faster than ever before.

Multithreaded Syflex cloth simulator: The production-proven cloth simulator in Softimage is now multithreaded, enabling artists to use the cores on their machine to iterate faster.

Scene compatibility with version 7.0: Scenes saved in Softimage 7.5 will load into Softimage 7.0.

For more information about Autodesk Softimage 7.5, visit www.autodesk.com/softimage.