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Moveable eyes for CrazyTalk characters

David Haden — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:30:19 +0000

A newly posted tutorial on how to make a CrazyTalk Animator character have moveable eyes. Possibly we’ve had this before, but this one looks a little different to the old one. Perhaps it’s an update of the older tutorial?

Monthy Python team reunite for SF animation

David Haden — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:56:32 +0000

Cool breaking news, just in. The famous Monty Python team — Terry Gilliam, John Cleese and Michael Palin — will reportedly be using their vocal talents to voice a gang of extra-terrestrials in a new animated science fiction farce movie, Absolutely Anything. The film will be directed by Terry Jones. Eric Idle has also been approached.

Getting curvy with Google SketchUp

David Haden — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Want to get all curvy and organic in Google SketchUp? The official SketchUp blog has a long tutorial post, showing you how to do that, using a new beta plugin for the free 3D modelling software.

Teaching Carrots to Fly

David Haden — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:38:06 +0000

“Teaching Carrots to Fly”, a new CTA-style cut-out animation…

Toon girl for CTA

David Haden — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:48:40 +0000

A new Beano-style CrazyTalk Animator toon girl character from Kurzal, in the iClone Marketplace (search “Kurzal” in the CTA section) now, for just 210 points…

SF London poster competition

David Haden — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:01:05 +0000

Sci-Fi London 2012 (May 2012) Poster Competition…

“The theme to work to is Future Games, referencing the London Olympic year. This should provide you with much scope for outlandish or even perfectly feasible ideas. Deadline Monday 13th February 2012.”

Wolf with animations

David Haden — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:13:33 +0000

Freebie ultra low-poly wolf for iClone 5, converted by me from a free game model by DennisH2010. Just 1,569 polys, and a running animation, so you could have a pack of 80 these running in the distance. It might work especially well in silhouette.

Download here

Above: seen in iClone.

Another four Wolf & Dulci Hour shows, as downloads

David Haden — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:18:45 +0000

Another month of great iClone podcast shows has arrived! The four most recent Wolf & Dulci Hour shows are now available as downloads…

Very cool suggestion from Wolf in the first episode of 2012. Have 3DXchange 5 do easy rigging of characters models, using the iClone human skeleton system. That, and polygon reduction, would definitely have me swiftly paying $100 for an upgrade from my current version 4 Pro.

Matilda’s World

David Haden — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:19:45 +0000

New from Alley on the iClone Marketplace, her Matilda’s World clothing-pack for the official new G5 Matilda character…

The fabric of time

David Haden — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:08:47 +0000

Video demo of a new iClone Medieval Family Cloth pack by Bigboss, available now on the Marketplace at 4,595 points…

Kittens!

David Haden — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:40:51 +0000

Kurzal demos his new set of cute kitten and cat characters for CrazyTalk Animator (available on the Marketplace, search for “Kurzal”)…

Thinking through motion comics

David Haden — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:35:19 +0000

Pablo Defendini, the interactive producer at Open Road Media, discussed adaptive comics in detail in his keynote speech at the Books in Browsers conference 2011…

A fascinating talk. Reallusion is apparently considering a motion comics version of CrazyTalk Animator, which will hopefully output to the sort of hackable and adaptable HTML and CSS that we can see here — not Adobe AIR or Flash. By doing that they would also, effectively, have made an accessible cross-device ebook authoring platform for children’s motion picture books.