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Virtual Worlds education conference calls for machinima movies

David Haden — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:47:14 +0000

The March 2012 conference Virtual Worlds: Best Practices in Education is calling for machinima animations, to showcase to educationalists at the conference. Deadline: 15th Feb 2012. Lots of categories, including “Teen”.

MotionPoems

David Haden — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:47:45 +0000

MotionPoems…

“a short film (usually less than 3 minutes in length) that treats a great contemporary poem as a script.”

Wiggle 3D

David Haden — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:42:05 +0000

The New York Public Library has a great new online showcase of what’s called “wiggle stereoscopy”. It sounds like an operation your cat has at the vets, but it lets you view a 3D scene in a web browser without needing special glasses. I’d love to see a tutorial in how to make these with iClone’s 3D capabilities, with the minimum wiggle for the maximum 3D effect…

Above: animated GIF.

John Carter from 1936

David Haden — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:28:06 +0000

Footage from an animated John Carter: Warlord of Mars (1936), which was sadly deemed “too weird” by the studios and never made it beyond a lot of test clips. But it could have beaten Disney’s Snow White to be the first animated feature-film…

Hitfilm

David Haden — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:12:40 +0000

Hitfilm, the affordable and well-reviewed “After Effects for the rest of us” special FX software, is 20% off this weekend. Review.

And the people behind the software have just released a two-minute micro-budget cyberpunk film to showcase the lift that the software can give to even a basic production…

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.