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Real-time animation hits the Super Bowl

David Haden — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:23:32 +0000

“will not only have millions of people cheering, but with some animation magic from Coca Cola, animated polar bears will watch and react to the game in real-time.”

Shadowy Bush

David Haden — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:10 +0000

Adorable British popist Kate Bush has a lovely new shadow-puppet animation, for a track from her new album…

No mention of who the animator is, so I’m guessing she made this herself?

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…