DogToons.com animated Weird Al's "Trapped in the Drive Thru"

This comes up a lot at 3D communities. Unfortunately, it often seems to be partly based in snobbery... people think that programs they paid a lot of money for are necessarily better than programs that are less costly, and they often deride the less expensive programs without really understanding the...

Its a bloody great camera which weighs over a ton ... not something you want to sling over your shoulder. Mine caught fire once, but that is a long story. Kids today don't know what they are missing ... clapper drives, dog clutches, rack-overs and snail drives. Tw oof mine had Bi-pack (which I have...

I made my first animation in about '73 when I was in grade school on a super 8mm camera my mom owned but hadn't used in a long time. It didn't have a frame by frame trigger, so I roughed it by pressing the shutter button as fast as I could for each bit of movement. I animated with magic marker on a ...

What I like about this forum is I made my avatar without any gray in it, of which I seem to have an abundance, at the ripe old age of 45.

I really like these images, I think they're very well done. :) Just FYI, there's a couple of sites I use a lot for reference images for 3D modeling, that you might find useful for this sort of work, also. One is Human Anatomy Pictures (it has some pop-ups and site ads, but it's not too cluttered) an...

I would agree that lip sync is one of those things that most people only notice in an animation when it doesn't look right. I also think that the style of the animation has a lot to do with whether it looks right. If an animation is more "cartoony" then you have a lot more leeway; the audi...

I've never used it myself, but I've heard very good things about SynthFont , which converts MIDI directly to WAV. Normally, what I do is play MIDI files through my sound card (SB Extigy) and use a recording program that came with it to record the sound as a WAV, then I import it into Audacity for an...

Maybe, I need to make a more detailed Tips and Technics on this sometime. Tonight I have to do the day job. Rhoel Aha... and the light finally goes off in my brain. :) I was close, but I didn't think to use a transparent PNG. Excellent technique, and I'm sure I'll make quite a bit of use of it. Tip...

I'm both a noob and feeling a little dense this morning... how exactly is the filter implemented? I can duplicate the effect in a render with an image layer set to about 50% opacity, but I can't get an effect similar to yours in the editor. I'm much more used to doing 3D work, and not really thinkin...

I hadn't heard about it before, but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks for the link!

O great, wise, and powerful Jinn of the Lost Marble bottle, prithee here are my most humble requests: I would like to be able to access, via a Lua script, the position, size, and visibility of all of the workspace windows. This would allow, inside a script, the ability to position any of the tool wi...

There's some great stuff of all kinds at this web site , but this particular video (Garto) is outstanding. The lighting and shading is amazing, the characterizations in the video are wonderful, and the timing of the movements is absolutely spot-on. But, what really amazes me about this video is that...

You've just taken your first step into a larger world.

-- Obi Wan Kenobi

Seriously, way to go... the world needs more of us thinkers-in-binary.

As a software developer, I see this sort of thing all the time. The problem is largely one of perception and communication. As developers, we tend to break software issues down into three major areas. <long-winded-pontificating> The first we call "bugs". This is any part of the system that...