NewEventsOnline is the unlikely name of an outfit which is converting the huge CMU mocap library into VNS format for use in iClone. They also sell their own high-quality mocap files for a very low price. Now ordinarily I would not pester Anime Studio folks with this off-topic, except that these folk...

http://www.contextfreeart.org/index.html

Those of you who don't script ASP might enjoy scripting this

I can help make your animations worth watching: read Snyder's book, and take it to heart.

The following essay is a fitting tribute to the late Blake Snyder.

http://www.examiner.com/x-15568-SF-Film ... R-19522009

Q: when you die, will anyone write the like about you?

I've been re-reading Blake Snyder's highly influential book on screenwriting, "Save the Cat," and I wanted to ask him whether his 15-beat storyboard applies to shorts as well as full-length films. I visited his website for the first time and found that he died on Aug 4. What a huge loss of...

Beautiful!

Slightly off topic, but I had to refresh the page to play it again.

When and why did embedded Quicktime stop providing transport controls for media?

All I've been getting for several months on any QT file on the web is a funereal black band where the controls ought to be.

I was talking to a former employer of Disney Australia at the ToonBoom roadshow, and he confirmed that shooting video reference is just standard operating procedure at Disney. Don Bluth recommends using video reference in his book. Several other books on animation recommend the practice. For heavens...

Hey folks, as of today, I am finally one of you. Really! My love-hate relationship with Anime Studio Pro experienced a breakthrough, possibly connected with the improvements of V6, or more likely, it was just time to break the ice with this cantankerous application. Truth is, for a long time, I've c...

http://www.physorg.com/news167304786.html

"In order to identify a face in an image, the brain always processes information with the same low resolution, of about 30 by 30 pixels from ear to ear, ignoring distance and the original resolution of the image,"

We hold these truths to be self-evident: (a) You need to create shapes. (b) You need to play the timeline. (a) does not equal (b). In fact, they don't have anything to do with each other, at all. Therefore, (a) and (b) should not have crosstalk. Nothing should be allowed to interfere, without dang g...

I would really really really like it if the spacebar did NOT control so many things! When I am creating characters and panning around I end up triggering the play/pause the animation. This happens without me knowing but cause I minimize the timeline. This means I end up with a bunch of keyframes on...

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/

Right on, Dave! You are one SMART muffa!

CrazyTalk has gotten better, and, eventually, so have I.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTysF1E

It's like Georges Méliès (1900) meets Dreamworks (2009) in this music video.

Note the aesthetic harmony between the animated action and the music.

I was a little skeptical of this naive and spare style, but the piece really won me over.

Hey, your English is better than our ... (insert language here).

Have you looked at:

http://cepstral.com/