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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Sintel Easter Eggs

Can you find all the guest appearances and easter eggs in Sintel?

Daniel Creese (riftmaster) writes:

Hello All,

I was watching Sintel, and I noticed this: Proog from Elephants Dream in the background. (See Image)

Post any other sightings in the comments!

riftmaster

Fun! Post a link to a screenshot of a sighting and I’ll add the image to this post :)

Gallery so far:


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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Microsoft to buy Adobe? What do you think?

Rumor has it that in a closed-door meeting between the big shots at Microsoft and Adobe, one of the major topics on the table was acquisition. Specifically, acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft, to create a powerhouse that would offer serious threats to Apple and combine two of the strongest platforms for delivery of web content and animation: Silverlight and Flash. Some have speculated this means the end of Flash, with Silverlight taking the dominant role. Cooler heads have pointed out that it would be fatal to eliminate one of the most popular animation and content production packages on the market. What do you think?

Cool Opportunity: William Shatner Animation Contest

Can't. Believe. How awesome. This is. Can't stop. Typing. Like. William Shatner. Must. Resist. Urge. To say. Denny Crane.

nullOkay. My jokes aren't funny. I get it. Although now I'm going to have "Rocket Man" stuck in my head for a week. To get a little more to the point: Myouterspace.com, William Shatner, and Toon Boom are partnering for an animation contest that has my little geeky Trekkie heart all in a tizzy. The challenge is to create an animated video based on an audio clip of Shatner, using an animated version of the man himself. The winner will be selected to work on a major Myouterspace.com animation project, with other prizes including free online courses with the Academy of Art University. Rules can be found here, and media for the contest can be downloaded here.

So go forth! Animate! Take a risk! We've got to risk implosion. We may explode into the biggest fireball this part of the galaxy has seen, but we've got to take that one in a million chance.

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You knew you wouldn't get away without one Captain Kirk quote. I don't know why you even tried to run.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Halloween Costume Doll

Maybe you missed trick-or-treating tonight, but you don't have to miss dressing up. It's time to roll out one of our most popular Flash animations: the Halloween Costume Doll. This paper doll game lets you mix and match costumes - and teaches you how to make your own.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Poll: Do you have a 3D TV or Computer?

I have one of those neighbors: the guy who'll ambush me in the garage of our townhouse apartments and talk for an hour about things no one cares about. The guy who'll pounce on me when I open the front door to sign for a UPS delivery, and will drag me into his apartment to show me his latest tech toy while I grit my teeth and try not to remind him that I've known about his Dolby in-home surround-sound for a week thanks to the small localized earthquakes shaking their way up through my hardwood floors. His latest ambush, though, actually didn't bother me - because he had a new 53-inch 3D TV, and he wanted me to try it out.

It was...okay. I saw nothing but grainy overlays that didn't quite live up to the promise of being able to make anything 3D, but that could just be my weird contact lenses. My partner, on the other hand, wants one so badly I had to mop the drool up off the floor. Even worse, there's screen envy going on and all the brochures littering the apartment are for bigger models. I think it's a waste of money, but at the same time...I was customizing a new Origin laptop the other day and the 3D-capable model tempted me, and not just because you can make World of Warcraft look 3D. I get enough eyestrain in Icecrown without that, thank you. No - for the animation potential, as many animation programs are now coming out with their own homegrown solutions for creating 3D media. I admit, I'm a little tired of the overdone 3D craze, but the ability to develop and view immersive media is entirely too tempting.

How do you feel about 3D-capable hardware? Do you own any?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Blender 3D is a Useful Tool For Designers

What is Blender 3D? It is a very cool open source 3D modeling, rendering and animation program. It is very powerful and comparable in function and performance to commercial 3D applications.

In my opinion, it can be a very useful tool for designers. It is powerful enough to be used in a commercial production environment.

The following are my opinions of the types of creative field that can use this free open source application.

1. Interior design is a field concerned with elements that is found inside a space. This includes spaces within houses and buildings. An interior designer is a person who is skilled in this field. Interior Designers can use Blender 3D to create photorealistic architectural visualizations of buildings, interiors, and environmental scenery.

2. Game design. Blender has an inbuilt game engine. Thus it allows games to be directly created from it.

3. Graphic design encompasses several artistic and creative fields which focus on visual communication and presentation. A professional in this field must know how to use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques creatively to create the final result of the project. Graphic designers can use Blender 3D to create graphic visuals. The Toon shader allows 3D renderings to look more like 2D illustrations. This can proof to be useful for graphic creation.

4. Industrial Design is the creative segment of product creation. In this modern age, the ideation of products are done using 3D software. Industrial designers can use Blender 3D for conceptualization and rendering of product concepts.

As you can see, despite being free, Blender is a very useful tool for creative work. Thank you for reading.

The author runs Idea Cosmo, a website which provides helpful design related articles such as Free game design software [http://www.ideacosmo.com/gencomp/gamemake-free.html] and Free Web design software [http://www.ideacosmo.com/gencomp/webediting-frees.html].

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Monday, November 8, 2010