Posted on September 30, 2009 by Justin
When I was a kid, 11am was the greatest time of day because of The Price Is Right. Well during the summer at least. For fall thru spring, 11am sucked because I was in school not watching Price is Right, and I knew my mom and youngest sister probably were watching it. An early lesson [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2009 by Justin
I haven’t tried GameSalad.com’s game making software yet (Mac-only btw), but if it does what it says it does, I’ll be checking it out for sure. And from what it briefly says on the site, and implies from this fast paced video below, you just need some graphics and a little know-how of the program [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by Justin
Vimeo sure knows what I like. They sent me this first animation in the mail today. Its only a few seconds long, but stylistically very promising for what’s to come. It was done in After Effects and Flash, by Eran Hill…
So I’m presuming this much longer animation was done using the same software…
That piece was [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Justin
Point your peepers at this month’s tutorials! Discounted as usual for $15 for both. Plus this month’s download comes with a coupon code for 30% off anything on the site (except the Bulk Package w/Free Hard Drive, sorry).
The first lesson is on Papervision3D again. Our instructor Manu D’Macedo, did a tutorial on this topic last [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by Justin
Here’s a great, short animation by Vurup (< the animators/illustrators collaborative website).
At the group’s website you can find links to the creator’s websites and blogs with great posts like this one or this one with some of the source artwork…
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Posted on September 22, 2009 by Justin
Check out the intro animation from HBO’s Bored to Death (which is off to a good start imho). It looks especially wordy in high quality.
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Posted on September 22, 2009 by Justin
I have to admit, I gave up on my iPhone training the first time around. Just like Luke on Dagobah with his Jedi training. Except instead of running off early to fight Vadar , I just ran off in general… That was about a year or so ago, back before Apple was allowing authors to [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2009 by Justin
If you head over to ToonBoom’s site on Monday, Sept 21 and you’ll get 30% off Animate or Animate Pro. Thats a hunk o’ savings! And how have I not posted this before? TB’s showreel…
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Posted on September 17, 2009 by Justin
I’d say True. Below is a Flash site proving me right at least once. Anyone know if this whole micro-city / micro-environment look has an official “interface design” name yet. This is definitely not the first one I’ve posted here. Maybe we need to come up with a name.
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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Justin
This was a surreal animation to get emailed at 5:30am when I already wasn’t thinking straight…
Had enough of the MJ tributes? Well here’s a couple choice nugs jpgs to entice you to pack this animation into your head pipe.
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