A cool Dungeons and Dragons animation?

Is that title an oxymoron, like “big shrimp”? Possibly, but this animation is very cool. And almost entirely done in Animate Pro…

Due credit…
Writer & voice actor Ryan Miller.
Art, animation & sound design Adam Phillips.
Art Director Jon Schindehette.
Producers Bart Carroll & Chris Youngs.
Wizards of the Coast – www.wizards.com
This one was created in [...]

View Cart button for Actionscript 3.

Okay the troubling question of the day was… what is the Actionscript 3 code to view the contents of your Paypal cart. Not add to the cart, but just view the Paypal cart. And it is…
 

viewCart.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, viewPaypalCart);

function viewPaypalCart (event:MouseEvent):void
{
var url:String = ‘https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr’;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
var paypal:URLVariables = new URLVariables();

paypal.cmd=’_cart’;
paypal.business=’youremail@yourdomain.com’; //change this
paypal.display=’1′;
paypal.shopping_url=’http://www.cartoonsmart.com.com/products.html’; //change this too

request.data [...]

All hail the tilt-shiftiness!

The whole tilt-shift effect is nothing new, but this is the first time I’ve seen it used as a stop motion effect, or video in general. And remember, this is a real house you’re looking at below. Not a tiny model.

Here’s a couple links to how this was done. Storyboards , Pics

Wanna check out a cool student site??

Russ Taylor showed me his very cool portfolio site today, RockvScissors.com (great domain name too). Once you’ve paid the toll, you can control an avatar to jump or move around and explore sections of his work. Speaking of which, Russ is specializing in all things Flash: animation, illustration, gaming and general web design (and I’m [...]

Is anyone out there a REALLY good fantasy illustrator and want some free exposure?

I have an upcoming tutorial planned that REALLY requires some excellent fantasy-style artwork, think Dungeons and Dragon’s or World of Warcraft. I’ll post some reference below, but I’m looking for…

Realistic, so not cartoonish, or manga-y
Already in color, no pencil sketches
Doesn’t have copywritten characters (unless they are your own and you don’t mind lending them out)
Stuff [...]

The Toon Boom Animate Pro Contest Winner is…

What a day. I made one person very happy, and disappointed 15 others.  Sigh. I wish everyone could have won the big prize   and I’m extremely thankful to everyone that participated. Speaking of which, please check out the Contest Group Page for some of the other amazing entries. At the very least, almost [...]

While the contest judgery commences, here’s some sweet barcodes!

Yep, the judges are deciding! Thanks to everyone participating in our first Toon Boom Animate Pro contest. I’ll make an official announcement by tonight (I hope) and will be doling out some non-first place winner prizes.
Meanwhile, here’s something fun for ya. A company that specializes in cool barcodes, Bar Code Revolution.com (by the way, I [...]

I want my Maypo! And the other final-weekend entries are…

Okay we got some great last weekend submissions to show off. Actually I see one video is still in line to be converted, which is fine, I’ll get in touch with Toon Boom today to start figuring out the grand prize winner. And I’ll kick in some 2nd and 3rd place prizes since we got [...]

A New CartoonSmart Tutorial MEGA Course!

My Actionscript 3 Menu Mega Course is finally complete!! I spent the last month or so putting together tons of example projects for just about every kind of fancy menu you might want to build. The course is divided into 5 parts, and is over 6 hours, but with plenty of separate projects (there’s 34 [...]

Hiya! Ninjas make an appearance in one of our contest entries!

Check it out, this one by Evan Bonifaico is quite nice. Definitely some cool multiplane action happening mid-ninja-leap…

Alright, I think we have a real contest on our hands. After this weekend lets call it quits for new entries, so we can start to figure out how wins the big prize!