| Digital Animators-Home Splash Updated : Answer to Gears I got a few questions about how the shape layers work, why the boolean operation does what it does in the shape layer, and specifically how to make the hole in the middle of the gear. Well, I got enough email questions about it that I figured it was worth a tutorial explanation. So here it is. Author : Ko Maruyama Wacom's Cintiq 21UX Not that long ago, animators sketched their creations on paper and then ran to the copy machine to scale things up or down. Fixes, revisions, or creating alternate versions were time-consuming chores. Big mistakes meant starting over completely. Starting over meant more paper - with Cintiq, animators and producers can work interactively and quickly. Author : Ko Maruyama Toon Boom Animate It's only been a few months since Toon Boom has announced new software for its professional user base. The company's latest creation, Animate, an application that helps animators create professional quality animation in a user-friendly environment, has just released. Although the newest software is a full featured professional package, it also targets newer Toon Boom users and animation students especially. In this series of reviews, we will take a look at the many facets of the latest software from Toon Boom: Animate. Author : Ko Maruyama Blue Room NYC Designed, Produced, Shot and Created FX For WHALE WAR Promos On the heels of recent collaborations with Animal Planet on promotional packages for MEERKAT MANOR and the network's fall images spots, Blue Room NYC (blueroomnyc.com) designed, produced, shot and created visual effects for one :30 and one :15 promo for the network series WHALE WARS. Author : None The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition Last summer I got curious. With the advent of Intel Macs, Boot Camp, and Universal builds of After Effects, for the first time it was possible to forget about all the Intel vs. PowerPC benchmarks that had been run to that point and effectively remove hardware from the equation, focusing solely on the OS and how well AE was tuned to it. XP took the prize back then, but I'm curious again, and with Mac OS X Leopard, 64-bit Vista, and After Effects CS4 at my disposal, it's time to find out where things stand today. Author : Kevin Schmitt More Web Site Traffic |