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Mel scripts survival kit

Posted on September 1, 2006  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

Here is a list of Mel scripts you might need to speed up your animation process.

Tween machine by Justin Barrett
For people working in step mode, this will help you to create inbetweens between 2 poses and to favour one of those poses. Basically you don’t need to go into linear, set or copy a pose, move it around, go back to step, the script does it automatically and offers you a slider to favor a pose.

Pose2shelf not to sure about the url. I will probably post it on my blog. Allows you to save poses and apply them again. I use it to copy poses from one file to an other.

I will put some screenshot someother day.

Olive

tonight drawing

Posted on August 30, 2006  | 1 Comment
Filed under Drawings

I have decided like many great animators to start working on my drawing skills. Being able to sketch your ideas is the best thing ever when working in a production environment. My goal for the next few month will be to do one good sketch a day…

I tried to draw in photoshop but the best combination I found for sketching so far is my Wacom graphire 3 for the Hardware and PAP free version for the software. Too bad there are no layers and no colors but that should be enough to get me started. Oh and to get a better feel, I actually put a sheet of paper between the tablet and the pen. I found that the smooth feel of the wacom tablet didn’t work for me.

Olive

Youtube.com I hate you

Posted on August 28, 2006  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Life hack

Just to give a bit of balance with my previous post 😉

I can’t stand those crappy Flash encoded videos. First the quality is bad, second the colors are completly off and third, not being able to watch a video frame by frame is just plain silly for animators. [this is actually the reason why I ripped all my DVDs and now enjoy watching them frame by frame using VirtualDub]

Luckily some guys came up with a plugin for Firefox that will allow you to download the videos onto your hardrive as flv files that you will then reencode using some software whose name I forgot… Don’t worry I will give you the links when I come home.

Olive

Timing in Animation

Posted on August 28, 2006  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation, Education

I still haven’t set my mind as if browsing Youtube.com is a waste of time or not but one thing for sure is that it allows us to find Animation Treasures that we would have missed otherwise.

A selection for this week:
9 Old mens’s Ward Kimball interview on Disney Channel

Richard Williams – I Drew Roger Rabbit Part 2
Take your time machine and have Richard Williams give you a lecture on walk cycles live from Soho Square in London.

Last but not least, Glen Keane.

And Roger Rabbit’s rookie animator James Baxter… I call that genius.

Let’s thank Sheridan’s student Alan Cook for all those treasures and don’t forget to check his blog, he has got an ton of animation student’s blog linked.

Olive