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CGSociety Unveils New and Improved Website
The online destination for digital art industry professionals gets a makeover.
Tools
Rough Animator App Lets You Animate On Your Tablet
An iOS/Android app for easy animating on the go.
Unreal Encourages Filmmakers To Use Its Game Engine
Unreal’s game development toolset is now free for filmmakers and artists.
Maya Will Become Subscription-Only Software in 2016
Autodesk, the developer of Maya computer graphics software, offered new details yesterday about its transition to a subscription-only software model.
Animator Dillon Markey Transformed A Nintendo Power Glove Into An Essential Animation Tool
Stop motion animator Dillon Markey explains how he transformed the long-forgotten 1980s Power Glove Nintendo controller into an essential—and aesthetically splendid—tool for animating in stop motion.
Sticky Jots are Storyboard Pads for Mobile and Tablet Filmmakers
Here’s an inevitable product of our time: custom-designed storyboard pads for people creating content specifically on iPads and iPhones.
Coming Soon: The Animation Dock, A Traditional Animation Desk For Your iPad
Last night on Twitter, when no one was looking, animator Tammy Gray Smith announced the soft launch of her upcoming Kickstarter campaign for the Animation Dock, a vintage animation desk for tablets.
Toon Boom Announces Animate 3 and Animate Pro 3
Animators have more options for hand-drawn software than ever before, a fact that is reflected daily in the projects we feature on the …
Animography Aims to Bring Animated Typography to the Masses
Animography aims to make life a little easier by offering animated typefaces delivered in neatly organized After Effects files. The type …
Using Kinect Point Clouds To Animate Figures
Brazilian artist Jomário Murta used multiple Microsoft Kinects to generate a sequence of point clouds (a set of points in 3D space) as …
Courageous Cat returns!
Yesterday, at virtually the same time I was extolling the praises of producer Sam Singer (the “Ed Wood of Animation”) at my Comic Con …
An Appreciation of the Animated GIF and Gif Shop
“Animated GIFs are the web’s vinyl records,” wrote Jamie Zawinski on Twitter a few months ago. It’s a sly but accurate observation. In …
Wacom Announces the Cintiq 24HD
As someone who lives in a Cintiq household, I know well how highly this is anticipated. Wacom made the official announcement today for …
A Response to Harry Partridge’s Silly Go! Animate Rant
“It’s not a gay lobster but still funny” – a response by “reddplague” to Harry Partridge’s anti-Go! Animate cartoon rant. For the …
Inchworm Animation for Nintendo DSi
Inchworm Animation will be released for the handheld Nintendo DSi platform on April 25. The app will be available for download from the …
CG Squash and Stretch Just Got a Little Easier
To paraphrase Patrick Henry, Give me squash and stretch or give me death. As an outsider to the CG animation production process, I’m …
3D Modeling Software on iPad
Need to do some pre-viz work at the coffeeshop or airport but don’t have your laptop with you? Verto Studio 3D is new modeling software …
Pencil Testing
NY animator Tom Smolenski was looking for a good 6B pencil to animate with (in 2010 no less–what a masochist!) so he tested a bunch of …
The Storyboard Book + Contest
The Storyboard Book is a new product out of Brooklyn that may prove useful to animation folk. Each Storyboard Book is 32-pages, 3.5″ x …
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