Computer Animation Arts

Hi Phil and Alan, Just a quick post to ask if Alan will be in this week, as last week I travelled in while Alan was still out sick. Hope your feeling better Alan. Leanne

'Animation Meg' recommended the following animation showcase - animade.tv

I have been painting weights on my character, and they all just disappear and go back to where they started.... WHY?? Nothings been ''held'' Ive tried doing it when in the component editor as well and it just reloads joints that i previously zeroed out. Its so frustrating and Ive now wasted about two days. Help anyone please!

Yes. Yes. Yes. YES. Adobe has released some technical demonstrations of a new feature coming to Creative Suite 5 of their Photoshop software. You can watch the Tech videos below on YouTube, and more videos at Abobe's CS5 Launch Site , which features a nice big hype inducing countdown. Video 1: "Content Aware Fill" Video 2: "Patch Match" The end of the first video will blow your mind. Here's hoping it's not an early April Fool's joke ;)

I am looking for an animation. It is about a farther who left his daughter at the beach and the farther sailed away. The daughter then carried on with her life but always returned to the same spot where her farther left her. Later the daughter grew old, so she took action. She crossed the sea of the beach (which turned into a grassy field) and found the boat her farther was in. The daughter then died of old age but in her death she sees her farther. The two of them then reunited. It sounds wierd but the last time I watched it, the short was really good and touching. I forgot the title and the person how made it but the short is a couple of years old, I think. If anyone knows the name of the animation I am talking about please tell me. I will be very greatful.

I was talking to James today about modelling efficiency in Maya, and gave him a few pointers on how to make it a more fun and creative process. Figured I'd make a post here, hopefully it will help some people out. Firstly, when I work, I want to work with as much screen space as possible. So there are a few things I do to ensure this. 1. Hide the Start bar. Right click start bar, go to Properties, and tick "Auto-hide Startbar". -The start bar will now be hidden at the bottom.Just move your mouse down there to show it. -Any IMs received will make the the start bar appear. 2. Change the port views background Colour. Do this by scrolling through with Alt+B, I use the blue one myself. It's easier for your eyes. Less eye strain = more efficient. 3. Remove the User interface entirely. Ctrl + Spacebar to do this. You can access everything that the UI holds simply by holding Shift + Right click, Ctrl + Right click, and spacebar. Holding Spacebar will bring up everyth...

I no we had a tutorial on making these, does anyone have the PDF from myUCA, I can't find it! If you do, please email me at lisa_rothery203@hotmail.com . Thanx