Anima

Here is an example of the best 360 video quality we can pull off at the moment:

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This is a VERY basic Mecanium tutorial for those who want to take advantage of the example animations found within the video tutorial below. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a brief outline and example of how to create a control panel for animations in Maya 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

I gave up on exporting Adobe Flash movies years ago, for two reasons. Because the final movie looked so fuzzy / bad / compressed, and because my movieclips didn’t play at all (I thought i’d have to do every animation as new keyframes, with no repeated clips). I’ve figured out both of these problems (and will include export settings below).
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I know you can snap a camera to a curve, but wondered how you’d handle switching between 2 curves. Here are two solutions:
http://www.creativecrash.com/forums/animation/topics/one-camera-attached-to-two-motion-paths

(a script to decide which motion path drives translation during which frames, or just keying the level of influence from multiple constraints).
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