--- In [email protected], "benjaminccollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Animation is very cool and very very time consuming. That animation > was created with #D Studio Max by Discreet Software. Check out their > web site for some very very cool stuff. http://www.discreet.com/ > My guess is that little animation took 60-100 hours to create. > > I teach multimedia and 2D animatoin at an art school in LA. There is > an animation department and what they can do is nothing short of > amazing. What makes this woman's work so exceptional is her sense of > story which is what is usually missing.
The story was great, but what I really found wonderful was her ability to portray the feelings and move the story along with what was a very minimalist set of expressions, both facial and body. I mean, she used squash and stretch, and changes in eyebrow shape (for the owner/friend), and a smile, and that was basically it. > > I teach my students to program games using Flash which is a 2D > aniumation tool. You can see some of their work at the following > link. It is nowhere as good...but fun anyway. I've used ToonBoom a bit, trying to learn the ins and outs of Maya. > > http://bencollins.net/Pages/Brooks/ActionScript/ActionScriptMenu.htm > Thanks for the URL. Do you or your students visit http://www.cgtalk.com very much? An overwhelming amound of stuff there. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
