--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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.
That's a great link! If you look in the Web Design for Animators portion of my site you'll see listings almost every week for animator's portfolio sites. Some of them are really great...inspiring. I'm not an animator, I just teach them Flash and Dreamweaver. Thanks--Ben 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/
