Hi Oleg, I used Keynote which is just Apple's amped up version of PowerPoint. I had heard of Blender before, but have never used it. My usual tools are Apple's Final Cut Pro, Shake and Motion, since they were the ones available when I needed to create video. The nice thing about Blender is that it is free, open and would have more potential across a larger community of developers. I'll try to get time to play with it and see how steep the learning curve is! The links you provided on the other email are most useful, (although one of them is a duplicate ;) )
Cheers, bob On -Feb2-2010, at -Feb2-201010:03 AM, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > Hi Bob, what do you use for animation. > > Maybe it'd be good to come up with a toolkit, > based on Blender or something, so that new > stuff can be easily added. Then people may > want to get on board. > > > > >> From: bob therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com> >> >> Thanks for the review, Ian >> >> It definitely needs to be sped up and, although music could be added, it was >> going to be finished with a voice over and sound effects. I hadn't got >> around to >> final version, but when I read Oleg's comment about animation, I exported >> the >> 'work in progress' to YouTube. YouTube does provide a string for embedding, >> but >> I didn't think it would work within an email. >> >> I would be happy to work on animations as they were needed for specific >> primitives. My experience says that there is a certain level of fundamental >> understanding that is required before animations are really effective, >> before >> that they tend towards eye-candy (or worse misleading). If you have a >> primitive >> in mind let me know and we can go through some iterations to see how >> productive >> we are. >> >> Cheers, bob >> >> ps. you can put videos into J labs as well, by using the jbrowser file and >> calling specific URL's hiding it within the PREPARE section. >> eg. >> PREPARE >> launch_jbrowser_ >> 'http://www.apple.com/ca/ipodtouch/what-is/pocket-computer.html' >> PREPARE >> It has been a while since I have done this and the result is that a whole >> browser window will open, but when refined this may have some possibilities. >> I'm >> not as sure how this will work with the new browser interface. bt >> >> On -Feb1-2010, at -Feb1-20106:43 PM, Ian Clark wrote: >> >>> I like it, Bob. >>> >>> The minimalism may arise from it being a first effort, but it shows >>> it's neither necessary nor wise to over-egg the pudding. >>> >>> Minor crits: could do with being sped up. Needs music. YouTube has a >>> library of free soundtracks: you can just attach one for now. >>> >>> YouTube movies can be easily embedded in your own html file. Stefano & >>> I have done it. They generate you an > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm