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Monday, August 31, 2009

Sparkle in Motion

Sparkle's tip of the day: Did you know that you can copy the pose of one arm to the other, and one leg to the other?  Create an edit block, then select it so its properties show up in the inspector.  You'll see buttons for copying arms and legs.

New release!

There's a new release of Animeeple! Take a look at these new features.
- Retargeting preview: When you import an animation, you can preview it retargeted onto a skinned character.  Just press the preview button on the import dialog.
- Banner images: Selling stuff in the Animeeple marketplace?  Now you can upload banner images!  Check out your Animeeple profile to get started.
- User-suggested features: Copying joint values to symmetric limbs and marking the origin are just two of the great user-suggested features we've implemented for this release.  Thanks for the feedback!

As always, let us know what you think!  Happy animating.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Sparkle in Motion

Sparkle's tip of the day: Did you know you can rearrange the panels in the Animeeple UI?  Click the title bar of any panel and drag it where you want.  To make a panel into a separate window, drag the title bar out of the main window.

For those of you in Austin, Texas, GDC Austin is offering a free one-night stay at the Residence Inn in downtown Austin if you register for an all-access or main conference pass today.  The code is GDCAROOM.

Happy Friday!  Enjoy the weekend!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Sparkle in Motion

Sparkle's tip of the day: To move your view of your Animeeple scene, click and drag the left mouse button to rotate, middle mouse button to pan, and the right mouse button to zoom.  Or, if you have a one-button mouse, you can use the keyboard shortcuts.  Hold down the 'z' key, then click and drag the mouse to zoom.  Pressing 'x' plus clicking and dragging the mouse will pan.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sparkle in Motion

 
Today's tip:  Press the 'escape' key to unselect everything.  Handy, no?

Monday, August 24, 2009

Thanks for writing about us!

Check out these blog posts about Animeeple. Thanks guys! These are just some of the ones I've found. If you know of others, let me know.

http://freemotionfiles.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-motion-captures-from-animeeplecom.html
http://machinima-studios.blogspot.com/2009/05/animeeple-free-animation-software.html
http://www.cgrecord.net/2009/04/animeeple-updated-bvh-fbx-collada.html
http://styledesignallnation.blogspot.com/2009/07/animeeple-update-and-truebones-sale.html

Zero Punctuation

For those of you that haven't checked it out yet, Okan and I are big fans of Zero Punctuation, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation.  Zero Punctuation is a collection of video game reviews that I think can best be described as snarkily hilarious.  Imagine a guy who has never heard of periods or commas (hence the name) narrating South Park style animations that make fun of video games.  Here is the review of Sims 3.

Monday, August 10, 2009

SIGGRAPH highlights

We're back from SIGGRAPH! What an inspiring, exhausting week. Here are some of the papers that really stood out, though this list is by no means complete:

1) Bokode - a clever replacement for big, ugly bar codes on packaging (image from bokode.com)


2) Dark flash - two orders of magnitude dimmer than a conventional flash
3) Gabor noise - procedural noise loaded with provably nice properties
4) All the motion synthesis papers. It's especially amazing how far physically-based animation has come.

You can get the complete list of Siggraph 2009 papers here: http://kesen.huang.googlepages.com/sig2009.html

Saturday, August 1, 2009

New release!

We've got a new release of Animeeple for you! By popular demand, we've added multiple takes. That means that you can have more than one timeline for the same character. Watch for a new tutorial on using this feature.

We've also added a view of the scene hierarchy so you can more easily navigate what you've built.

As always, let us know what you think!