Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Reallusion Releases Downtown Metro Content Pack for iClone

Reallusion has just released a very attractive, and very sophisticated content pack for iClone, its rapid 3D creation software: Downtown Metro, volume 1. The pack requires iClone 3.2 or above and includes buildings (12), shops (11), floors (8), signs (2), street lights (4) and assorted street items (7), traffic signs (s) and a panorama prop. It’s currently on sale for U$79.50 - a savings of 20% - until March 20th when it will go to its regular price of U$95.95

Here is some additional information about the pack’s contents:

City Block Design

This pack provides modern New York style streets with attachable building block System that can be connected and combined. It includes 12 buildings and 11 shops. You can create a mid-rise neighborhood with large, several-story buildings or design and customize these buildings by adding shops to the first floor. Users can edit textures to create unique store signs and display windows.

Interactive Props

We also provide interactive props such as traffic signs and street lights with Glow textures for users to make more realistic lighting effects. The right click switching function also makes producing films a lot easier. We keep the parent structure for doors of selected buildings and shops, so users can move, rotate or hide them according to their filming needs.

City Expansion

With the subway entrance included, you can create your own underground labyrinth of subways stations or you can expand your city with other buildings from other content packs in our content store. Let your imagination run wild!

Be sure to check out these detailed toturials: City Planning, Change Shop Signs, Make Unique Shops, and Use iProps.

GoAnimate Updates Its Free Online 2D Animation Studio

Yesterday, GoAnimate announced some excellent news and revealed that it had made some big changes to its online animation studio. Areas directly affected include performance (faster load), multi-state props (step-by-step-rollout), outline on mouse over (highlighted items easier to see) and a new screen after saving.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

overcast #48

Phil and Ricky talk this week about video encoding, voiceover recording tips, the mind-blowing film “Escape from City 17,” and more. Then Ricky closes the show with some impromptu beat-boxing.

overcast #048 (download)

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Tutorial: GoAnimate’s Star Trek Studio

As Clive Young, Author of “Homemade Hollywood” (review coming soon) over at Fan Cinema Today pointed out in his post, Star Trek Gets A Little Animated, the bar for making Star Trek fan films has possibly been set a bit high. Some of the budgets are now approaching one hundred thousand dollars! However, for those with more modest budgets, check out this tutorial from GoAnimate on how to use their recently licensed Star Trek assets to create your very own TOS movie.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

GoAnimate Star Trek Graphics

Here are some screenshots and composite images from GoAnimate’s Star Trek Studio. While I am a fan of Star Trek (TOS), I can only hope that assets from The Next Generation (TNG), Deep Space Nine (DS9) and most especially Voyager (VOY) will soon make their appearance on the GoAnimate site. Enterprise, not so much.