CAD Conversion
If you are needing something that exists in your real world to exist in the animation world, you may want to look at these examples.
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February 19 2013
We Have Something, Have We Not?
With the opening of the Pie Spot just a few weeks ago at the Ocean complex, I’ve completed principle photography on the documentary short I’ve been working on. Now I need to cut the thing together. Oy. I’m totally guessing, but I think we’re up there in the shooting ratio of 80:1. The idea for the short is to use it as a promotional piece to garner funding for a feature length cut, but we want to have enough in the can to make a fuller version should that rainbow…
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November 20 2012
Making Waves Not Tracks
Remember the Recession? We’ve just lived through the most difficult economic times this country has known since the Great Depression–the worst in the Modern Era. Two industries that suffered greatly in the recession were automobiles and construction. It’s easy to forget that in early 2009 the stimulus package that included the auto industry bailout was controversial and uncertain. The legislation shut down Timberline Dodge on Sandy Boulevard in Portland, a family-owned local business that had operated for decades on the thoroughfare. Sandy Boulevard once stood par exemplar of American Success. The…
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January 17 2012
More than Games Part 2: Takeaways from Unite11
(This article is a continuation from More than Games Part 1. Check out Part 3 here.) This year I had the pleasure of attending Unite11, a conference for developers on the Unity3D platform. Here are some more non-game uses for Unity that I found really interesting. Interactive Training Another burgeoning field for interactive 3D applications is training. This is more than just pictures, animation and quizzes. Using a 3D interactive engine opens up training skills that, in the past, would have required a real-world training environment and instructors. In our age of limited…
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April 5 2011
Animation versus Video
Ok, you know you need to have a “Video” whether it’s on your company website or YouTube or Facebook. Video is the fastest growing data type out there. Now you can watch high quality video even on your phone. If there was ever a time to make the leap and make an investment, this is it. So, how do you decide when to use video and when to use animation? We get this question all the time, so, from our perspective, here are some things to consider: What does every successful project…
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