Manufacturing
Wouldn’t it be great to see how all the gears and the whatchamacallits inside that product actually work? We can make that magic happen.
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March 13 2012
What I get to go to this week!
I’m in the City of Angels this week to go to the first 5D Flux conference, and I’m actually quite excited. The focus of the event is ‘digital design & world building in the narrative media landscape.’ A month ago I met Alex McDowell at Trans4m and he told me about his new venture, 5D. After many years of working in feature filmmaking with a focus on 3D and production design he was now looking to bring the concept of World Building to folks outside of the entertainment field. I shared…
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March 1 2012
Trends in Digital Signage, or what I hope to see next week at DSE2012
I attended the Digital Signage Expo in 2010, and wasn’t able to attend last year. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new and different in the industry. If you want a snapshot of what was happening in 2010 you can refer to this post. http://animationdynamics.com/2010/03/23/challenges-in-the-digital-signage-industry/ One of the biggest trends I’ve been noticing is not around the execution of digital signage, but around mergers, acquisition and straight up closures of many players in the industry. I think that marks a turning point in maturation for the industry as people figure out…
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February 3 2012
The Quirky Mind
Quirky is a crowd-source invention company, whose process utilizes the web. People can submit an idea for $10.00 and pitch it, giving the problem and solution, in their mind, and the community votes on it and adds their comments. This is something I have been wanting for years, not being able to shell out the funds for a patent lawyer and the research. Despite Google’s push to put patent search online (currently in beta), it’s still a tough and expensive task for the individual to get an invention…
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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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January 15 2012
Taking Ethnographic Animation on the Road
I’ve been yapping about Ethnographic Animation for the past year or so, mostly to local and regional audiences, as well as a really fun presentation at PDMA’s PIM last October in Phoenix, and I’m about to get on the road again for two more upcoming conferences that I believe will give back as much knowledge to me as I am gonna put out there. First up, next week, I head to Phoenix on the 15th and will do a short workshop on EA at The Creative Leadership Academy. “The Creative Leadership…
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