Guaranteed to creep you out. The sound and camera work made this film for me. It was an official selection at the Los Angeles Short Films Festival and the Magma Short Film Festival in Sicily in 2006. A salute to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing.net for highlighting this.
May 162012
In this easy-to-follow facial animation tutorial, you will learn about all of the powerful features of iClone’s facial puppet and other animation tools that can help you bring your character’s expression and speech to life. You’ll get a walkthrough of audio lip-syncing and how to refine it, as well as how to add emotion to it using the various facial animation options.
May 162012
YouTube is obviously not the only network developing original programming for the web Tubefilter News has this article reporting on the plans of Blip.tv to enter into agreements with select independent program producers for original web programs. Blip.tv also has a reputation of being a bit more… generous than some other networks when it comes to revenue sharing.
Okay, this is simply wonderful… adorable… wonderfully adorable! I look forward to more of this series. Of course, I look forward to anything from Mefune Akira.
LMAO STUDIOS presents our new family comedy series, The Adventures of Sierra & Emily. Thanks to the talented voice acting from my adorable daughter (8) and my wonderful niece (6), this was a project you couldn’t stop me from making.
Starring Emily N & Sierra N, as two rambunctious kids out to explore and discover.Emily N as Herself
Sierra N as Herself
Executive Producer JennyN
Sound, music, script and direction by Mefune Akira
A LMAO Studios Production
May 142012
I am a MechWarrior vet from waaaaaaaaay back. There has got to be a great machinima in this! Somebody, please!
Set in the year 3049 during the early stages of a massive interstellar war, MechWarrior Online puts you in command of the most powerful war machine to ever walk the field of battle, the mighty BattleMech™. Command your Mech™ and customize it to suit your battlefield role; upgrade systems, replace weapons, and tweak armor with endless options. MechWarrior Online lets players command at will: go head-to-head online alone or with friends in high-octane Conquest and VS modes. Band together and form your own Mercenary Corp, invite friends and battle other player-made Merc Corps for prestige and power. Pledge your allegiance to one of the five great houses and fight for control of precious Inner Sphere planets.
Website: http://www.mwomercs.com
May 142012
Episode 2 of The SuperMes sees Anita finding out that real life can be a bit of a pain. She may be young, but when it comes to ambition Anita knows no limits. She’s got a great job, a loving boyfriend and she knows exactly what she wants out of life. So when her world starts to unravel around her, Anita is devastated. Who can she turn to, to pull herself out of the pits? Herself, obviously — she’s Anita.
The SuperMes was produced by Somethin’ Else for Channel 4 and is powered by The Sims 3 ™. The SuperMes is an online exclusive for Channel4.
May 132012
I had to share this with you. 17 seconds of simple beauty and love for Mother’s Day.
May 132012
Roger Langridge has said that he will no longer work for Marvel Comics or DC Comics. The cartoonist claimed that he can no longer continue working for the ‘Big Two’ over his ethical concerns about the treatment of creators.
I love my comics. That love includes admiration and respect for those who created the characters and stories I have literally grown up with. And I had been bothered by certain recent events and reports before I found this news item concerning and interview with Roger Langridge. I found it interesting because I easily and quickly saw the parallels with the animation, machinima and web video industries. Recent articles concerning the compensation, crediting and treatment of comic artists, manga artists, animators and web video creators by various studios, channels and networks are becoming too numerous to ignore. When CEOs are allowed to openly brag about how they can actually get talented young animators to not only work for them for free or but get them to pay for their own “internships,” there is something very, very wrong.
In a world when everything seems to be about “how much how quickly” and the corporate profit bulge it may seem rather quaint to actually think about ethics. However, I am glad to see there are those like Roger Langridge who still consider such quaint things as ethics important in their life. I respect them for being willing to take the inevitable broadsides and hits from the established behemoths to whisper a subtle message to all of us. It is up to us as individuals to decide whether to heed their message.
Rambling complete.
The Digital Spy article can be read here.
The Orbital Comics podcast with the interview with Roger Langridge can be found here.
These are some of the smoothest animations for iClone characters I have seen. They do not appear to have some of the movement eccentricities I have seen in many, if not most, iClone animations. For instance, watch the feet… they do not appear to slide as if on ice. They stop with precision. There is friction. Excellent demo.
This package can be purchased here. For those accustomed to the more casual user pricing of DAZ, be prepared for a bit of a shock though it should be noted that DAZ has a few high end packages that show the same professional quality, smoothness and elegance as these animations.
*The Video was real-time rendered in iClone.*
This pack includes 21 martial arts motions and 27 belly dancing motions which were made by real experts and dancer to give them a great sense of authenticity. The motions are so incredibly detailed that you may even learn something for yourself! You are able to see the precise techniques employed by the dancing characters and the subtle movements in the feet and hips. For instance, you can see the natural toe-to-ground gesture for bare-foot dancers.
The motions are from Reallusion EXCLUSIVE bundle – Introductory Content Pack – containing DAZ Genesis characters, exiquisite motions which you can benefit froom the fusion between iClone and DAZ. The pack also includes a full set of body, face morphs, with 3 kinds of ethnic face morphs including Native American, Asian, African and the universal Hampton hair base which provides you with more versatility and value. Get these dual-power packs for your animation today!
In this brief demonstration video, you will learn some key tips about how to optimize the appearance of your Daz character when converting it into iClone format. By adjusting the various texture maps of your Daz character in 3DXchange, you can refine the appearance of any character so that it’s appearance in iClone format looks just as good as the original. You can then embed them with your character for import into iClone.
