Happy Thanksgiving (cute animation)

Here's a well-made (and cute) Thanksgiving themed animation with a unique style from the talented mind of Timothy Tu.  Happy Thanksgiving to all:



Related website: http://www.ojolie.com *

Happy Thanksgiving (cute animation)

"The Maker" (an excellent stop motion video)

Making a short stop motion clip takes some effort.  Making a high quality stop motion video that runs five and a half minutes long, takes what I can only imagine to be a lot of effort.  So kudos to Zealous Creative for a job well done in giving life to The Maker:




related website: http://www.zealouscreative.com *

"The Maker" (an excellent stop motion video)

A New POV-Ray Tutorial & Other Matters

For those of you who might be thinking of trying your hand at creating animation frames using the (free) POV-Ray raytracing program, I've written a short tutorial on how to do so. It's available here on Stuart Whitmore's  Videoliberty site.

In an unrelated housekeeping note, I've gone through and fixed most (all?) of the broken embeds and links on this blog, most of which were due to the demise of the Revver video hosting service. In cases where I could not find working replacements online (or, more rarely, where I felt the post no longer fit well with the blog) I hit the delete button.  So while the quantity of content here has shrunk, what remains should be working a lot better (and faster too - I deleted a few widgets for reasons unrelated to speed and suddenly found that the pages are loading much more quickly). *

A New POV-Ray Tutorial & Other Matters

Saucer Launch Clip (CC license)

Well, I should have posted this many months ago, but I did finally complete my POV-Ray based clip of a flying saucer taking off:
 

 

 As I mentioned previously, it's available for re-use by other video creators at no charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

For more information, please see the page I created at http://videos.viewmyart.com/clips/video-saucer-launch-clip.htm. *

Saucer Launch Clip (CC license)

Sneak Peek - Saucer Launch

Recently, I've been working on a POV-Ray animation of flying saucer taking off from a launch bay. At right is what the launch bay looks like so far.

I might add or edit a few details, make some lighting changes, but I think it is pretty close the way I want it.

It will be short, but I am planning to release it under a Creative Commons license, so others will be able to incorporate it into their videos. *

Sneak Peek - Saucer Launch

ToonTube Reborn!

I have been happy to see Wes Abrams's ToonTube site (http://www.toonlifeonline.com/toontube/) spring back to life over the past few weeks. ToonTube is an animation forum featuring family friendly animations in a variety of styles (2d, 3d, stop motion, hand drawn, digitally created, etc.) It was comatose for quite a while due to Magnify.net (which formerly powered the site) having imposed a 200 video limitation on their free accounts (and Wes's understandable reluctance to fork over $100 plus dollars a year for something that had previously been free).

Now, however, it's back in the form of a PHP-powered set forum and open to new videos once more. So if you are an animator or just like watching animations, I would encourage you to stop by. Please note the above url carefully as there are a number of other sites with similar names.

(Full disclosure: I'm an admin on ToonTube and an active participant, so I'm definitely not unbiased). *

ToonTube Reborn!

Sitting in a tree, the Catbird utters the cry for which he is named. *