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| basic questions to enter into animation | 10/4/2009 |
Q: love watching movies with special fx, animation & I would love it if I were a part of the making of ...
A: it's hard to say how to determine whether or not you are creative. You probably already know one way ...
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| computer games and moniters | 9/26/2009 |
Q: It happened when my brother just turned the computer off with the button not the proper shut down ...
A: Well this isn't exactly my area of expertise, but I would look at the display properties and see ...
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| animation questions | 9/9/2009 |
Q: My Name is Carven. I am a college student am considering majoring in a design-related education. ...
A: there is a lot of questions here but I will do my best to answer them. First, I work in the field of ...
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| How do I acchieve this effect on craigdavid.com | 8/24/2009 |
Q: How do I create the entrance video of Craig David talking about is his website for 20 seconds and ...
A: The website is Flash, you might want to ask someone in web development. Essentially it's a Flash ...
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| Image In Pieces | 8/19/2009 |
Q: I had an idea that in concept is pretty simple, but at least when it comes to animating it seems to ...
A: I think I understand your question but I'm not aware of any application that will do exactly what ...
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| FELIX the CAT help? | 7/18/2009 |
Q: Does anyone know what the pupils of Felix the cat are called? The ones that look like PAC man. I ...
A: well this question is related to hand drawn animation techniques. His pupils are just shapes, an ...
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| AE Timeline | 6/29/2009 |
Q: I'd like to make changes to a short movie in After Effects, but it only renders a small portion of ...
A: You might have to adjust the "Work Area" bar on the top of the timeline. Just grab and pull the ends ...
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| !Q | 6/13/2009 |
Q: I never used any of these software's. I just found them recently in the market. I need to buy some ...
A: What exactly do you need to do? Adobe makes all kinds of software for various applications. ...
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| blender | 5/21/2009 |
Q: sir, this is venkatesh from India.i have come across a open source software named blender.i like ...
A: Blender is a great way to get into 3D since it's open source. I would check out the tutorials and ...
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| Stick figures to print in a manual | 5/17/2009 |
Q: I would like to make stick figure scenes of a person flying a paper airplane to another person, for ...
A: The best option would be to use a vector based application like CAD so you can reuse and edit the ...
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| Master's degree | 4/11/2009 |
Q: i am rahul.Rihgt now I am about to complete my bachelor's degree in computer science engineering at ...
A: First, there is nothing wrong with a getting a Master's degree in visual effects and animation while ...
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| graphics with text and image | 4/2/2009 |
Q: how i can write text on foldings of cloths without showing it a flat
A: I'm assuming this is a 3ds max question and your text is applied as a bitmap. If your mesh starts ...
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| resolution | 2/9/2009 |
Q: What is the best resolution (for possible enlargement to a 35mm print) to render a clip in After ...
A: 35mm refers to an analog format, if you know what size print you'd like to make it's easier to ...
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| TurboCAD | 2/5/2009 |
Q: From: Subject: TurboCAD Designer Version 3. I live in Europe in The Netherlands (Holland). For ...
A: You should contact TurboCAD about this. There are ways to run older programs in a "compatibility" ...
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| Make Dominos fall in 3ds Max | 2/4/2009 |
Q: I have an issue, I need to keep my dominoes falling, as they stop on the 2nd domino. How do I link ...
A: You need to do one of 2 things. You either have to add keyframes of the falling motion to each ...
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| Can I ask you about a camcorder? | 11/20/2008 |
Q: Do you know about camcorders, specifically an Hitachi 8mm VM-E520A? I want to know what kind of ...
A: You need capture hardware and software. There are plenty of consumer versions available. Basically ...
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| whether to join animation cources or not | 11/15/2008 |
Q: Sir,i am a graduate from B.sc & also persuing my one year software diploma course from NIIT.Sir now ...
A: There's certinaly nothing wrong with expanding your skillset by taking up some animation courses. I ...
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| RESOLUTIOIN RELATED | 11/10/2008 |
Q: What is the resolution of 70mm Movie? Hi I want to know the resolution setup (like 720 X 576 for ...
A: That is not an easy question to answer. Film is analog, it's hard to provide a direct ...
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| Vector Art Animation | 11/1/2008 |
Q: do you have any idea how to make a vector art animation.. you find in youtube vector art animation.. ...
A: Here is a link to some After Effects tutorials. ...
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| Vector Art Animation | 10/31/2008 |
Q: do you have any idea how to make a vector art animation.. you find in youtube vector art animation.. ...
A: Two good vector animation apps are Flash and Toonboom. I've listed below a couple sites for ...
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| RENDERING SYSTEM INFORMATION | 10/21/2008 |
Q: I am studying 3d, maya, Which system is the very very best for RENDERING PURPOSE?(workstation or ...
A: A server is just a name given to any computer that operates as a network machine. A workstation is a ...
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| animation | 10/4/2008 |
Q: I'm quite interested in a double major of Animation and Cinematography/Video Production. I would ...
A: sorry I just got this question sent to me. My background is in architectural rendering and animation ...
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| Pixar Software | 10/2/2008 |
Q: just a quick question for you: What 3d modeling/animation programmes do the film makers Pixar use? ...
A: Hey Lee, you are correct regarding Pixar and their proprietary Renderman. Beyond that, most studios ...
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| matte painting | 9/13/2008 |
Q: sir im a student right now ....and studying animation ...and wanted to build up my career in matte ...
A: I would think about what industry you're most interested in. If it's gaming, you may want to do 3ds ...
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| wide screen formats | 9/4/2008 |
Q: After Effects has several wide screen formats to choose from. Which would you recommend, and which ...
A: Hollywood movies usually use a widescreen format that is wider than our HDTV standard. HDTV is 16x9 ...
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| 2d versus 3d | 8/16/2008 |
Q: With 2d animation, can I scan in my own art work and animate it from there? What is the difference ...
A: Look at VectorEye, On2 Flix or Silhouette for Illustrator regarding vectorizstion software. The PC ...
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| 2d versus 3d | 8/15/2008 |
Q: With 2d animation, can I scan in my own art work and animate it from there? What is the difference ...
A: Yes you can scan in your art work but to truly animate it you may need to vectorize it. This means ...
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| animating a picture sequence | 8/9/2008 |
Q: I imported a series of PNG pictures that make up an animation into After Effects as a "sequence" and ...
A: You can quickly change how fast or slow the entire composition is by adjusting it's frame rate. You ...
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| career in animation | 8/7/2008 |
Q: I am not sure whether to go for 3d animation or 2d animation or any other animation. Can you please ...
A: 3D has a greater number of applications, gaming, television, visualization, even cartoons. If you go ...
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| 2d animation on flash | 8/4/2008 |
Q: . i have a 2D animated job from an expensive airline company.. they have provided the photos and the ...
A: What is the schedule and total run time expected to be? The cost can vary greatly based on these ...
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| school for animation. | 7/25/2008 |
Q: I was wondering on your thoughts on 1 year animation courses.I looked at http://www.daveschool.com/ ...
A: I'm not familiar with the school you linked but their info seems very impressive, although so does ...
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| Modeling | 6/15/2008 |
Q: Although I use Maya, I am sure you can still answer these quick questions. I have been practicing ...
A: I would generally model the head with the mouth open. It doesn't have to be wide open, but at least ...
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| animation | 6/14/2008 |
Q: explain 3D and 2D animation.
A: 3D animation refers to working with models in all 3 axis of space, X,Y,Z. Essentially you are ...
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| Pivot | 6/10/2008 |
Q: a friend of mine recommanded this program and i was wondering how does it compare to the other ...
A: . Pivot is just a free program for animating stick figures. It's interesting, but I'm not sure how ...
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| creatoon | 6/9/2008 |
Q: i was wondering how to uploading pictures from "gimp" to "creatoon" you proably dont know but im ...
A: I'm not familiar with those programs, but it sounds like you are have an issue with the alpha ...
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| worth of animation course | 5/30/2008 |
Q: i am 20 and doing 12th for 3rd time , i want to know that doing only 3d animation and vfx course on ...
A: I'm not sure what you're referring to with 12th for the 3rd time and 10+2. I'm in the US. I can say ...
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| animation | 4/29/2008 |
Q: i am learning animation in 3d max.please guide me. when i think of making a small animation like a ...
A: For you first question, I would make a keyframe at the beginning of your characters jump and at the ...
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| laptop for 3dmaxs | 4/17/2008 |
Q: greetings. i would like to ask if 3dmax 9 would be advisable to be run by laptop computers..?? i've ...
A: You can run 3ds max on a laptop, I do all the time. I would suggest you focus on the cpu as that is ...
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| Help | 2/18/2008 |
Q: Hey Andrew, My name is Addison, and I was wondering if you could answer the following questions. I ...
A: I'd be glad to give you some pointers to get you started. To answer the first portion of your ...
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| Flash or Java or??? | 1/2/2008 |
Q: I'm a complete bozo when it comes to this stuff, so bear with me! I'm looking at various site ...
A: web stuff is really out of my area of expertise but I can give you a few suggestions. First, Flash ...
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