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Articles Reviews

featuredimage The Spine an animated short film by Chris Landreth

Chris Landreth’s animated short The Spine, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, was honored with the Best of the Festival award – the top prize – at the 2009 Melbourne International Animated Festival on Sunday, June 28. Landreth received this same honor in 2005 for his Academy Award winning short Ryan.

featuredimage el Empleo

On his usual route to work, a man is confronted with a system in which the degradation of people to objects is in every day’s agenda.

featuredimage Pinscreen Animation

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows. The technique has been used to create animated films with a range of textural effects difficult to achieve with traditional cel animation.

2009 Animated Movies Preview

Planet 51, The Secret of Kells, Astro Boy, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Battle for Terra, The Princess and the Frog, Up

featuredimage 2009 Annecy Award Winners

Annecy Animation film festival has announced the 2009 prizewinners today.
Slavar for the best Short Film, Coraline, Mary and Max and Brendan et le secret de Kells for the best Feature Film and Log Jam “The Log”, “The Rain”, “The Moon”, “The Snake” for the best TV series were this year Annecy’s” Cristal” winners.

Adobe Tutorials

3 Tips to Create Better Text Morphing in Adobe Flash

1. Because the morphing is an automatic process, we need a tool to control how the tween occurs. Shape hinting helps you to get some control over it.



featuredimage How to Distress Font in Adobe Illustrator

Video tutorial plus a unique and artistically designed grunge-brushes for Photoshop.



Best Flash Character Animation Video Tutorials

Flash Tutorial on Four Leg Walk Cycles, Flash Animation Tutorial: Two Leg Walk Cycles, Inverse Kinematics in Flash CS4, Lip-Syncing in Flash, Drawing and Animating a Character in Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Advanced Character Animation in Macromedia Flash



How to create a 3D animated logo by using “Google SketchUp” and Adobe Photoshop Extended

Unlike the other expensive 3D programs “Google SketchUp 7” is a free and very useful 3D program which can provide us with a wide range of 3D objects.



featuredimage Editing Animation layers in Adobe Photoshop Extended

After creating some image sequences in adobe Photoshop extended, it is time to import and edit the video images based on the x-sheet we created earlier. There are different ways to import video files and image sequences. But here I am going to reload it directly to layers palette. In doing so, do the following.