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POPSMummy, that robot is making faces at me Jules is an animatronic head produced by US roboticist David Hanson, who builds uniquely expressive, disembodied heads with flexible rubber skin that is moved by 34 servo motors. Human face movements are picked up by a video camera and mapped onto the tiny electronic motors in Jules' skin. The Bristol team developed its own software to transfer expressions recorded by the video camera into commands to make those servos produce similarly realistic facial movements. However, because the robot's motors are not identical to human facial muscles, some artistic licence was required. After filming an actor making a variety of expressions indicating, say, "happiness", an expert animator selected 10 frames showing different variations of the expression and manually set the servos in Jules's face to match.
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POPSThe rotating grid illusion A surprising optical illusion which is related to temporal aliasing, a visual phenomenon also known as the stroboscopic effect, which accounts for the fact that in video or motion pictures, wheels sometimes appear to be turning backwards.
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POPSTerry Gilliam Interview Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python animator, talks about Life the Universe, and Brazil, the movie he describes as 1984 with guts, or Franz Kafka meets Walter Mitty - I couldn't clip the video in the usual way (64bit and flashplayer don't mix.), but the link on this looks good.
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POPSRockstar paid $100,000 for the voice of Niko Bellic "Had this been a television program, a film, an album, a radio show or virtually any other sort of traditional recorded performance, Mr. Hollick and the other actors in the game would have made millions by now," writes Schiesel -- and important sentence cut out by Clipmarks. Essentially the theory here is that videogame companies need to offer royalties to all the voice actors in the game. The problem, however, is figuring out where to draw the line once you start paying royalties. Is a voice actor more important than an animator? This is one of the concerns facing EA in the possible acquisition of Take-Two: The Houser brothers receive generous royalties from Take-Two that, if acquired, might cause insurrection within Electronic Arts' other studios.
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POPSSteampunk: Re-Imagining the Past This article talks about a 28 minute film that is done in what is known as Steampunk Fiction. What is Steampunk? Alternate Earth Sci-Fi with a focus on technology of now and the future and even the imagination if Steam-power had remained the operating force behind all mechanics and electronics...
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POPSWhatcha Got? Animator Roger Wieland created this music video for the band Trenchcoat using over 10,000 cut-out figures.
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POPSWojtek Wawszczyk - "Headless" Content: Why it happens that you lose your head, how hard it is to get a substitute, and of what importance your heart is to regain your head. - - - - - - Wojtek Wawszczyk: director, designer, writer, character animator, animation supervisor; education: the Polish National Film School in Lodz, Poland, and the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. - - - - - - See also Wawszczyk's short film "Pingwin" (Penguin) . - - - - - - Can't see anything? Then you might be visiting my ClipCast. Click "see Classic View" or this link , and the unvisible will be visible. :)
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POPSWojtek Wawszczyk: "Pingwin" (Penguin) Somehow, this is a parable on symbiotically breaking through the lines of forlornness. - - - - - - Wojtek Wawszczyk: director / designer / writer / character animator / animation supervisor; education: the Polish National Film School in Lodz, Poland, and the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. - - - - - - See also Wawszczyk's short film "Headless" .
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POPSPivot Forum Tripod Collaboration Another collab made by PF. if you are insterested in animating check out pivot Forum and we ca help you out. Pivot Forum: http://z4.invisionfree.com/Pivot_Forum/index.php?act=idx
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POPSPviot Forum Collaboration This is the first collab EVER made on pivot forum! It was managed by your truly. if your instersted in animationg check out pivot forum and we can help you. here da link http://z4.invisionfree.com/Pivot_Forum/index.php?act=idx
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POPSMy friends Pivot Animation yhis is an animation my friend named jather made. if your instersted in animating you can download pivot stick figure animator for free at download.com. and if you ever start needing help visit pivot forum at this link: http://z4.invisionfree.com/Pivot_Forum/index.php?act=idx
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POPSReview An excellent documentary on the life and work of this Toronto artist and his view of the the state of the world.
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