I recently
read about a piece of software that Pixar uses in house to iterate story ideas called "Pitch Docter" (named after Peter Docter). I'm curious to see if anything non-proprietary exists out there.
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posted by AceRock
on Apr 29, 2013 -
5 answers
If I was to go from zero to learning one tool/software for professional 2d video animation and editing (creating simple animation/transitions and splicing live/animated content) what should it be?
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posted by DaftMythic
on Jan 28, 2013 -
4 answers
Hey all!
I can use any program/format, but it is in .PSD, CS5 now. Question:
I have 2 animations, both 30 frames, how can we insert the second animation, into the first and have both play, and be able to move each individual movie (across all frames) into place? Thanks everyone, and a bit more detail below :)
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posted by 1inabillionmistake
on Jan 7, 2013 -
3 answers
Does anyone have any examples of some cartoons that reference Film Noir or are drawn in a noir-esque fashion/explore noir themes?
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posted by cloeburner
on Dec 13, 2012 -
17 answers
My daughter loves to make cartoons on GoAnimate.com. But it is an incredibly cranky site on Chrome on her Mac, often freezing, and always incredibly slow. Is it just a slow site? Would it be better on a different browser? Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Are the student or professional versions faster? Is there a better site to make animations on? (She's 8.)
posted by musofire
on Dec 2, 2012 -
2 answers
animated 1970s tv series about U.S. History? this is NOT the schoolhouse rock episodes. the one i am remembering was more serious, working through historical situations with animated scenes. the episode i remember most vividly was about the British burning the white house. does anyone else remember this series and what the name of it was?? might have been made around the bicentennial, but not sure.
posted by cmp4Meta
on Nov 27, 2012 -
9 answers
I'm trying to find a short Japanese animation that I saw on youtube several years ago. It was definitely in a science fiction setting. The most memorable aspect was the shifting POV, moving between characters as they fight in a war, with a character becoming the hero or villain immediately after we start to follow someone else.
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posted by GDWJRG
on Nov 27, 2012 -
3 answers
I am looking for a 2D animation toolkit that helps me animate various actors, like man, woman, cat and helps in realising various actions like sleeping, running, etc. with programmatical ease. I have looked into processing.org and started to toy with simple geometric shapes, but yet to stumble across an animation with man/woman actors. Could you help me find some good resources where I could learn to animate such things? TIA.
posted by godugu
on Oct 4, 2012 -
3 answers
I want to make a whiteboard animation without a camera -- i.e. an iPad, Android tablet or, if need be, a Wacom/PC combo.
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posted by blueshammer
on Sep 12, 2012 -
5 answers
Making stop motion animation with an iPhone: Is there an inexpensive camera dolly that will allow one to change the position of the camera (i.e. iPhone) while moving the dolly?
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Sep 9, 2012 -
4 answers
Can I Convert Video Footage to Animation? We are making a video documentary about college students and their attitudes towards dating and sex. Much of the documentary involves one interviewer interviewing different people on the same set. As you might guess, many of the potential subjects are reluctant to speak candidly onscreen, BUT, most of them will consent to their voices being used…I am wondering if there is some not-crazily-expensive way to take a video interview and, using some kind of software, animate it, turning the interviewer and subject into animated avatars. The animation does not have to be super super high quality—a fairly simple avatar for each of the people onscreen will do…We have a lot of technical and post-production people on the crew, so someone involved probably has access to almost any software program available…Any help—especially specific programs or plug-ins—would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
posted by laswingkid
on Aug 30, 2012 -
12 answers
Help me look for Classical Greece themed art for Monty Python-esque animation backgrounds!
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posted by Tom-B
on Aug 27, 2012 -
2 answers
Is there a separate term for the animation that results from moving a static image around on a screen, vs. the kind of animation that results from using an animated gif or sprite sheet?
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posted by SuperSquirrel
on Jul 23, 2012 -
6 answers
Does anyone know a way to find the old web cartoons from monkeysrobots.com?
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posted by azoth
on Jun 23, 2012 -
2 answers
Yet another "help me identify this half-remembered thing from my childhood" post. Please help me identify this vaguely-remembered anime about a robot child?
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posted by Ziggy500
on Jun 12, 2012 -
6 answers
An entertainment company is interested in an online animated comedy series I'm creating. How much should I ask per episode?
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posted by anonymous
on May 31, 2012 -
6 answers
I want to make a lightweight, non-Flash animation for my webpage that looks like this one example...
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posted by pavane
on May 18, 2012 -
3 answers
Do you know a program that would allow even a dummy to generate fractal zoom videos? Or do you know a person who likes to generate fractal zoom videos, for free?
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posted by troywestfield
on May 7, 2012 -
4 answers
What is a good free (or free trial) animation software I can download for a project at work?
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posted by msk1985
on Apr 18, 2012 -
5 answers
How do mobile developers detect screen sizes, types and other information about the display of various phones in the wild?
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posted by loquacious
on Apr 17, 2012 -
3 answers
Graphicnovelfilter : I am very much a novice when it comes to graphic novels but have enjoyed the realist works of Joe Sacco (The Fixer & Palestine) and The Burma Chronicles (Guy Delise) initially kickstarted along time ago by my stumbling upon Harvey Pekar (American Splendour). What other graphic novels of this nature should I be tracking down? I'm interested in International Relations / Politics / History / Travel / Journalism / Espionage - as well as more esoteric perspectives on the world - so anything ticking these boxes would be great.
posted by numberstation
on Mar 21, 2012 -
26 answers
I'm looking for the name of an animated short film involving two humanoids (male and female) who live in a bubble house at the bottom of the sea. After a long argument between the two about venturing outside the safety of their home, one of them leaves the bubble, holds his/her breath on an epic journey to the surface, only to find himself/herself floating alone in the middle of a seemingly infinite sea. I think I saw in on TNT in 1991 whilst tripping balls and it BLEW MY MIND.
What is this animated movie?
posted by mrgrimm
on Mar 8, 2012 -
4 answers
Is there a name for the kind of aesthetic you find in
Sailor Moon, the
Sixth Doctor's TV intro, and Robot Unicorn Attack? What's the history of the whole magical-sparkles-in-space
thing, and where can I find more of it?
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posted by PhoBWanKenobi
on Feb 23, 2012 -
13 answers
Valentine's Day video: I'm a really babe in the woods with video, but I'd like to make a loving video for my real babe in the woods, if you know what I'm saying. I'd like to add animated, circling, twittering birds, as an overlay to my video. You know, the kind cartoon characters see when the get hit on the head with a mallet or stove.
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posted by largecorp
on Feb 10, 2012 -
4 answers
Trying to find out name of a 90s cartoon about a kid who in his daydreams would timetravel to south american civilizations
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posted by anateus
on Feb 4, 2012 -
7 answers
Trying to find a recent film that featured a few-minute-long animated version of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
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posted by jabes
on Jan 19, 2012 -
11 answers
Please help me find an example of a paint-in-the-opening-scene animation effect.
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posted by alms
on Jan 12, 2012 -
6 answers
My Google-fu is failing me. Back in probably the early 90's, there was a Spike & Mike's Animation Festival. One of the animated shorts was this one cartoon about the adventures of a kid with a bunch of clowns, except the clowns all had machine guns. They invade a castle or something and ride up in an elevator, and this quintessential elevator music song plays (for those of you that watch the tv show Castle, that same song (I think) was in the last episode when they were in an elevator, which triggered this memory). Anyway, what was the name of that cartoon?
posted by edjusted
on Oct 19, 2011 -
5 answers
What is the best way to use Adobe CS to chop an illustration into multiple graphic files that can later be recombined by software to recreate the original illustration?
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posted by alms
on Oct 12, 2011 -
12 answers
What's a good program for making simple animations synced to music on OS X (10.6.8)?
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posted by No-sword
on Sep 20, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm trying to find an old Disney (?) short film, featuring a Cow conducting on an orchestra, to the music of Strauss, or Dvořák; I'm not that sure.
Any ideas whatsoever?
posted by lipsum
on Sep 15, 2011 -
10 answers
I’m looking for an animation that I saw somewhere on the net (probably YT) this year. If I remember correctly, it’s mostly illustrated, black and white, with pictures and words and arrows used to illustrate key concepts as the narration unfolded. The key feature is that it was really well produced, swooping and rotating as the drawing unfurled. The illustration is simple and fun, even though the subject matter is fairly serious — I think it was about politics, something like… I don’t know, Corporate Personhood. Or maybe not. Anyway, I think the animation was done well after the narration, and the two are unaffiliated.
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posted by scamper
on Aug 20, 2011 -
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