Where's Wes? AutomaticDuck
Here in Los Angeles we were lucky to catch a preview of Automatic Duck 4.02 at DMA/LA, the NAB attendees got to see it in Vegas last month.
Where will Wes be next? Look for the duck
SF Cutters (San Francisco FCP UG) - May 29
http://www.sfcutters.org/
Moving Pictures Collective (NY FCP UG) - June 12
http://www.movingpicturescollective.org/
If you use Avid, Adobe After Effects, FCP, Combustion, Quantel, ProTools, you probably know about Automatic Duck - - especially if you work with other people, or with other software applications in this list.
HOW ABOUT TOON BOOM?? Huh? Yeah. Storyboard Pro is a great paperless alternative for sketching ideas and even making little animated animatics. TBSBP has all of the tools you'd expect for your storyboarding needs, but because it's vector software at its heart - it can do much more too.
Now, any FCP editor with Pro Import FCP 2.0 can edit your storyboard (and they can still edit Avid and ProTools material as well of course) - and you can get back to your Previz work or animation layouts.
We use TBSBP as part of the PIXELCORPS pipeline, and it works really well (and easily) within the group.
If you want to get the bundle (StoryBoard Pro and Automatic Duck Pro Import FCP, you can save $300.
SF Cutters (San Francisco FCP UG) - May 29
http://www.sfcutters.org/
Moving Pictures Collective (NY FCP UG) - June 12
http://www.movingpicturescollective.org/
Posted at 09:29AM May 08, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
beatboxin' Dave
Anime Studio is from EFrontier, now turned Smith Micro. There's a bunch of community stuff that you can find around the internet. Be warned that you can lose hours of your life to some of the bad stuff, but there is a pile of fun animation out there as well. It's amazing what a simple application can do in the hands of some humourous animators... here are a couple entries from Mikedog (no, not Mike Doig: yeah I thought so too)
Posted at 12:00AM May 08, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
