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Animade launches Boords storyboarding tool

The wizards at Animade recently released Boords, a simple, web-based tool for sharing storyboards.

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Watching Glean Keane draw in virtual reality is amazing

Legendary animator Glen Keane is famous for his work on Disney classics like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. Despite his notoriety as a traditional… Read more

Journey through the layers of the mind

In case you missed it, a couple weeks ago, Research at Google posted a fascinating blog post entitled, “Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks.” The team… Read more

Get Your Shit Together

I’ll admit it. I’m a voyeur: Every chance I get, I ogle other people’s After Effects project files.   What I find just as fascinating as the… Read more

The MOX file format

Brendan Bolles (developer of the EXR/DPX file formats that ship in After Effects) is looking for backing for a new, open source video format: MOX.… Read more

First person POV + Time lapse + Stabilization = Hyperlapse

Microsoft Research shares news of the new video stabilization technology, Hyperlapse: We present a method for converting first-person videos, for example, captured with a helmet… Read more

The Adobe Illustrator Story

When Adobe Illustrator first shipped in 1987, it was the first software application for a young company that had, until then, focused solely on Adobe… Read more

Draco: Bringing Life to Illustrations with Kinetic Textures

Autodesk Research introduces Draco: Draco is a prototype sketch-based interface from that allows artists and casual users alike to add a rich set of animation… Read more

Ouroboros: AE Preset

After Effects wizard Sander Van Dijk has created a very powerful AE preset that will help you with all your stroke related needs. With the… Read more

PS Animation Gamechanger?

AnimDessin2 is the latest release of a powerful Photoshop plugin that creates a helpful palette of tools for traditional (i.e. frame-by-frame) animation. The current version… Read more

Pixar’s RenderMan free for non-commercial use

Pixar’s RenderMan will be free for non-commercial use. Submitted by vdavidtv via reddit

SculptGL

SculptGL is a web sculpting application, powered by WebGL and JavaScript.

Lagoa Launches, Blows Minds

I was invited to the beta of Lagoa.com (then called TeamUp) several months ago, and even in that early stage it blew my mind. As… Read more