Tag: ANIMATION

YouTube.com/create is a page dedicated to letting you easily create videos for YouTube, without ever touching a camera. The page starts out as a collection of links to Xtranormal, Stupeflix, and GoAnimate, three services focused on letting you build videos using animated avatars and custom speech. Basically, you choose your avatars, and then write their lines. A text-to-speech engine will ...

I can't quite believe I'm writing this, but: Google's buckyball doodle probably did enough harm to the planet to counteract every 'carbon offset' initiative the big G has ever been involved in. A plucky investigative journalist over on ZDNet, irked by one of his computers locking up at 100% CPU utilization after loading the Google homepage, decided to do a little research to see just how ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/09/sculptris-is-insanely-cool-free-3d-modeling-software/'; Sculptris is, without question, the coolest thing I have seen all day. What was supposed to be a short spin became an hour of prodding and playing around with every tool of this incredible creation. In simple terms, it's sculpting software. It's free, and it's accessible. I once ...

I can't remember how many times I've had a seemingly great idea for a skit with one of my coworkers. Sadly, most of us don't have the time or resources to produce our own animated shorts. A beta web app by Xtranormal aims to level the playing field by making movie creation drag-and-drop simple. If you can write dialog that makes sense and click a mouse, you're well on your way to creating a ...

Are you bored of reading news sites that all look the same, or staring at rows and rows of headlines in your RSS reader? MSNBC has something you might want to see. The new Spectra Visual Newsreader grabs MSNBC stories, color-coded by category, and sends them flying around your screen like index cards in a wind tunnel. Maybe you don't want to get your news this way all the time, but it's fun to ...

Flashforward2008 is going to be in San Francisco this August. This annual conference is directed at Flash designers and developers and those who aspire to be called a designer or developer. Every year Flashforward features a Film Festival with open nominations of the best Flash content out there. In 2008 the categories have changed to the following: Application Cartoon/Story/Narrative ...

You know how your computer has digital versions of real world items, like a "recycle bin," and a mail "inbox?" This video is a clever attempt to show what your computer desktop would look like if it weren't on your computer screen. We'd love to see someone come up with a computer desktop that uses graphics similar to those in this stop motion animation. It wouldn't be so much useful as fun, ...

Those wonderful folks over at DAZ 3D are doing it again by making Bryce 5.5, a 3D landscape and animation tool, available as a free download. The latest version of their software is at 6.1, but with version 5.5 you get a free, fully functional version of the software with no time-limit or disabled features to worry about. If you've been itching to play around in the 3D world you should check this ...

Microsoft Silverlight, in Microsoft's wording, is a next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. In other words, a Flash competitor. This is a runtime that will allow the playback of files using various forms of interactivity on both PC and Mac platforms. Silverlight will essentially deliver rich interactive applications for the web that incorporate video, animation, and ...

Video animation is a pretty difficult undertaking. AniBoom makes creating simple video animations easier with their aniBoom ShapeShifter software. The completely online program allows you to add shapes to your workspace to create simple animations. You can create a multitude of layers within your creation and as you advance layers you can add or delete and move items to make the shapes look ...

What better way to waste time then to create a cartoon. Who cares if you have no skills, ToonDoo will help you out. ToonDoo is created by Jambav, and backed by AdventNet, the folks behind ZoHo. They have put together an easy way to create comic strips where users can choose characters, props, and backgrounds and make a cartoon in under five minutes. Seriously, you can sit for hours playing with ...

Today's time waster is a bit of a weird one. PICTAPS is a site that allows you to draw a character using some rudimentary online drawing tools, then watch that character become automatically animated. It then dances to a beat that will quickly drive you crazy if you listen to it for too long. The thing is, you will listen to it for too long. At least, I know I did. When you first navigate to the ...

GoodWidgets allows users to upload images from a desktop, or from popular photo sites like Flickr and Photobucket, while using widgets to display photos in a unique animated presentation on a social network or webpage. There are seven unique presentation widgets to choose from, including a slider to slides between images, a page by page flip book, and morphing between images. You can change ...

I don't know if it really qualifies as a time-waster if it's not something you can play, but nevertheless Animator vs. Animation II is right up our alley. It's a great Flash animation by Alan Becker about a Flash animator's creation that goes awry. If you enjoyed the original Animator vs. Animation, you'll enjoy its sequel, which features a lot more creativity on the part of Becker as Firefox, ...

Sometimes you just get sick and tired of staring at appointments and phone numbers all day, and you think to yourself, wouldn't it be great if I had an aquarium scene on the Today screen of my PDA? Okay, maybe not, but Animated Today has come up with a solution to the problem that you never knew you had. For $14.95 you can add a system resource hog to your Pocket PC and add animated visuals to ...