Monthly Archives: July 2010

pulldownit broken dominoes tutorial

By lesterbanks | Published: July 30, 2010

Esteban Cuesta in this tutorial showing us how to set up a broken dominoes an simulate it in Maya with pulldownit plugin – pretty cool. Broken dominoes tutorial with Pulldownit from Esteban Cuesta on Vimeo. Pulldownit! is a brand new dynamics solver for Maya which allows for the creation of fractures as well as massive [...]

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plastic animation paper v4 released for free

By lesterbanks | Published: July 30, 2010

Plastic Animation Paper updates to version 4, and in a surprise move is now free with no strings attached. Plastic Animation Paper (PAP) is a software package for doing 2D animation that will allow traditional animators to utilize the powerful and timesaving advantages of computers.  PAP removes the need for line tests, cameras and scanners [...]

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e-on announces vue 9

By lesterbanks | Published: July 29, 2010

At the Siggraph show, E-on took the opportunity to announce and preview some of the features of Vue 9. Capitalizing on breakthrough technologies introduced in previous versions, Vue 9 will also deliver a number of important new features such as: EcoSystem 4: dramatically reduced flickering, optimized rendering and memory management for Dynamic EcoSystems, and more… Relighting: [...]

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create joints on a curve in maya, nnJointsOnCurve script

By lesterbanks | Published: July 29, 2010

Nilesh Jadhav back again, this time with his joints on a curve script for Autodesk Maya which as yiou may have guessed, creates a joint chain on a selected curve. You can find the script here.

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5 ways to populate mass groups in after effects

By lesterbanks | Published: July 29, 2010

James Whiffin looks at After Effects basics (AEtuts has BASIX written, I am not spelling it that way, I am not that cool) with this tutorial covering 5 basic ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects. “In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are: Simple Masking (garbage matting) [...]

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pixel farm’s PFmatchit, next generation tracking

By lesterbanks | Published: July 29, 2010

The Pixel Farm has announced what it calls the a giant leap forward in tracking software, PFMatchit. PFMatchit is 64 bit, node based, and cheap listed at a price of around $700.00 available some time in August. This is not a slimmed or limited version of PFtrack, this is a whole new application that was [...]

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