Nice article about scientific and medical animation recently posted in the NY Times. Over the last decade, medical animation has improved dramatically from a simple accessory to a valid, accurate teaching tool.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16animate.html?_r=1
For those of you interested in entering the Student Art Exhibit, please get your entries in by this Wednesday, Nov 3rd.
Hi All,
I understand that there have been some issues with text objects using the NetRender render farm. As with Illustrator, InDesign or any other software package, text used in your document must be installed on the machine that is doing the imaging/rendering. In order to be sure your file will render correctly, please either use standard fonts (Helvetica, Garamond, Gill Sans, etc) or try making your text editable (effectors will not work on editable text). To test and see if the font is installed on the render farm machines, please make a quick 60 frame low resolution render using the font(s) you want to use and send to the render farm well in advance of using it in your project. If there are issues after this, email the font to me (travis.vermilye@ucdenver.edu) and I will install the font on the machines.
When using a render farm it is imperative to have your files ready to render well before they are due. This is the ONLY way to allow time for testing and to be sure your files render correctly. Waiting until the night before it is due to render will NEVER (well almost never) work.
They’ll be covering a variety of EE topics from beginner to expert, as well as a a session on designing with a CMS in mind. It’s only $25 for students or you can get in free if you would like to volunteer. Lunch is included as well as a sponsored happy hour afterwards.
Here’s the website to learn more and register: http://expressionenginecamp.com/
Grabbed this from the VizWorld blog. Alias 3D media posted 10 great After effects tutorials. Some using Cinema 4D as a starting point. Take a look. Maybe you’ll learn something. 🙂
NASA 3D Models
NASA recently released a collection of models for free. They include astronauts, suits, machines, shuttles, satellites, etc.
Via VizWorld