labs: RenderQ. . .
Remember all those render droplet apps I was always going on about? Forget about them. I haven’t told any of them yet, but their services are no longer required. Each app performed it’s job perfectly...
View Articlelook: Dried Up (Academy Approved!). . .
Full steam ahead. Dried Up (a film some good friends of mine made) received the Silver Medal in Animation at the Student Academy awards on June 12th in Beverly Hills. Even better the award was...
View Articlelabs: 2010 Storyboard Templates. . .
Probably the most valuable couple of megabytes on this site, my storyboard templates have continuously been one of the top sources of traffic. For me, storyboarding is simultaneously the most...
View Articleanimation: oh yeah. . .
I just figured out what this odd contraption is for! Rolling on a great tip off from the one and only David Bagsby, I am participating in Bill Plympton’s shot for shot remake of “Guard Dog”, a 2005...
View Articlelabs: RenderQ_v1.2. . .
Quick update to RenderQ to v1.2 to work with latest 32/64bit release of Nuke (make sure to Reset Preferences). Also added system sleep and maya project settings… RenderQ_v1.2 [andoru.labs]
View Articlesandbox: RenderFarm with character. . .
Not only does this MacBook look happy to be rendering frames, it is happy to be alive at all. Having a steady not-for-profit job is just icing on the cake. Although battered and bruised, this little...
View Articlelabs: AEae and MayaMaya v1.1. . .
AEae and MayaMaya have both been updated to include basic preferences and drag and drop functionality. This means you can now launch the app normally to open a specific number of new instances of the...
View Articlelabs: Maya x_x. . .
Maya is an application that can sometimes crash. It is always due to user-error of course, but for those moments when your pathetic human brain is unable to keep up with the technology, Maya x_x is...
View ArticleiPad: light table! . .
After using early morning sunlight and a window as a light table to polish up those final frames, an iPad with a white image is a whole new world. Even better, with iOS 4.2.1 released today you have...
View Articlelabs: RenderQ_v1.2.1. . .
RenderQ_v1.2.1 with new preference system, default flags saved per application, some bug fixes, and a simple addition to sleep…mode. RenderQ_v1.2.1 download page. . . Log: [2010.10.28 - v1.2.1]: -ask...
View Articleprojects: cubeBot finds a home. . .
What started as a few window whiteboard scribbles. . . . . . and has started to become more and more an identity for this site. I present to you cubeBot, and glimpse at where this little guy is headed....
View Articlelabs: projector_v2.3. . .
projector updated to v2.3. Now allows the User to add custom icons and have then automatically recognized by the apps. projector_v2.3 download page. . . Log: v2.3 – added auto-checking for Application...
View Articlelabs: Maya x_x_v1.1. . .
Maya x_x updated to v1.1. Support for Maya 2012. 2012 is good, it’s splash screen is real big… Maya x_x download page. . . Log: [2011.04.09: v1.1] – updated for Maya 2012 [2010.11.21: v1.0] –...
View Articlelabs: MayaMaya_v1.1.1. . .
MayaMaya has been updated to v1.1.1 and now is a universal tool that simply asks you to choose your Maya location on startup. You may need to reset the preferences if you have been using an older...
View Articlelook: Ready Steady Bang. . .
ready steady bang – 30 ways from Ed Barrett on Vimeo. This game is a blast because the animation is amazing. Simple as that. [Ready Steady Bang]
View Articlelabs: reprojector re-up. . .
One of my favorite tools out of all that I have built, projector, has been updated to version 2.4! The worst part about v2.3 was how much time reprojector took to do it’s thing and the inspector...
View Articlelabs: AEae CSwhatever. . .
AEae has been updated to v1.1.1 which makes it universal. When you launch the app for the first time it will simply ask where After Effects is located. If you ever need to reset you just need to...
View Articlelabs: Q. . .
With a bit of testing and a tiny bit of additional code I was able to build a basic queueing system into my render droplet apps. Instead of having each version open up a new Terminal window and start...
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