Few excellent interview by John Lasseter on making excellent animation film with right ingredients.

If you are into Animation Film Designing then you should watch his interviews,

 

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Mandar Apte

Action Scripts get implemented or activated only when Animation .FLA (Adobe Flash Document File) file published to SWF (Shockwave File Format) & you never use .SWF when you publish your Flash Animation Movie to image sequence or any other avi video format.

e.g. when you want to rotate an movie clip inside flash you have do it by Transform tool or palette & keyframes with motion tween but not by using Action Script.

So Action Script can only work on web format where .SWF files are embedded or used or plays inside HTML but not on video.

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Mandar Apte

FPS is Frame Per Second term used in all modern 3D & classical Animation films & Computer Applications Used to Animate them inside Computer Applications like Autodesk Maya, Adobe Flash to say the few,

I will write from my experience of using high FPS likes of 60 is real smart idea,

This is no smart guess that 60 FPS animation against 24 FPS animation is certainly more smoother, quicker, faster & refreshing to eye,

I also got one experience that whenever you animate in 60 FPS animation you get more space or keyframes i.e 60 Keyframes per second to animate than or 24 FPS which are only 24 Keyframes per seconds.

To just clear the terms, The Term ‘FPS’ is related to human’s vision’s characteristics i.e. Persistence of Vision

As Wikipedia says about persistence of vision

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.

& This is what Wikipedia says about FPS

Frame rate (also known as frame frequency) is the frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. The term applies equally well to computer graphics, video cameras, film cameras, and motion capture systems. Frame rate is most often expressed in frames per second (FPS), and is also expressed in progressive scan monitors as hertz (Hz).

The human eye and its brain interface, the human visual system, can process 10 to 12 separate images per second, perceiving them individually.[1] The visual cortex holds onto one image for about one-fifteenth of a second, so if another image is received during that period an illusion of continuity is created, allowing a sequence of still images to give the impression of motion.

So whichever more number that 24 FPS per movie will give viewers eye the feeling of smoother & faster animation without flickering.

This is only my experience & my personal thought, You experience of animating inside computer applications may be different than of mine.

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Mandar Apte

This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another.

Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’

It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System)

As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS:

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities.

A Domain Name Service resolves queries for domain names (which are easier to understand and utilize when accessing the internet) into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide.

By pasting Open DNS’s IP addresses inside your current Internet Service Provider’s (Internet) Connection Setting from System Preferences which copied from Open DNS’s Website will allow your computer with updated DNS information, As every ISP has DNS caching enabled for their services so whenever you change your domain Nameservers or IP Addressees your computer will be always be updated with Open DNS settings & it will by pass your ISP’s cache databases.

Big relief for those who are switching their domain & webspace hosting services….!!!

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Mandar Apte

India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.

For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.

In last few years common entrance test like MH-AAC-CAT (Maharashtra Applied Arts & Crafts Common Aptitude Test) are introduced in Maharashtra state. By passing this test it allows you to choose between art colleges for graduation in Maharashtra.

Graduation in Design
You have to start to learn design only through Art Colleges as there are no design colleges available for graduation in design.
But there are few courses available to graduate in Design from NID & IDC.
NID has ‘Graduate Diploma Program in Design (GDPD)’

Following are the famous art collages mainly in Maharashtra, India.

BFA Degree & Diploma in Applied Art & Fine Art
Sir JJIAA (Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art), Raheja School of Art, Rachana Sansad

Post Graduate Diploma in Design
CDAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) ACTS (Advanced Computing Training School) Pune
CDAC ACTS has courses like DACA (Diploma in Advanced Computing Arts) which allows you to learn digital graphic, web, animation arts through 6 Months course. Actually I have done the same course (DACA) which gave me a complete picture of Design through Modern Computer Applications

Masters in Design
IDC (Industrial Design Center)
NID (National Institute of Design)
IDC & NID has their respective All India Entrance Test Exams for their respective courses

Under Graduate, Graduate & Post Graduate Diplomas
There are few institutes in India now that allow Design through Standard 11th & 12th
Those are SID (Symbiosis Institute of Design) & MIT (Maharashtra Institute of Design) based in Pune

I will suggest you to go to respective Institute’s Websites to know about their courses in Design.

OR Comment I will help you out,

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Mandar Apte

It’s really amazing to see photos treated unique & artistic way to capture impossible moments & ideas through photo manipulation.

You can visit Eric Johanson’s website to take a look at his art here.

Eric’s Bio on TED:

Photographer Erik Johannson creates impossible but photorealistic images that capture an idea, not a moment.

Erik Johannson is a self-taught photographer who learned how to retouch photos to make impossible and extraordinary images. Growing up with a grandmother who painted and a penchant for escaping into the other worlds of video games, he naturally blended the two into a technique using computers to generate images that couldn’t be captured by a camera.

A real informative interview of Steve Jobs talking about his work & his success.

I found his talk informative & a knowhow of his work ethics that how he look at his work & productivity & quality of his work that he produces.

He talks about bringing emotions to work he does like developing App like iMovie where by you can relate to your life more successfully by not just shooting family moments on handheld movie camera but by editing it with easy in just three minutes & showcasing on your personalized Mac to you family & friends, A real joy of having your personal computer as a Mac.

Being Animator myself it also amuses me how he is also more successful CEO of Pixar Animation Studio, As this concept of Bringing Emotions to work applies to Pixar Movies also. Films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo show how successful animation film can be with family emotions & family story can do wonders to box office hits.

(Note: I am talking about Steve Jobs Interview to NHK Japan, It seems YouTube has removed video because copyright claim by NHK itself)

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Mandar Apte

Today Adobe Announced & Released Creative Cloud with newly launched Adobe Creative Suite 6,

& it looks promising to me that I will certaily use Creative Cloud for my artwork workflows…

Here is the video

 

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Mandar Apte

A real insight into how finger Touch Gesture technology introduced by Apple while introducing The iPhone in Year 2007.

A real study of current market of touch technology & how iPhone technology is much superior than rest of the technology.

If you want to study HCI then this video you should watch the first before thinking about developing gesture base device in future,

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Mandar Apte

A video will teach a lot how computer can be relate to mind as an bicycle, As being human we are all tool builders…

A basic relation of computer to human is as a tool they can afford to utilize & own to do their daily tasks in fashionably manner that only human can afford to do… As we are tool builders.

A neat study by Steve Jobs himself on Human to Computer relationship…

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Mandar Apte