- Graphic Design: The New Basics - A great online resource to accompany what looks to be a great new book coming in May.
- The Art of the Title Sequence - A blog devoted to… exactly what it sounds like. Good stuff.
- iClone 3 Screenshots - The latest glimpse at the upcoming release, thank you Peter Edwards for the pictures.
- Antics 3.1 now works with Google Sketchup. I told you this was going to get interesting.
- Moviestorm Update 1.0.4. Features a magnificent list of fixes and improvements.
- GTA IV Cameo by Ricky Gervais - One of my favorite comedians / performers of this generation will be lending his personality, voice, and material to the next Grand Theft Auto. Someone should start up a blog documenting celebrity voiceover and/or character work in video games; the list would be surprisingly long.
- Daz Studio goes 2.1. The amazing free 3d app gets even better.
- FreakAngels Episode 0010. Is anyone else enjoying the heck out of this?
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By a strange coincidence, it all started in Cambridge… again. Founded as Kelseus Ltd., the company which became Antics Technologies in 2004 has been interested and involved in a market they helped create: previz. And for the first couple years, their Antics product was priced as such - something extremely affordable for pro studios looking for a previz solution, but something considered a bit steep for the average hobbyist.
But some interesting things have happened in the past year. iClone’s John Martin fired a shot across the bow of the machinima world at the 2006 Machinima Film Festival when it stepped forward into a growing awareness of intellectual property rights issues surrounding machinima, and provided a solution: a rights-free creation platform. Moviestorm, the brainchild of Kelland and Lloyd, broke through the topsoil very soon thereafter, pursuing a different business model.
Antics had been around all this time, having led for at least some of that time in terms of innovation, but viewed as largely inaccessible for the unfunded hobbyist. That view, if it was ever accurate, just doesn’t hold true anymore. Let me explain.
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