Two tweenMachine updates in a month?! Yeah, crazy…believe me, I get it! But it’s real! So imagine my surprise when I woke up yesterday to an email from Andrew Silke over at Create 3D Characters, who shared that tweenMachine has just been added to the latest update of Zoo Tools Pro! They didn’t just slap it in, though—they’ve supercharged it! You can see the responsivenessRead More »tweenMachine now in Zoo Tools Pro!
A fitting metaphor Almost everyone familiar with the Olympics knows about the Olympic flame. Once lit, it is never put out. The torch that bears the flame is simply passed between runners in a long relay, until the final runner uses the torch to start the flame in the event arena. So what does this have to do with tweenMachine? Sadly, more than I’d hoped.Read More »tweenMachine: Passing the Torch
I do a little work on the side for a friend who runs a horse ranch offering trail rides, riding lessons, etc. I’ve had random thoughts in my head about animating the ranch logo, and finally sat down and cranked this out in a few hours. Sound effects credits available on YouTube.
Three years ago yesterday was my last day of full-time employment. Three years ago today was the beginning of an adventure. When that adventure began, I thought I new roughly how it would play out, not unlike the way that I thought I knew how my animation career would play out. Entering the animation field back in 2001, I envisioned myself steadily growing and improvingRead More »Three-Year Thoughts
I’m a little late posting this, but the second and third episodes of Mark Fearing’s Book Reports series are now online. Check ’em out! Mr Strung will thank you! 😉
You know those book report things you had to do in school when you were a kid? I do. Well, I remember having to write them. I’m not sure the delivery of said reports went anything like the antics in the new Book Reports series by Mark Fearing. Here’s the first episode: I had fun inventing the totally unintelligible voice of Mr Strung, and am excited to finallyRead More »Book Reports
I realized that my initial fix of the selected-channel issue in 2.0.6 didn’t account for certain rare circumstances, and could result in an error. Version 2.0.8 takes care of that. Grab it now!
Right on the heels of 2.0.6 comes yet another tweenMachine update. Version 2.0.7 addresses a bit of odd UI behavior. Originally, tweenMachine was designed to look at the last active Maya panel, and force Maya’s focus back there once tweening was done. However, Patrick A. Müller of Studio Soi brought a bit of a hiccup to my attention. If you select the numeric field in theRead More »tweenMachine update, v2.0.7
I’ve heard off and on that selecting channels in the channel box — which is supposed to isolate the tweening operation to only those selected channels — wasn’t always working, but it wasn’t until recently that I discovered the cause of that hiccup. This update totally reworks the channel-selection mechanism to pretty much squash that bug for good. Grab the update now!
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally done: everything has been migrated over to WordPress on this new domain. I can’t tell you how long this has been eating at me, but thanks to a personal productivity hack — and it honestly was “one weird trick” like those teaser headers we’ve all seen — I was able to make massive progress in the past couple weeks,Read More »Major site update, minor tweenMachine update