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
Back when I was a full-time CG animator, I often saw people creating their own private projects. For folks looking to break into the field, it was often recommended that they do original work on their own time as a way of building their portfolio and honing their skills. In the acting field, I see the same advice: create your own work. While many actorsRead More »Originality in Voiceover?
It’s not about linens. It’s about life.
Are you a voice talent who uses Skype? Do your clients want playback? This video will show you how to make it happen.
While doing some computer cleanup today, I ran across a bunch of old VO files. These were all pre-training, pre-demo, pre-agent, pre-actual-professional-gigs. And boy did it sound like it! The saddest part is that I didn’t know how bad I sounded. I thought I was doing all right. Boy was I wrong! This reminded me of my first interview with an animation studio (back whenRead More »“The greatest of faults…”
While driving to a job a week or two ago, I was thinking about the then-recent announcement that Ben Affleck would be playing the title role in the next Batman film. It didn’t take long before a commercial parody idea leapt into my mind, so I wrote to another local VO friend and asked if he’d voice the other character in the new version. HeRead More »Affleck
Multiple computers, but only one keyboard and mouse? Skip the hardware KVM with this awesome multi-platform utility
It’s interesting when not really trying can net results similar to those of a conscious effort…but then is it actually marketing?