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Helping animators get critques and get noticed
Animators seem to be coming around a bit more and it might be helpful to have some rough guidelines that will help people get critiques. YouTube and Vimeo VS Quicktime? Why use quicktime format? You can scrub it back and forth. This is critical when trying to figure out where and what in an animation is breaking down.… -
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CONVERTING .AVI to .MOV Maya and Max currently export all their playblasts in .avi format. Quicktime movies are .mov format which are also WAY smaller than avi files (we`re talking taking a 43mb avi file and converting it to a 7mb .mov file). If you don't already have Quicktime Pro, and you want to be an animator, I… -
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Also, when making previews it always helps to have the frame count turned on (especially now that we can scrub through frames). It's just so that we can look at each other's work, and be able to pin-point the exact place of our crit in the animation. -
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Showing off your work in progress If you want to show off your work in progress, do yourself a favor and hold off on the nice renders. If the animation isn't done, and you are just looking for feedback, do PLAYBLASTS, not full renders with nice lighting. They are way quicker, and will save you a lot of time. For Maya, you… -
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Ahh good points Stefan! It is also worth noting that Max and Maya 2013 (which ship in a few days/weeks) will support quicktime 64bit. So converting and wrangling files will be much easier. -
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Thanks for this Mark, very helpful! -
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Good points! :) Okay, okay, I've been convinced. I'll start posting more .movs instead of all my lil youtube vids :P -
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Dropbox eh? Very nice :-) -
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Great start, Mark. If you don't want to install dropbox onto your computer, use the webpage. I personally use the site, as I find it uploads things faster. Here is a walkthrough of how to do that.
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