Animation

#SL Animations Growing

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This is kind of neat, so I’m posting it as a separate article. The roll out tomorrow on the Magnum channel will have a server change that increases the size of animation assets (the file size) from 64kb to 120kb. This will allow an increase in the complication and length of animations. Until the corresponding … Read more

SLat Animation Tutorial

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Medhue Simoni has put up a video tutorial on using Slat to make Second Life™ animations. He announced it in the SL forum: SLat Tutorial for Animations – 15 minutes. If you are into animation or have been thinking about it, check it out. [youtube D89x_xdBBG8] You can find SLat on Medhue’s site: Medhue Animations … Read more

CG Cookie New Blender Animation Training

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If you are interested in character animation you probably know about CG Cookie. They have a load of free and pay-for tutorials. All the basic information is free. The advanced and time saving stuff is usually pay-for. So far, everything I’ve paid for I have been happy with. I haven’t paid for all that much, but I have paid for some.

Recently CG Cookie put up a new YouTube video: Animation Toolkit – Training Series for Character Animation in Blender. It is promoting their release of the new training series.

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This series gets into things that cannot be imported into Second Life™ with the BVH import. Gaia Clary’s Avastar is progressing toward what I think is the best all around tool for making mesh clothes and animating avatars, human or non-human. One of its better features is the ability to create .anim files that the SL Viewer can import. The .anim file format allows one to use more of the animation features found in Blender.

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