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Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014 available, bringing new characters, physics and more

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 21st, 2013)

Poser has come a long way from the last time I used it, right around version 4. We're now at 10 for the basic edition (retail US$299.99) and Poser Pro 2014 (retail $499.99) has become a powerful animation tool in its own right. I got to look at some of the new features rolling out today and they ...

Crazy Talk 7 puts character animation power on your Mac

by Michael Rose (Apr 25th, 2013)

Putting words in other people's mouths: more of a hobby than a vocation for most people, I'd say. If your work or play involves facial animation, however, you know how much work goes into making fake speech look convincingly real. Although there are impressive pro animation tools for this ...

The Animators Survival Kit comes to the iPad with expanded multimedia edition

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Richard Williams acclaimed animation guide The Animator's Survival Kit has come to the iPad in an affordable new iPad app. Drawn from the book and DVD series of the same name, the US$34.99 app features a complete "Expanded Edition" of The Animator's Survival Kit, over 100 animated examples from ...

Friday Favorite: Sock Puppets

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 19th, 2013)

Sock Puppets allows just about anyone to quickly and easily create short animated movies using not only sock puppet characters, but (via in-app purchases) aliens, politicians and Halloween characters. The adorable app is from a software company Smith Micro -- not exactly known for its consumer ...

Animationist creates dynamic titles for your video or printed projects

by Mel Martin (Dec 6th, 2012)

Animationist is a clever and useful OS X app that lets you create animated titles, logos and images for use in iMovie, YouTube or Final Cut. It's currently available in the Mac App Store for a half-off introductory price of US$24.99. The results look professional, and the default titles are so ...

Anime Studio 9 for Mac arrives in pro, debut versions

by Mike Schramm (Sep 10th, 2012)

Anime Studio is a really popular animation system for illustrators and animators, and there's good news about the app for Mac users: Anime Studio 9 has now arrived on our platform, in both pro and debut versions. You can see the full comparison of pro and debut features over here, but both ...

TUAW Origin Stories: FlipBook HD

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 13th, 2012)

I'm a bit of an animation fan, both finished works and the tools that make them. iOS devices can come close to the old methods of drawing, moving and capturing animation because they can simulate "touching" the objects and moving them around as your would on a light table. FlipBook HD is as ...

TUAW and MacTech interview: Tumult

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 30th, 2012)

Tumult is a timeline-based tool for creating HTML 5 animation on your Mac. Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews Jonathan Deutsch of Tumult at WWDC 2012. Jonathan was kind enough to tell us about their thoughts on the announcements on WWDC, and how it will affect their ...

Daily iPhone App: The Act combines great cartoon art with iOS gameplay

by Mike Schramm (Jun 26th, 2012)

The Act is, I will say, probably one of the most interesting experiments I've ever seen show up on the App Store. I don't know if it's entirely successful, but even at the current price of $2.99, I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It does some very interesting things with interactive ...

Anime Studio 8.1 is great animation software for beginners

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 29th, 2012)

At Macworld | iWorld 2012, I had the chance to sit down with the folks behind Smith Micro's Anime Studio and discuss the latest update to its Anime Studio animation suite. Anime Studio 8.1 allows support for Wacom multi-touch tablets, the first of its kind for a piece of animation software. ...

Daily iPad App: Cocoons and Caterpillars is an animated storybook starring Stella and Sam

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 28th, 2012)

As you can tell from my earlier posts, I often hand over my iPad to my children for learning apps and sometimes entertainment. One app that is both educational and enjoyable is Cocoons and Caterpillars: A Stella and Sam Adventure by zinc Roe. The iPad app is one in a series of apps that feature ...

Macworld|iWorld's South Park talk

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 30th, 2012)

On the first day of Macworld|iWorld, one of the talks on the main stage was by three people who help bring the animated series South Park to life each week: David Lenna (CTO), Ryan Quincy (Animation Producer), and Eric Stough (Animation Director and Producer). It was an interview-format talk, with ...

An animated history of the iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Oct 18th, 2011)

CNET UK's Drew Stearne created the video below, a dynamic animation that shows the history of the iPhone. It shows quite clearly how the iPhone came about not as something fully formed from the void but as a consolidation and refinement of existing technologies, many of which have been around ...

Music video created with iPad Brushes app

by Mike Schramm (Jun 23rd, 2011)

This video for the song named "Undivided" by the band Blush is intriguing. First of all, because it's a pretty solid pop song (with, as far as I can tell, a rare safe-for-work appearance by Snoop Dogg himself). Second, because the simple but beautiful animation was entirely created by animator ...

Mac 101: Using Keynote as Motion in a bind (Updated)

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 9th, 2011)

Update: KeynoteUser.com notes that it's easy to export your Keynote animations with an alpha channel, making it much simpler to work with them in pro editing apps or in Motion. On this trip to WWDC I packed light. One backpack, a MacBook Air and a camera light. I haven't had my Air for very ...