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Visualization - Blocking and Staging. Whether you are shooting your own movie or animation; one of the most important steps you can take is to do a quick storyboard to work out the details of items you need vs. those you do not. When pre-visualizing what you plan to show you may also find that a particular camera angle/effect works better than another alternative.

The alternative camera angles and motion chosen may seem hit or miss, if you feel this way you may want to review a DVD collection called: Hollywood Camera Work. I purchased this recently and have been reviewing the 9 hours of animated examples. Since reviewing this collection the way I have been looking at the camera work within the TV, movies, commercials and animation has been an interesting progression and opened up many new items never noticed.

Check out the site above for some of the sample clips and of course the more animation and camera work you do the more these principals apply to help make your work look even better.

happy rendering... [Will render for food...]

12:09:43 PM

Acad - Fields, Attributes and Objects. If you are using AutoCAD 2005 or higher and need to input square footage information (spaces, planning, etc...) the use of Fields can make the tedious manual process much easier by giving you the ability to update automatically as your area changes.

This can be accomplished through the use of a closed pline object and Fields. To do this insert any text (single, multi-line or attribute) in your drawing, right click and choose Insert Field. From here set your Field category to Objects and the Field names to Object. From here simply select your pline using the Select Object button next to the Object type area. Final item is to select your formatting and in 2006 set your precision.

This tip courtesy of Mark Couture and that's not all. Watch the video example showing how to accomplish this with attributes and fields then putting this information into a table and use the formulas feature in 2006 to total the areas here.

**Note**
To view this video you will need the camtasia codec available from Techsmith. [Will render for food...]

12:08:45 PM

Apple brings podcasts into iTunes. Apple plans to police which podcasts are available via directory of shows in its iTunes program. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

11:12:05 AM

Bard's home town goes wireless. Visitors to Shakespeare's Stratford can now get a wireless guide to the historic town. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

11:11:25 AM

How Ice Melts. Killer Instinct writes "Ever wonder how ice melts? Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced yesterday, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world." [Slashdot]

11:10:28 AM

Award-Winning County Web site Open to Public. Allen County, Indiana's GIS Web site, also known as iMap, has taken home an international ESRI award two years in a row, the only Web site of this type in the country to do so. [ESRI.com: News]

11:07:26 AM

What's What at Where 2.0. A review of Where 2.0, O'Reilly Media's new conference on geospatial Web technologies. [ESRI.com: News]

11:06:37 AM

Mapdex Project Searches the Internet for Public GIS Data. An interview with Jeremy Bartley, who has been working in GIS for about ten years and is the technical lead for a Web-based distributed atlas for carbon sequestration funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. [ESRI.com: News]

11:05:48 AM

Water Great Way to Set Up New Systems. British Waterways selects the enterprise solution offered by SAP and GIS by ESRI to create an integrated, map-driven system to give users point-and-click access to computer records and the applications associated with the property or assets at that location. [ESRI.com: News]

11:04:58 AM

FBI cracks down on 'warez' piracy sites. Four people were arrested and 22 Web sites were searched during an FBI crackdown of so-called warez sites.

The operation targeted 22 warez groups, including Myth, TDA, HellBound, Corrupt, Gamerz, NOX and Goodfellaz, the DOJ said. [Computerworld News]

11:03:43 AM

The awkward smart phone grows up. A look at Palm's latest efforts to make its Treo smart phone more useful and competitive. [CNET News.com]

11:01:13 AM

Live Aid for the Internet age. A difference between today's Live 8 and 1985's Live Aid is the use of modern-day technology to network a global community. [CNET News.com]

11:00:38 AM

Are brains analog, or digital?. Hell breaks loose after Cornell claim [The Register]

10:58:30 AM

Students exhibit tomorrow's designs. Design students in London showcase their ideas at the Royal College of Art show in London. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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