What happens when you turn the friction off in Grand Theft Auto 4 on your PC? You can do this by finding the 'handling.dat' file in your GTA4 folder, and edit 'wbias' to be around -9 for each car.
What happens next is funny to watch.
February 04, 2011
Animation Resources
Brad Bird & Chris Roman:
Composition & Storyboarding
Karmatoons:
Basics - How to Draw Cartoons for Animation
Animation Mentor's Web Video on Spacing and Timing:
Give Meaning To Movement
Useful principles and advice from Pixar Animation Master Carlos Baena:
Acting & Non-ActingOn Feedback
Status & Comedy
Combining multiple ideas into shots
Editing
On Film Acting
Dramatic Choices
Motivation
Career Advice
On Schools
Priorities & Organization
Timing & Comedy
Eyes: Part 1
Eyes: Part 2
Texture
Simplicity in Planning
Details
Acting vs. Reality
Internal: Emotion vs. Expressions
Topic: Storytelling as animators
Track/Dolly/Steady shots
Snappy Animation
Topic: Life as a professional animator
After the Gag
Topic: Overcoming Shot Challenges
Internal vs. External Dialogue
Topic: Making it / Dream Jobs
Snapshots in animation
Weight & Materials
Composition is Composition
Storytellers
Film & Photography
Gesture Choices
On submitting Demo Reels
Expectations
Facial Expressions
Tex Avery & Gags
Simplicity in Animation
February 03, 2011
Monstrous Wildlife
I love this educational video, based off of the movie Tremors, Frank Robnik produced this nice little short about one of the last great prehistoric creatures.
February 02, 2011
"The White Stripes belong to you now" - Jack and Meg end the band
The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011,
their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.
The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any
health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health.
It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve What is beautiful and special about
the band and have it stay that way.
Meg and Jack want to thank every one of their fans and admirers for the incredible
support they have given throughout the 13 plus years of the White Stripes’ intense and
incredible career.
Third Man Records will continue to put out unreleased live and studio recordings from
The White Stripes in their Vault Subscription record club, as well as through regular
channels.
Both Meg and Jack hope this decision isn’t met with sorrow by their fans but that it is
seen as a positive move done out of respect for the art and music that the band has
created. It is also done with the utmost respect to those fans who’ve shared in those
creations, with their feelings considered greatly.
With that in mind the band have this to say:
“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong
to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is
that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your
involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful.”
Sincerely,
Meg and Jack White
The White Stripes
their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.
The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any
health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health.
It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve What is beautiful and special about
the band and have it stay that way.
Meg and Jack want to thank every one of their fans and admirers for the incredible
support they have given throughout the 13 plus years of the White Stripes’ intense and
incredible career.
Third Man Records will continue to put out unreleased live and studio recordings from
The White Stripes in their Vault Subscription record club, as well as through regular
channels.
Both Meg and Jack hope this decision isn’t met with sorrow by their fans but that it is
seen as a positive move done out of respect for the art and music that the band has
created. It is also done with the utmost respect to those fans who’ve shared in those
creations, with their feelings considered greatly.
With that in mind the band have this to say:
“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong
to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is
that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your
involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful.”
Sincerely,
Meg and Jack White
The White Stripes
Powers of Ten
How different does the universe look on small, medium, and large scales? The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons. This film, which wasoriginally created in the 1960s, has now been officially posted to YouTube and embedded above. Watch the nine minute movie for yourself, it's amazing. From a picnic blanket near Chicago out past the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a factor of ten times larger on each side. The video then reverses, zooming back in a factor of ten every two seconds and ends up inside a single proton.
The Powers of Ten sequence is actually based on the book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke in 1957, as is a similar but mostly animated film Cosmic Zoom that was also created in the late 1960s. The changing perspectives are so enthralling and educational that sections have been recreated using more modern computerized techniques, including the first few minutes of the movie Contact, and in a short digital video called The Known Universe created last year for the American Museum of Natural History.
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