Archive for October, 2009

Questions about becoming a computer animator?

I am a freshman in high school thinking about becoming a computer animator, maybe for disney or pixar.
What classes would I take in college?
What would I major in?
What is an average salary?
Is there anything I should do now to prepare?
Any other info you have would be great!
Here is some information straight from the Pixar website:
http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/jobs/index.html

How can I create animated gifs with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional without YouTube Tutuorials?

This is for school work, and we never got instructions on making it, I can’t use YouTube and I have to find out how to make animated gifs.
I would like to know how to make something like a smiley face bouncing.
Please help me out, thanks!
If you have Adobe reader then you can make [...]

Where can I get good quality, legal, free photo clipart?

Online? Want to use it for a small publication. Are there sites that let me use clipart free?
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=bt-portal&p=free+royalty+free+images&rs=0&fr2=rs-top

How do I make an already saved gif black and white?

I’ve tried photobucket but you can’t edit gifs on there.
P.S. Don’t answer the question if you don’t know what a gif is.
I want to turn a gif I have already made and saved into a black and white gif.
I’d like something free that can either be a downloadable program or on the internet.
Thanks. Free [...]

TV Pop-ups - Cant stand it anymore! -How do you feel?

What computer moron came up with this idea, Your watching your favorite show and all this junk popping up on the bottom telling me whats on next , what channel I’m watching even with anamation blocking my view. and god forbid if my program has subtitles which I can see with this junk in the [...]

What version of flash suitable for making games?

What version you suggest in developing games? I only have a basic knowledge in flash. I’m planning to develop a game as a part of our thesis.
Its a "Snake" game similar to "SnakeEX2" found in some nokia phones. So what could be the software and version do you suggest in developing this type of game?
Hi,
I [...]

Where can I find a freeware MarcroMedia Flash player?

I’m working on making one of those funny internet flash cartoons. I did the Flash MX Trial, but it ran out. Can somebody help me find something like it or maybe an older version of Flash MX that’s free now?
the player is free
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

How do I make my exported Flash document animate?

I created a sprite cartoon with Flash and have tried to export it as a movie file in avi format. When I play back the movie, the motion tweens work, but the actual animations do not run. In other words, the characters move across the screen, but the different animated frames do not [...]

How do I count the occurrences of numbers in a 2D array?

I would like to count the occurrences of the numbers 1-9 in in a 2D array. EX: 8 occurs 3 times, 2 occurs 2 times, etc. Some thing like "int num [4][2] = {{3,2};{2,9},{8,8},{6,8}};" or any 2D array. How can I count how times the numbers 1-9 occur in the array?
Loop through it. Use a [...]

I was wondering, does anyone know what program animators use to create shows like Family Guy or Simpsons?

I would really like to know because Im writing a paper on animation and animators, thanks Well it really depends what is the studio pipeline like… Plus various programs are used on a given production. For example, it could start with Xsheet for line tests, ToonBoom, Retas Pro or some other softwares for scan [...]