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(IEEE Spectrum) Cool (Almost) everyone loves the Taiwanese media animations of current news events. Now, learn the cool story of the man behind the Next Media madness (and how they do it so quickly)   (spectrum.ieee.org) divider line 28
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KellyLockhart [TotalFark]
2012-02-08 10:24:34 PM
This turned out to be a much cooler story than I had anticipated. I never realized their secret was motion-capture. I can only imagine what it must be like in their offices filming all the crazy stuff they do every day.
 
BronyMedic [TotalFark]
2012-02-08 10:54:15 PM
When did the IEEE Stop working on geeky standards for electronics and start blogging?

Damn nerds are taking over everything now.
 
myinternetname
2012-02-08 10:58:36 PM
Wang's tools

There, got that out of the way.
 
clipperbox
2012-02-08 10:59:50 PM
she's why i'm a fan of their site:

i.ytimg.com
 
Sock Ruh Tease
2012-02-08 11:03:05 PM
If motion capture is their secret, did Drew really go into their studio to show his hairy ass to a patent troll?

/asking the important questions
 
FunkOut [TotalFark]
2012-02-08 11:26:23 PM
Some of those are wildly hysterical.
 
Smeggy Smurf
2012-02-08 11:29:16 PM
Sock Ruh Tease: If motion capture is their secret, did Drew really go into their studio to show his hairy ass to a patent troll?

/asking the important questions

Those kinds of questions will keep you out of the good schools

/never obscure
 
UsikFark
2012-02-08 11:31:07 PM
BronyMedic: When did the IEEE Stop working on geeky standards for electronics and start blogging?

Damn nerds are taking over everything now.

From their website: IEEE provides a wide range of quality publications and standards that make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among technology professionals.

Blanket statement FTW.
 
sinanju
2012-02-08 11:39:58 PM
UsikFark: BronyMedic: When did the IEEE Stop working on geeky standards for electronics and start blogging?

Damn nerds are taking over everything now.

From their website: IEEE provides a wide range of quality publications and standards that make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among technology professionals.

Blanket statement FTW.

And, for the record, they've had a IEEE Computer Graphics publication for as long as I can recall, and I'm old enough to have a lawn you should stay off of.
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 12:09:59 AM
KellyLockhart: This turned out to be a much cooler story than I had anticipated. I never realized their secret was motion-capture. I can only imagine what it must be like in their offices filming all the crazy stuff they do every day.

I figured they probably had a database of objects they could copy paste as needed. The rest was pretty interesting as well.
 
Captain_Ballbeard
2012-02-09 12:16:17 AM
sinanju: UsikFark: BronyMedic: When did the IEEE Stop working on geeky standards for electronics and start blogging?

Damn nerds are taking over everything now.

From their website: IEEE provides a wide range of quality publications and standards that make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among technology professionals.

Blanket statement FTW.

And, for the record, they've had a IEEE Computer Graphics publication for as long as I can recall, and I'm old enough to have a lawn you should stay off of.

ty
 
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy
2012-02-09 12:19:16 AM
FTFA: His college placement exam designated him a civil engineering major, and in Taiwan, those decisions are not open to discussion.

Approves:

i27.tinypic.com
 
digitalpirate
2012-02-09 12:31:39 AM
Did he say "mind bending 3D modeling" on a Mac? I'm a mechanical designer and I've never even heard of real CAD programs on a Mac. That would be kind of annoying unless you had a space ball instead of a mouse with only one hippy button.
 
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy
2012-02-09 12:38:57 AM
digitalpirate: Did he say "mind bending 3D modeling" on a Mac? I'm a mechanical designer and I've never even heard of real CAD programs on a Mac. That would be kind of annoying unless you had a space ball instead of a mouse with only one hippy button.

Our graphics production lab in college exclusively used Macs.

It drove me batshiat. Especially having to deal with loading files from the Windows machine at home.
 
rocky_howard
2012-02-09 12:48:38 AM
digitalpirate: Did he say "mind bending 3D modeling" on a Mac? I'm a mechanical designer and I've never even heard of real CAD programs on a Mac. That would be kind of annoying unless you had a space ball instead of a mouse with only one hippy button.

What?

AutoCAD for Mac (new window)

Maya for Mac (new window)
 
doobiebrother
2012-02-09 12:52:05 AM
cocaine and hookers for the boss and sweat factory conditions for everyone else
 
dcigary [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 01:55:15 AM
Article invalid without a Next Media video telling the story. Or, would doing that open up a space/time continuum hole?

/I love recursion
 
zerkalo
2012-02-09 02:18:03 AM
wEATHER Girls, Mimi. key to great exploit
 
davidphogan
2012-02-09 03:08:00 AM
NMA and Fark are all I pay attention to. Is that wrong? Should I not do that?
 
profplump [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 03:24:12 AM
digitalpirate: I'm a mechanical designer and I've never even heard of real CAD programs on a Mac.

AutoCAD was released for Mac in 1988. It was actually a fairly popular engineering platform; before that CAD on UNIX was the standard (it started on the PL/1), but being able to do CAD on the same machine as a GUI that supported other computerized design and business tools (e.g. spreadsheets, word processing) was a big bonus. So back in the day when only engineers and accountants had computers, a Mac was actually a fairly common sight in engineering departments.

There are many reasons that's no longer the case, but there are two primary components:
A) Eventually everyone got computers, and engineers had to give up their special (read: expensive) workstations -- be it Mac or UNIX or whatever -- and use the same Windows workstations as the rest of the peasants
B) Apple all but died in the early 90s, and there was no AutoCAD release between 1992 and 2010. So even if you wanted to run a Mac it might not have been a choice
 
Egoy3k
2012-02-09 07:13:38 AM
rocky_howard: AutoCAD for Mac (new window)

I guess it's nice to know Macs are getting just as much shiatty software as the Windows platform.
 
D-D-D-Dave
2012-02-09 08:01:02 AM
UsikFark: BronyMedic: When did the IEEE Stop working on geeky standards for electronics and start blogging?

Damn nerds are taking over everything now.

From their website: IEEE provides a wide range of quality publications and standards that make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among technology professionals.

Blanket statement FTW.

Yep...reads like everything else they publish.
 
Andric
2012-02-09 08:12:13 AM
Egoy3k: rocky_howard: AutoCAD for Mac (new window)

I guess it's nice to know Macs are getting just as much shiatty software as the Windows platform.

The good news is that nobody uses AutoCAD to build anything for animation.

/cue the one animator who can't live without AutoCAD
 
mekkab
2012-02-09 08:18:41 AM
And this is why I only read ACM publications.
 
Egoy3k
2012-02-09 09:09:11 AM
Andric: The good news is that nobody uses AutoCAD to build anything for animation.

/cue the one animator who can't live without AutoCAD

I learned to draft on generic CAD on a monochrome monitor. I'd rather use that than use AutoCaD. At least with generic CAD you have an excuse for manually drawing features that simple software functions should create. I still draw a ton of features manually or reproduce hand drafting techniques using autoCaD because it's faster.

/I prefer Solidworks
/good luck convincing your employed that you NEED $7000 software though
 
EbolaNYC
2012-02-09 10:05:38 AM
WTF are they talking about???

The animation is SHIAT, the modeling is SHIAT, the lighting is SHIAT.

That's how they do them so fast, there's nothing in that article that is groundbreaking or impressive, least of all, the work they produce.

/Why yes, I'm a 3D animator
 
D-D-D-Dave
2012-02-09 03:10:12 PM
EbolaNYC: WTF are they talking about???

The animation is SHIAT, the modeling is SHIAT, the lighting is SHIAT.

That's how they do them so fast, there's nothing in that article that is groundbreaking or impressive, least of all, the work they produce.

/Why yes, I'm a 3D animator

I think it's interesting. In the past, I've wondered how South Park animators did their work because they've taken a-week-or-two-old news story and turned it into a new show, and they're famous for their shiatty animation.
 
brianbankerus
2012-02-09 05:18:47 PM
EbolaNYC: /Why yes, I'm a 3D animator

Your modeling sounds fat.
 
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