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Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories

Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short.

Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form.

The companion DVD includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start!

With Ideas for the Animated Short you’ll learn about: Story Background and Theory * Building Better Content * Acting: Exploring the Human Condition * Building Character and Location * Building Story * Dialogue * Storyboarding * Staging

* This unique creative toolkit for idea generation and refinement is short and to the point, focused on the basic principles you need to know
* The companion DVD contains professional and student animations (including preparatory sketches and storyboards) to demonstrate effective techniques and imaginative results
* Packed with inspirational interviews and behind-the-scenes work from top professionals from Sony, Pixar and Disney

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Question by ?Jamie?: where can i find free pictures for tattoo ideas?
All the sites i have found make you pay. I need a site that has FREE pictures of tattoos

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Answer by Lil D
Google images?

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Question by Jared Chong: What are some good ideas for a short film?
I have a college project where I have to make a short film that is between 3 and 5 minutes in length, but I’m not good at coming up with the concepts. Are there any good ideas I could use for this film?

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Answer by thatguy452
take a simple task like throwing the trash and make it a adventure with obstacles and fighting or randomness

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Flash CS3 Designers ? Offering Flexible Ways to Express Your ideas

Flash is an extremely important tool used to add animation, video and interactivity to web pages. Now-a-days, most games and advertisements use Flash as the developers find it very user friendly. Flash movies load very fast unlike file attachments in email where you have to wait till it is fully downloaded. You can start to watch a Flash movie as the content is transmitted to you. This is one of the biggest advantages of Flash as it helps the web publisher to make advanced and powerful animation for their readers. Flash has proved to be very beneficial in the world of web design as it has brought wonders to many businesses. Flash cs3 is a version of Flash which is one of the most successful releases in the history of Flash. Flash cs3 Designers was a big asset. With the advanced design and animation tools, it provides flexibility to express with the most creative ideas.

An attractive website has become a necessity to promote a small business. We have witnessed a steady increase in the number of competitors in small businesses in the recent past. So, a strategic promotion of the business on the World Wide Web is considered to be very important. Many web publishers prefer Flash Site Design as it can provide the site with eye catching attributes and helps enhance its attractiveness. Unique and attractive logos can be created which are very much in demand by every small and big business houses today.

Flash website Design is the latest technology which empowers the representation of your company, product and services in a very aesthetic way including Flash movies, Flash animation, Flash photo galleries, integrated sound effects etc. It is highly recommended by web publishers for creating visual effect and online presentation. Attractive and innovative websites can be developed by this technology that will engage and excite the target customers and help your company gain an extra edge over your competitors. But if you want your website to rank high in the search engine listings.

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Question by lalit d.: What are some good short movie ideas?
Nothing Rated R. Just watched Agents of secret stuff by Nigahiga. Im a junior in high school and I was thinking my friends and I could make a short movie ourselves. Any genre to be honest, but nothing with a lot of vulgar language and other things which are a bit too inappropriate.

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Answer by Blue Drank
My friends and I made a few short movies in high school. We had a lot of fun, we always just thought up ideas and scenes on the go. We improvised most of everything with only a general idea of what was gonna happen. Get together with your friends and brainstorm.

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Question by jimbo: What are some good ideas for a short movie?
My friend and I want to make some short movies on her new camera, but can’t think of any ideas. Any suggestions?

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Answer by hoodlum
Focus on a small part of a bigger subject, your best bet would be a comedy or something that targets one emotion, depending on what you are making the movie for.

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More Advanced Photoshop Applications – Online Tutorials Available to Guide Photoshop – Ideas of Editing Digital Photos Like The Pros

This is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. It’s a totally unique step-by-step video training system, designed to make any newbie user completely confident with Photoshop in record time. Just 2 hours from now you’ll be able to produce your own graphics quickly, easily and completely stress free! 1. Hold down the Cmd/Ctrl key while at the same time clicking on a layer in Photoshop’s main image window to auto-select a layer.

2. Remove Color – Removing all color from an image without going into grayscale mode simply press Shift Cmd/Ctrl U (‘Desaturate’) while still in RGB mode to make your image grayscale. Another option is to use the channel mixer which will actually create a better result. In this option, all you need to do is click on the Grayscale option.

3. Move Selection to its Own Layer – Copy the selection by pressing Cmd/Ctrl J. Press Shift Cmd/Ctrl J to cut and move a selection.

4. Hide the Selction Marquee (‘Marching Ants’) – Press Ctrl/Cmd H.

5. To set a feather using the Lasso Tools press the Return/Enter key to highlight the Feather field in the Options palette and here you can enter or change the value.

6. To fill a layer or selection with the foreground colour, press Alt/Option Delete. To fill a layer or selection with the background colour, press Cmd/Ctrl Delete.

7. To change the brush size. Press the [ ] keys. If you hold the shift key down and press the [and ] keys, the brush gets softer and harder, respectively. (You can change the level up to five times).

8. If your version of Photoshop is without the Spot Healing Brush, double click on the Blur Tool and in the Options palette, decrease the opacity to 15% and change the mode to Lighten to remove the undesired scratches and blemishes. When you paint over these marks, they will disappear before you eyes.

9. Drawing With Brush Tools ” If you want to draw a straight line with one of the brush tools, click, hold the Shift key, and click again where you want the line to end. The Photoshop program will draw a straight line from point to point. These steps also work with most tools, including erasers and even the highlight tool in the Extract filter.

10. Create a brand new picture from an existing layer by choosing Duplicate Layer in the Layers palette and changing the document setting to New.

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Father’s Day Gifs Ideas for 2010

Give Dad something cool this Father’s Day !

looking around the array of men’s gifts at department stores would leave you with the impression that every male is not only in need of a used tie or gadget, but a golf fanatic. On the contrary, men’s passions are diverse.Therefor how to choose a special father’s gift
,which is a problem that confused us.so here we made a tribute to the Fathers of the world with a great compilation of Father’s Day gift ideas including different cool gadgets, Car accessories, fun toys and other great finds for you to choose from.

Step 1
Many men love playing Foosball, and this nifty little game is probably the world’s smallest version. It may not be small enough to fit in your pocket, but it could still be convenient enough to take on a travel trip with the family.

Step 2
Feed his sweet tooth with a bag of his favourite childhood sweet. See’s Sweet (sees.com) has a variety of tasty gifts that will tempt someone off the Atkins plan. Alternatively, pick up a savory treat like smoked salmon or a 20-lb. can of pistachios from Costco.

Step 3

Those Fathers who are very protective of their sons and daughter would take this spy gadget any day. It is a mini spy cam that is embedded into a Tie, allowing anyone to record with a remote control without individuals even noticing.

Step 4
Who doesn’t love beer? Ok, let me rephrase that…what Father doesn’t love beer? This mini Heineken Beer keg is not filled with alcohol but with wiring and tech that could allow the musical Fathers a cool way to stay off the bottle and stick to another love…Music.

Step 5
Add more entertainment to his automobile. The newest car mp3 player is combined with a car charging holder and a MP3 player that can be used independently as a common player. Connect the car charging holder to the MP3 player with the USB cable and the player can be charged in the car. The supper true color, the brilliant 2.4″ LCD will display video clearly and fluently, which make your rest along the journey more colorful.

Step 6
Zero in on an enduring hobby or new interest, then shop for gear & accessories he doesn’t have yet. Is he a science or computer buff, a automobile or airplane fanatic, a fisherman, a cook, a gardener or basketball fan? Shop Discovery.com, an auto supply store, Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table. Visit a local nursery or buy a couple of tickets to a ballgame.

Step 7
Do something fun together. Plan a fishing or camping trip, or even a helicopter ride. Or buy tickets & popcorn, & let him pick the film.

Step 8
Tap in to a nostalgic moment or time you shared. If you have travelled together, receive a coffee-table book on a place you visited that evokes a great adventure.

Step 9
Go to buy a car parking sensor for them ,This Parking Sensor System helps the fatrher to get rid of those costly collisions that happen inevitably. Once installed, It will automatically turns on when reversing and parking. For the display unit with built-in buzzer, Parking Sensor System gives forth audible beeps if an object is detected while backing up.

Step10
Give him the world. Discover a pretty wall map, atlas or globe at National Or appeal to a secret passion: a map of Civil War battlefields, for example, is .95.

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Question by Essennelle: What are some good movie ideas for a short film made in a month?
My friend and I would like to make a short movie over our winter break from college, but don’t really have any ideas. We live in NYC so lots of good places to film

Any ideas for us?

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Answer by Zach
nice, me and my friends actually wrote script for a movie about a group of friends trying to find somthing fun to do but everything keeps backfiring or not working out, with a few “family guy” style flashbacks, theres an idea.

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Clip-Art for Schools, Students and Teachers: Implementation Ideas and Safe Sites

One of the greatest challenges that educators face is how to encourage students to use the tremendous resources available online and, at the same time, ensure that the student experience is safe and appropriate.  There are literally millions of clip-art images available for download across hundreds of sites. But which ones are appropriate for school clip-art projects?  And, how do we, as educators, control access to online sources regarding downloabable images and clip-art?

First, someone at the individual school level needs to be responsible for developing and implementing policies regarding surfing and downloading and cleary delineate what is appropriate and what is not.  The policy should be in writing and distributed to all teachers and students.  A small committee of a few teachers and students should periodically review the policy and adjust as necessary given the school’s ongoing computer needs and use.

Second, clip-art images, photo clip art and gifs, creating avatars, etc. should be approved before downloading to the school computer network or printed out on the school’s printers.  Nothing is more disruptive than inappropriate images being spread quickly throughout the student population, either through hard copies or file-sharing.

Third, at the school computer network level, permissions should be set regarding access to approved urls. Particularly with regard to image and clip-art sites, the school should compile a list of kid-safe and educational sites.  Only these sites should be accessible at school.  Teachers and students can always recommend sites to be added to the permission list.

Following these basic suggestions, teachers and students should be able to explore, create and present ideas safely and appropriately, using the school’s resources to foster growth and learning.

To get you started with some specific safe site recommendations, please visit www.clip-art.info

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