Bajaj Transformer Robot Animation

Bajaj is a kind of tricycle transportation which is very common in Indonesia, especially the capital city, Jakarta. It's also so popular that it's also used in Indonesia animation movie. Although it's not an official movie shown in cinema as 3D animation movie like others, I still find that it's quite a great works of 3D Indonesian animation.

The following Youtube video is about Bajajs which can transform themselves as into Transformers Robots like just like the 3D movie, The Transformers. Not only the animation of bajaj, but also motorcycles and mini bus transformers are used here.

The scene takes place in the market which you can see an old man orders a bowl of noodles and getting ready to eat. You can see the spoons starting to shake, just like the scene of dinosaurs coming in Jurassic Park. Then, a big flying saucer (UFO) appearing in the sky. After that, lightning strikes from the UFO to the transportation around and they start to transform themselves, starting from the Bajaj Transforming.

Miivies tutorial video - basic tutorial on how to create an animation

Are you looking for tutorial video on Miivies, the online 3D movie creator? Well, here's a video tutorial showing you how to create a simple movie using Miivies. It shows you from the basic, right from how to build the scene, controlling the characters, the camera and finally rendering the act. Then you edit the scene, cutting it and adding music to the movie. After you have finished your movie, you can publish it to Youtube or have it sent to your e-mail.

Animation video : how student wake up in the morning

This is a short animation video showing the laziness of a student wake up in the morning, the ringing sound of phone and alarm clock just won't wake him up. It's a nice animation video. Showing the animation of a 3D character and object. Look quite real. Can you do such animation with your 3D program?

Subdivision Surfaces: Overview

Just now, I was searching for Blender Tutorial and suddenly found this video. It's an overview on Subdivision Surfaces used in 3D animation software. Of course in Blender 3D, you'll also find it.

Subdivision Surfaces has levels which make the appearance of the object you draw become smoother from one level to another. As it makes the object look smoother, it also takes up more memory and take more time for rendering. So, when you working in Draft modelling, you can use the level 1 so that it works faster. Let's watch this Blender 3D Subdivision Surfaces Introduction.

Creating 3D animated movies easily with Miivies.com

You'll probably wonder how those animators create 3D movies. And you may also ever have the idea of being one of them. In fact, if the animators' jobs aren't easy. As you know that there are many kinds of 3D designer software, like 3D Studio Max, Maya, Lightwave 3D, Blender 3D, etc. Those programs aren't easy to master, because the menus and the commands are just totally different from the menus and commands on Microsoft Office, which are easier to understand.

When I first saw the interface of 3D Studio Max many years ago, I felt so confused about the interface of the program. I didn't know where to start doing the 3D project. Even if you have the tutorial videos or reference books, you will still take a lot of time to learn.

But recently I found a website which gives us a lot of convenience in creating a 3D animated movie. It's Miivies.com. This website gives all you need to create a 3D animation. All you need to do is to think of your own movie story. You can create a 3D movie by just "click-and-drop" of object, which means most of your time is spent on selecting the characters, background, sounds, etc. It seems like the WYSIWYG of 3D animation programs.

Now,  you are just like a director n Miivies. You can select the character and choose the actions of the character. Choosing the background for the movie. Finally make them speak what you want. Miivies supports many kinds of languages, not only English although the interface is in English. This means that your character can speak many languages that you set for them.

You need to sign up for an account at Miivies.com to start your first project. You also need to install Unity Web Player. Since this is 3D web application, you'd better  have computer with higher specification to run the application smoothly. Well, everything is up to you now. I believe you will be able to create a animation movie of your own soon. Click here to start your first animation project at Miivies now.

Easy 3D Title Animation Software: Aurora 3D Animation Maker

You probably wonder how some computer beginners can do certain difficult things with computer, like making 3D animation for a novice computer user. From my experience, using 3D software for a new computer user will be very difficult if you don't know the basic of 3D concepts.

But does it mean that computer beginners can't create 3D stuffs in short time? Well, you can actually create 3D stuffs, like 3D title animation using special software which is intended for that task. Of course, I am not suggesting 3D software like 3D Studio Max, Maya or Blender3D.

To create great 3D title animation with simple steps, you need to have 3D animation maker like Aurora 3D. It's one of those many programs to create 3D title and animate it. The following video will show you some samples 3D titles and animation made with Aurora 3D Animation Maker.

A short 3D animation for moon cake festival

Moon Cake Festival is one of the most important festival celebrated by Chinese all over the world. It's also called as Mid-Autumn Festival. You should know that when Mid-Autumn is, since the name of the festival has applied the season "Mid-Autumn". It has another name as "Lantern Festival" cause many people will bring out their own lanterns and walk down the street. Children love this festival most.

Then, why does this computer blog has such post on Moon Cake? In fact, there's nothing related to moon cake, but those creative people have had it related to moon cake festival, by promoting "moon cake shaped flash disk" and also you can see "creative 3D animation video on promoting moon cake".

If you want to know more about this festival, you can visit wikipedia.com

Here are some videos about Moon Cake Festival.

Moon Cake Promotion Video

Moon Cake Cartoon

Moon Cake Flashdisk

Aren't those computer related moon cake stuff?

Free Chinese Deity Model, "Nezha" Download for 3D Studio Max

If you are a Chinese game designer or programmer or even an animation movie modeller, you probably need to download Chinese character model for your 3D Studio Max project (suppose that you use this program). One of all famous Chinese deities are "Nezha" who is the third son of Lijing, Heavenly King of Pagoda.

Creative and cool animation online generator

To create funny, cool, or special effects photographs, we don't really have to use Photoshop. There are many easy-to-use programs like Mei Tu Xiu Xiu and Photoscape. We can also use visit websites that enable us to put special effect on our photos online. Some of them let us create funny photos by putting our photographs in their template. Sometimes called, "Picture in a hole". We can also appy cool and beautiful borders on the photos, and thus making a simple photo looking great. Some also provides cool text, so that we can put text of wonderful design and effect. Photo Collage is also one of their service. These online service sometimes also called as Photo Effect Generator. To apply special photo effect, you can visit: Photofunia or Conew.

But, do you know that there is also a generator that helps us create great creative and cool animation easily? Well, I would share one with you, which you can create animation by just selecting the generator and then upload images and add your own text. And then by just clicking a button to preview the animation. You can then save your animation into a file which means you can use it later on. There are quite many animations such as: Heart open effect, valentine effect, fluttering flag effect, sailing boat effect, etc. You can also share your own creation with the generator. You can even create your own generator if you are an expert of 3D Blender. Click here to visit the free animation generator website.

Solar System 3D Simulator 3

If you are an elementary school science teacher, Solar System 3D Simulator probably will help you in explaining how the solar system works. Since this is a simulator, it shows you how the satellites of the planets rotate and how the planets go round the sun. It's not a program like the World Wide Telescope which shows you the simulation of the whole universe, but this one is more suitable for young children. Parents can also help their children learn by watching the simulation.

Solar System 3D Simulator 3 also has the following features like: planetary information, zoom viewing, adjusting the speed of revolution of the planets and the rotation of the satellites. You can also view the orbit or hide it. Therefore the 3D planets are in low-quality graphics but this program is still useful for basic understanding of the universe. Click here to download.

Bruce Jeet Kun Do - Computer Animation

Bruce Lee is one of the world's most famous martial art master. Do you know him? Well, I think you do know him. His fame also spreads wide until people created digital animation for his great and fast kungfu skill, Jeet Kun Do.

The following video is a computer animation on his self-created martial art, Jeet Kun Do. It's really great and look quite real. It's created using two famous 3D computer animation software called, Alias Power Animator 8.0 and Maya 1.0.

If you are a Bruce Lee fan, you should collect this 3D animation clip.

Create Flash Particle Effect Easily

With Flash Particle Studio, you can create wonderful Flash particle effect. This is not a freeware, but it's worth trying the trial version. There are many effects you can choose from aurora, drip, electric, fairy dust, etc. You can adjust the particle size, speed, density and life. After adjusting them, you can then publish it in 4 formats: AVI (importable by Flash), images, SWF and FLV. So, you can also use it for your website as the intro or add it in your movie clip as opening or ending clip.

Blender 2.46

Blender is the open source 3D animation program your can rely on to make 3D animation. It has all the tools you need from modelling, animation, and rendering until post-production. You can use it to create 3D animation for games or movies. It also comes with real-time shadow, cloth and fur simulation and particle simulation. Learn by doing from the tutorials provided on the site.
Click here to download the program.
Also visit: Blender movie gallery. The pictures shown here is the snapshot taken from the movie gallery.