It's a Muvizu makeover 30 8月 2010 by Muvizu_Admin in Updates The team at Muvizu HQ is moving to the battle bridge tomorrow to engage boldly in an enterprise hitherto unprecedented in our sector. We're relaunching the website and, simultaneously, releasing our next update to our free Muvizu 3D animation application. The plan is to have the website switchover and the application release completed by 5pm GMT. At some point tomorrow morning the existing website will be taken down and replaced with a holding page while data migration is in progress. Application download mirrors should also have been updated by 5pm. A revised set of tutorial videos will also be published to walk you through the latest features of the application. The main additional features to the Muvizu 3D animation package are: Moving cameras Grouping/multiple selection of objects Ability to import 3D objects (static meshes) We'll be publishing some release notes tomorrow and information about known issues. As usual, we'd appreciate feedback about the inevitable bugs and general comments and suggestions. It would help us greatly if, especially regarding comments and suggestions, you spent a little while throwing around ideas in the forums with fellow Muvizu 3D users before emailing us. We have found previously that this gives us a more rounded and complete idea of what is likely to work best for the highest number of users. Elsewhere, there's good news regarding our competition with the Raindance film festival people: the deadline for submissions has been extended to October 10. The terms and conditions of the competition have been amended to reflect this change and may be found here: Raindance competition terms. Feedback from entrants and would-be entrants - especially those coming to the competition from the more traditional film community - have shown a consistent "if only" theme. If only I weren't limited to static cameras, if only I'd been given the equipment for a tracking shot. And so on. With the original deadline set for August 31, the very day that these features are to be released, we would have squandered an opportunity to see what people with a proven talent for storytelling and directing can do with Muvizu 3D animation software. We'd like to thank all those at Raindance who have juggled their event planning (and the festival is one huge event in the independent filmmaking world so this was no trivial task) and bent over backwards to accommodate this competition deadline extension. We would also point out to all of you who have already submitted your entries, frustrated by having to invent ingenious directorial tricks to overcome the limitations of fixed cameras, that entrants may submit as many clips as they wish. Furthermore, if you update your software via the Muvizu site on August 31, you may load your .set files from your original work into the latest version of the software. This will allow you to rework your shots with moving cameras, the original character performances having been preserved. Render the film out again and submit as a new entry. Happy, and more flexible, animating to you all. The Muvizu team
30 8月 2010 by Muvizu_Admin in Updates The team at Muvizu HQ is moving to the battle bridge tomorrow to engage boldly in an enterprise hitherto unprecedented in our sector. We're relaunching the website and, simultaneously, releasing our next update to our free Muvizu 3D animation application. The plan is to have the website switchover and the application release completed by 5pm GMT. At some point tomorrow morning the existing website will be taken down and replaced with a holding page while data migration is in progress. Application download mirrors should also have been updated by 5pm. A revised set of tutorial videos will also be published to walk you through the latest features of the application. The main additional features to the Muvizu 3D animation package are: Moving cameras Grouping/multiple selection of objects Ability to import 3D objects (static meshes) We'll be publishing some release notes tomorrow and information about known issues. As usual, we'd appreciate feedback about the inevitable bugs and general comments and suggestions. It would help us greatly if, especially regarding comments and suggestions, you spent a little while throwing around ideas in the forums with fellow Muvizu 3D users before emailing us. We have found previously that this gives us a more rounded and complete idea of what is likely to work best for the highest number of users. Elsewhere, there's good news regarding our competition with the Raindance film festival people: the deadline for submissions has been extended to October 10. The terms and conditions of the competition have been amended to reflect this change and may be found here: Raindance competition terms. Feedback from entrants and would-be entrants - especially those coming to the competition from the more traditional film community - have shown a consistent "if only" theme. If only I weren't limited to static cameras, if only I'd been given the equipment for a tracking shot. And so on. With the original deadline set for August 31, the very day that these features are to be released, we would have squandered an opportunity to see what people with a proven talent for storytelling and directing can do with Muvizu 3D animation software. We'd like to thank all those at Raindance who have juggled their event planning (and the festival is one huge event in the independent filmmaking world so this was no trivial task) and bent over backwards to accommodate this competition deadline extension. We would also point out to all of you who have already submitted your entries, frustrated by having to invent ingenious directorial tricks to overcome the limitations of fixed cameras, that entrants may submit as many clips as they wish. Furthermore, if you update your software via the Muvizu site on August 31, you may load your .set files from your original work into the latest version of the software. This will allow you to rework your shots with moving cameras, the original character performances having been preserved. Render the film out again and submit as a new entry. Happy, and more flexible, animating to you all. The Muvizu team