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Idle Games Brings Harmony to Facebook
Idle Games is a social gaming company nestled in the bosom of San Francisco's SOMA District. “San Francisco is the nexus of technology and creativity,” says Idle Games CEO Jeffrey Hyman. “Idle Games' focus is on quality, creativity and originality.” The team at Idle Games thrives off the innovative spirit of the city and they challenge themselves everyday to make the "first TRULY social game on Facebook." Idle Worship, their first game, is no doubt going to make a splash in the industry. In unison, technology and art have come together to bring something truly unique to Facebook. Their game world is composed of hand drawn animation and fully painted frames producing fluidity of animation and quality of painting that is more akin to a Disney animated feature as opposed to a Facebook game. Idle Games' art tool chain is unlike virtually all flash animated games that use the "puppet" method for animating characters and where coloring is simply color fills with gradients.
Idle Games is creating something the animation community will truly be proud of with a tool chain that fully integrates hand drawn 2D animation via Toon Boom Harmony and hand painted animation frames using Photoshop. “With Harmony we have found a fluid workflow and the essential tools needed to accomplish this high bar for quality. Harmony provides the most "traditional" workflow, which helped the transition from paper to paperless for our animation team. The ability to label key drawings in the x-sheet, flip drawings at various speeds, and the ease of use of the network to share files in a global library have enabled our sleepless animators to efficiently produce a product we are proud to share and call our own. At Idle Games, Toon Boom has given us piece of mind that there is another company like us that cares this deeply about 2D animation and provides us the technology and tool set to better realize our creative vision,” states Fabian Molina, Director of animation at Idle Games. idle-games.com
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Brain Freeze Makes Games Cool for iPad Brain Freeze Entertainment is a design and animation studio offering a full spectrum of services in animation, storyboarding, project development script and content creation for TV, advertising, film, DVD, books, web and corporate, app design, character design, modeling, programming and marketing. Brain Freeze Entertainment has utilized Animate Pro a great deal for animation production. “In the past, we used tools that were designed for web content creation for producing our cut-out animation. Animate Pro is the first product that we found that is designed for production purposes and that difference dramatically improved our results,” states Brain Freeze Founder, Tod Carter. A great example was on a recent project Goosed-Up Rhymes, an interactive storybook reader app produced for the iPad and other IOS devices. Brain Freeze needed to create almost 15 minutes of unique character animation for this project. The content required a combination of cut-out styles and paperless animation while also allowing for the organization of the content and file sharing of assets. “The interface and workflow allows us to efficiently produce a large amount of animation in a small time frame. But the best part is that there is total creative freedom. Scene
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A great example is the power and flexibility of the “animation pegs” used to place transforms on art elements. In other programs you would need to do complex nesting that requires the user to “drill” up and down through the nesting. The peg system not only streamlines that process but increases flexibility by allowing the user to allocate those peg attributes to other pieces of art or effects.“ Brain Freeze also uses Storyboard Pro in their production pipeline to create and organize production storyboards for feature and television projects. Once again the studio leans on the power and versatility Toon Boom provides by allowing the artist more power and control which all translates to increased efficiency in the pipeline. “In the past working on 2 or 3 panel production boards was a nightmare when it came to doing revisions. Every board artist will love the ability to insert panels into shots and reorder or renumber the entire project with ease. Having the ability to quickly draw directly in Storyboard Pro is a great way to handle the boarding but we also like being able to import art from third party software or scans if that’s how the artist feels comfortable working. The point is that no matter how you like to work the system can integrate with your needs.“ brainfreezeent.com Images © 2011 The Christian Broadcasting Network. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.
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TOON BOOM STORYBOARD PRO 3D: FIRST STAGE “PRE-VIZ” FOR GAME DEVELOPERS Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 3D is the perfect tool for testing and conceptualizing ideas, story lines, characters and environments. Directors and artists finally have the freedom to make multiple revisions, test ideas quickly in real time to produce the best possible storyboard or animatics for final rendering in editing suites or 3D previz software. • Extensive import capabilities, including a wide variety of bitmap (JPEG, PNG, TGA, PSD, YUV, SGI, OMF), vector (AI, PDF, SWF, TVG, OPT), audio (WAV, AIF, MP3), text files, a 3D (FBX, OSB, OBJ) • Seamless pipeline integration with superior export capabilities, including Final Draft, printing, integration with, EDL, AAF, CSV, PDF, PSD, SWF, AI, JPG, TGA, PNG, FBX, and QuickTime file formatting. • Camera, Motion and Timing: You can edit you storyboard or animatic quickly, add sound and set your basic timing down before exporting to final previz software of choice. • Perfect for: Cinematics, Trailers, Mocap and any part of the game that needs to be storyboarded. Reuse game models by importing them directly in your Storyboard Pro 3D file to lay out backgrounds easily, and then allow the Storyboard artist the freedom of drawing their storyboard with 2D drawing tools while maintaining the flexibility of being able to interact with the models directly. Export your Storyboard project to 3D or continue in your own pipeline. toonboom.com/storyboardpro3d
TOON BOOM HARMONY: THE ANIMATION SOLUTION FOR GAME DEVELOPERS Simply the best-integrated animation toolset available on the market; no other solution will deliver outstanding animation faster or more efficiently. Toon Boom Harmony is the most powerful solution, handling all steps from pre-production to design, compositing and multi-platform rendering. Harmony offers the first true 3D integration with Toon Boom’s 2D flagship animation solution. Artists can import 3D models and 3D scenes into Harmony and manipulate all of their 2D and 3D elements into a unified environment. Work in an integrated Maya pipeline for rendering seamlessly through Harmony. Harmony’s 3D Space goes even further by allowing transformation on all 3 axes and authorizing compositing. toonboom.com/harmony