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Review: Storyboarder, Free Storyboarding Software by Wonder Unit

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Good Storyboarding software is hard to come by at the low end of the market. So when I heard about Wonder Unit's Free Storyboarder application I was immediately interested. Springboard  has been my work horse storyboarding application for years. It's the cheapest, fully featured storyboarding software I know about, but it's getting old, and hasn't been updated since before I started using it. Storyboarder is an all new application put out into the world for free by Wonder Unit who say the market for their software is too niche to make money from selling it (I beg to differ but only very quietly because I like free stuff for creatives). Plus they make money from making movies so... there! (Sorry, there's an attitude of quirky jabs within this software and its documentation that's infectious). First Impressions Pretty darn nice. After getting through the welcome screen the actual user interface is clean and clear. Right away I can see drawing tools, a timeline,

Color Monkey CrazyTalk Animator 3 G3 Characters Now Available for Your Next Production

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Reddy the Color Monkey. Now available. Reddy, the Color Monkey, is now available to buy in my Reallusion Marketplace store  for your next CrazyTalk Animator 3 production. It's been a long journey that began way back in 2011, when I first tried to create him as a CTA, G1 character . Then again in 2014, I attempted to create him as CTA2, G2 character . Each time the process or life in general got the better of me, but with CTA3's G3 character rigs the process of creating characters has become a lot more achievable and, most importantly, less tedious (though I'd say it's still challenging if you want your character to be fully featured).. Reddy is available in two angles, Front and Side (a.k.a. 315 degree) views. Both angles feature a full range of hand and face sprites, as well as additional front facing feet sprites. Both are compatible with CTA3's facial puppeteering system and G3 human character motion library. Reddy's Tail. Also available is Reddy's Tail,

Review: Motion Den - DIY Video Intros and Slideshows

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Motion Den claims to be the world's simplest video maker of intros and slideshow style animated videos. I needed an animated slide show to promote my etourist Skateboards online store , which I planned to make myself with one of the many video editing applications I have, but, after being directed to Motion Den by a spammy, completely unrelated comment on this very blog (which I've since deleted), I thought I'll give them a try. The site is free to sign up and make videos with. Any published videos will have the Motion Den watermark. If you wish to remove this you can purchase individual videos or sign up for one of their plans, which give you a certain amount of credits each month to purchase videos with. Note that you can't actually do anything with a published free video other than view it in your account. There are no share options and you can't download it (making the watermark almost pointless). A selection of Motion Den's Templates. Motion Den is a temp