Year: 2005
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SAND – Motion Capture
Real-time animation from motion capture. I want one! It would be great in the Anatomy Lab.
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Swansea University Best For Student Experience
Wow – The University of Wales Swansea (my university) has just been voted top for student experience in the Times Higher Education Supplement. I think that’s 1st place out of 170 institutions. Blimey, those students just love it here.
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SAND Day 3
Ha. At the science animation day yesterday the Taliesin auditorium had only a few dozen people for the later presentations. Today, a guy from EA Games is talking & I can barely get a seat. EA are moving toward the next generation of gaming by pulling in animators from Disney & ILM. Eamon Butler, a…
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Menopause + Technology = Pain
I propose that women of that mid-life age and beyond shouldn’t be allowed near computer-based machines until properly trained. It’s far quicker for them & everyone around them if they go and speak to a real person. Yes, really. We should put notices up or something. As usual this morning I arrived at the train…
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SAND
Today’s part of the SAND conference (Swansea Animation Days) was concerned with animation & science, & mostly 3D animation. Hey, look how we can use Doom for some serious training applications! In fact these days the Farcry, Half-Life 2 & Unreal engines are used, with Farcry’s world modeller being the simplest to work with. An…