In our previous blog entries, we’ve looked at constructing character models, animating them and building a world for them to inhabit. All… — In our previous blog entries, we’ve looked at constructing character models, animating them and building a world for them to inhabit. All well and good, but there’s little point in having 3D models in a 3D world unless they’re going to move around at some point!

Now that we have Bennie walking and talking, we need an environment for him to inhabit. The style we’re adopting here is sometimes referred… — Now that we have Bennie walking and talking, we need an environment for him to inhabit. The style we’re adopting here is sometimes referred to as 2.5D. This is where flat 2D objects are placed within a 3D world, thus creating a hybrid of the two. Wafer-thin Vegetation

Over the next two blog entries, we’ll be looking at the making of the Bennie The Lion video from our initial ‘Setting the Scene’ Blog. In… — Over the next two blog entries, we’ll be looking at the making of the Bennie The Lion video from our initial ‘Setting the Scene’ Blog. In this first part, we’ll look at how the Bennie character is created and animated, from the ground up… Smoke, Mirrors, Prisms & Pulleys

“The Autodesk® FBX® format is a free platform-independent 3D authoring and interchange format. Available for Windows, OSX, iOS and Linux… — “The Autodesk® FBX® format is a free platform-independent 3D authoring and interchange format. Available for Windows, OSX, iOS and Linux operating systems.” Clear as mud? Read on… At Numfum, we need to take the models and animations we create in 3ds Max, and re-produce them on multiple hardware platforms. …

Broadband slower than text messaging, and computers that smell of corned beef sandwiches and yoghurt, sporting less graphical power than a… — Broadband slower than text messaging, and computers that smell of corned beef sandwiches and yoghurt, sporting less graphical power than a 1980s Gameboy. Yes… we’re talking schools around the World in 2016. Education is the long favoured dumping ground for outdated and often obsolete technology. Bargain basement computers that allow…