Join the AIGA - Design Professionals

If you are a design major, then check out the resources offered by the AIGA (the professional association for design). Per our recent lectures in logic class, here's a link to a sample intellectual property agreement that you may want to tailor for clients or subcontractors: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/standard-agreement. It's a very thorough document with tons of good information and I highly recommend it for those of you engaged in freelance/independent projects.

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Animation Previews, QT Player 7.2 and... Frame Numbers?

As an animator/vfx artist/motion graphics artist working on film projects, there is a very good reason to render your animation previews as .mov.

It can display frames (not just hh:mm:ss).

Why should you care about this seemingly small detail? Because when you're getting your work reviewed by your client (or instructor), you need to know exactly what they are looking at and very often this is communicated to you over the phone or through email. There are 24-30 places between each second marker for your client to be talking (ranting) about and it can really help speed up the review process to know exactly what they're pointing out.

How to use it?

Simply click on the timecode area and select frames.

Use File Hippo to get cool utilities

File Hippo is a cool download site that allows you to get updates for quality utilities. You can filter for freeware or non beta items only. If you're into system maintenance (especially for PC), this is the site for you.