What is an Animatic in Animation?

An animatic is a series of storyboard images that have been timed into a pre-visualization video to preview an animated film, show, or video game. Animatics vary greatly in detail according to the length of animation and budget. Some are static storyboard frames showing just the timing of shots. Other types of animatics include more…

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What are Procedural Textures (Procedural Maps)?

Procedural textures are textures (sometimes also called maps) that are generated by the computer using a fixed set of parameters. This means that the computer can make unique variations of a texture all by itself! The process used to do this is called procedural generation. Procedural generation is a blanket term for when a computer…

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Polygonal and NURBS Modeling: What’s The Difference?

The main difference between polygonal and NURBS modeling is the way the mesh is calculated by the computer. For polygon modeling it calculates polygons, which are flat planes that comprise a 3D shape (the way that a cube is made out of 6 squares for example). NURBS calculates the mesh as splines between points, which…

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