Laughing From Sunday Mornings All The Way To The Bank
News Increasingly, the computers used to produce rich animated graphics are becoming generic, industry watchers say. No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep...
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
Human Traits Make Robots Likeable
News The group asked volunteers to work with an animated computer character which had the linguistic capabilities of a one-year old child, the report said. Results showed that the animated character scored highest on all counts when it mimicked 80...
[May 30, 2003, 9:33]
3D All American Baby
Downloads Contains animated gif images and MIDI sound file. Baby dances with human-like motion. 3D baby girl clad in red, white and blue dances to patriotic music while red, white and blue baby bottles and pacifiers float past.
[March 19, 2002, 2:18]
Miniriver Flash To Video Converter
Downloads Miniriver Flash to Video Converter is a powerful but easy to use tool to convert Macromedia Flash movie(*.swf) or Flash video(*.flv) files to AVI, MPEG video or image series (including BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF format).
[April 17, 2008, 0:46]
Miss America Browser
Downloads For the first time in history Miss America gets to exercise her platform virtually as an animated character. The Miss America Kid Safe Browser comes complete with e-mail, e-mail reader, and parental controls where the parents can adjust security...
[June 14, 2008, 5:46]
Microsoft Agent
Downloads Microsoft Agent, an ActiveX Control, is a set of programmable software services that supports the presentation of interactive animated characters within the Microsoft Windows interface. Microsoft Agent enables software developers and Web authors to...
[October 14, 1998, 1:34]
Incubation Demo
Downloads Play is turn-based, with gamers controlling a team of Space Marines, plotting their moves and then watching the animated action through a multitude of camera angles. In this go-around, gamers play as human colonists on the formerly peaceful planet...
[September 19, 1997, 5:30]
SokoSolve Sokoban
Downloads The game allows the player to solve puzzles in an animated environment, which includes mouse movement. The end-goal for the project is to be able to generate interesting (from a human perspective) puzzles, which are checked as valid by the solver...
[February 5, 2008, 15:01]
VFDS Male (Virtual Figure Drawing Studio)
Downloads VFDS is not poser software like Poser, but rather an animated pre-posed dynamic and artistic poses for artists and illustrators. The purpose of these quick poses is for the artist to practise his speed and strokes to get the correct balance and...
[July 23, 2005, 19:01]
1848
Downloads There are no counters in the game, only large animated figures. When you have mastered the AI, play against a human opponent via E-mail, Hotseat play or across a TCP/IP Network (LAN and Internet).This download gives you access to the full version...
[May 20, 2006, 18:00]
Nuggets: Metacreations Poser 4 Gets Beefed-up
News It basically lets you create posed and animated human and animal figures and add them to your paper or Web based creations. This latest version includes what it calls 'cupboards' full of clothing to dress up your animated beings and bottom up...
[July 13, 1999, 12:00]
Presentation To Video Converter
Downloads Presentations to Video Converter allows you to convert PowerPoint presentations into Video, Flash Movie, Animated GIF, DVD. The converting process allows human interaction on PowerPoint content during conversion.
[February 14, 2008, 22:46]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, Why Did You Go Away?
Blog Comment Having been raised on computer games and so forth, I tend to find animated cars and animals a little more disturbing. Like a human is using the animal's carcass as a mask. If you saw the scripted scenes with Alyx Vance (the generated newsreader...
[November 8, 2006, 8:17]
WebcamMax Effects Package
Downloads Another is Frame Effects, including Animals, Animated, Architecture, Clocks, Consumption, Cool Devices, Famous People, Feeling, Game, Holidays, Human, Love, Movie, Flag, Nature, Sports and Stylish. There are 1,896 effects in this package for...
[November 26, 2007, 12:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Week
News Saddest of all, your normally sober and mature correspondent is hit by helpless Beavis and Butthead-style giggles upon discovering that MPEG-4 analyses the human form and sends motion down narrow bandwidths as an animated model.
[August 16, 1997, 1:00]
Menace Is No Star Wars
News Phantom's reliance on digitally animated characters in this film was, at best, uninvolving, and at worst, in the case of Jar Jar Binks, annoying. As for the human characters .the other critics have it right -- the roles are all sadly underdeveloped.
[May 21, 1999, 7:45]
Cursor Flaw Throws Doubt On Vista Security
News The vulnerability lies in the way Windows handles animated cursors and could let an attacker commandeer a PC when the user views a malicious Web site or e-mail message. It is not Superman; it is just a human being.
[April 4, 2007, 16:27]
New Game Consoles Blow Away PCs
News Animated people look almost human, with hair blowing in the breeze or their faces vividly reflected in pools of water. For the first time, video-game machines are expected to decisively trump the performance of general-purpose PCs.
[September 3, 1999, 9:13]
