notion parallax » visualisation http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog what happens when ideas slide past each other Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:47:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nature by numbers http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/nature-by-numbers/ http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/nature-by-numbers/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:52:25 +0000 Ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=494

This is well worth watching in full screen!

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This diy toy kit lets people make something, and hold it in their hands, and then put it back into the computer a few times until it is perfect.

Take a look at the archive, there are hundreds!

toy templateI have a feeling that once you’d made a couple of these then you’d have a good grasp of how to unfold wonder woman to put an awesome tattoo of an eagle on her thigh.

It might even build into a bigger teaching scheme for animation, camera matching, compositing. Anything…

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