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Illusion Mage – The Complete 3D Animation Software Suite

We all know that creating 3D animation can be a very tedious and time consuming effort, but even worse is that you have to spend hundreds, or even thousands of dollars to purchase the latest 3D animation software. It requires hours and hours of your time and almost everyone, whether you’re a professional animator or even if you are just beginner, just don’t have the resources or means to shell out that kind of money for 3D animation software.

That is until the recent launch of Illusion Mage!

What you are getting with Illusion Mageis one of the most advanced 3D computer animation software packages available, and it includes a completely integrated rendering, animation, modeling and real-time 3D game creation suite that allows you to:

Create 3D graphics of the highest quality
Produce your own animated cartoon movie or film
Draw 3D models and fully animate them
Easily design any type of 3D game quickly
Create interactive 3D content in real-time
Render unbelievable realistic and natural environments

Illusion Mage Review

Detailed review of the latest 3D animation software Illusion Mage

Now you can easily allow your imagination to come to life and create stunningly fantastic 3D animations! For a fraction of the cost of other 3D animation software packages. Not only that but you also get a ton of amazingly detailed video tutorials to aid you in your development experience with Illusion Mage! All of this without paying thousands or even hundreds of dollars. This is a chance of a lifetime to get a professional, top of the line 3D animation and creation package, the same one that is being used in the leading European animation studios.  Read more...

Introduction

It is sometimes believed that humor does not travel between languages. This has been a motivation for scholars to consider the (un)translatability of humor. However, considering the widespread admiration of some films and TV programs all over the world, one can realize that, regardless of any inconveniences, humor does travel across cultural and linguistic barriers. Having this point in mind, the objective of this study was to examine how it goes between languages and cultures through one of media translation methods, which is dubbing here.

Basic characteristics that all comic events share include surprising, and playing with logic, expectations, conventions and meaning (Nael & Krutnik 1990:43). The two modes are considered as one in this study, since it seems to be difficult to separate them. However, deviating from the norms of conventional, everyday conversation and breaking the rules of politeness and decorum are crucial to all kinds of comedy. Timing and appropriateness of utterance is another factor in creating humor. Sometimes when this factor is violated the resultant surprise is amusing and appealing to the audience. Replete instances of humorous items in the Shrek and Shrek 2 animations and their world wide success as being the most popular animated films among children and adults, and moreover, the successful dubbed versions of these cartoons in Persian in comparison with other dubbed animated films, have been the reasons for choosing them as the focus of this study. Songs and rhyming are excluded from this study since they are a complicated, large category and out of the scope of this study.

Objectives

There were two objectives for doing this study which was carried out in order to write a master thesis. First, the researcher wanted to figure out what strategies the Persian translators have applied to transfer the humor from English into Persian. Second, it was intended to see which strategies have been more frequently used by translators.  Read more...

• ISBN13: 9780929261515
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Walter Foster’s classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which … More >>

Animation 1: Learn to Animate Cartoons Step by Step

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The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix the aesthetics of traditional cel animation with dazzling 3-D effects. Kit Laybourne’s digital revision to… More >>

The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking–From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation