Renders- Newsletter for the animation industry

Feature
The Ambiguously Mac Studio
A conversation with animator J.J. Sedelmaier
by David Nagel
Executive Producer

If there's a consumer out there who doesn't know J.J. Sedelmaier, it's one who doesn't watch a whole lot of television. His animation studio, J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, White Plains, N.Y., is famous for its work on Saturday Night Live's Saturday TV Funhouse, with such animated shorts as "The Ambiguously Gay Duo," "The X Presidents" and "Fun with Real Audio." The company has animated Beavis & Butthead, the pilot of Comedy Central's TV Funhouse, a recent series of interstitials for Cartoon Network called "Captain Linger" and a soon to be released pilot for the same network called Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Oh yeah, they've done some commercials too.

Review
Adobe After Effects 5 Production Bundle
2D/3D compositing and effects suite
by David Nagel
Executive Producer

We were the first to bring you coverage of Adobe After Effects 5, with QuickTime demonstrations of the new software on the very first day of its announcement—even prior to its release. Since that time, we've given a lot of coverage to After Effects and related plugins, and now we'll take a look at the After Effects 5 Production Bundle.

Feature
Outlined Text in Final Cut Pro
Importing Photoshop Layer Styles
by Paulo de Andrade
Senior Producer

There are many reasons to import Photoshop files into Final Cut Pro. But if I had to pick only one, it would be to create title (CG) pages. Let's face it - the text generator in Final Cut Pro leaves a lot to be desired! We are already in version 2.0 and we can't do a simple outline! What's the problem with Apple? They have one of the very best nonlinear editing applications out there, regardless of price. But they can't do text outlines? Even my old Amiga 1000 could do this in 1985!

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WWUG Lightwave Forum
Host: Pamela Rutherford
From: Mark
Subject: How to create fishing line
I'm a relative newbie to LW6.x (i havent really used it that much since the 4.0 days), and I have accepted a job where I have to create an animation of a fish biting a fish hook, with the fishing line attached to the hook following the motion of the fish "fighting" the hook in a semi-realistic manner

I've search all over for a tutorial on something like this, but have come up short. I'm leaning towards a bones-based solution (i.e. boning a line object and parenting it to the end of the fishhook), but I was wondering if anyone knew of a simple and better way to achieve this effect.

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