So here are some announcements regarding the near future of WCSMT:

All animated .gifs will be deleted by Dec 9th, 2008

If you are fond of any particular animation you created, download it now.

It pains me to take these offline but we gotta make room for the new version to come. Of course this animations are backed up and we’ll put them back online when we find some space.

The new version should roll also in DECEMBER 9th 2008

For the time being, we are dropping the animated gif format as our presentation format, as it is very bulky to store and transmit. Instead we are switching to PNG files, played back by a custom flash player embedded on HTML.

However it will be possible to download all animations as animated .gif for those who want to store the animations themselves.

Animations will have a 20 frame limit, instead of 10 and will have greater resolution.

Animations will have an expire date, after which they will be deleted to make room for the newer ones and keep things in a manageable size. We have yet to determine what is the best expiry time on our animations. We appreciate suggestions.

There will be some minimum ads on the site.

Animations will be moderated.

These are some screenshots of the new version:

Sorry for the delay in updates. Current Piterwilson.com projects are not abandened. Things are howeever, very busy , there is more updates to current projects coming really soon.

I just got a copy of The Animation Bible, a book by Maureen Furniss (Ph.D) of the Animation Faculty at CalArts in Los Angeles.This very lenghty book touches about every topic there is on animation. From conception, pre-production, making a pitch, budgeting, actual development, history, techniques … the list goes on.

He recibido una copia de The Animation Bible, un libro por Maureen Furniss (Ph.D) de la Facultad de Animación en CalArts de Los Angeles. Este bastante extenso libro toca mas o menos todos los temas que hay acerca de la animación. Desde la concepción y conceptualización, presentación inicial, presupuestos, desarollo, historia, tecnicas… la lista de temas continua.

I had the great honor of being referenced under the chapter titled “Digital Media and Computer Animation” as one of the many case studies covered troughout the book, for my participation on the Flipbook! project, developed for Fabrica‘s Interactive department.

Tuve el gran honor de aparecer referenciado como uno de los muchos casos de estudios mencionados en el libro por mi participación en  Flipbook!, desarrollado para el departamento Interactivo de Fabrica

The 54th edition of Proyecto Diseño features all the nominees for the XI edition of the PLA (Iron Pencil) Design award aimed at Colombian professionals. This year they have 95 finalist projects in 21 categories in areas of design like architecture, product design, clothing design, graphics, Internet among others.

2 of my projects compete against each other on the Interactive Design category, which pretty much means i win by default.

La número 54 de la revista Proyecto Diseño presenta todos los nominados a la XI edición de los Premios Lapiz de Acero. Este año cuentan con 95 finalistas en 21 categorias como arquitectura, producto, modas, gráfica e Internet entre otras.

2 de mis proyectos compiten entre si en la categoría de Diseño Interactivo, lo cual quiere decir que gano “por W”.

I got this letter from the PLA. It’s a design awards show organized by Proyecto Diseño magazine. It’s not a HUGE deal but it is the biggest award in the country and possibly Latin America (unless you count all those commercial advertising agency awards, which are just plain evil).

I submitted WCSMT and my participation on the Flipbook! Deluxe at the Milano Triennale. They are both nominated.

I went to the ceremony last year, because some friends of mine were nominated. It was pretty fun, they had all sorts of local “sort of famous” people presenting the awards, free goodies, an after party full of free beer and they even had a red carpet, tv coverage and a tv host who was just at the entrance gretting people and saying the same things over and over again. Oh! I really want to go again this year.

http://www.bazucobazuco.com/bzcmedia/?p=38

Free single by Indepentiente81 i’ts a “….zip file including .pdf cover and 3 new hi-quality mp3…”

Single gratis por Indepentiente81 es un“… zip que incluye portada en pdf y 3 nuevos mp3…”

Awesome artist and personal friend Nicole, started her blog with illustrations and stuff

http://www.miniclip.com/players/en/card/?uid=537

Now Hansi‘s made an AIM chatting bot so she doesn’t have to go around chatting all day to keep it going. Nice work guys.

Anna Lisa ya habia hecho esto del “chain tale” en Fabrica . Se metía a Ichat y nos pedía que escribieramos paragrafos al azar para completar una historia colectica.

Ahora Hansi hizo un robot chateador para que a ella no le toque andar todo el dia metida chatiando. Buen trabajo chicos.