Animation

Commercial LED cubes have been around for a while now and can be quite large and capable of some interesting displays. This project is on a smaller scale and goes through the steps required to build a Netduino Mini-controlled 512 LED cube (8 x 8 x 8).Clearly, the Mini does not have 512 pins and so…

Interested in creating a game for Windows Phone using Silverlight? In this episode, Jeff Paries, Silverlight MVP and author of the book Silverlight Animation, walks through the source for his Bird Hunt game for Windows Phone 7. He offers tips on how to create a game concept and keep your scope…

On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a…

Jeff Arnold, Lead Motion Designer for Windows Phone uncovers the core animations and the principles behind motion on Windows Phone 7. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days Series

I've been using the evolution of water supply as an analogy for the evolution of computing platforms for some time now. As part of an internal event this month, we had this animation produced and I thought it was worth sharing.

Pete Brown and his lovely assistant , Tim Heuer, interview Mike Wolf from Cynergy Systems at PDC09. Mike has built a Silverlight 4 demo application that uses the new webcam feature, and a png sequencer of his own design, to create stop-motion animation. Mike's Blog Tim's Blog Pete's Blog 

Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. Students, artists,…

Nikola Mihaylov has posted a sample of his Silverlight-based Motion Capture Viewer.  Its reading a traditional .BHV file for the movement and it looks pretty good.  Source code is available too, if you want to see how he's doing it.

Im vierten Teil unserer Staffel Silverlight 3 der Serie "Druckbetankung - Die Show" erklären Oliver Scheer und ich das Thema Animation und Storyboarding in Expression Blend 3. Ausserdem kommt das Thema "Easing Functions" zur Sprache. Easing Functions erleichtern  dank…

Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications. Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and…