News_Index

- Added new Tutorial /Reference Paper. Manipulating Digital Images. Heavily influenced by Ron Brinkmans " The Art and Science of Digital Compositing"

- Added Critical Thinking Article

Last Updated Oct 29, 2001 @ 6:00PM PST

-Added new Compositing intro to After FX tutorial

Last Updated Oct 15, 2001 @ 7:00PM PST

-New Compositing sub-section added in Tutorials

Last Updated Oct 9, 2001 @ 10:40PM PST

- New Flash Nav button added which introduces the Flash section of Joncrow Entertainment.

- Theme Song and 4 epsiodes of Mr. Dink Show added to Flash section

- Misc. Flash spots added to Flash section

- Navigation Contact Button replaced with About button. Info about Joncrow Entertainment and its Partners.

Last Updated Oct 8, 2001 @ 8:25PM PST

-New Quick Tip added: Order of Operators

Last Updated Oct 1, 2001 @ 11:25PM PST

-New Image added to gallery. Goblin planet.

Last Updated Sept 24, 2001 @ 9:25PM PST

-New Tutorial Added. Enveloping and weighting in XSI. More of a general reference. All text. No pics yet.

-New Script section added. Accessible from the nav bar. Small, but hopefully growing. Featuring scripts by XSI users

First script by Adam Garland

Last Updated Sept 20, 2001 @ 12:25AM PST

- New Quick Tip added. Plateau Interpolation

Last Updated Sept 17, 2001 @ 7:25PM PST

- New section added in Tutorials. XSI quick tips. Short, workflow enhancing XSI tips

- New quick tip added. Reset Actor.

Last Updated Sept 10, 2001 @ 10:25PM PST

Cap Students - 1st assignment Review- Intro to 3D space and concepts

Last Updated Sept 07, 2001 @ 11:25PM PST

-Animation Students. Short supplemental notes for todays class in animation

Last Updated Sept 04, 2001 @ 8:25PM PST

-New Gallery Image added. Water Planets. Render Tree experimentation

- Updated XSI Keying tutorial - added named anchors to breakdown section to facilitate explanation of concepts

Last Updated August 29, 2001 @ 10:25 PM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Rendertree Shaders in XSI

Last Updated August 28, 2001 @ 11:00 PM PST

- new section added in Dis & dat to serve the Jamaican community. Keep in touch. Look for significant future upgrades to this section

Last Updated August 27, 2001 @ 1:00 AM PST

- general site cleanup. Rollovers in the gallery never worked well on all browsers, so now each thumb links to an html page.

Last Updated August 22, 2001 @ 6:55 PM PST

- Images added from Halloween 8, part of a playback sequence in a big brother television show type scene.

Filmed in Vancouver BC.

- New Gallery image added. Elf. My girlfriend Izabela is a wonderful 2D artist. Izabela designed and painted this

character for me. She drew a turnaround which I used as a rotoscope to model, bone and rig. The

elf is a character that my students use to practice animating. They also use it as a skeletal study for reference

when building their own characters controls.

Last Updated August 20, 2001 @ 12:42 AM PST

- New Gallery Image added. Earth. I found a wonderful 10K map of earth free while surfing,

so started playing.A Legacy night Environment shader in one pass, followed by a

Volumic Light pass coming from behind the Earth. The site also had a 10K

Cloud mapped texture of the earth.

Can't remember the URL off hand though.

- Links section updated. Anchors at the top of the screen rather than scrolling

Last Updated August 7, 2001 @ 9:07 PM PST

-Lattice Demo Scene uploaded to Netview section. Cartoony effect

on how to squeeze an object through a hole

Last Updated August 6, 2001 @ 11:45 PM PST

- New Tutorial Added in XSI Tutorials Character Rigging in XSI Tutorial Added

July 17, 2001 @ 11:44 PM

- A few Links added. Adjust your softimage archive sites here. The Beckmans have moved out!!

- After spending the last two weeks on the road in Germany and Poland, Joncrow is ready to create some new content for XSI.

Check back soon.

May 12, 2001 @4:00 AM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Shoulder Setup: Musculature Method

- Vanarts Students - Breakdown_Review

May 11, 2001 @8:00 PM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Shape Animation - The musculature Method Part 2 of 2

May 11, 2001 @ 2:19 AM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Shape Animation - The musculature Method Part 1 of 2

May 7, 2001 @ 2:02 AM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Manipulating Environment Shaders

-Vanarts Students - Group Project assignments

May 2 2001 @ 2:28 PM PST

- New Tuturial added in XSI Tutorials - Advanced Lightning Shader

April 30 2001 @ 11:55 PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - F-curve editor and follow through/overlap

I'll be adding in many more pictures and interaction to this one shortly. Stay tuned...

-Summer course offering - XSI 8 week training intensive.Character modeling,

character animation,Enveloping, rigging. Visual FX, rendertrees. begins July 4th

April 26 2001, @ 11:43 PM PST

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Nested custom parameters to create hand sliders

- New Tutorial added in XSI Tutorials - Basic Skeleton setup

- Check out the Dis & Dat section for news on Vancouver's Animation industry. Articles posted weekly

- Check out www.gradshow.com for info on Cap Colleges 2001 graduating animation classes. Gallery coming soon

April 17 2001, @ 5:53 PM PST

- Frequent tutorial Uploads. Contact us if you'd like to be added to our mailing list when new tutorials are posted

- Check out the links section for news on Summer Animation Training at Capilano College in Softimage XSI! Classes start July 3rd

- Check out the Dis & Dat section for summer cottage rentals on the Gulf Islands off the coast of Vancouver BC. Cleanse your soul.

- The Mr Dink show recently aired on the Comedy Network. Check this site soon for the online flash versions.