Author Archives: Eric B

youtube test

19th
May. × ’10
By Eric B
Example using Youtube’s embed code: Youtube’s embed code that doesn’t fallback to iPhone gracefully: <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="250" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ybPeQUEgk-0" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="250" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ybPeQUEgk-0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> Example that does work: YouTube Video <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/ v/ VideoID" width="500" height="250"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/ v/ VideoID" [...]
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After Effects error: making file specification – no such volume (-35)

1st
Mar. × ’10
By Eric B
Have you come across this error before in After Effects? After Effects error: making file specification – no such volume (-35) Yeah, it sucks.  Well, today was my first time experiencing this error.  I was opening an archived After Effects project, and as soon as it started to open I saw the error message.  I [...]
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Opening Maya projects from a newer version in older versions.

16th
Jan. × ’10
By Eric B
Often times I find that clients or co-workers are using older versions of Maya software which can create a headache at time of delivery.  Here’s a quick tip to “downgrade” the Maya scene file. For example:  I have a Maya 2009 project that needs to work in Maya 2008.  It uses nCloth which was available [...]
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Gmail Notifier for Mac not checking mail as often?

16th
Jan. × ’10
By Eric B
I noticed that on my Mac Pro running 10.5.8, with Google Notifier version 1.10.6.879 I was experiencing long delays between checks.  It seems the moment I updated to this version it was waiting for long periods of time to check my email.  Sometimes I would have to manually force it to check, or go to [...]
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3Dmation MoCon V3.5.5 – I love it

8th
Dec. × ’09
By Eric B
Stumbled upon a super helpful script for After Effects and Maya.  It’s called MoCon and you can find it here. If you are trying to bring locators from Maya into After Effects, or camera data this is a very important tool to have. I especially enjoy the fact that you can simply select any object [...]
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Saving .ma files

8th
Dec. × ’09
By Eric B
Have you ever tried to save a Maya scene as a .ma (maya ascii) file and received the following message? Error: File contains unknown nodes or data.  To preserve this information, the current file type cannot be changed. The tough part is figuring out what is an “unknown” node. To list the “unknown” nodes in [...]
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REMAINS

27th
Jul. × ’08
By Eric B
So I pulled this bad boy out of the college print making pile. Our goal was to make a print that was related to Thanksgiving. Well…I took a photo of the remains of our turkey after we devoured most of it. Yes it looked pretty gross.
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Untitled

27th
Jul. × ’08
By Eric B
Untitled print. One day I was thinking about the lack of help technology provides at times. Not always but occasionally it becomes more of a hindrance than anything. Then I thought about childhood. My toys and ‘machines’ never let me down. Sure I had a couple of loose chains on my Roadmaster ‘BMX’ bike, but [...]
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