Happy Birthday Macross

Robotech was one of my inspirations for going into animation.  Meeting Carl Macek several years ago and telling him my story and how I went on to work on Titan AE and Treasure Planet was one of the most important moments in my life of animation.  In any case here is a tribute to Macross.  30 years of inspiring animation!

3D CGI Stop Motion Animation

Qumarion a USB input device for 3D applications that uses a puppet to manipulate a 3D CGI character.  I'm thinking if this was used to set key frames from pose to pose, frame to frame, like you would animated a stop motion puppet you might be able to simulate the stop motion animation experience and feel.  I would love to check this out. Unfortunately it's not available in the US yet. Running around $750.00 I look forward to see how this might be used in the animation industry.  Visit the website at  http://www.clip-studio.com/quma/en/

What do you think?  Comments?