When your creative juice is overflowing, don’t you just wish that you could use both of your hands to sketch out and jot down everything quickly? With Microsoft’s Surface Dial, a handy input device, you can explore new creative processes with both hands. In order to bring its advantages to our users, we have recently integrated the Surface Dial with our Windows apps, including Animation Desk and PDF Reader, for a faster and more intuitive way to scroll, zoom, navigate and more! Continue reading “How to Work with Both Hands on Kdan Windows Apps with Surface Dial”
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Kdan’s Spooky Animation
BOO! Spooky season is upon us and it’s time to start creating your scary animations! Halloween is such a great time of the year because we can all explore our dark and scary side in a fun and creative way. The decorations, costumes, pumpkin carving, and more give us so many great opportunities to be creative. Halloween is the best chance to bring these creations to life!
By telling a story, you can really liven-up these not-so-lively creatures. You can create a story where a zombie becomes best friends with a vampire and they joyfully raid the streets together on Halloween night. Or a Jack-o-lantern that comes to life and decides to eat all of the children’s candy. Whatever your crazy idea is, we want to see you bring it to life! Continue reading “Kdan’s Spooky Animation”
IANIMAGIC 2017 WINNER STORY – YINGZI ZHUO, BEST TECHNIQUE WINNER
The Best Technique award for iAniMagic Animation Contest 2017 has been awarded to Yingzi Zhuo for her impressive animation, Door, which depicts the difficulties we encounter door-after-door throughout life. Zhuo is an enthusiastic student from Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design at Fuzhou University, China, with a strong passion for animation. Her attentiveness to detail is shown in her award-winning piece, which has led to her well-deserved Best Technique award. Join us in discovering Zhuo’s method to success!
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iAniMagic 2017 Winner Story – Aastalim, Honorable Mention & Student Award Winner
Lin Xiaoman (林曉曼), also known as Aastalim, is the 2017 recipient of both an Honorable Mention and a Student award in iAniMagic 2017 with her submitted animation, Pick Yourself Up . Lin’s work is traditionally stylized with eye-catching colors and visuals, but in this competition, she chose to present the characters’ movements with minimalist black and white. Let’s learn more about her experience creating this work and some useful animation tips! Continue reading “iAniMagic 2017 Winner Story – Aastalim, Honorable Mention & Student Award Winner”
iAniMagic 2017 Winner Story – Ian Chung, the Jury Award Winner
We have had the pleasure to interview Ian Chung (鍾侑軒), the Jury Award winner of iAniMagic 2017, to learn more about his journey in the animation world. After graduating from National Tainan University of Arts, he started working as Storyboard artist and 2D FX Artist in an animation studio. Previously he was involved in the production of various Taiwanese animation films and TV series. His award-winning piece Future is considered to be a ‘stylish’ and ‘fun’ piece that has caught attention around the world.
Read on for our conversation with Ian:
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