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Animation created at record breaking speeds

Teamed up with Mark Teague of Dream Haven Studios to produce this low budget fast animated trailer for the book release of Knox Chase on the case of The Valentines Day Mystery. We produced it in about a week. We used Crazy Talk Animator, After Effects, iClone, and Photoshop to zoom through the production process in record breaking speeds.

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2D is not Dead, Just Evolving

Cinestar Interactive embraces a modern approach to a traditional art form. 2D Animation is not dead; what is dead is the old workflows, tools and expectations of what 2d animation is and can be. 2D animation as an art form with always have a special charm that can never be reproduced by way of 3d cgi.

At our studio, we look to innovate the art of 2d character animation through the use of modern tools and techniques. We create our own techniques and work flow s and apply them successfully toward increasing the speed, efficiency, and quality of 2d animated content. Our mission to find creative ways to make this art form more accessible, not only to our fellow animators and filmmakers but to the average consumer to whom animation, as a product or service, has long been an expensive and time consuming commodity.

Our full featured studio can take on any project of any size at a fraction of the traditional budgets. A project that once took weeks or months to create, takes us just a few days or hours to achieve.

Our workflow includes the the master use of lower end software in combination with years of experience and experimentation to produce content that is equal or higher in quality than the competition but without the traditional overheads.

 

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Meet Billy

Billy is an all new G2 Base Model for CrazyTalk Animator. He comes fully rigged and and ready to animate. The all new Billy 2.0 features even higher construction quality with pixel perfect joint articulations, expressive hand gestures, a cleaner art style perfectly suited for TV and Film, and more balanced body fit based on newly discovered construction techniques.

Billy 2.0 will twist and bend seamlessly and has a higher range of motion than any character we’ve developed so far. Take a look at the video on the right and see how Billy 2.0 can be easily brought to life using using an Xbox Kinect sensor.

Make him your own.

If billymodsBilly fits the basic mold of the character you require for your production, you can easily customize him into your own character, either with your own artwork or using parts and accessories from other Billy 2.0 derived characters such as Lucy, Jesse, Icarus, and Cleo.

You may also hire us to create a special custom character just for you, built on top of the Billy 2.0 framework or purchase a copy of the source file so that you can modify and create your own. Since the frameworks is already built, getting a new character out of him is a lot cheaper than having one built from scratch. Of course if you do need a custom character done from scratch, we do that too.

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Khuda Aur Muhabbat – S2, E21 (2017)

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Featured In The Leader News

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A special thank you for Skye McCole Bartusiak Foundation for the grant which allowed us to make our 2015 48hr film. Firs time I do one of these with any kind of budget.

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Sweet Child Of Mine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our filmmaking group had the pressure of participating in Splatterfest 2014. The resulting fill will be screened September 30 at 7pm and again at 9pm at the Alamo Draft House cinema in Katy as part of the Splatter fest film festival. If you are in the Houston come have a beer with us and enjoy the show. Ticket information is below, get them early as it is expected to sell out fast!

Sweet Child Of Mine – An Film by Ibis Fernandez

Sweet child of Mine, is a story about a father on a quest to find a cure for his infected daughter. While setting up camp, they encounter a biker gang who has taken a a few prisoners which they plan on ransoming out for food. A rescue mission soon becomes a fight for survival against a horde of infected. It’s not easy being a parent, but time are different, and as matter escalate he is forced to make the ultimate decision a father could ever make… Take my hand and we will go together and find a cure for this, bite me, and we both die here today.

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Part of Splatterfest 2014 – Ticket and Screening Info

SplatterFest 2014 DVDSplatterFest 2014  TICKETS are on sale now! All screenings will take place at Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park, Sept. 30th – Oct. 2nd, 2014. Awards Show Sunday Oct. 5th. (We will announce time shortly.) Screenings will sell out fast, so reserve your tickets today.

SHORTS PROGRAM 1 – Sept. 30th 

7PM Showing

9PM Showing

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The AutoMirror Feature in Puppet Producer

This video demonstrates how to dramatically increase your speed and productivity when creating custom G2 characters in Flash, for use with CrazyTalk Animator.

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This feature dramatically improves your speed and productivity by only requiring you to technically only focus on 4 primary angles. Three of the remaining angles can be easily mirrored with at a 1:1 ratio, while the other three angles can be done with a combination of AutoMirror with a a bit of additional manual tweaks.