A Brief
History
of the Animation:Master Glossary
[click
here to get to the glossary index]
2002-05-26: V0.21 New entries: Stride_Length, Volumetric_Effect, Dust, Mist, Steam.
2002-05-01: V0.20 New entries: Dictionary, Dopesheet Preston_Blair
2002-04-30: After over one year of pause, because we moved home, got a little baby (Lisa) and loads of other work, I now try to continue the glossary. During the last year the hitcounter increased nearly by 7000 (!) hits, so today we got 7500 pageviews.
2001-04-08: V0.10 New entries: Shadow, Distortion_Mode. Updated entry: Boolean_Cutter.
2001-04-08: After a little
PC-crash and loads of other work to do I picked up the
glossary-work, again. And: last night we had 700 page hits.
2001-03-11: V0.09 New entries: WIP, Proxy_Model, Decal (with Decal Examples page!), Default_Bone, Depth_of_Field, Direct3D, OpenGL.
2001-03-08: Hey!! Tonight we collected the 500th Web-Hit on the glossary.
2001-03-07: V0.08 Build a reference chart for camera navigation for the Camera entry.
2001-03-06: V0.07 New entries: Cookie_Cut_Map, Creases, Crowd.
2001-03-05: V0.06 New entries: Porcelain, Compensate_Mode, Constraint, Control_Point.
2001-03-04: Better navigation by collecting all the entry terms for one letter in the alphabetical splitter.
2001-03-03: V0.05 New entries: Choreography, Cloth_Wizard. The glossary size is now over 100 kilo bytes.
2001-03-03: Written a little perl program, for quality assurance. Find dead links, increase version number, find entries without link-target, etc...
2001-03-02: V0.04 New entries: Toon_Renderer, Properties_Window, Timeline_Window.
2001-02-27: V0.03 New entries: Caustics, Channel, In-between.
2001-02-22: V0.02 Completed 'B' with 'bump map' and now working on letter 'C'. New entries: Bump_Map, Camera, Bloom.
2001-02-22: Added some more convenience in navigating the glossary: Alphabetical top-index, 'back-to-top' links from every entry, alphabetical deviders.
2001-02-21: Wooow! About 250 page hits in 2 days. And some very nice 'Thank-you' eMails so now I have some pressure, to keep my promise and further develop the glossary. Well... stay tuned - and check back now and then.
2001-02-20: V0.01 Public
Kickoff: Announcement on A:M mailinglist.
2001-02-18: Worked further down from A to B. Videos for Shag/Fur, Bones/Booleans
2001-02-17: Picked up work after some period.
2001-01-23: Particles section demo movies
2001-01-07: Completed the flocking section with demo movies. - first (inofficial!) online version. Lots of empty entries and lots of work left!
2001-01-06: First rough version completed and online. About 129 glossary entries collected (most of them still without explanation).
2001-01-04: Private Kickoff I was trying out the smartskin feature and wondered if there where other users who have problem in understanding all the animation vocabulary. So: first idea on creating the glossary and first animation for 'smartskin'.