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The Bad Beat Goes On - The Medium Blog - NYTimes.com. The best part of poker — I say as someone who doesn’t play — are the bad-beat stories.

Not because I can follow the ins and outs of why the hero who should have won lost to the villain who shouldn’t have even been allowed at the table, but because it’s amazing to hear someone recount in so much detail and poker lingo exactly how fate cheated them. And how it was cheating, plain and simple. I also like how the audience, online anyway, typically replies (as if on cue): “That’s not a bad beat!

That’s not fate! You just lost!” Bad beats, together with the anguished relish people take in telling about them, are compressed and very traditional short stories. Wade Roush1/16/09 This week’s column comes partly in the form of a digital cartoon.

Click on the play button below to watch it. (Or if you’re reading this story via an RSS feed or e-mail newsletter, click this link to view the video—then come back here). Xtranormal lays off 37 employees. I have been playing around this week with a new web2 service called Xtranormal.

I am extremely pleased with this really really really cool tool. Xranormal provides for teachers a very easy way to make high quality animated movies. You don't even have to create an account to use this service. All you do is choose what characters you want in your movie from a list they have available, choose your settings, abient sounds or background music, and type the dialog each character says. There is a click and drag interface for changing camera angles and making the "actors" do gestures. I see great application of this tool in education. Montreal Tech Watch » [breaking] Xtranormal lays off 36; half of its staff. Xtranormal (see beta review) which launched with much fanfare a little over a month ago has laid off today 36, which is half of its staff.

Xtranormal cuts staff in half - Techvibes Blog. XtraNormal es la aplicación web propuesta para la creación de películas en 3D con personajes animados, guiones, efectos de sonido, y demás elementos típicos de la animación y del cine.

Lo primero es elegir entre 2 tipos de actores, unos más parecidos a los Playmobil y otros con aspecto algo más real, para después pasar a la escritura del guión. Ese guión es el que los actores después reproducirán conviertiendo de texto a audio y superponiendo los efectos de sonido que hayamos marcado a la vez que se ejecuta el plan previsto que incluye gestos y movimientos de cámara. Para la ejecución del guión debe apretarse el botón "Action! " como si fueras el director. TEXT TO MOVIE? Playing with Xtranormal Animation. Mr Mayo guided me to Xtranormal via this tweet this morning: Xtranormal (beta) seems like a pretty neat idea.

You supply the text and choose the characters, soundtrack, set design from the site’s templates. Cool way to quickly give dialogue some life. Pros are that it was really quick to use and easy to register. Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL. Yesterday on my Quick Shout blog, I wrote about a new tool called Xtranormal for creating text to speech animated movies.

Since then I've had a little time to put together a tutorial video and think about how to use it in the classroom. First I thought I'd show you what extra normal produces.There is quite a range of characters and backgrounds so the possibilities for creating situational dialogues is terrific and you can also build these scenes into a series, so this would be great for longer projects too. Here's a quick look at how a movie is created.You can watch or download a higher quality version .mov here: Xtranormal tutorialOr download to i-tune / iPod: Xtranormal tutorialSo how can we use this with our students?

We can use it as a novel way to present language in context by creating small scenes for our students to watch.We can get our students to create dialogues for specific contexts. Related links: Br>Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you can type, you can movies at xtranormal!

My friend Joe sent this link along to me, so I had to check it out. I think it took longer for the movie to render than it did for me to create it! It’s so simple to create your own movie. Create Text to Speech Movies. I've just been playing with a really nice tool called Xtranormal that enables you to create nice animated movies.

You can create a scene an a series of movies simply by choosing back drops and characters, writing your script for them and then just drop on different actions and sound effects. This is an example that took me about 10 - 15 mins to create (Took me a while to work out that you had to write the script first - Der!!) In many ways this is a similar tool to one of my long term favourites DFilm, which I wrote about some time ago in Make you own animated movies, though this is perhaps even better as the characters take your script and actually say it using the wonders of text to speech.

Xtranormal is a great tool for generating listening and writing activities, as well as being a lot of fun. I hope to be publishing some teaching tips for it soon. Anyway, hope you enjoy it.Related links: Best. Making Users Animators Is An Xtranormal Activity... : digoGO! *Not applicable to ICANN fees, taxes, shipping and handling, sale priced domains and transfers, bulk domains and transfers, premium domains, Sunrise/Landrush domain registrations and pre-registrations, memberships or maintenance plans, additional disk space and bandwidth renewals, additional email addresses, additional AdSpace advertising funds, Managed Hosting, custom page layouts, brand identity services, Go Daddy branded merchandise or gift cards.

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It’s perfectly xtra normal to have gas. Le blog du monitoring externe. XtraNormal - ExtraNormal! Www.xtranormal.com: Blog Reactions on Technorati. The automatic filmmaker. In just under two minutes, Richard Gratton wrote a simple screenplay and, at the push of a button, the movie was finished. Sure, the actors were a little wooden, resembling Lego men with different hair pieces. And their voices were eerily robotic. But still. It was a movie. This is the mission of Xtranormal.com, a new high-tech startup in the Plateau Mont Royal: to turn anyone into an animated filmmaker. Web 2.0 Cafè. Xtranormal.com. Espace Canoë - Divertissement - Salut, Bonjour ! - Vidéos - Xtranormal. By xtranormal.

CommandN: commandN #152 (October 10, 2008) Xtranormal s’attaque à réaliser une application très attrayante en proposant à ces utilisateurs de réaliser une vidéo en 3D sans aucune compétence en la matière. La ou d’autres services vous proposent simplement de modéliser des personnages en 3D, xtranormal lui met à disposition une interface assez intuitive pour monter une scène en 3D. Avant de créer votre vidéo, vous avez le choix entre deux univers bien différents pour donner l’aspect général de votre animation : l’atmosphère Lego avec des personnages rondouillards et l’univers Sims avec des personnages proches du jeu vidéo. La suite est relativement simple, vous définissez les décors et l’ambiance sonore de la scène, puis vous écrivez votre script.

En cliquant déplaçant les différents actions possibles (expressions, mouvements …) sur le script, vous interagissez avec la vidéo. Xtranormal est un service très sympa pour les amateurs d’animations 3D, qui même avec un rendu minimaliste, vous permettra de passer du bon temps. Olivier Diaz .fr » Xtranormal: fabrication d’une scène de film en 3D. 15 Minutes a Day » Blog Archive » Are you Xtra Normal?