New look for shoogles pages

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

We just updated the main look of the shoogles pages. It includes bigger fonts, cleaner look and new embed code like:

<iframe title=”Shoogleit Player” width=”376″ height=”441″ src=”http://www.shoogleit.com/embed/342-0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

Hope you like it.
The Shoogleit Team.

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Top 10 Shoogles – December 2010

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

10. A Disney Sculpture
9 . 3D Wheel
8. Interactive Fashion Design
7. CG Chair Design
6. House Interactive Illustration

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Top 10 Shoogles – November 2010

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

10. A CG coffee machine
9 . Top Gear ball selector
8. Tofeu Mesa Redonda
7. Cashmere Scarf Animation
6. The Scottish Gallery Sculpture
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Creating Perfect 360 Rotations

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

Some tips and hints if you are creating 360 rotations:

  1. Make the rotation follow your mouse movement: you can change the ‘invert drag‘ option in settings to match your rotation. At the end of this post there are two examples of the same sample with different drag directions.
  2. Make the 360 loop constantly: you can change the ‘loop drag‘ option in settings so the frames are looped once you reach the last frame when dragging.
  3. Blend/Merge the end frames: Most of the times the last frame will not match the first frame, to show a better jump you can blend and merge the first and last frame using the ‘Merge or Blend‘ options in the frames section under advanced options.
  4. Remove the play button and slider: This is optional but you can remove the slider and play button from your shoogles by toggling them off in the settings section.

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World Cloud of Our Content

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

Just took all our contents text and put it into wordle (www.wordle.net) to get a word cloud, below are the results. Very cool, what do you think?

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File Size of Shoogles Compared to Normal Video

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

I was just wondering what would be  quicker to download or stream, a shoogle or a youtube video?

We need to know first the normal average size of a youtube video, I did some research and found out that youtube uses different data-rates to encode their videos, these are:

  • 320p (320 pixels x 240pixels) at 330kbs (kilobites per second);
  • 720p (1280 pixels x 720 pixels) at 2Mbs (megabites per second);
  • 1080p (1920 pixels x 1080 pixels) at 8Mbs.

Now, if we assume a normal animation lasts around 30 seconds, then a video, without interactivity and all the advantages we offer will have in MB (megabytes) size of:

  • 320p = 1.2 MB;
  • 480p = 2.25 MB;
  • 720p = 7.5 MB;
  • 1080p = 30.00 MB.

Finally, lets compare this values to the average of a few shoogles (default quality @ 60%) of similar sizes:

  • Shoogle @ 320p = 0.44 MB (64% smaller than video);
  • Shoogle @ 720p = 5.74 MB (24% smaller than video);
  • Shoogle @ 1080p = 30 MB (Same size as a video).

So, we can conclude from our  quick calculations that Shoogles are around 1/3 of the size of a video from a similar size when small (320p), 2/3 of the size when at a medium/big size (720p) and about the same file size when at huge sizes (1080p).


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New Feature: Flash Shoot Luminance Correction

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

Hi, Just added luminance correction for photo shoots (not video).

Menu from Shoogle

Select a fixed constant location in the background and the strength of the algorithm (100% is usually OK).

Normally if you shoot photos one after the other one using flashes, you will notice that once they are compiled together that the animation flickers.

This is caused because most flashes, even the expensive ones, vary in luminance a little bit between shoots.

Unfortunately even this little variation is noticeable to the human eye, this is why we programmed a new feature into shoogleit to fix this, just head to shoogleit and in the ‘frames‘ tab under advanced options, select ‘Flash Shoot Correction‘.

Once you open the menu then click in a pixel of your image which should be constant in colour, luminance and will never be occluded  by the object (usually the background). Hit recolour and let us do all the work.

Hope you enjoy it.

Menu From Shoogleit.com

To fix the flash luminance, go to the Frames tab>>Advanced Options>>Flash Shoot Correction>>Click on the background of an image>>Recolour.

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Smartphone Support for Your Shoogles

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

iOS: We are a few weeks away from releasing apps for the iPhone (3G, 3GS, 4G), iPod Touch (2nd Generation or newer) and the iPad.

Android: Android Mobiles with firmware 2.2 (FroYo) can run shoogles right now straight from our website.

Other: Please install Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in your smartphone or tablets if you use Windows Mobile 7 or other Mobile OS.

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3D World News and Video Tutorial

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

We just got featured in 3D World magazine, there is a short video tutorial too, link:
http://www.3dworldmag.com/page/3dworld?entry=create_easy_3d_turntables_on

Shoogleit In 3D World

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Free CG 360 Turntables News Links

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators
CG Turntables Links

News links to shoogleit

We have reached quite a few news websites with the help of www.cgchannel.com the article was link in many other websites like: tresd1.com.br, cgarena.com, instructables.com, zbrushcentral.com, renderspirit.com, amateurfilm-forum.de, gamedev.net, facebook.com, linkedin.com, launchly.com, cgnewspaper.com, stumbleupon.com, forum.3dworldmag.com, 3dxo.com, netvibes.com, pixolator.com, renderring.wordpress.com, rockthe3d.com, web.ebuddy.com, www.zbrushcentral.com

Below is a simple video tutorial about doing CG 360 turntables, enjoy:

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Our New Version 1.9

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

Just launched a new version of the our compiler, it includes various fixes and improvement like:
* You can comment on shoogles now.
* You can try creating shoogles without registering now.
* Second HTML uploader to fix dodgy browser bugs.
* You can add a link to your profile now.
* 50 small bugs fixed.

Hope you like it.

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New Version 1.2

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Shoogleit.com Administrators

We have just released a new version, in version 1.2 we have included these updates:

  • Added white background correction, so you can now improve all the shoogles captured in white backgrounds by making the background pure white, no more beige backgrounds.
  • Added blending of frames, so you can now join the last and first frames with a blending animation or improve jumps in the motion.
  • Added cloning frames; if you want to reduce the speed of part of the animation, simply clone frames.
  • Added bilinear and bicubic resizing, which gives you better quality for resizing your images. Use bilinear resizing if you are in a rush or bicubic resizing if you have time but want the best results.
  • Added previews for most image effects, so you can now preview the resizes, flips, rotations and corrections before processing all of your images.
  • Added autoload option, so that you can now set the shoogles to autoload automatically once the page is open.
  • Added option to edit shoogles properties, so that you can now change any settings from your shoogles and republish them.
  • Added option to extract frames from a shoogle, if you need to redo a shoogle then you can now just extract its frames back.
  • Added better option to download shoogles for offline use.
  • Fix bug that stopped Mac users from processing videos, if this bug still persists then please email us at contact@shoogleit.com and we will look at it.
  • Added more busy clocks to improve responsiveness and even better UI.
  • Preloader stage was changed to include logo, this will help us improve our brand plus it looks much better than before.
  • Fix play button in the frame separation stage.
  • Movie does not rewind itself anymore when pausing it in the frames separation.
  • Movie scrubbing improvements when separating the frames.
  • Rephrase the text from the loop commands.
  • Improve icons from the main tab bar, please let us know if you like them better.
  • Runs much faster.

We recommend that you use flash player version 10.1 or newer and either internet explorer 8, safari 5 or firefox 4.
Please clear your browser’s cache to access the new version.

We hope you enjoy the new features and fixes.

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