by tompainter | Apr 21, 2016 | Animation Process, Blog
Collaborative communication In the CGI business concise communication is vital as our projects progress, both with our clients and internally. Email is a great tool but when we’re going back and forth with new ideas and changes to a project and the thread starts to grow it all becomes a bit unmanageable. We decided we needed a simpler, more organised and collaborative way to share our work and ideas. Enter RealtimeBoard… RealtimeBoard (RTB) is a giant online digital whiteboard that can be shared with anyone, no matter where they are and because updates happen in real time you will always be up to date. You do need an account to access any boards shared with you but you can login simply using Google or Facebook so it only takes a minute to get started. Once you’re in you can add new content and leave comments for other members. Below we’ve put together a quick how to guide explaining the main features and tools. Simple navigation Once you’re in it’s so easy to get around. The ‘Select’ tool allows you to move across the board by clicking on the background and dragging to different areas whilst holding the left mouse button. Incase you are worried you might disturbing something in the board as you are navigating you can also hold the space bar whilst clicking or hold your mouse’s scroll wheel (or middle mouse button). Moving objects With the ‘Select’ tool you can also move and scale objects on the board. For moving you just need click and hold on the item and move it across the board and once an item is selected you can drag the...
by tompainter | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog
Animation and CGI work is an extremely collaborative process that involves a lot of back and forth between our team and our clients. We found that our email chains were becoming unmanageable and inefficient, we needed a new, more visual way of doing things. That’s when we discovered RealtimeBoard. RealtimeBoard completely revolutionised our workflow and is a product we are really passionate about. You can find out more about how we use it and some of our favourite features here. We got to chat with the Head of Product, Anna Boyarkina, about how their idea came about and the future of the company. Where is the RealtimeBoard team based? Realtimeboard is a distributed team (Europe and the US) with a head office, located in Las Vegas, United States. What motivated the creation of RealtimeBoard? We started in 2011 with a small group of enthusiasts, made up of design lovers, programming addicts and native collaborators. The background of the founders includes advertising, project and event management. Analysing both our company demands and the experience our colleagues had from the web, advertising, events and publishing, we found that there was no simple solution for creatives to collaborate remotely. We were dreaming about an ideal world without endless e-mail chains, weighty attachments, damageable handmade mood boards — we were dreaming about limitless real-time collaboration! The idea of an endless online whiteboard was so necessary and applicable that almost the whole team became obsessed — it could help people, and we loved it for this! How old is RealtimeBoard now? RealtimeBoard is five years old, although the product was totally rebuilt in 2015 with HTML5. It got a new...
