Blue Sky’s...
The Hollywood trades have weighed in on Blue Sky’s new 3-D CG-animated...
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Creative NOMAD’s Jukebox Zen NX
If you’ve been looking for an affordable hard-drive-based MP3 player that can compete with Apple’s i-POD, then Creative’s NOMAD Jukebox Zen NX is the answer to your prayers. The 30gb Jukebox Zen MX can hold up to 8,000 WMA or MP3 songs. That means you can certainly carry your voice-overs, [...]
Introducing Maya 5: 3D for Beginners
We all know that learning a 3D application on your own can be as tough as Sam and Frodo’s journey to Mount Doom: You play with the program for a few months, but then you hit a brick wall and can’t get passed the initial few steps. To get to [...]
321 Studios’ DVD X Copy Platinum
321 Studios has a good reputation among digital video connoisseurs for its practical DVD back-up and archiving tools. Trying DVD X Copy Platinum convinced me that this latest 321 Studios product is actually their very best effort to date. DVD disks may last longer than videotapes, but they are also [...]
Samsung’s i500 Playing Pool on the Palm of your Hand
Samsung i500 is the first color Palm OS phone that actually fits in the palm of your hand and weighs only 5.1 ounces. The i500 display might be smaller than a few other palm phones, but it supports 65,536 colors and has a bright backlight. Samsung has married the best [...]
Maxtor’s 5000DV External Hard Drive
If you are dealing with digital animation or video, the need for more storage space is never-ending. Fortunately, the number of available Firewire and USB 2 drives is increasing while prices are constantly decreasing. Recently I tried a Maxtor 5000DV, a 200GB external hard drive (other options are 120 or [...]
Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware 6.0 Professional
Web pop-up ads have replaced telemarketers and pushy girl-scout cookie agents as one of the main annoyances of daily life. For some reason, companies don’t seem to get the message that we’re really not interested in ‘The world’s best casino online,’ even after we’ve closed that window a thousand times. [...]
eHelp’s RoboDemo 4.0
RoboDemo is a handy tutorial/ demo-creation software that enables users to make tutorials for other software packages in Flash format. It basically records the steps you take in any application, while you’re using it. You choose the recording size (Application, Custom, Full Screen or Pocket PC), and start recording by [...]
Anark Studio 2.0
Anark Studio 2 is a multimedia-authoring software with 3D interaction capabilities. Anark Studio 2′s UI consists of a preview window, a toolbox, a scene library, a storage window, a parameter inspector and a timeline. The timeline is sharply set up and easy to use, and you can grab behaviors, textures, [...]
IBM’s IntelliStation M Pro
You can customize this new IBM workstation to meet your needs, but the one I reviewed for this column had a 3.00 GHz processor, 1 Gig of Ram, a 80 GB HD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 (128mb) graphics card, a DVD-Rom and a CD/RW drives. This workstation also comes with [...]
Wondertouch’s ParticleIllusion 3.0
ParticleIllusion is a stand-alone particle effects application that utilizes Open GL hardware acceleration to produce near or real-time renders. It has been used in big-budget studio fare such as The Italian Job and Final Destination 2. Animators who have a hard time learning 3D programs and their particle tools will [...]
Cartoon Digital Announces...
Cartoon Masters’ Digital and Transmedia event has announced its slate of...
Spielberg to Produce...
Steven Spielberg will exec produce a live-action TV series based on the popular...
