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The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...
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3COM’s OfficeConnect Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway and Wireless LAN Access Point 8200
The new 3Com OfficeConnect wireless cable/DSL gateway and the 3Com Wireless LAN Access Point 8200 helped me get over my networking phobia. Both devices were easy to install and didn’t require any technical knowledge. I was able to connect two desktops and three mobile workstations in a matter of minutes. [...]
Introduction to Level Designs for PC Games By Andy Clayton
Clayton’s well-researched tome covers almost all the steps and details of game development from planning to lighting to texture. The author also spends the time to explain the ins and outs of gmax, a free game editor from Discreet. Future game development artists will do themselves a big favor by [...]
ATI’s FIRE GL X1-128 Graphics Card
The Fire GL X1-128 is one of ATI’s latest products and boasts better performance than most other graphic cards out there. It can handle tons of textures and high poly models with ease, enabling users to view their work in realtime. It has a 128mb DDR memory, AGP 8X/4X and [...]
MindAvenue’s AXELedge V2
MindAvenue’s AXELedge V2 is an interactive web authoring software designed for 3D modeling. After going through a few tutorials, I was able to create some interactive objects without using a single line of code. But don’t let its simplicity fool you: This is a very powerful tool which zeroes in [...]
HP Workstation xw4100
The super speedy xw4100 workstation that I tested came with a 3.0GHz/800 Pentium 4 processor, an 80GB harddrive, six USB ports (two front ones), three firewire ports, one DVD+R/+RW, an NVIDIA Quadro 4200 NVS 64mb graphics card, one Gig of RAM and Windows XP Pro OS. Now all of that [...]
Next Limit’s RealWave 2.0
RealWave is a physically-based water and ocean simulation plug-in that can even track the propagation of gravitational waves on a mesh. RealWave 2 creates waves by a simple mouse click, and then allows the modification of speed and/or slopes. Users can easily import objects and have the water react to [...]
Digital Video s.r.l.’s Toonz Animation Board 2.0 (The Tab)
This intuitive software for web animation allows you to draw directly into the computer. It also offers a revolutionary approach to handling vectors; instead of grabbing vector points, you can pull or bend a vector by clicking anywhere on an image. The UI comes with four separate rooms (screens) designed [...]
3D Nature’s World Construction Set 6
If you’re in the market for creating brave, new worlds, alien planets, or actual geographical locations rich with streams, lakes and flowers, World Construction Set 6 can be your best little helper. You can import objects and textures from your own programs and add them to this sublimely rich library [...]
Avid’s Xpress Pro
Avid Xpress Pro offers the same tools high-end Avid products are famous for, plus DV resolution. You can work on a low-res version of your movie in Xpress and then transfer your final edit into Avid Film Composer or other Avid editing/compositing products. The Good News: The system works on [...]
Pioneer DVR-A05U
The Pioneer DVR-A05U is one of the most reliable DVD writers on the market right now. It is versatile and very easy to use. The DVR-A05U executes well when authoring DVD video onto DVD-R or DVD-RW media. The Good News: DVR-A05U comes with Roxio’s easy CD, Sonic’s My DVD 4.0, [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
