First Look at New...
Nick has kindly given us a first-look peek at this Saturday’s new Sanjay...
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EZQuest’s USB 2.0 Cobra harddrive
EZQuest’s new line of USB 2.0 hard drives are available in 40, 60, 80, 120 and even 250GB. The Cobra 250 GB USB 2.0 drive we tested delivered the superb transfer rate of 470 MB/S. Cobra 250 GB worked smoothly as our video drive when we were using Avid Xpress [...]
Npower Software’s Power Booleans 2.0 (for 3DS MAX)
This plug-in for 3ds max and Rhino helps animators create complex models and shapes with quality meshes and fewer faces. This new version features Level Editing and Quad Meshing. The Good News: Power Booleans 2.0 lets you choose any object you used in your operation and neatly modify it. The [...]
Digimation’s Stitch Lite
Ask animators about the difficulties of simulating cloth in 3D and their tales of woe will fill up a whole book. For a while, 3D cloth simulators raised some hope in providing a fast solution to the problem, but most of them failed to deliver the real goods. Creating simple [...]
ADS Pyro A/V Link
Sometimes when we have the choice of spending a lot to pay for a device that we need or finding a creative solution instead, we can make some curious decisions. For example, I had been using a relatively expensive consumer digital camcorder to transfer my analog video material to DV [...]
Corel’s Painter 8
In the mid ’90s Fractal Design’s Painter (Fractal Design was eventually purchased by Metacreations which, in turn, was eventually purchased by Corel) was a computer artist’s dream come true. Back then, Painter, the first digital painting package to offer a long list of natural media, was in head-to-head competition with [...]
Compaq’s Evo N800w
Animators, game developers and artists dealing with digital video have always been on the lookout for a portable workstation that offers them both power and mobility. During the past five years, I have checked out over 40 laptop workstations, and only a few of them came close to being a [...]
Technical Animation & Video’s 3ds max 5 Training DVD Set
We all know that it’s not easy to be a good teacher, and that’s the reason why useful training materials are hard to find. There are more instructional materials published for Discreet’s 3ds max than any other 3D package. To my knowledge, there are tens of books, videos and dedicated [...]
Sonic Foundry Vegas 4 DVD
There’s no need for PC users to envy the MAC pack over their usage of the powerful and top-notch Final Cut Pro for non-linear editing projects. For under $700 (street price), Vegas 4 DVD offers many of the major features that have made Final Cut Pro or Avid Express the [...]
HP XW 5000
Anyone who has ever tried to show a client a DVD of a project on a PC workstation while running a power-demanding software can tell you horror stories about how the DVD can start skipping frames and the software show signs of major weakness. This problem is caused by CPU [...]
Imagineer’s mokey 2
An old Tibetan proverb says, "Just do one thing right, and it becomes a pillar for your heaven and to jump in hell, try a thousands goals in your life." The creators of mokey must have listened to these wise words because their new tool helps you do only one [...]
‘Beware the...
Cartoon Network has announced the premiere date of it’s brand-new CG...
‘Family Guy’...
Those crazy, irreverent kids on FOX TV’s Family Guy team have done it...
