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Alienware Area-51 m9750 Notebook

I have to begin this review with a little confession: I already own an Alienware laptop computer, and it has treated me with the utmost love from the first day it came into my life. We are still together and I’m actually writing this review on it. So, in the interest of full disclosure, I have to tell you that I’ve shared some good times with Alienware. The company offe... more

Eyeon’s Rotation and Vision

I’ve been a Digital Fusion user for the past decade and have seen the evolution of the software to its current form. (The Toronto-based company unveiled the Fusion 5.2 at the recent SIGGRAPH confab in San Diego—which boasts plug-in capabilities that support the native Fusion API, the After Effects API and the OFX API.) Now Eyeon has two new products based on the same mo... more

Massive 3.0: A Real Crowd-Pleaser

The rat pack in Ratatouille, the armies of thousands in 300, the herds of animals in Evan Almighty, and before that, in 20 other feature films, all animated with Massive, might lead you to believe the software developed by Stephen Regelous originally for Lord of the Rings, is crowd simulation software.

“We let people believe it’s a crowd s... more