Dusty Fest Winners Announced
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City (NYC) has announced the...
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Discreet’s Character Studio 4
Back in 1996, Discreet Character Studio introduced a new and easy way of creating 3D character animation. When you opened CS, by click-and-drag of a mouse button, you created a biped (a human skeleton, to be exact), and then you used the footstep tool to create a path of footsteps [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Rise of the...
As expected, DreamWorks Animation made an early splash at the Cannes Film...
BBC Says Good-Bye to...
The BBC Trust has confirmed that children’s programs will no longer be shown...
