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Adobe CS6 Release Delivers Major Innovations for Design, Web and Video Pros

Powerful new releases of 14 CS6 applications and four Creative Suites - Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard, Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, and Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection - drive home Adobe's continued innovation across creative markets. A new subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud, will provide users with the ability to download and install every Adobe CS6 application* announced. Read More

MAXON announced release of its latest version of software, Release 13, which marks a new era for CINEMA 4D. The current version of the software provides many new features for seasoned users, and several competitive upgrades that will bring in professionals who might use other 3D software packages. Read More

Product Review: By Ko Maruyama

iPad2 GripStand 2 Bundle

The Newer Technology company makes a protective back and stand for your iPad 2. The Gripstand and GripBase pairing is a great way to watch your iPad content hands free, or, if you're a teacher, present items on the iPad to students without having to awkwardly holding it. Read More

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Exclusive Q&A: A Conversation With Director/Animator Ian Chisholm

What began six years ago as simply a "creative outlet" for filmmaker/animator Ian Chisholm, Clear Skies III, the third film in his machinima series about the space adventures of the crew aboard the battleship Clear Skies, has steadily built a huge online audience thanks to its memorable storyline and characters, and innovative use of the iPi Soft's Desktop Motion Capture system, which played an integral role in bringing Chisholm's vision to life. Read More

Personal Profile: By Tim Dashwood

Tools and Technologies for Working with 3D on the Set

The nature of how we shoot 3D and monitor it on set has changed as we have learned from our mistakes. Today, I would say 75% of stereographers out there prefer DPs to shoot in parallel. Not necessarily parallel rigs, with cameras side-by-side, since beam-splitter rigs are more flexible and therefore much more common -- but instead, pointing both cameras straight ahead, literally shooting parallel to each other. Read More

Tutorial: By Wen-mei W. Hwu, Mark Harris and Michael Garland

GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition

The NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture introduces new instructions designed to facilitate basic, but important, parallel primitives on per-thread predicates, as well as instructions for manipulating and querying bits within a word. This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data. Read More

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Adobe MAX steps up LA presence

Adobe MAX has traditionally been later in the year, here in Los Angeles. It appears that MAX will also take place in the Spring of 20 Read More

Beauty Box 2.0 for Photoshop gets speed boost

Digital Anarchy announced Beauty Box 2.0 , a significant update of their award-winning skin retouching product. Version 2.0 gives an amazing speed in Read More

Imagineer Systems / Mocha v3

Curious Turtle has added 3 new chapters of training to their mocha series: http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/training Newly ad Read More

Stash 92 `nuff said

Stash 92 Podcast is out [vimeo 41979766 nolink] Read More

Lots of Adobe news

Adobe Creative Cloud , a subscription-based offering for making, sharing and delivering creative work, featuring Creative Suite 6 ,new HTML5 de Read More

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