Autodesk Debuts Autodesk Maya 2010 at SIGGRAPH 2009
At SIGGRAPH 2009, Autodesk, Inc. announced it has unified its Autodesk Maya Complete 2009 software with its Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2009 feature set, to come up with Autodesk Maya 2010. The solution combines matchmoving, compositing and rendering in a single unified workflow.
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PNY's Carl Flygare talks graphics cards at SIGGRAPH09 By John Virata
Graphics cards play a central role in the creation of animation and special effects that artists see annually at the SIGGRAPH show (in New Orleans this year) and what consumers seem to desire more of in their daily exposure to digital entertainment, be it via the movies, video games, ride simulators, even TV. Over the last several years, artists have been pushing the envelope in what they can create with the tools that are available to them.
...Read More »
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Mac Pro By Heath McKnight
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
...Read More »
Turbo.264 Video Encoder By Michael Smith
Elgato, makers of eyetv 3, have come out with another way to convert your video files. The turbo.264 is a quick and easy way to convert your videos to H.264(mp4) files. You can play the resulting files on several players. Most importantly, this Mac software is a perfect way to get your video to your iTunes list for export to you iPhone or iPod (and Apple TV or Sony PSP). This week, Michael Smith took delivery of his elgato turbo system and immediately went to work unboxing the package. Here is his walkthrough.
...Read More »
NAB 2008: GridIron Shows Flow By Ko Maruyama
GridIron, a relatively small company showed up with a massive booth for a massively comprehensive management solution. GridIron, previously known for its memory and processor management application: NucleoPro now offers to help us with our file management as well.
...Read More »
Axiotron Modbook D5 By Ko Maruyama
After a week of using the modbook, I have to say that it's hardly enough time to get out of "play mode". As I said on Day One of the review, there is definitely a learning curve on the machine. And while I may be a speedy, accurate Cintiq user, it doesn't mean that the modbook is "just like having a Wacom Cintiq on your laptop. Y
...Read More »
Axiotron Modbook D4 By Ko Maruyama
I've always had a keyboard, so there has never been a need to use the Ink Utility that comes with the Mac OS, but since using the modbook - I realize that there is a very good use for it. There are some limitations to the application, but it adds a lot of functionality to the modbook which otherwise only has a floating software keyboard.
...Read More »
Stomp your video into submission By Michael Smith
Stomp is a video compression program, that allows you with a few click, to turn a large video file into a more managable one. It was created by Neil Clayton, who also created iShowU, which is a video screen-capture program.
...Read More »
Cintiq 12WX By Ko Maruyama
Wacom tablets have come to be the most trusted digital drawing tools in the visual effects community. After working in Hollywood digital effects for over ten years, I have yet to see any company to use anything other than Wacom. The company announces today that they will offer a new tablet.
...Read More »
ColorSchemer By Michael Smith
ColorSchemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. It doesn't matter whether users are Mac or Windows-oriented. According to the website, it is ready for OSX Leopard, and the Galleria Widget will also work on Leopard as well.
...Read More »
DMN @ SIGGRAPH 07 ? Get animating with Blender! By David Basulto
Ok no more excuses. If you ever wanted to get into or at least try it to see if you enjoy keyframes now is the time. Blender is an open source animation and modeling application that looks great and best of all its free.
...Read More »
IdN Turns 15 By Ko Maruyama
We are all connected. International Design celebrates our diversity and the familiar threads that join us all together. Every year I meet up with Laurence Ng to discuss the hottest sights at SIGGRAPH and catch up. This year, the upcoming magazine's 15th Anniversary will a milestone for them. To celebrate IdN is sponsoring a designer's contest.
...Read More »
TUX PAINT By Ko Maruyama
While looking around for some sub-$100 illustration applications, I found Tux Paint, a free, open source project started by Bill Kenrdrick and his band of tux'ers. (Notably Martin Fuhrer for his Mac OS X build). Because it''s open source, it has several future possibilities. But the great thing about Tux Paint is that it's giving children inspiration to create digital imagery. Can your child or student hold a stylus or click a mouse? Check it out.
...Read More »
EazyDraw By Ko Maruyama
EazyDraw software upped the ante with its new version of its vector drawing application for the Mac platform. Showing off its wares at MacWorld, EazyDraw boasts new transformation tools, including shears, skew, stretch and rotate. Despite all of these new features, and a set of interesting elements and tools, the software comes with limited finite definition or any brush control.
...Read More »
SIGGRAPH: Autodesk Announces Maya 8 and 3ds Max 9 By Frank Moldstad
Autodesk's professional 3D animation applications are now both 64-bit ready for Windows (and Linux for Maya), with 32-bit compatibility for users not on 64-bit platforms. They've also been optimized for large datasets, one of the most crucial features for high-end film, broadcast and game users. Other enhancements have been added in areas such as productivity, pipeline efficiency, rendering and file exchange capabilities with other programs.
...Read More »
Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard disk drive By John Virata
The Seagate 500GB eSATA hard drive is an external serial ATA drive solution targeted at those in the digital media space (such as video editors, DVD authors, audio pros and 3D animation artists) who need a faster, external, high capacity solution than what is provided via USB 2.0 or FireWire.
...Read More »
LightWave 9.0 First Look Part 1 By Stephen Schleicher
The long awaited update to NewTek?s LightWave 3D v9 is now available. No major interface changes this time, but rather a ton of new features and speed improvements that should have other 3D applications a little nervous. In this first look review, Digital Media Net?s Stephen Schleicher gives you a peak at what you can expect.
...Read More »
MAXON PRESETS #001 By Jamal "Nimpsy" Qutub
Sometimes the best way to learn something is to deconstruct a completed project. In this series of presets, a team of DMN readers got together to make some CINEMA4D textures. While the materials are mostly based on simple parameters, it may help you to understand how a texture is made.
...Read More »
Performance Enhancement! By Ko Maruyama
By now you?ve had time to play around with Adobe After Effects 7. What you may not know is that there is a powerful new plug-in by GridIron Software called Nucleo that dramatically reduces render and preview times for After Effects on multi-processor computers.
...Read More »
DMN Announces Avid Professional Channel
The Avid Professional Channel (http://Avid.digitalmedianet.com) focuses on the informational needs of media professionals working with Avid-based video, broadcast, audio, animation and asset management tools. Its content includes reviews, tutorials, trends, and profiles of projects and people in the Avid community.
...Read More »
NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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Autodesk Debuts Autodesk Maya 2010 at SIGGRAPH 2009
At SIGGRAPH 2009, Autodesk, Inc. announced it has unified its Autodesk Maya Complete 2009 software with its Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2009 feature set, to come up with Autodesk Maya 2010. The solution combines matchmoving, compositing and rendering in a single unified workflow.
...Read More »
PNY's Carl Flygare talks graphics cards at SIGGRAPH09
Graphics cards play a central role in the creation of animation and special effects that artists see annually at the SIGGRAPH show (in New Orleans this year) and what consumers seem to desire more of in their daily exposure to digital entertainment, be it via the movies, video games, ride simulators, even TV. Over the last several years, artists have been pushing the envelope in what they can create with the tools that are available to them.
...Read More »
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Mac Pro
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
...Read More »
Turbo.264 Video Encoder
Elgato, makers of eyetv 3, have come out with another way to convert your video files. The turbo.264 is a quick and easy way to convert your videos to H.264(mp4) files. You can play the resulting files on several players. Most importantly, this Mac software is a perfect way to get your video to your iTunes list for export to you iPhone or iPod (and Apple TV or Sony PSP). This week, Michael Smith took delivery of his elgato turbo system and immediately went to work unboxing the package. Here is his walkthrough.
...Read More »
NAB 2008: GridIron Shows Flow
GridIron, a relatively small company showed up with a massive booth for a massively comprehensive management solution. GridIron, previously known for its memory and processor management application: NucleoPro now offers to help us with our file management as well.
...Read More »
Axiotron Modbook D5
After a week of using the modbook, I have to say that it's hardly enough time to get out of "play mode". As I said on Day One of the review, there is definitely a learning curve on the machine. And while I may be a speedy, accurate Cintiq user, it doesn't mean that the modbook is "just like having a Wacom Cintiq on your laptop. Y
...Read More »
Axiotron Modbook D4
I've always had a keyboard, so there has never been a need to use the Ink Utility that comes with the Mac OS, but since using the modbook - I realize that there is a very good use for it. There are some limitations to the application, but it adds a lot of functionality to the modbook which otherwise only has a floating software keyboard.
...Read More »
Stomp your video into submission
Stomp is a video compression program, that allows you with a few click, to turn a large video file into a more managable one. It was created by Neil Clayton, who also created iShowU, which is a video screen-capture program.
...Read More »
Cintiq 12WX
Wacom tablets have come to be the most trusted digital drawing tools in the visual effects community. After working in Hollywood digital effects for over ten years, I have yet to see any company to use anything other than Wacom. The company announces today that they will offer a new tablet.
...Read More »
ColorSchemer
ColorSchemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. It doesn't matter whether users are Mac or Windows-oriented. According to the website, it is ready for OSX Leopard, and the Galleria Widget will also work on Leopard as well.
...Read More »
DMN @ SIGGRAPH 07 ? Get animating with Blender!
Ok no more excuses. If you ever wanted to get into or at least try it to see if you enjoy keyframes now is the time. Blender is an open source animation and modeling application that looks great and best of all its free.
...Read More »
IdN Turns 15
We are all connected. International Design celebrates our diversity and the familiar threads that join us all together. Every year I meet up with Laurence Ng to discuss the hottest sights at SIGGRAPH and catch up. This year, the upcoming magazine's 15th Anniversary will a milestone for them. To celebrate IdN is sponsoring a designer's contest.
...Read More »
TUX PAINT
While looking around for some sub-$100 illustration applications, I found Tux Paint, a free, open source project started by Bill Kenrdrick and his band of tux'ers. (Notably Martin Fuhrer for his Mac OS X build). Because it''s open source, it has several future possibilities. But the great thing about Tux Paint is that it's giving children inspiration to create digital imagery. Can your child or student hold a stylus or click a mouse? Check it out.
...Read More »
EazyDraw
EazyDraw software upped the ante with its new version of its vector drawing application for the Mac platform. Showing off its wares at MacWorld, EazyDraw boasts new transformation tools, including shears, skew, stretch and rotate. Despite all of these new features, and a set of interesting elements and tools, the software comes with limited finite definition or any brush control.
...Read More »
SIGGRAPH: Autodesk Announces Maya 8 and 3ds Max 9
Autodesk's professional 3D animation applications are now both 64-bit ready for Windows (and Linux for Maya), with 32-bit compatibility for users not on 64-bit platforms. They've also been optimized for large datasets, one of the most crucial features for high-end film, broadcast and game users. Other enhancements have been added in areas such as productivity, pipeline efficiency, rendering and file exchange capabilities with other programs.
...Read More »
Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard disk drive
The Seagate 500GB eSATA hard drive is an external serial ATA drive solution targeted at those in the digital media space (such as video editors, DVD authors, audio pros and 3D animation artists) who need a faster, external, high capacity solution than what is provided via USB 2.0 or FireWire.
...Read More »
LightWave 9.0 First Look Part 1
The long awaited update to NewTek?s LightWave 3D v9 is now available. No major interface changes this time, but rather a ton of new features and speed improvements that should have other 3D applications a little nervous. In this first look review, Digital Media Net?s Stephen Schleicher gives you a peak at what you can expect.
...Read More »
MAXON PRESETS #001
Sometimes the best way to learn something is to deconstruct a completed project. In this series of presets, a team of DMN readers got together to make some CINEMA4D textures. While the materials are mostly based on simple parameters, it may help you to understand how a texture is made.
...Read More »
Performance Enhancement!
By now you?ve had time to play around with Adobe After Effects 7. What you may not know is that there is a powerful new plug-in by GridIron Software called Nucleo that dramatically reduces render and preview times for After Effects on multi-processor computers.
...Read More »
DMN Announces Avid Professional Channel
The Avid Professional Channel (http://Avid.digitalmedianet.com) focuses on the informational needs of media professionals working with Avid-based video, broadcast, audio, animation and asset management tools. Its content includes reviews, tutorials, trends, and profiles of projects and people in the Avid community.
...Read More »
