V-Ray for SketchUp $50 off Special!

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V-Ray for SketchUp $50 off normal price of $229! Offer good through 2/28/2009.

SketchUp Plugins: The Phlatprinter CNC Foam Cutter

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The Phlatprinter is a home-built CNC cutter designed and built by Mark and Trish Carew. It is designed to cut flat media (think foam) to be folded into 3d models. Foam radio-controlled airplanes are just one example from the gallery, but I imagine it could be very useful in Architecture as […]

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 Is Sweet

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TSC’s master video editor Daniel Byrne was our man on the front line when it came to road-testing CS4 in Las Vegas. He installed the Master Collection on a brand new M70Vn-C2 laptop. It’s a super-heavy duty portable (I wouldn’t want it sitting on my lap for very long) with a 2.53GHz […]

How artists used ZBrush in Coraline

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When the CG artists weren’t working on characters and faces, they were building props. The props luckily didn’t have to be a technically pretty computer model, the topology was not as relevant. Something like silverware or a door knob could be designed and printed in a matter of minutes, ready for […]

Stop Cyberbullying tool kit created with Adobe software

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This year we will be launching our Free Stop Cyberbullying tool kit. It is a soup to nuts resource collection to help schools and parents deal with a situation that is growing daily.

Our informal surveys of more than 45,000 students indicate that 85% of them have experienced or been […]

Avid Customers Create Top 10 Grossing Films of 2008

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that creative teams behind all of 2008’s most loved and most watched films worldwide used one or more Avid products in the production process of the film. According to Box Office Mojo, these films were at the top of the worldwide box office in 2008, […]

Nik Silver Efex Pro Review

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Silver Efex Pro efficiently produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in Photoshop alone. Silver Efex Pro runs responsively, even as a Smart Filter. It also works on 8- and 16-bit images in both RGB and CMYK. Overall it produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in […]

A Photoshop Valentine

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Does the love of your life complain that you may as well be married to your computer? Well, here are five ways to turn the admonishment “You spend too much time on Photoshop!” into the happy, loving “Oh honey, you spent so much time on Photoshop!”

Photoshop CS4 Extended is […]

Cinema 4D R11 Review

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The hot new enhancements in Release 11 are a totally reworked GI (Global Illumination) engine. Not only is GI rendering much improved with better quality and flicker free animations, rendering without GI is significantly quicker as well and things like glass render more accurately. NLA (Non linear animation) and Animation Layers are […]

Adobe Lightroom 2: My favorite features

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For the photographer, Lightroom has been a godsend. At least it has been for me. I can’t think of one other program that speeds up the importing, sorting, editing and outputting to file, print or web site the hundreds or thousands of images a photographer has to deal with on […]