Cars: Hitting the Mother Road – Part 2

In part two of AWN’s in-depth Cars coverage, Bill Desowitz discovers the roots of Route 66 in creating the highly detailed, luscious and complex world.

Cars: Hitting the Mother Road – Part 2

Photoshop Elements users: Enter The 2006 Scrappy Awards

“The 2006 Scrappy Awards” is your chance to show off your best digital scrapbook pages and win some cool prizes! Just send us digital scrapbook pages you’ve designed using Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Winning entries will be featured in the Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter and Website.

For complete rules, entry, and submission information visit: http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/scrappyawards/.

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QuarkXPress 7 review from creativepro.com

The first thing to get straight when evaluating QuarkXPress 7 is that with three million registered users worldwide, Quark is more focused on keeping existing customers happy than on converting Adobe InDesign users to QuarkXPress. While many people have switched to InDesign, many more have stayed with QuarkXPress, just biding their time. The newly released […]

SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 review from Creative Mac

A good piece of music can make or break a video production. But sometimes that’s not enough. The music has to be perfectly synchronized with the video, becoming less complicated when there are voiceover sequences. Until SmartSound Sonicfire Pro came along a few years ago, to accomplish this kind of customization you would have needed […]

Cars: Hitting the Mother Road – Part 1

In part one of AWN’s in-depth Cars coverage, Bill Desowitz focuses on the character and lighting innovations at Pixar Animation Studios.

Cars: Hitting the Mother Road – Part 1

Bare Bones Software Releases BBEdit 8.2.6

Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 8.2.6. BBEdit 8.2.6 is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds minor refinements to this award-winning HTML and text editor. The BBEdit 8.2.6 update package is available free of charge to […]

Mindjet Brings Industry-Leading MindManager Software to the Mac

The power of mapping has finally reached the Mac! Think, plan and work more efficiently with Mindjet MindManager 6 Mac. Our solution is the market leader that empowers you to organize your ideas and information into plans for action–all with a Mac-friendly interface. MindManager software…

Enhances quality of your creative and strategic thinking Helps you […]

SONAR PowerStudio 660 review from Digital Producer

Integrated software and hardware packages for audio recording take all the mystery out of setting up a digital audio workstation. With a software application and an audio interface that are tuned for each other, all a user has to do is install the software and plug in the hardware. That’s the experience I had with […]

John Bruno tells how he coordinated the VFX on X-Men III: The Last Stand

John Bruno’s credit roll reads like an honor roll of amazing visual effects films. He received six visual effects Oscar nominations, for Ghost Busters, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, The Abyss, Batman Return, Cliffhanger, and True Lies. He won an Oscar for The Abyss. He was a visual effects consultant on Titanic, and he directedT2 […]

Create an impressive portfolio flick book in Macromedia Flash

Create an impressive portfolio flick book in Macromedia Flash and give your work that little extra attention-grabbing edge

Just imagine the situation: you need to create a portfolio flick book, you’re up against the clock, and you’re regretting not having given the Flash manual a thorough reading. In the following tutorial we show you how […]