Figure out which Wacom Tablet is right for you

The Wacom TabletWizard is a handy on-line guide to help you quickly figure out which Wacom pen tablet is best for you. Simply answer a few short questions and you’ll soon have your answer.

Transferring tracking data from After Effects to Cinema 4D

It’s a snap to translate position, scale and rotation data from MAXON’s Cinema 4d to Adobe After Effects, but what happens when you want to export After Effects 3D data to Cinema 4D?

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Shade 8.5 Announced by e frontier

e frontier announced that it has released an update to its 3D modeling and rendering software Shade 8 that will support the Universal Binary version of its Shade 8 software for Intel Core Duo processor-based Macintosh and 64-bit Windows computers. Other features such as export capabilities to QuickTime VR and better integration with Poser are […]

Acrobat Tips: The Ins and Outs of Document Review

When you’re sharing comps with colleagues and clients more than a hallway away, sending PDFs via email for review is the fastest and easiest route. Here are tips for sending the PDFs so any recipent can comment; comparing differences between PDFs before and after the review, and spell-checking your comments.

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Wacom Intuos3 6 x 11 USB Tablet review from MacAddict

You’ve probably noticed a trend with displays recently – widescreen is the way to go. Apple’s Cinema Displays are widescreen, and even PowerBooks have widescreen displays (with wide trackpads to match). Now, creative professionals who use graphics tablets finally have a wide-format tablet to match: Wacom’s Intuos3 6×11.

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Making screen-printed T-shirts using Illustrator

Ever wanted to make your own printed T-shirts but didn’t fancy the expense? Jason Arber reveals a cheap and easy way to make a pseudo screen-printed T-shirt using Illustrator, an embroidery hoop and a pair of tights.

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Introducing the New CorelDRAW Embroidery Effect

Corel Corporation recently introduced a new plug-in for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite that enables designers to easily convert any image or vector graphic to a bitmap that has the look of embroidered stitches. Available as a free download from the Corel Web site, the DRAWings Embroidery Effect can be used with both CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 […]

Cinema 4D & Hair – A Student Interview

Student Chris Riehl is new to CINEMA 4D, but his teacher, a moderator in the DMN Forums and demo artist for MAXON COMPUTERS has noted how quickly he has taken to the software. I had a minute to sit down with Chris to ask him a few questions about C4D’s new module: HAIR.

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Adobe CEO on Boot Camp, Photoshop and Intel Macs

A version of Adobe Systems Inc.’s flagship Photoshop software that will run on Mac computers based on either the legacy PowerPC or new Intel platform will be available in the first half of next year, the company’s CEO said Friday.

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MacBook Pro Benchmarks: 3D Performance

Now we arrive at our third and final test of the Apple MacBook Pro’s performance in OS X. (One future article will deal with Windows performance on the MacBook.) This last series of tests involves 3D software, including Maxon’s Cinema 4D 9, NewTek LightWave 8 and Alias/Autodesk Maya 7. The results are telling.

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