Video Tutorial: New Star Trek Transporter Effect with particleIllusion

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Recreate the transporter effect from the new Star Trek movie.

particleIllusion 3.0 is available at an academic discount price of $185

StoryBoard Quick 6 New Low Academic Price of $179!

StoryBoard Quick 6 $70 price drop New Low Academic Price of $179!

Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 Special Academic Price of $99!

Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 Special price of $99! Normal academic price $169. Offer good through 8/31/2009.

Poser Pro Special Academic Price of $169!

Poser Pro Special price of $169! $30 off normal academic price of $199. Offer good through 9/30/2009.

Genuine Fractals super-sizes Grand Prize-Winning Photos at the Smithsonian

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Hampton’s action photo was this year’s Grand Prize winner in Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards. Taken in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, Hampton was in the right place at the right time with the right equipment with just enough protection in a safari vehicle as the lioness raced right past […]

Design It: Shelter Competition sponsored by the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp

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On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for locations around the world […]

Digital Arts reviews 3ds max 2010

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The newest version of Autodesk’s 3D suite contains some major interface changes. On opening 3DS Max 2010, you’ll immediately be aware of the new Graphite Modelling toolset. This allows you to directly select and manipulate polygon objects.

Now fitted out in understated black and white, Autodesk’s venerable 3D suite has received […]

Perfect Picture with HyperShot

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According to Burgess and fellow auto­motive photographers Michael Lee, Nigel Harniman, and Vic Huber, the Bunkspeed software, called HyperShot, warranted a fresh look at how photography can be used with CGI.

Unlike traditional programs, originally intended for creating images and animations from scratch, HyperShot is designed exclusively for working with […]

FileMaker – Ancient in computer years, still going strong

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“If the application is internal to the business, we would probably use Filemaker because it’s quicker to build and more flexible going forward,” Saunders says.

“If someone comes to us and doesn’t want an off-the-shelf system, they want something that suits their business and way of working which will change […]

Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 – PC Advisor Review

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Some special effects and filters are fun or useful; only a few become absolute necessities. Nik Software Color Efex Pro is in that latter category because it is not only one of the finest collections of Photoshop-compatible plug-in filters available, its quality and versatility make it almost indispensable.

Nik Color Efex […]