Red Giant Student Sale-Huge Savings on Visual Effects Plug-Ins $49 for individual products and $199 for bundles!

Red Giant Student Sale-Huge Savings on Visual Effects Plug-Ins $49 for individual products and $199 for bundles. Save up to 75% off normal academic prices! Offer good through 11/10/2009 and available to students only.

Plug-In Suite 4.5 for Adobe Photoshop On sale for $299 with free upgrade to Plug-In Suite 5!

Plug-In Suite 4.5 for Adobe Photoshop On sale for $299 with free upgrade to Plug-In Suite 5! Normal academic price $399. Offer good from 10/27/2009 through 11/30/2009.

Design It: Shelter Competition Winners

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Over the course of the summer, Design It: Shelter Competition received submissions from people in 68 countries for a total of nearly 600 entries that met competition requirements. On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the two winning entries: David Mares’s CBS – Cork Block […]

MacWorld reviews Toon Boom Studio 5

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So many artists today want to venture into the animation world but either don’t have the hand-drawing artistic capabilities or the time and resources to learn 3-D animation. Many of us have tried our hand at stop-motion with in-camera techniques or perhaps clever editing. Toon Boom Studio 5 however offers infinite possibilities […]

Editing AVCHD video with Premiere Pro CS4

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Many HD camcorders are recording in the AVCHD format and until recently, it was difficult to find software that could edit AVCHD files. This video posted by David Helmly, the Sr. Business Development Manager for DV/DI for North America for Adobe, shows how Premiere Pro CS4 can edit AVCHD video.

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CreatureBox Full of Monsters, Spacemen and Storytelling

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The interview with Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin mentions how they flesh out their creative ideas with Sketchbook:

The Area: In your creative process — how or where do you begin when creating a character?

Greg and Dave: We banter a lot; a real lot. Any time a design […]

Nobelprize.org Standardizes on Adobe Video Solutions

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At the 2009 IBC tradeshow, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Nobelprize.org, the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation with more than 38 million visits each year, has standardized on Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software for video production and the Adobe Flash® Platform to deliver online video content. […]

PersonalBrain 5.5 – Free Upgrade for all PersonalBrain 5 users!

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PersonalBrain 5.5 will be a free upgrade for all version 5 users and contains over 150 new features and improvements. In addition to many feature enhancements, the new version includes Thought spellchecking with dictionaries for: English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian and Iberian), Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian […]