Cool Tool: Cintiq

Cool Tool: Cintiq

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Drawing directly on the screen with the Cintiq Tablet made a huge difference in my artwork, and sped up my workflow by at least 30%, maybe more. It also saved me a lot of hand-strain. Apart from the Mac, it’s one of my all-time favorite digital tools.

Adobe Previews Soundbooth

Try Adobe Soundbooth. Soundbooth is a brand new application built in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit that provides the tools video editors, designers, and others who do not specialize in audio need to accomplish their everyday work such as:

  • Editing audio quickly.
  • Cleaning up noisy audio.
  • Visually identifying and removing unwanted sounds.
  • Recording and polishing voiceovers.
  • Adding effects and filters.
  • Easily creating customized music – without musical expertise.

With an innovative user interface that makes short work of everyday tasks, Soundbooth is designed to work well next to Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Flash as well as other creative tools to make your audio flow smoothly with your video and Flash projects.

We’re releasing a preview build now so that you can try it out early. After you give it a spin then come visit the Soundbooth discussion forum and let us know what you think! Whether you choose the beta for Intel-based Macs or Windows, we would love your feedback. Download now before the current Soundbooth beta expires on February 28, 2007.

Mindjet Blog – Typical Mac User Podcast Interview

The Mindjet Blog » Typical Mac User Podcast Interview with Scott Thompson

Check out this Typical Mac User Podcast interview with Scott Thompon, Mindjet’s Senior Software Engineer. Scott talks about the development of MindManager 6 Mac and its best features and capabilities.http://typicalmacuser.com/wordpress/?p=156

Enjoy!
Gaelen O’Connell

Free Quark Interactive Designer

Free Quark Interactive Designer for the educational community

Quark Interactive Designer is an optional module for QuarkXPress 7 that extends the capabilities of QuarkXPress to allow designers to include motion, sound, and interactivity in their designs and to output SWF (Flash) files. This software combines the precision of the QuarkXPress 7 design tools with the power and flexibility of the SWF (Flash) format for the creation of projects with rich design and robust interactivity.

Quark Interactive Designer is available to qualified educational users of QuarkXPress 7 at no additional charge.

Timeline of CGI in film and television

Timeline of CGI in film and television

Pioneering uses of computer-generated imagery in film and television:

From Westworld:

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to Elephant’s Dream:

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Introducing Adobe Soundbooth

Hart’s Audition: Introducing Adobe Soundbooth

It’s an exciting day for the audio team–we just posted a beta of a brand new application, Adobe Soundbooth, to Adobe Labs for everyone to check out! Soundbooth is built for creative pros and developers who don’t have a background in audio but need to get audio tasks done quickly anyway. When we went out and visited customers who are doing video and web (especially Flash) work we found that most of you needed to do your own audio work regularly, but were using a hodgepodge of tools to get the job done–and none of those tools felt comfortable.

Podcast on Apple-Adobe relations

John Nack on Adobe: My podcast on Apple-Adobe relations

Last week a group of Mac developers–Rich Siegel of Bare Bones, Jayson Adams of Circus Ponies, and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba, and I–sat down (virtually) with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices. We discussed the state of software development on the Mac, as well as the future of the platform, hosted apps, and more. You can hear the hour-long podcast here. (For the impatient: my comments largely boil down to “Lots of work is ongoing, but on the whole, things are all good.”)

RhinoScript 101 – Free tutorials announced

RhinoScript 101 – Free tutorials announced

Seattle, WA – October 26, 2006 – Today Robert McNeel & Associates announced the RhinoScript101 tutorials project. Scripting is a powerful yet easy way to automate Rhino that only requires elementary programming skills.

RhinoScript101 offers a series of lessons on Rhino scripting, aimed at teaching a basic understanding of programming fundamentals that will ease the transition from Rhino user to Rhino developer.

“The one advantage I enjoy over authors of other programming books, is that I’ll be teaching you to program Rhino. Writing scripts for Rhino means you have an exceptionally powerful geometry kernel at your disposal which enables you to achieve the most outrageous results with a minimum of code. Instead of boring you with days-of-the-week and employee-salary-classes examples, I get to bore you with freeform surfaces, evolving curves and inflating meshes.” — David Rutten, author

Download the first 5 lessons with a multiple choice test.

ZBrush Artist – Ian Joyner

ZBrush Artist – Ian Joyner

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Hey everyone so I haven’t posted in a while, but I just completed a Gnomon training DVD where I used Zbrush extensively on a character, and I thought i would share some of the stuff I have done(that I can show) that used Zbrush here at Blur.

New Creation Engine Catalog

The Creation Engine Fall 2006 Catalog is now available.

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Request a free catalog if you’re not on our mailing list.

Download a PDF of the catalog.

Details on the catalog cover.