Poser Pro 2010 Now Shipping!

Poser Pro 2010Integrate animated 3D characters and gigabytes of Poser content with the tools in your production pipeline. Poser Pro 2010 saves time and resources for professional artists and production teams with ready-to-go, pre-rigged characters and a content library full of assets. Working inside Poser Pro generates dynamic images and video with its advanced lighting and powerful rendering technology.

Poser Pro 2010 is available at an educational discount price of $185 from Creation Engine.

Camtasia Studio 7 Now Shipping!

Camtasia Studio 7Record your screen. Add professional polish. Produce and share stunning videos at any size. Create training videos, presentations, demos and more that get results and look fantastic. Make them wonder how you did it.

Camtasia Studio has always been more than a simple screen recorder. Now, with Camtasia Studio 7, we’ve redesigned and rebuilt it to help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster, easier, and with more consistency.

Camtasia Studio 7 is available at an educational discount price of $179 from Creation Engine.

SiteGrinder 3 Now Shipping!

SiteGrinder 3SiteGrinder 3 is a web development plugin for Adobe Photoshop aimed at designers who want to make fully compatible CSS websites from .psd files without having to learn or write code.

SiteGrinder 3 is available at an educational discount price of $279 from Creation Engine.

Free Adobe® Ideas 1.0 for iPad

Link via the iTunes App Store

Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad
Adobe Ideas allows you to sketch out ideas, annotate photographs, extract color themes from photographs and more. Sketches created in Adobe Ideas can be emailed as a PDF for editing in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop or viewing with any PDF viewer.

Adobe Ideas Feature List

The key features are:

• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Zoom control without jaggies or big pixels
• Variable-size brushes using multitouch control
• Vector eraser
• Huge virtual canvas
• Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
• Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
• Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
• 50-level undo

How Adobe Ideas came to be (and where it’s headed)

Bamboo Touch – New low price of $49 after $20 price drop!

Bamboo TouchBamboo Touch
New low price of $49 after $20 price drop!

Plug-In Suite 5 – New low price of $299.95 after $100 price drop!

Plug-In Suite 5 Plug-In Suite 5
New low price of $299.95 after $100 price drop!

Kick-Ass website created with Flash, Fireworks, Maya, 3ds Max, and ZBrush

Link via Digital Arts

“Kick-Ass” Promo from Ralph from Ralph on Vimeo.

After inventing or auto-choosing a name, visitors see their superhero star in a customized trailer along with Kick Ass and other characters from the movie. Visitors are then encouraged to post the custom trailers to Facebook, invite their friends to visit the application and vote for their superhero. The winner will be chosen by Mark Miller and John Romita Jr. from the top ten superheroes with the most votes by April 9th. The winner will be featured in Kick-Ass 2 the comic.

“We also developed a huge 3D wall in Facebook where the created superheroes are gathered,” explained Ralph’s CEO and account director Jay Armitage. “There, you can view all the superheroes, filter and view just your own superheroes, or view just your Facebook friends’ characters on the wall.”

Working with a sophisticated software toolset that included Adobe’s Flash 10, FDT Enterprise and Fireworks for the bulk of the site, and Autodesk’s Maya and 3ds Max as well as Pixologic’s ZBrush for the 3D elements, Ralph’s biggest challenge was in integrating the 3D functionality allowing visitors to scale, rotate, colorize, brighten/darken, blur and erase the wardrobe and weapon objects in 3D space. The solution came in finding a workable balance between the realism of the objects, and making sure that the application runs smoothly and efficiently on all systems.

Flash CS4 Professional, Fireworks CS4, ZBrush, and Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2010 Student are available at an educational discount from Creation Engine.

Adobe Launches Flash Builder 4

Link via PC Magazine

Flash Builder 4Previous versions of Flash Builder went by the name Flex, but this was changed because many developers use it for coding in ActionScript, the language used to program Flash, without making use of the Flex framework. The name “Flex” is now relegated to the code framework, which is also launching as an open-source version today. Builder is an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment), and the new version is designed to increase productivity with intelligent coding tools, a network monitor, an improved debugger, ASDoc support, and command-line build capability. The Flash development tool includes support for Web coding standards such as Java, PHP, ColdFusion, REST, and SOAP. It will integrate with Adobe’s yet-to-be-released Catalyst design tool.


Flash Builder 4 Premium is available at an educational discount price of $345 from Creation Engine.

Earobics use in the Kindergarten Learning Center

Link via Tampa Bay Online

Later in the morning, about two or three days a week, students study 10 minutes on another computer program called “Earobics,” where they hear the differences and similarities in sounds.

That takes them through identifying the syllables and putting them together in a word.

“It really enhances their ability to hear the things we are trying to teach them,” she said. “They really get a well rounded experience of manipulating the computer.”

Earobics is available from Creation Engine.

Intuos4 Wireless Tablet Medium Now Shipping!

 Intuos4 Wireless Tablet Medium The new Intuos4 Wireless pen tablet with Bluetooth® wireless technology lets you relax in you favorite working position or move about freely up to 33 feet (10 meters) from your computer. Enjoy the freedom of working “unattached” from your Mac or PC and reducing cord clutter.

Intuos4 Wireless Tablet Medium is available from Creation Engine for $375.