STASH 45: COMING NEXT WEEK
STASH 45 IS COMING:
The premiere DVD review of monthly motion graphics from around the world releases on June 5... next week...
Posted at 10:00PM May 30, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[2]
Apple Tutorials "Find Out How"
Did you know apple had Tutorials Online. They go beyond showing you how to use iLife for your digital life.
Apple has many others which cover switching over to a Mac, helping you set up your wireless network, and customizing your Mac.
Find Out How, and Surprise yourself with the great tools OSX has to offer!
Posted at 12:11AM May 30, 2008 by John Haley in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Revision3 Attacked by to many "Hi's"
As many of you know, Revision3's servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. This one wasn't your normal cybercrime there's a chilling twist at the end.
Find out more. Read this article!
Or Visit Revision to watch TV.
Posted at 09:43PM May 29, 2008 by John Haley in PR News | Comments[1]
Google Earth Welcomes Windows Users
Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own web site.
The Google Earth Browser Plugin is now live at http://code.google.com/apis/earth.
Bummer I am on a mac, and not running Boot Camp. We'll wait and see when it supports mac browsers.
But 3D Google Maps in your browser. That's cool.
Posted at 11:44AM May 28, 2008 by John Haley in General | Comments[2]
Trapcode on the Horizon
Horizon is a camera-aware color gradient and image mapping tool. It is a fairly straightforward utility plug-in. It is meant to be used on the bottom (backmost) layer in a 3D comp. It generates a background that corresponds to the camera's viewing direction.
Posted at 11:23AM May 28, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
Toolfarm JFK One Day Sale! 5/29
Posted at 02:07AM May 28, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[1]
Microsoft Going Multi-Touch Interface in its New OS
Multi-touch is one of the coolest things these days, and we are seeing many touch devices such as in mobile phones.
We haven't heard of a Touch Operating System till now, and Microsoft has shown this at the D6: All Things Digital Conference which took place in Carlsbad California.
Yet don't look for it anytime soon, it won't be ready till early 2010.
Posted at 01:29AM May 28, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[1]
Adobe CS4 Public Betas!
Posted at 12:00AM May 28, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[1]
Netflix
So Netflix sends me a coupon for 1 free month to give to friends and family, but everyone I know is already on Netflix.
I suppose it doesn't matter who collects it. Oh, and check the news on their new set top box!
Posted at 09:07AM May 27, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[2]
Big Space. Small Drive.
Samsung announced a BLAZING FAST 256 Gigabyte SSD (Solid-State Drive). Posted at 01:15AM May 27, 2008 by John Haley in PR News | Comments[1]
Muto on a wall / by BLU
'don't need to say anything.... just watch
Posted at 01:02AM May 27, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
Tabbing it Safari Style for Mac/PC
Say somebody walks up behind you and says "hey go check out this website" (Lets say twitter), yet you haven't finished reading all of your unread e-mails. What I used to do was hit "Command + T" to open a new tab and type in my URL.
But we have learned a new trick!
With the window I have open, go to the address bar and type in twitter.com, then hit "Command + Enter" on the keyboard. Sweet, It just opened twitter.com in a new tab, and my webmail tab is the one still selected.
That was cool, yet lets try another one. Hit "Command + Shift + Enter".
Nice! It kept my current window as is and selected the twitter.com tab.
**NOTE PC users must hit the "ALT" key instead of "COMMAND"
Posted at 12:00AM May 27, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[1]
Holiday: Time to Play
I've been outside all weekend long, enjoying the perfect holiday weather here in Los Angeles (yes, I like it cooler). 
Time to catch up on some gaming - - and watching gaming shows. You probably have your favorites tivo'd - - what about the internet 'casts? CHECK THIS ONE...
Posted at 05:58PM May 26, 2008 by ko maruyama in Toys & Games | Comments[1]
TWIXTOR....
I originally typed "twixxxtor" - fortunately, there isn't a sex page, or slow motion porn site related to the typing error. Twixtor FxPlug comes to FCP. Dunno if it means that editors will be creating their own slomo sfx, but if you're on both AE and FCP, you don't have to jump into AE just for the super-clean speed ramp....
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RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor 4.5 FxPlug version for Final Cut Pro
RE:Vision Effects is now shipping Twixtor 4.5 for Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) in an FxPlug version, which is Final Cut Pro's native effects plugin architecture.
Twixtor enables users to speed up, slow down image sequences with visually stunning results. In order to achieve its unparalleled image quality, Twixtor synthesizes unique new frames by warping and interpolating frames of the original sequence... employing RE:Vision Effects' Academy Award winning technology that calculates motion for each individual pixel.
Posted at 08:53PM May 21, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
Mad Magazine turns 50!
It's a PHOTOSHOP night @ DMA/LA - May's meeting = 05/20/08
Mad Magazine turns 50 years old!
In celebration of our favorite comic book's birthday, we're excited to announce that Sergio Aragones, local hero and creator of those tiny little illustrations "marginal thinking" cartoons and Groo the Wanderer will be on hand with DMA/LA member and his digital colorist, Tom Luth, to talk about the history of comic illustration and the integration of Photoshop as a digital production pipeline tool. Sergio's illustrations have been found in every magazine since he started in 1969.
In addition to a big NAB review and talk about some new After Effects plugins that we hope to show sneak peeks of, we also have plans for a demonstration of 3D tools and animation within Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Of course we also plan to have tons of prizes to give away including some cool comic books, beautiful illustration books and software for animators and illustrators.
Stay tuned for more! Sign up (free) to come to the meeting for free!
http://www.dmala.org
Posted at 08:07AM May 20, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
Shilo's Burma Update
Posted at 07:26PM May 19, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
DigiEffects gives discount...
Posted at 11:11PM May 16, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
Ballistic : New Ultimate Photo reference
THE HIGHEST QUALITY PHOTO REFERENCE FOR DIGITAL ARTISTS
Ballistic Publishing announces the third of its ULTIMATE, 16-megapixel, royalty-free photographic collections to meet the growing demand for ultra-high-quality image assets for game and film creators - ULTIMATE: HEROIC MALE.
Posted at 09:02PM May 16, 2008 by ko maruyama in PR News | Comments[1]
After Effects / MOCHA tutorial
Posted at 12:00AM May 16, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Refurbished MacBook: First Impressions
Just a little over an hour ago, the refurbished MacBook I ordered yesterday arrived.
[Read More]Posted at 09:29AM May 15, 2008 by Michael Smith in General | Comments[1]
Unexpected Party: Peter Jackson
Posted at 08:55AM May 15, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
Just Do It: Again on a Mac
Cuz if you build it on a Mac, people will make it viral right away....
or at least us Mac-heads will.
..and us Adobe geeks too... hey - Photoshop and Illustrator!
again.
Posted at 09:45AM May 14, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[2]
Refurbished Macs
For a while now, I've been looking at getting a portable Mac, for college and other things I have coming up.
[Read More]Posted at 09:41AM May 14, 2008 by Michael Smith in General | Comments[1]
1,000 Tutorials and climbing at CINEVERSITY
Cineversity Hits 1,000 Tutorial Milestone!
MAXON USA announced there are now over 1,000 tutorials available
on Cineversity. This major milestone underscores MAXON?s commitment to
helping artists maximize their creative potential.
Posted at 12:00AM May 13, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Mac Day in Los Angeles / Event : Education
When: Saturday, May 31 ? 8:30/9 am - 9:00 pm
Where: CBS Studio Center, aka "Radford Studios"
4020 Radford Avenue, Studio City CA 91604
(Laurel Canyon & Ventura)
URL: http://macdayla.com
A couple of years ago, Chris and Trish introduced me to author / instuctor Deborah Shadovitz. Deborah has been putting together seminars and parties fo Mac people, and is organizing MacDayLA again this year.
Posted at 02:46PM May 12, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
New Ableton Instruments
The Orchestral Instruments are available from the Ableton webshop as of May 5, 2008.
Posted at 12:00AM May 09, 2008 by ko maruyama in Music | Comments[0]
ArtZone 3D character set: Ninja Setsuko
If it says "ninja", someone sends it to me. If it's 3D too - definitely more of a chance I'll look at it. If it's Ninja Setsuko at the ArtZone store, I'll definitely click on it.
ArtZone, a library of DAZ3D characters that you can pose into still images for use in Photoshop or (example: anime comic book illustration)...
Posted at 12:00AM May 09, 2008 by ko maruyama in Second Life | Comments[0]
Obey this tiki
Each week, Charlie White and Stephen Schleicher talk about... well, digital stuff. Many of their conversations cover home electronics (and much of it home theater stuff). At the end of their podcast, there's a tagline "Obey the tiki" - which I thought of when I saw the work of Hawaiian sculptor, Henrik Van Ryzin.
check out these works of art; apparently you can drink from them too...
Posted at 12:00AM May 09, 2008 by ko maruyama in Food | Comments[1]
Where's Wes? AutomaticDuck
Here in Los Angeles we were lucky to catch a preview of Automatic Duck 4.02 at DMA/LA, the NAB attendees got to see it in Vegas last month.
Where will Wes be next? Look for the duck
SF Cutters (San Francisco FCP UG) - May 29
http://www.sfcutters.org/
Moving Pictures Collective (NY FCP UG) - June 12
http://www.movingpicturescollective.org/
If you use Avid, Adobe After Effects, FCP, Combustion, Quantel, ProTools, you probably know about Automatic Duck - - especially if you work with other people, or with other software applications in this list.
HOW ABOUT TOON BOOM?? Huh? Yeah. Storyboard Pro is a great paperless alternative for sketching ideas and even making little animated animatics. TBSBP has all of the tools you'd expect for your storyboarding needs, but because it's vector software at its heart - it can do much more too.
Now, any FCP editor with Pro Import FCP 2.0 can edit your storyboard (and they can still edit Avid and ProTools material as well of course) - and you can get back to your Previz work or animation layouts.
We use TBSBP as part of the PIXELCORPS pipeline, and it works really well (and easily) within the group.
If you want to get the bundle (StoryBoard Pro and Automatic Duck Pro Import FCP, you can save $300.
SF Cutters (San Francisco FCP UG) - May 29
http://www.sfcutters.org/
Moving Pictures Collective (NY FCP UG) - June 12
http://www.movingpicturescollective.org/
Posted at 09:29AM May 08, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
beatboxin' Dave
Anime Studio is from EFrontier, now turned Smith Micro. There's a bunch of community stuff that you can find around the internet. Be warned that you can lose hours of your life to some of the bad stuff, but there is a pile of fun animation out there as well. It's amazing what a simple application can do in the hands of some humourous animators... here are a couple entries from Mikedog (no, not Mike Doig: yeah I thought so too)
Posted at 12:00AM May 08, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
ballistic's EXPOSE 6 is out
Posted at 11:03AM May 07, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
DAZ videos
DAZ just came out with some new software revisions, and with it - a reminder that there are plenty of videos to help you get started with the software.
One of the features that they've added to the latest version of software is the ability to control subdivision surfaces, which will give you wonderfully smooth renders.. but how do you do it? Check out the site's new tutorials, and you can see even more straight from YouTube:
Posted at 12:00AM May 07, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
DVD Association Conference
Posted at 10:36AM May 06, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
$14 SteadyCam (kinda)
You know Johnny Lee's crazy Wii aparatus (I can't believe you if you say you haven't seen it).
Well, now Johnny has put together a litttle kit so you can make a balanced camera rig. Many people have done this, but with Johnny's Wii fame, I'm sure there are more people looking at his little tripod rig. If you don't want to build it....
Posted at 10:00AM May 06, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[1]
frappr map of C4D freelancers
I can't remember when this frappr map thing started, but I can't believe that it's still in Beta. I guess that it'll be in beta until they sell it to someone, although I can't believe that google would sell any property.
I thought about it when rummaging through a YouTube group. Maybe there is someway to link the two....
Here's a great way to get spotted or to spot some freelancers in your area tho. This obscure little frappr/maxon map has over 43 pages of users.
Posted at 12:00AM May 06, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
Balut is not cool, but Zimmern is
Posted at 05:22PM May 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Food | Comments[3]
free copies of Adobe CS3
Posted at 03:16PM May 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
step by step: SPEEDRACER bts
JOHN GAETA TALKS ABOUT SPEED RACER in the VRmag online article...
Posted at 01:09PM May 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[1]
Mothers Day: 3D Flower
As an experiment, John Haley put together a 3D flower for a mothers day promo, and with it, a procedural texture. Of course, you could always scan a real petal of a flower, then map it to the geometry, but in CINEMA4D it is really easy to create a detailed texture, then modify it (either numerically or through BodyPaint 3D)...
Posted at 12:00AM May 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[2]
Adobe Event... Online...
Posted at 12:00AM May 02, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
