Smart Sounds: Royalty Free Music Libraries
The SmartSound® Music library is the most creative and flexible collection of royalty-free* music in the industry. It's the only music that gives video editors access to perfectly edited music from any SmartSound software or embedded technology. All of the music on this page can be resized instantly to any length, freeing you from the limited set of :15, :30, :60 lengths you'll get from any other source. You can get the Sonicfire Pro 5 Express track edition free here.
Posted at 12:00PM Sep 30, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Total Training : CS4
Creative Suite 4 Training is Coming Soon!
There's no need to wait until CS4 training is released to subscribe. Enroll now and CS4 titles will automatically be addedto your subscription as they are released beginning in October.
Posted at 11:00AM Sep 30, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
ZBrush now on INTEL MAC OSX
Incase September has just flown by you. There is exciting news for all you MAC Users!
YESTERDAY Pixologic released ZBrush 3.12 for MAC INTEL! With exciting new features! The price is $595.
Read all about it at www.pixologic.com/zbrushMac/
JOHN HALEY
Posted at 12:00AM Sep 30, 2008 by John Haley in General | Comments[0]
Photoshop Witch Hat (or wizard hat)
It's that time again. Time for some more 3D Photoshop files. Here is a simple file, actually three for you to play around with. In Photoshop CS3 Extended, you can jump into the 3D texture and modify the UV material to customize your 3D model. Of course you can also use clipping layers to do some really simple color modification as well.
Posted at 03:00PM Sep 29, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[0]
COD4: Game graphics continue to get better
New graphic advances toward photo-realistic gameplay are being made by Aspyr. With new video cards available, even Mac gamers can find some excellent titles to play. Aspyr Media announced today that Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare for
the Macintosh will be available for download exclusively at
GameAgent.com
Posted at 01:00PM Sep 29, 2008 by ko maruyama in Toys & Games | Comments[0]
Events: Adobe Launch Event & MAXON
Adobe is having their launch event in Washington D.C. a week before the Adobe launch event in Hollywood, CA. If you're in the D.C. area, you can check it out at Sidney Harman Hall / Shakespeare Theater. Even better, you'll be able to see MAXON's Cinema 4D there as well. Big Brain, Rick Barrett will be on hand to answer some workflow questions....
Posted at 12:00PM Sep 29, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Events: Cinema 4D and Adobe creating chaos
MAXON will be at Create Chaos 08 in Orlando! Don't miss this if you're in the area especially! Kai Pedersen will be on hand to impart some essential tips and tricks for your creative workflow.
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 29, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
TODAY is THE DAY! Digieffects One Day Sale!
Head over to www.digieffects.com To Take Advantage of this offer!
JOHN HALEY
Posted at 08:14AM Sep 29, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[0]
Event: Macworld Digital Art Gallery!
Attention Digital Artists!
Macworld Conference & Expo is excited to announce the return of it's Digital Art Gallery. Digital artists have the opportunity to express their creativity for a chance to have their artwork displayed on-site...
Posted at 07:00AM Sep 29, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
Jainism and The N Logo
I am completing a tutorial for two crosses in Photoshop, and I figure I'd create similar projects using some other religions of the world.
I found some on the University College of Cork (Ireland) website and noticed....
Posted at 07:41PM Sep 26, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[0]
Daymare Town 2. integrating excellent illustrations into a puzzle game
This month, I took a look at the sequel game: Daymare Town 2.
The simple puzzles (although sometimes tricky) are packaged with the great looking drawings.
read about Mateusz Skutnik
Posted at 11:30AM Sep 26, 2008 by ko maruyama in General |
The Nobody Hole: Hip Hop Opera
Rising hip-hop artist and songsmith Sumkid, in collaboration with Toolfarm and Maxbumps.net, is looking for the coolest, most innovative and relevant short video to bring his landmark Halloween opera, The Nobody Hole, to life!!
Posted at 11:00AM Sep 26, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
Appls SOUNDS... Make a song!
Some might argue that the Apple sound effects found in the "Sound" preference pane can get a little annoying over time. However, a YouTube user has turned those "annoying" tweets and chirps into somewhat of a song.
The song project, created in GarageBand, is available for download from the creator's website. While there, you can also download an m4a audio file of the song -- who knows, this might make a really good iPhone ringtone!
Check it out HERE
JOHN HALEY
Posted at 12:56AM Sep 26, 2008 by John Haley in Music | Comments[0]
Warhammer Online: Another Bright Day
It has now been one week since the official launch of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. I've been out of town for a few days but I've managed to get in a good number of hours on my Bright Wizard on Dark Crag. Here's a little update on the current state of the game.
Posted at 03:52PM Sep 25, 2008 by Steve Toyama in Toys & Games | Comments[0]
Events: Mana Potions at E4All Video Games
Generally, I would probably put this into Events category, but it's really all about playing with toys and games..... Remember Aaron and Eli's video about Warhammer on treadmills? Gotta be a classic by now. Well, they have a new potion which is BLUE!
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 25, 2008 by ko maruyama in Toys & Games | Comments[4]
STASH VOLUME 49: open head, insert inspiration
The music videos on Stash 49 provide four more reasons to keep your
seatbelt snug: My Morning Jacket "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2"
from Mixtape Club, Temposhark "Blame" from Motomichi Nakamura, The
Octopus Project "An Evening With RTHRTHA" from Stash newcomers Double
Triple and the lobe-twisting masterwork called "Brave Bulging Buoyant
Clairvoyants" for Wild Beasts which marks the Stash debut of UK studio
Oneinthree. Plus, you get....
Posted at 03:00PM Sep 24, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[0]
Event: The Business of VFX & Animation
Studio is launching a new craft-based Webinar series that will focus on how a variety of specialized facilities from across the country handle the art of visual effects, animation, production, broadcast graphics and editorial while they grow their businesses. The two-part fall series kicks off this September with The Business of VFX. Learn what it takes to get up and running, staff up and down, and go big. * Each attendee will receive a free Digieffects Damage plug-in, retail value $99. For more on Damage, click here.
Posted at 02:00PM Sep 24, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
CMI launches single user vlume pricing
CMI has just launched our official annual subscriptions system for Single Users and Multi-User Volume Subscriptions
Now anyone can watch all cmiVFX© Certified training videos on the
cmiPlayer© for the low price of $499 a year. There isn't a catch. They
simply want to reward our customers for returning time and time again.
85% of our purchasing customers are most likely to buy more then 1 time..
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 24, 2008 by ko maruyama in PR News | Comments[0]
Event: Contest Adobe Lightroom 2
Share photos you've taken where you have used features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 to correct images and win cool stuff, including Matt Kloskowski's awesom Training DVD....
Posted at 07:00AM Sep 24, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Events: Adobe UG in Dallas Texas
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, September 25th at BBGun Interactive in Dallas.
Nothing "bad" with CS4 - maybe things hoped for didn't make it, but tons of other good stuff at Dallas UG
Posted at 03:00PM Sep 23, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
Events: LAFCPUG Hollywood Final Cut
Next lafcpug meeting will be Wednesday, September 24, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theatre.
Join us as welcome Mark Altekruse who will show off the the music making capabilities of Abaltat. Film Editor Billy Fox will show us how he used all of the apps in the Final Cut Studio suite to bring the recently released film, "Traitor" to life.
A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat. The agenda will be set one week before meeting date. www.LAFCPUG.org
Posted at 01:00PM Sep 23, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Event: Burbank IRIDAS + Adobe discuss RAW
Join IRIDAS and the Digital Cinema Society at the September DCS meeting
where we will be discussing post-production RAW workflows using IRIDAS
RealTime RAW 2.0 technology. IRIDAS RealTime RAW 2.0 provides render-quality live de-Bayering in
SpeedGrade and FrameCycler for all of the new generation of CMOS
cameras including Arri D-21, Phantom HD/65, SI2K, Dalsa
Origin/Evolution, and Red.
Academy
Award winner Price Pethel, Adobe and Chris Bone will be on hand for your questions...
Posted at 11:00AM Sep 23, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Adobe After Effects CS4 carries many new features
Adobe After Effects CS4 Features and more....
Live Adobe Photoshop 3D layers import Import Adobe® Photoshop® 3D layers into Adobe After Effects® CS4, move them, animate cameras around them, adjust lighting, and composite them with other elements.
Searchable timelines and projects and easier nested comp navigation Locate any element in a comp or project with the new QuickSearch. Quickly navigate between nested comps with the new Mini-Flowchart.
Compositions exported as layered projects Export compositions as layered, XFL format projects that can be opened and edited in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional software. Many After Effects assets such as text and Adobe Illustrator® artwork are preserved as vectors.
Integrated workflow for mobile device authoring Select devices in Adobe Device Central and automatically set up an After Effects project that targets those devices, with settings that match the targeted devices and the Render Queue setup to output to the proper codecs and resolutions.
Numerous interface and workflow tweaks Work more efficiently with dozens of user-requested changes, including the new Auto Resolution setting that only renders visible pixels when zooming in and out of a comp view, streamlined memory and multicore processing preferences, and more.
Dynamic Link between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Soundbooth Using Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software, now link Adobe Premiere® Pro sequences to an After Effects composition and After Effects comps to Adobe Soundbooth® with Adobe Dynamic Link.
Independent keyframing of x, y, z values, plus 3D compositing improvements Composite in 3D space more easily: Keyframe x, y, and z position values separately, and use the new unified camera, which makes the After Effects camera tool work more like those in 3D modeling applications.
Cartoon effect Instantly give live footage the look of cell animation. Stylize video by reducing the color palette of a clip and by emphasizing edges.
Mocha for Adobe After Effects from Imagineer Systems Use this powerful 2.5D planar tracking application from Imagineer Systems to track the motion of elements ? even in challenging shots where elements move offscreen or where there is motion blur or excessive grain.
XMP metadata for asset intelligence Now retain asset metadata while you work in After Effects. Add new project-, comp-, and layer-level metadata to streamline project tracking, and automate asset auditing and many other tasks.
Also note that Adobe OnLocation now runs natively in Mac OS X as well as Windows.
Posted at 08:30AM Sep 23, 2008 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[1]
Adobe CS4: Adobe speaks up
Adobe has updated its website in preparation for tomorrow's big announcement, and the new stuff looks great
Posted at 12:00AM Sep 23, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
Adobe Release Candidate: LightRoom 2.1
Adobe has now posted the release candidate (aka "pretty much ready to go") of Lightroom 2.1
You might be able to help out by downloading the RC at the labs room, the offering your 2¢ on what could be given a little more attention.
For the most part, the big bugs and fixes have been ironed out and...
Posted at 12:30PM Sep 22, 2008 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
Adobe: New Photoshop Online
Tomorrow, Adobe will unveil some news about Creative Suite, but currently, you can find some new Adobe Photoshop Express software on their Photoshop.com site. The Photoshop Express viewer has numerous updates, including the Express Uploader that you may have missed earlier this summer, which takes advantage of Adobe Air. www.photoshop.com
Posted at 12:00PM Sep 22, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Adobe Announces: Adobe Creative Suite "Next" Tomorrow
I'm not sayin' what the next version of Adobe's Creative Suite is gonna be... but Adobe sure will. You can see the demo of the next version of Adobe CS by signing up for the online presentation: I'll be watching at 9:00 on Tuesday morning. Will you be?
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 22, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Digieffects: BIGGEST One-Day Sale!
Have you been holding off on maybe purchasing yourself a few plugins from Digieffects? Well if you are someone who is interested in GREAT SALES, check this out:
Posted at 09:00AM Sep 22, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[0]
Harry Frank on mograph
Harry Frank, writer of numerous Trapcode tutorials, forum leader at Toolfarm, has shown up on the mograph.net site as a moderator. Check more plus reels/jobs. ->
Posted at 06:00AM Sep 22, 2008 by ko maruyama in PR News | Comments[1]
Photoshop Cel Animation
There are so many features in Adobe's Photoshop CS3 Extended, I wouldn't be surprised if you don't use all of the tools packed in there, but at the same time - - you might want to know that they're ready to serve you.
Did you know you can animate in layers, and use some simple keyframes for some basic properties of the layers? And you can export as a QuickTime, AVI or FLV when you're done. Here are a couple of simple movies to take you through the steps. Here's how...
Posted at 03:00PM Sep 19, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[0]
Photoshop Goo for Halloween
It's almost the first of October, time to start running those Halloween promos. What could be more generic for all of your Halloween horror graphics than some nice green slime textures for your 3D models. An easy way to make the 3D texture is with some simple Photoshop tricks. Here are a couple steps to make some Photoshop slime. Halloween Photoshop Goo
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 19, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[0]
Gil Izrriizzziiaaary.... "Gil Conoa" @ Siggraph
It's been several weeks since Siggraph happened, but I've been waiting for a few emails to come back in from some of the participants. Siggraph - as you might know - is all about Special Interest Groups for Graphics. But it was the first time that I saw a generic motion graphics user group meeting. It wasn't software specific, or method specific. It was just a place for people to get together from all over the country. Gil Irizarry, owner of CONOA Plugins decided that Siggraph needed it, and apparently he was right!
Posted at 02:00PM Sep 18, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Moving : Still
At this year's SIGGRAPH convention in Los Angeles, I had the good fortune to see Santiago Caicedo's piece called Moving Still. It's a short stereographic animation that has many different elements that are out of the ordinary, but ordinary enough to catch you off guard. The setting is a subway car, an elevated train. You're the passenger watching the world outside the windows pass by. And after a few seconds, you'll really be glad you're along for the ride.
Posted at 12:00PM Sep 18, 2008 by ko maruyama in Visual | Comments[0]
CMI's new training for CINEMA4D
Chris Maynard has come up with some brand new video training on MAXON's latest version of CINEMA4D, R11.
They're launching their 7th training video for Maxon's Cinema 4d R11 3D application, but this time it will include the extensive use of the new tools Doodle, BodyPaint 4, and Projection Man. Content for this show was created in partnership with Chris Maynard, Michael Marcondes and Saizen Media for the commercial group cmi-saizen studios. The product series has been in development for nearly a year, and is fine tuned to work with a variety of different skill leveled users. some teaser pix
Posted at 10:00AM Sep 18, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[0]
CINEVERSITY: Sassi's iTunes debut
Dr. Sassi has hundreds of tutorials on the Cineversity website, some short, some very detailed. In this week's MAXON Video Quick Tip, Sassi gives us a succinct look at some of the new attribute features in the newest release of CINEMA4D.
You can find Sassi throughout the Cineversity website in tutorials and in the forums helping out with quick solutions to user questions.
You can catch MAXON's QuickTip public podcast through iTunes.
Posted at 12:00AM Sep 18, 2008 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[0]
SmithMicro: StuffIt Deluxe 2009
The Premier Compression Solution Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With The Launch Of StuffIt Deluxe 2009 For The Mac.Plenty of New Features building into the Ultimate Compression and Archive Management tool.
If you're a registered ower of Stuffit you can upgrade for just $29.99 Click Here for those details.
Otherwise Check out everything you need to know about Stuffit Deluxe HERE.
SmithMicro even compressed their very detailed Press Release. Read That Here!
JOHN HALEY
Posted at 12:00AM Sep 18, 2008 by John Haley in Software | Comments[0]
Events: GROO! The Wanderer
Did you miss Sergio Aragones and Tom Luth in Los Angeles @ dmala.org? Well, you can catch them in Kansas City at Mo-Kan Comics Conspiracy on September 20 & 21.
Also on the guest list: Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Stan Sakai, Tom Luth, Gary Friedrich, B. Clay Moore, Dennis Hopeless, Kevin Mellon, Anna-Maria Cool, Steve Lightle, Rick Stasi, Monte May, Alex Grecian, Kyle Strahm, Ed Bickford, Steve Daniels, Kirk Chritton, Rob Davis, Ed Lavallee
Children under 12 get in free!
Posted at 05:26PM Sep 17, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
MYTHBUSTERS: gpu! who knew?
I love Mythbusters. Have some DVDs of the show even! So when they showed up to talk about GPU power at NVISION with paint robots...
you gotta love this.... LMAO
"I think we're gonna need a bigger bot!"
"when it starts - NOBODY MOVE"
LOL.... classic Adam and Jamie (no flames tho'): http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvision08_gpu_v_cpu.html
Posted at 03:01PM Sep 17, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
mimoco design contest extended
mimoco has gotten some amazing entries so far in our VDC Call For Content Contest, and have decided to extend the deadline just a smidgen. The new cutoff date is Sunday Oct 5th at 11:59 pm (right before the VDC Series itself becomes available... yay!).
For full details on this contest, check out the original news item, and keep sending your animations, movies, music, and other amazingly creative works to callforcontent (at) mimoco.com!
Posted at 11:00AM Sep 17, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Event: Los Angeles Little Black Dress
LOS ANGELES: TONIGHT
little black dress raises valuable funds for charity through its self-titled celebration ?little black dress? where fashion icons and buzz-worthy new designers are asked to submit their version of this universal wardrobe essential.
Posted at 10:11AM Sep 17, 2008 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[1]
