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Monday Oct 06, 2008
 

Change4D SPLINE TEXTURE

I suppose "fun" is a relative term because creating the flag stripes with spline material in the alpha was kind of a chore. get the C4D file (R11 and R10.5)

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3D in Photoshop: Simple Religious Icons Part 2

Manipulating the texture on a 3D object within Photoshop CS3 is really easy.  If you know how to use the tools in Photoshop, there's really no limit to what you can do with a 3D material.  Like a smart object, the 3D material is just an embedded Photoshop document.  In Part 2, I check out other models which aren't as easy to break down as the geometry in the cross.

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3D in Photoshop: Simple Religious Icons Part 1

Manipulating the texture on a 3D object within
Photoshop CS3 is really easy. If you know how to use the tools in
Photoshop, there's really no limit to what you can do with a 3D
material. Like a smart object, the 3D material is just an embedded
Photoshop document. In Part 1 I just wanted to introduce you to the
idea of slapping color onto a model with some additional elements

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cmiVFX new interface


For those of you on computer configurations that could not handle their mp4 streams, and were not seeing the chapters on the flv streams... they have repaired the situation so that you will no longer have this issue.

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The Pause that refreshes

Two-Day Event Features Award-Winning Directors and Top Creative Studios
November 10 - 11, 2008, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC

Hillman Curtis, Chris Milk and Mark Romanek Added To PAUSE NYC Line-Up

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Luxology's: ImageSynth for Photoshop CS4

If you're not familiar with why you need this  excellent pattern/texture/tile maker, check out the previous overview on how imageSynth stomps the built-in Photoshop pattern maker.Luxology delivers a new version of imageSynth to work in Adobe's Photoshop CS4*!!  :)

http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=69057



New and improved features in imageSynth 2 include:
Native performance improvements will process images up to 10 times faster than previous version
New algorithm is threaded for use on dual-core systems
Improved memory management enables handling of larger scenes
New control over chunk size and orientation

*This also will work in Photoshop CS3 as well!

 

Paris Auto Show : Cool Tech

John Reed left London to check out the cool new cars at the Paris
auto show.  I'll be interested to see the green tech when new cars come
to Los Angeles in November.  John got some scoops on what we might be
seeing stateside next month.



You can check out his video footage...

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