Think you have Photoshop skills? Bring it!
Layer Tennis - Live online creative competitions
Every Friday in March
http://www.layertennis.com/
12:00 P.M. PT
Watch amazing creative pros show off their Adobe Creative Suite® 4 skills, get play-by-play commentary, and help judge the winner by posting to the online forum.
Posted at 04:09AM Mar 17, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[0]
DMALA / March
Are you a member yet?
Hope you have a ticket already - we're sold out. See you at the next one for sure. Or online.
Posted at 03:13AM Mar 16, 2010 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[0]
Stash Call for entries...
The Stash crew invites you to submit your most outstanding style frames and pitch materials for publication in the premier edition of STYLE FRAMES.
STYLE FRAMES is the inspirational new design annual from Stash Media showcasing spectacular presentation art and video.
STYLE FRAMES offers you the chance to rescue all those daring and brilliant visual treatments hiding in the studio drawer and showcase them in a beautifully printed, full-size design book.
Posted at 01:00PM Mar 15, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[3]
Final Cut Pro users get new tutorials at Artbeats
Artbeats' powerful search engine now offers visitors the capability of searching over 80 brands of royalty-free stock footage with one click.
[Read More]Posted at 10:00AM Mar 15, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[1]
News from Digital Juice
A message from Digital Juice - - got it last week, but worth repeating...
[Read More]Posted at 10:00AM Mar 15, 2010 by ko maruyama in PR News | Comments[2]
Webtalk with Watchmen creator Dave Gibbons
Watchmen creator Dave Gibbons will be hosting a free online webinar on tips to create comics and animation on March 21st at 2PM PT. Anyone can participate, from first time comic creators to professionals. Space is limited to the first 500 people that register and attendees will have a chance to win multiple prizes including Manga Studio EX 4, signed by Dave Gibbons, as well as autographed printouts of Gibbons' newest comic creation designed during the one-hour webinar.
To register visit: http://www.smithmicro.com/mangawebinar
Dave Gibbons Manga Studio
Webinar:
When: 2:00 PM PT on Sunday, March 21, 2010
Where: http://www.smithmicro.com/mangawebinar
to register
Who: Space in the webinar is
limited to the first 500 people that register. Anyone can participate, from first time comic creators to
professionals
Other: Attendees will have a chance to win multiple
prizes including Manga Studio EX 4, signed by Dave Gibbons, as well as
autographed printouts of Gibbons newest comic creation designed during the
one-hour webinar.
"Manga Studio is my
favorite digital art software for drawing comics because it has an amazing
range of natural feeling, fully customizable pens and brushes that are
expressive and accurate, said Dave Gibbons. I particularly love the perspective ruler tool which, along
with the many other specialized tools, is a huge time-saver. The ability to import and incorporate
both 2-D and 3-D image references is a comic book artist's dream come
true."
Posted at 09:03PM Mar 12, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[3]
POSER PRO 2010
Poser® Pro 2010, the fastest
way for professional artists and production teams to add 3D characters to their
projects. Since 1997, artists
around the globe have relied on Poser technology to create photorealistic images
for a variety of industries including architecture, advertising, film,
television and social networks.
With over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content such as pre-rigged, fully
textured 3D characters, Poser Pro 2010 saves
users time and development resources to quickly turn complex ideas into
three-dimensional reality.
Posted at 12:00AM Mar 11, 2010 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[2]
STASH DVD: This month's dose of inspiration
Here comes a monster serving of tasty animation and VFX plus 20 minutes of Behind the Scenes extras and 36 minutes of Bonus music from (weewerk) records.
The gluttony begins with Aaron Duffy and 1stAveMachine building a "Parisian Love Story" from nothing but Google's search tools, then James Wignall kicks it up a gear or two with a vibrant shot of Southern Comfort, Marc Craste and Studio aka re-envision the origin of the Olympic games in dramatic black and white for the BBC, Brazil's Casablanca retread the ESSO brand in South America with epic asphalt VFX.
Zoic Studios blast their way through full CG death and destruction for EA's "Army of Two: The 40th Day", Logan fuses live action and pristine 3D for Sega's new alien invasion shooter "Vanquish", and Tronic and Marco Brambilla bury Dubai in chaos and mayhem for the "Spec Ops" trailer before we meet Sniffles the mouse and his animatronic stunt double in John Nolan's hilarious "Nolan's Cheddar."
Buck breaks the titles and broadcast design section wide open with four clips screened before all the films at Sundance 2010, Portland's Sean Pecknold and Grandchildren construct a whimsical journey through your brain for BBC, Fraggleboo and Chez Eddy pile on the slapstick for French kids channel Teletoon, Royale ride a wave of destruction and rebirth in the latest Fuel TV Signature spot, and Peppermelon catapult the 2009 Latin America MTV Awards deep, deep into the future.
Then it's time for a relaxing musical interlude. Or not: Motion Theory unleashes "Boom Boom Pow" for the Black Eyed Peas; Chain Gang and 1000 Styles go retro kung fu crazy for Raekwon's "House of Flying Daggers" track; and Tim Nackashi induces chronic chroma-overload in his one-shot wonder for OK Go's "WTF?" video.
Meanwhile, back in ad land, Shilo conjures a magical community for the U.S. Census Bureau, LAIKA/house flings out a sassy, salsa-chopping senorita for Frito Lay, Ogilvy Beijing rally a team of Chinese student artists and animators on the ambitious "Coal Story" spot for Greenpeace, Vancouver's Rethink elevates the call for entries to new heights for Langara College, Jared Eberhardt constructs a charming low-tech fantasy for Puma and Paris powerhouses Mikros Image and Wanda take toilet humor to new and naughty extremes for AIDS awareness.
Specing for fame and fortune is also alive and thriving on Stash 66: Simon Cassels and Justin Blampied channel Indonesian shadow puppets for Nike "Wayang"; Oliver Navarro Schroeder and Eyeball NYC pay homage to crop circle design for the Motorola C13; and Alberto Mielgo blasts into Stash for the first time with three head-snapping spec spots, one of which, called "Pill", graces the cover.
The main program of Stash 66 ends with three extraordinary short films: Maxime Bruneel's psychotropic stream of consciousness called Valse Statique & la Theorie du Combo; Mr. Tea's surreal and unsettling mix of film noir and early American cartoons called Storyville; and finally Adrien Merigeau's graphically masterful tale of family tragedy called Old Fangs which was featured at Sundance 2010.
Posted at 11:00AM Mar 03, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[6]
MochaAE - track what you thought was untrackable
Ross came to the FEB 16 dmala meeting to show off some very cool software: MochaAE and gave us some great tricks and tips as well. He promised to offer the tips to everyone on the imagineer systems site, and sure enough - - here is the first: UNLINK to track what you thought was impossible:
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I promised to post this when available. This is a very useful tutorial that covers some great undocumented tips and tricks for using mocha and Red Giant Warp.
It also covers a very cool unlinking trick for tracking long camera pans (where all your tracking points keep going off screen).
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/mocha_unlink_tutorial.mov
Enjoy,
Ross
Ross Shain
Imagineer Systems
Posted at 12:00AM Mar 03, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[4]
PeachPit Interview with Tom Geismar
Having created iconic logos for Mobil Oil, New York University, Chase Bank, National Geographic, and many more, Tom Geismar is one of the most highly-acclaimed designers in the profession. David Airey, author of Logo Design Love interviews Tom about his design work.
http://www.peachpit.com/
Posted at 02:49PM Mar 02, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[6]
Photoshop Elements - try it out!
Seems to be a party favor - Coincidentally in step with Photoshop's birthday, Adobe is letting you try out Photoshop Elements for freeee for 30 days. Take the 30 day challenge. Try it out, and tell me if Photoshop isn't the software you've used the most since learning computer skills.
[Read More]Posted at 08:14PM Mar 01, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[5]
Wacom's new Cintiq21UX announced!
Today, Wacom® introduces the much anticipated Cintiq®21UX, its
newly-redesigned interactive pen display delivering state-of-the-art
pen performance and innovative ergonomics in a color-accurate LCD
display. Designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of
professional photographers, designers, artists and animators, the new
Cintiq 21UX offers unparalleled creative control, comfort and
productivity.
Posted at 07:54AM Mar 01, 2010 by ko maruyama in PR News | Comments[2]
Anime Studio 5 - - FOR FREE! (until March 1)
http://anime.smithmicro.com/freeoffer/
Get Anime Studio Debut 5FREE!
Download Anime Studio Debut 5 today absolutely FREE!
Reg. US $49.99 | Get it FREE*
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=189277
*IMPORTANT: Hurry! This limited-time offer for a FREE download of Anime Studio Debut 5 expires March 1, 2010.
This FREE offer is limited to 1 unit only per person. Also, the Extended Download Service is OPTIONAL!! Please use the Trash Can icon to remove it from your cart if you do not want it add to your order.
Posted at 07:50PM Feb 27, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[1]
Fuze Box
Fuze Box announced it is entering the content creation and post production marketplace with the launch of Fuze Movie. Fuze Movie is a real-time collaborative media review and approval solution created specifically for editors, VFX artists and digital media designers faced with the challenges of collaborating with numerous remote, and often widely distributed colleagues and clients. Combining an industry-unique frame accurate media player with seamless real time collaboration capabilities, Fuze Movie creates a cost-effective, efficient and easy digital media review and approval workflow experience for users.
Leveraging Skype as its communications backbone, Fuze Movie effectively eliminates the frustrations and inefficiencies of collaborating across distributed workgroups by creating a real time shared workflow environment for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Fuze Movie is based on the highly acclaimed review and approval solution, syncVUE, which was acquired by Fuze Box in 2007.
Built-in FTP function allowing media within a project to be automatically uploaded to multiple FTP locations. Clients running Fuze Movie will automatically receive media files as they become available ? keeping everyone in the project in-sync;
Printed video frames with graphics, titles, notes and timecode can be exported as HTML files for viewing locally or online;
Upon completion, XML locator annotations can be exported to industry-popular non-linear editing solutions, such as Final Cut Pro;
Advanced license management system enables customers to extend temporary licenses to colleagues or clients for flexible, hassle-free access to Fuze Movie.
http://www.fuzemovie.com/
Posted at 02:38PM Feb 26, 2010 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[2]
Using Sapphire Blur in After Effects
Learn how to use the Sapphire Blur plug-in with these video tutorials for:
After Effects
Final Cut Pro
Posted at 01:53PM Feb 26, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Mojo Tutorial with Stu
Tutorial by Stu Maschwitz
Learn Magic Bullet Mojo from the Creator, Stu Maschwitz
In this tutorial, Stu Maschwitz introduces you to the features in Magic Bullet Mojo, a tool for putting one of Hollywood's hottest film looks at your fingertips.
Intro To Magic Bullet Mojo from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.
.Posted at 12:00AM Feb 26, 2010 by ko maruyama in Tutorials | Comments[1]
Adobe NAB / SMART Pass and Conference Flex® Pass.
NAB Show 2010: Where Content Comes to Life
April 10-15, 2010
Come to the NAB Show for unparalleled opportunities to evolve, innovate and grow smarter!
Be sure to visit the Adobe® booth to see how Adobe is revolutionizing the world of entertainment-one screen at a time. You'll experience our complete portfolio of solutions for broadcast, film and post-production that give you a competitive edge for creating, distributing, and monetizing video.
For 2010, the NAB Show is proud to offer smarter registration packages that give you access to more sessions, cross-conference access, year-round learning opportunities, and networking - all for one great price. Check out the Best Value Packages including a new SMART Pass and Conference Flex® Pass.
http://www.nabshow.com/2010/?trackingid=FDEMO
Posted at 12:00PM Feb 25, 2010 by ko maruyama in Events | Comments[6]
UPDATE! ShuttlePRO and ShuttleXpress Mac driver
Contour Design has released a new ShuttlePRO and ShuttleXpress Mac driver with optimized settings for Apple Final Cut Studio. The driver includes settings for Apple Final Cut Pro 7, Apple Soundtrack Pro 3, Apple Motion 4, Apple DVD Studio Pro 4, and Apple Color 1.5. All-new settings for Adobe Lightroom and Media 100 Suite are also included.
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 25, 2010 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[5]
DAZ 3D model warehouse opens up at a discount
THE TASTE OF PLATINUM
For a limited time, all DAZ 3D customers will be able to get a taste of what it's like to receive $1.99 Platinum Club items, and all existing PC members will receive a variety of items for under one dollar. Check out the Test Drive Category today and browse through 250 items.
And, let's be clear. The Platinum Club is much more than thousands of $1.99 items. Additional benefits that motivate thousands of customers to join are:
- Members automatically get an additional 30% discount off all DAZ Original items.
- Members get a $5 voucher every month that can be used for purchasing DAZ Originals and Published Artist items.
- Members have an exclusive forum where they can associate with the pros and learn new tips and tricks straight from the Platinum Club developers themselves: LisaB, LaurieS, and Moyra among others. In addition, you'll also find Artist Spotlights, freebies, activities, tutorials, and contests.
- Members receive a weekly newsletter highlighting the new items introduced into the Platinum Club that week as well as information on contests and other promotions.
- Members can submit entries to the Platinum Club Gallery. The top three winners each month receive a $25 voucher.
For more details on the Platinum Club or to get signed up, click here.
Posted at 12:00AM Feb 24, 2010 by ko maruyama in Software | Comments[4]
After Effects Preset Preview
If you're selling your presets or even just giving them away, it's nice to build little previews that your end user can put into Adobe Bridge.
Sure it takes up a little bit of room (and we know that there will be 'preset collectors' who have to download ever single preset they can find), but it's worth it for the presets which may have been named with obscure references.
Take a little time, make an FFX Preview and easily scan through the presets that you've amassed.
Posted at 02:20PM Feb 23, 2010 by ko maruyama in General | Comments[3]