February 27, 2006 | Adobe has a nice collection of RSS feeds for top issues and support documents for their apps. I wonder how long Adobe will still maintain seperate sites and identities for the Adobe and Macromedia products. (link) (#)
February 27, 2006 | Malcolm Gladwell, writer of Blink and the Tipping Point as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker, launches his blog. (link) (#)
February 27, 2006 | Barbara Davidson, of The Dallas Morning News, is this year's winner. Amazing work. Here is a list of all the winners. (link) (#)
February 21, 2006 | I saw this commercial during the Olympics the other night and was blown away. I love this style of cutout animation and was convinced that it was done as CG. United has a really nice behind-the-scenes making of clip and shows that traditional stop-motion was used on puppets that were cut out of flat boards. (link) (#)
February 17, 2006 | If you use Trapcode plug-ins with After Effects, you will appreciate this community portal where users can upload templates and effects favorites. (link) (#)
February 15, 2006 | CNN's International branch has gone for a decidely low-tech, very clean and graphical look for their on screen graphics. Very nice. (link) (#)
February 9, 2006 | Film and Video magazine has abandoned their traditional printed magazine format in favor of a completely online version. (link) (#)
February 8, 2006 | When Adobe announced it was purchasing Macromedia last year, many folks pondered the apps that overlapped (Illustrator and Freehand for example) and wondered which would be discontinued. Fireworks was thought by many to be on the kill list. Not so, according to this forum post by Danielle Beaumont Product Manager for Fireworks at Adobe. (link) (#)
February 8, 2006 | From MIT's Media Lab, an amazing digital brush that samples real world objects (including objects in motion, like blinking eyes) and then lets you paint with those objects on a large screen. (via DVblog) (link) (#)
February 8, 2006 | Snap, from Digital Film Tools, is a tool similar to Corel's Knockout. (link) (#)
February 8, 2006 | Wow, trailers were a lot different in 1981; a lot slower without all the furious jump cutting and over-the-top swooshing sound effects. Still my favorite movie of all time. (link) (#)
February 8, 2006 | VFXY is an aggregator of several Visual Effects and CG oriented sites. (link) (#)
February 2, 2006 | View trailers for all the films this past year that received nominations in any category, conveniently located in one place. (link) (#)
February 2, 2006 | My hosting provider, Dreamhost, has moved all of their online user forum and knowledge base into a wiki. If you're in the market for hosting, Dreamhost is very good. (link) (#)
February 2, 2006 | They've been reworking this same graphic and adding new movie posters since Monsters. I wonder how many more they can squeeze on before they need to come up with something new? (link) (#)
February 1, 2006 | Adobe has published an FAQ detailing their plans and status around updating their Mac applications to the new Intel-based platform, in other words Universal Binary. Also goes into depth about various programs and how they perform under the Rosetta emulation layer. (link) (#)
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