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Importing SketchUp Models to Maya

Justin Chin at GiantMonster has a quick walkthrough on importing SketchUp models into Maya 8.5. No direct plugin, just some tweaks to get it to work just right… [ Continue reading ‘Importing SketchUp Models to Maya ]


Experience is the new reality…

In response to Jakob Nielson, and a bit of retrospective homage to Epic 2015, David Armano, VP Experience Design, Critical Mass (yes, they are hiring) presents to you a new YouTube post with a bit of futuremashing for your enjoyment… […]


The Knights’ Tale

Living a quiet life as an animator, Travis Knight never dreamed he’d work for his father. Then the Nike founder gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse… I would have to say that the July/August issue of Fast Company is […]


@johnedwards

On July 23rd immediately following the Youtube/CNN debate John Edwards will answer questions from Twitter users in a live webcast on JohnEdwards.com. He wants twitter-ers to @johnedwards some questions in advance. (Legal) Note: The posting to this Twitter event does […]


Sunshine

Fox Searchlight has taken some care to intellectually associate the film’s sun fixation with the pyrotechnics team Sam and Richard Conway in a brief making-of featurette that looks at Sunshine’s snap, crackle and pop FX. Sunshine Director/Filmmaker Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, […]


Win a free moleskine.

The 2007 Moleskinerie Summer Giveaways moleskinerie.com is having their summer (Moleskin) giveaway contest… check it out here. If you’re not into Moleskins check out Smiggles. For the DIY crowd check Instructables for some good ideas on developing and refining your […]


Vuvox, Flash presentations on-the-fly

VUVOX is a step up from YouTube but not quite the same this semi-Web2.0, meida-rich, application service provides an alternative viewing experience to the standard image/photo gallery or animation/video amalgamation. It is in semi-Beta and endeavors to be an easy-to-use, […]


Seadragon and Photosynth

A brief (pseudo) example was shown during Apple Worldwide Developers Conference of this method of viewing large datasets of images and content. Apple’s demo used images of DVD movies on a large wall (Finder/Cover Flow). This takes it to a […]


(Business Card) Flipbooks

While putting together a workshop for the World Children’s Festival we were looking for a good way to print out animated flipbooks. Must to our dismay we could only find a few solutions that would fit our needs. There are […]


If you can’t beat them…

If you can’t beat the hacking community, join them… so Flip Video is proceeding with their marketing program driven primarily with a contest featured on Facebook. Enter for your own chance for a free Flip Video Camera here. Flip Video […]

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