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Adobe unveils Creative Suite 2 Major update of creative software package sharpens focus on integration and collaborative working |
| Machineflesh book Gillian Carson - 01 Apr 2005 3:48pm Machineflesh the book is out now. Featuring artwork and techniques of artists participating in the online CG Challenges organized by CGNetworks.com and CGTalk.com. Only $44 (Australian) http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/machineflesh/ |
| Make Poverty History TV Ad Gillian Carson - 01 Apr 2005 11:47am Featuring a host of instantly recognisable celebrities from Brad Pitt to Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth to Emma Thompson, Kylie to P Diddy, to name but a few, clicking their fingers every 3 seconds. Each click represents the death of a child in the developing world. http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/video5.html |
| Steve Jobs goes to IKEA Computer Arts - Jo - 01 Apr 2005 11:21am Steve Jobs, the polo necked head of Apple is taking up a temporary residence at IKEA as acting CEO of the swedish furniture giant. For more information, click here |
| Revolutionary new display Computer Arts - Jo - 01 Apr 2005 11:15am It's official, flatscreen displays are dead - introducing the new holographic holoscreen. It projects a 16 million colour RGB linear light stream onto a wafer-thin field of vibrating dust particles that are naturally occurring in the air. Light refracting from these free-radical particles creates a two-dimensional hologram of your computer screen. http://www.iwoot.com/HOLOSC_.htm# |
| Polish your GIMP Computer Arts - Jim - 01 Apr 2005 10:06am We like The GIMP a lot. In theory, anyway. Until we try to actually use it and get baffled by its wilfully opaque front end. But now there's GIMPShop, a GIMP hack that makes it look and feel a lot more like Photoshop. It's currently available in OSX and Linux flavours, we'll wager a PC version will follow soon, and it's much better for your karma than using a warezed version of Photoshop. Not that any of you would do that, right? http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241 |
| Made on a Mac Gillian Carson - 31 Mar 2005 12:49pm Designers (and CA contributors) Ryan Shelton and Rob Chiu are scheduled to talk at the Apple Store, Regent St next week as part of Apple's Made on a Mac series. Check them out on 5th and 7th April respectively. Link. |
| Free Apple Workshop Gillian Carson - 31 Mar 2005 12:38pm A free workshop in London for professionals and students to check out the new solutions Apple brings to the world of architecture. http://www.apple.com/uk/series/architecture/ |
| New forum competition Computer Arts - Jo - 31 Mar 2005 12:30pm If you fancy winning yourself a couple of design books check out the 'Photoshop illusions' competition currently running in our forum. |
| Army of Death Gillian Carson - 31 Mar 2005 11:48am Flashy French design crew Superdeux (read our interview in the In-Depth section) has released its Army of Death box set which contains a mini-figure, t-shirt and stickers plus dog-tags. All for $65 (plus shipping) - we reckon it's worth it for the dog-tags alone! http://www.superdeux.com/ |
| Hiëronymus Bosch action figures! Computer Arts - 31 Mar 2005 11:30am What self-respecting desk is complete without a collection of surreal figures from The Garden of Earthly Delights? Exactly. And don't complain that you can't actually get Hiëronymus Bosch action figures, because you can, thanks to Parastone Mouseion in the Netherlands. They've also converted plenty of other artists' work into figurines, including Dali, Escher and, for the students among you, Gustav Klimt. http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/index-eng.htm |
| The Fandom Menace Computer Arts - 30 Mar 2005 3:05pm It's time for the Official 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, with 16 fan-made Star Wars-related shorts awaiting your attention and clamouring for your votes. Don't be scared - they're really rather good. Voting ends on April 5th. Click here. |
| Try this out... Computer Arts - Amy - 30 Mar 2005 11:00am Check out the first Flash game created by games design newcomers WhiteKiwi. There are no instructions, so you might be there a while – but that’s the point apparently. Arrange the musical mushroom spots to get started… You can find out more about the team of students behind this site in the next issue of Computer Arts. http://playshift.whitekiwi.net/ |
| Feelgood Inc by Gorillaz Computer Arts - Luke - 30 Mar 2005 9:40am The infernally catchy animated band returns - with 2D, LightWave HyperVoxels and De La Soul. Click on the link below to see the vid for new single Feel Good Inc, from the forthcoming album, Demon Days. http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/gorillaz/artist.jhtml |
| Caught in the Web Public User - 29 Mar 2005 3:41pm Although posting your work on the internet reaches a wide audience - it can also open up a whole load of legal problems including the possibility of having work nicked and misappropriated. Find out how to cut down the risks and keep the thieves at bay at a seminar on 27 April in London organised by the Association of Illustrators. http://www.theaoi.com/events.html |
| Black Day To Freedom CA Projects - Kate - 29 Mar 2005 3:02pm Motion graphics wizz and Computer Arts regular Rob Chiu has teamed up with the University of Huddersfield to create Beyond - the first in a series of stunning multimedia design books addressing a range of important social issues. The first in the series looks at immigration and features work by Chiu's The Ronin, Superdeux, Computer Arts columnist Jason Arber and CA's very own Richard Llewellyn. Available soon! http://www.blackdaytofreedom.org |
| Computer Arts site battered by meteors! Computer Arts - 29 Mar 2005 11:09am Oh, the humanity! (Don't worry, folks, it's just pretend, courtesy of netdisaster.com. Pick a Web site and unleash your very own disaster upon it - hours of time-wasting fun!) http://www.netdisaster.com |
| DIY Minimalist Origami iPod Cradle Computer Arts - 29 Mar 2005 10:56am Bought one of the new cradle-less iPods and want somewhere safe to put it without forking out for a proper cradle? This'll do the job; just print out the PDF, stick it to some cardboard, decorate as you see fit and then, with a few snips and a couple of folds, your iPod has its own secure desktop home. Very Blue Peter. Link |
| Macromedia updates Web package Computer Arts - 24 Mar 2005 5:32pm Macromedia has come up with a shiny new grade to its Web Publishing System and it's available right now. Top of the update pile is the addition of RSS feeds, plus a host of other tweaks and upgrades, and it's all free. Go get it! (Assuming you already use it, naturally) http://www.macromedia.com/go/wps_update |
| New tees at Threadless Computer Arts Projects - 24 Mar 2005 5:32pm Jake and Jacob at Threadless have updated the site with some super-cool new designs. Our favourites include 'You Sank My Battleship', 'Fire and Ice' and 'Fred and the Giant Eel'. Check them out. http://www.threadless.com |
| Don't miss out on Web users Computer Arts - 24 Mar 2005 3:57pm Think your Web site's the biz, do you? Think again - according to Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen you're probably missing out on a third of your potential online audience. The key, says Nielsen, lies in designing your site with lower literacy users in mind. Prioritise your information, streamline your design and keep things simple and you'll make much more of an impact. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050314.html |
| Banksy Does New York Computer Arts - 23 Mar 2005 4:36pm Guerrilla artist and international man of mystery, Banksy, has been at it again. His latest endeavours saw him stroll into four of New York's museums disguised as a pensioner and put his own work up on the wall alongside the 'proper' art. So far two have been taken down but the other two remain in place. See him baffle the NY cognoscenti here. http://www.banksy.co.uk/ |
| Typotheque relaunches Computer Arts - 23 Mar 2005 11:35am Dutch type foundry Typotheque has given its website a once-over, adding a load of new content and functionality but retaining its design and interface. New to the site is Fedra Sans Display 1 - a collection of six thin, near-monolinear fonts - and a true italic version of Typotheque's Jigsaw font. And plenty of other stuff - take a look. http://www.typotheque.com |
| Working with the Web Computer Arts - 23 Mar 2005 11:34am The Association of Illustrators is organising a seminar about the promotion, protection and exploitation of images on the internet, aimed at giving illustrators a better understanding of copyright and contract law and insight on the latest technical and cultural developments on the internet. Wednesday, 27 April 2005, 6.15-9.00pm at the AOP Gallery, 81 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS. http://www.theaoi.com/ |
| Eboy are back in town... Computer Arts - 23 Mar 2005 3:27pm London Town, that is. Top-of-the-dots pixel artists Eboy have come up with a stunning representation of our fair capital for Paul Smith's summer collection, and it's available as an A0 poster - just the right size for poring over all that pixel detail. Click here |
| Mashed joyriders Computer Arts - 22 Mar 2005 3:25pm Our friends at Coudal Partners have been holding a little video mash-up competition: take one rubbish 70s educational film - Joyride: An Auto Accident - take it to bits then stick it back together in an interesting way. Dozens of entries later they've picked the winners and they're great fun. When's the next competition, then? Click here |
| Ourmedia gets going Computer Arts - 22 Mar 2005 10:34am Want to get noticed? Ourmedia may be the place. Just launched, it'll host your creative endeavours - whether they're video, audio, graphics, text or whatever - for free, forever, and it's done in conjunction with the likes of Creative Commons, Internet Archive and Wikipedia. Sign up now before the best usernames get nabbed. http://ourmedia.org/ |
| A Softer World Computer Arts - 21 Mar 2005 3:31pm We're quite fond of this little web comic. Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes really quite disturbing. But, y'know, in a nice way. Updated every Friday, and the fake job application letters are well worth reading too. http://www.asofterworld.com |
| Yahoo buys Flickr Computer Arts - 21 Mar 2005 2:06pm Excellent online photo repository Flickr has been snapped up to become part of the big happy Yahoo family. We expect it to become part of Yahoo's new Yahoo! 360° enterprise, merging blogs, photos, contacts and lord knows what else into a single online entity. http://tinyurl.com/5hyhv |
| CA Projects sells on eBay for £51 Computer Arts Projects - 18 Mar 2005 12:27pm Computer Arts Projects 65, the Start your own Design Business issue, has fetched £51 on eBay. Check it out here for a limited time... |
| Build it up Computer Arts - 17 Mar 2005 1:30pm ...and smash it down! A fantastic 3D animation by Michal Levy, with a bit of jazz thrown in for good measure. http://michalevy.com/gs_download.html |
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Graduate Showcase 2005 - Call for entries Put your work under the spotlight and ensure it’s seen by thousands of people worldwide |
| Experimental Jetset Computer Arts - 17 Mar 2005 10:17am A brand new site for the Netherlands designers. We particularly like the Lost Formats Preservation Society http://www.experimentaljetset.nl |
| New Fries Computer Arts - 17 Mar 2005 9:41am Jon Burgerman has updated his portfolio site. All the usual characters are there plus a few new ones, and Jon assures us that the site boasts a staggering 68% new content. http://www.jonburgerman.com |
| Two-buttoned Apple mice? Computer Arts - 16 Mar 2005 2:37pm What madness is this? Apple is reported to be dragging its mice kicking and screaming into the 1990s by adding a second button. Crazy, we know. The about-face seems to stem from a realisation that with the likes of the Mac Mini, Apple's suddenly in a position to compete with Microsoft, and a two-button mouse would lure across Windows users who fear Apple's one-button minimalism. Watch this space. http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=951 |
| 3D World needs you… 3D World - 14 Mar 2005 5:00pm Each issue we set up a poll based on our main news story for that issue, and the question for issue 64 concerns the Best Animated Short Film Oscar. There’s been an uneasy mix of entrants over the years, with significant disparities in the scope and budget of their projects. Yet recently the judges seem to be favouring the indies, with Chris Landreth’s Ryan taking this year’s accolade. So this issue’s question is: Is it still fair that mighty animation giants like Pixar compete directly with independent filmmakers on shoestring budgets? http://forum.3dworldmag.com/viewtopic.php?p=48913 |
| BodyPaint 3D to XSI plug-in 3D World - 14 Mar 2005 4:58pm Maxon, maker of the unique and illustrious 3D painting package BodyPaint 3D, has announced a new, free plug-in enabling Softimage|XSI users to access its powerful features. BodyPaint’s RayBrush mode enables artists to ‘paint’ textures in real-time 3D. Europe’s largest VFX company, Framestore CFC, is its latest convert, having used BodyPaint 3D 2 exclusively on The Last Dragon, its award winning Animal Planet fantasy documentary due to air on the BBC this month. Visit www.framestore-cfc.com to find out more, and view the BodyPainted dragons in action. http://www.maxon.net |
| 3Dgspot 3D World - 14 Mar 2005 4:56pm This newly made-over site promises royalty free 3D character models designed, modelled and textured by 3D cinematic and video game industry professionals that promise to: “rock your project but not your pocket.” Check out the range at the site and choose from characters ranging from SWAT Team soldiers to Orcs in sandals. The site also has dedicated motion-capture files for sale, grouped by behaviour type. http://www.3dgspot.com |
| Shuffle Art Computer Arts - 11 Mar 2005 1:11pm Those of you with newly-acquired iPod Shuffles begining to tire of their snowy, minimalist beauty should head over to Shuffle Art to check out the collection of vinyl stickers designed to give your Shuffle a bit of zing. "Coming Soon," we're reliably informed. http://www.shuffle-art.com |
| TransPoser 2 3D World - 11 Mar 2005 1:04pm Eovia has launched version 2 of TransPoser, its plug-in enabling the import of Poser 4 and 5 content and animation directly into Carrara 4 – now including Poser 5’s dynamic hair and associated animation. TransPoser 2 also includes Poser files in Carrara’s network rendering, and enables users to update a Poser character with one click from within Carrara. The plug-in comes with Michael and Victoria 3.0 and costs $129 for a full version, and $39 for an upgrade. http://www.eovia.com |
Quicktime 7
QuickTime updates don’t usually get us that excited. But the inclusion of the H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 has us drooling as it’s the one the PSP uses for movies. Stick your showreel on a big memory card and put it on a PSP – that’s progress!
Canon EOS 350D
Canon’s pro-am SLR gets even better, now with an 8 megapixel sensor and new features previously only found on much more expensive models, including three focus modes, monochrome mode and faster memory card writing.
Annoying Apple
Jobs and co have sparked ire for getting heavy-handed with a student who put the latest OSX update online, so much so that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out and offered him $1,000 towards his defence.
Drunkenblog.com
Loonatics
“Hey, let’s take the Looney Toons characters and re-imagine them as angular, edgy superhero types in the year 2772 for today’s teen demographic!” No, really, we’re sure it’ll be at least as wonderful as Scrappy Doo.
Postgazette.com
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