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Posts Tagged ‘software’

apple shakes

apple acquires nothing real, makers of ’shake’ compositing software (the best, in my opinion).
i never saw that coming. i wonder what apple plans on using the technology for?

he puts google on your desktop

sweetness. dave bau, software author of the simple and fast ‘Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar’ does an interview for webword.com.

another reason to think of yourself as a digital artist

NYU Media Research Lab’s project ‘Image Analogies’ is very interesting. this software, with a little help from you, trains itself to build filters based on an ‘before’ image and an ‘after’ image. the training data then can be applied to other images. hmmm, there is some time-saving that could be done with [...]

new vfx software stuff

from down under, animal logic announce ‘MayaMan’, the maya to renderman pipeline tool.
from london, uk, IS distribution releases ‘mokey’. described as resolution independent software that enables you to separate a foreground element from a video or film clip. it is available as a standalone product and as a plug-in for avid AVX, discreet sparks, [...]

go go gadget

holy sh!t. if you have a robot fetish like me, now you can build one in flash. serious time-killer.

and the renderfarm was never the same

so you say you’re the fatcat of a technology company and you need to trim the fat? let’s go through the checklist:
- you’ve laid off all the right people (actually you probably laid off the wrong people but…)
- you’ve asked the remaining staff to take pay cuts ‘for a short while’ and take on [...]

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