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April 12: Adobe CS5 Press Conference
Thanks Adobe. Really. CS4 was the bomb, and CS5 looks even more powerful. CS4 also had a bunch of stupid problems that Adobe seemed perpetually bent on ignoring for the past decade (I could rant for...
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CS5: First Impressions
Adobe put on a real show this morning. Where last year’s press conference was a live stream of a guy in a real board room, Adobe this time around planned a glimmering presentation that seemed to be...
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Adobe UI Gripes
Photoshop: The order of the layer effects don’t match the true compositing order, BradEllis has provided us with a handy diagram explaining the confusion. Why can’t we reorder the compositing order?...
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Sculptris
I’m really excited to share this one. It’s called Sculptris. It’s a 3 meg application that I think wins over ZBrush in its simplicity, elegance, and moreover in its maths which take care of your mesh...
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World Cup Related
1. the_vuvuzela is a twitter stream that covers each game’s level of annoying horn buzzing. People on the internet are clever. 2. Found via iso50, this video shows how Adidas makes world cup footballs!
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Fun With Crowds
Crowdsourcing is defined on Wikipedia as a neologistic compound of “crowd” and “outsourcing” for the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of...
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Siggraph 2010
There’s lots of interesting things that will be showing at Siggraph this year, the annual conference for computer graphics research. Even if many of these technologies might seem far away from being...
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JQuery for Designers
This guy is awesome. JQuery really took a hold of me this year. There are a lot of good resources out there — namely Stack Overflow (which I usually end up hitting via Google), and even the JQuery...
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High-Poly and Sub-Surf Modeling Falls to The Wayside
There’s something just horrible about the nature of Catmul-Clark subdivision surfaces. 3D animators for the past decade lost sight of their modeling process because of quads, and the way they deform...
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Your As A Table
I just took a new job at Neogence last week as a frontend developer and one of the things that was bugging me about the site was the top navigation bar for our site. It would sit in the center nice and...
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js1k
It would seem some of my favorite JS mammoths (p01, mr doob) have just finished a one-kilobyte contest called js1k. The rules are insane. Create a fancy pancy Javascript demo Submissions may be up to...
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3D-projected video with Kinect
This morning I came across this video That is very cool! Microsoft products were always particularly hackable, and I’m happy that the Kinect is no exception. However, a hacked Kinect, capturing video...
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