Adobe & Sundance, Part 1 4 months ago
Final Cut vets talk about overcoming their disbelief about Premiere Pro—and the limitations of FCP—in these interviews from the show.
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Explore AE’s history with its creators, this Thursday 4 months ago
Did you know that the first version of AE didn’t even have a timeline? Check out this screenshot from Dan Wilk: As part of AE’s 20th Anniversary celebration, you can: Join After Effects creators Dave Simons and Dan Wilk as they take you on a trip down memory lane to see how After …
Happy Birthday, After Effects! 4 months ago
“I can’t believe I’m talking to these guys,” I thought. “They’re spending their time talking to me–and they’re so down-to-earth!” That was in 2000, when I first met the brains behind After Effects. (I’d just joined Adobe, aspiring to …
How Lego Hobbits are sculpted 4 months ago
I love that Lego has started featuring their product designers in these short pieces. Here Gitte Thorsen (and you just knew Legos were designed by someone named “Gitte Thorsen,” right?) shows how she sketches out Hobbit characters, then sculpts them at large scale:
A TED talk on the power of image 4 months ago
At some point I lost track of (and most interest in) all the hand-wringing articles about Photoshop & body image. Even so, I found this talk by model Cameron Russell interesting. She’s unusually sharp (her mom founded ZipCar, it turns out) and compares images of her with the real …
Boss Wave! 8-bit mayhem in the real world 4 months ago
“If you don’t watch this music video,” writes io9, “you’re robbing yourself of an opportunity to see a particularly fantastic video of a guy in an awesome robot suit blasting real-life videogame enemies (along with a few innocent bystanders). Just …
Mixel for iPhone builds Instagram-friendly collages 4 months ago
I’ve been a fan of Mixel for a long time, and now it’s become much more useful to me as it creates square collages that can be sent directly to Instagram. I find this highly useful after shooting a burst of shots of my kids (as one never knows which one will best capture fast-moving …
Designing one new superhero every day for a year 4 months ago
I love the 365 Supers project from Pixar animator Everett Downing. According to a well illustrated interview in Wired, “I got into a rut, I wasn’t drawing enough and a friend told me I was over-thinking things,” says Downing. “I just needed to do something I was really …
A film scanner for your smart phone 4 months ago
Yes, really. Check out this Kickstarter project from Lomography: The Smartphone Film Scanner was conceived as a way to offer photographers and enthusiasts a quick, easy and portable way to scan 35mm films. It offers unrivaled speed and convenience when compared to other film scanners. In …
The Photoshop “Faking It” Contest: Show Off Your Image Manipulation Skills 4 months ago
To celebrate the Met’s exhibit Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, the Photoshop team has created a contest: We’d like to invite the Photoshop community to share their photo manipulations with us for a chance to win some special prizes. Every week, from now through …