Minimalism. A New Approach for Adobe.
Nov 07
I’m an avid fan of Adobe software applications. I love the way Adobe products easily integrate with one another and facilitate efficient workflow. I have been a long time user of After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash – in fact, most of the applications in the Adobe Master Collection.
Cool Concept. Great VFX: Reunion X
Aug 26
My friend Mathias, a VFX artist, recently emailed to let me know about a project he’s been working on: Reunion X. It’s a cool concept.
Their intention is to create a web-series – and eventually a television series that speaks to people on multiple levels. By creating an epic story of love and adventure, adding a pinch of amazing visual effects, the series will introduce energetic and spiritual concepts.
Daylite – The Little CRM That Could
Jul 27
I’ve tried a wide range of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. From ‘cloud’ based applications, like Elements CRM, to the old tried and true like SugarCRM. Each of them had things I liked…as well as things that I didn’t like.
The Oscars Missing Category: Title Design
Feb 24
I love motion picture title design.
I love creating motion picture titles.
I love looking at the work of amazingly talented title sequence designers like Kyle Cooper at Prologue, Karin Fong at Imaginary Forces, William Lebeda at Picture Mill, the work of yU+co.
With the Oscar’s just around the corner, the question begs to be asked, “Why isn’t there an Oscar for motion picture title design?”
The future: more 1080p high-definition content online
Jan 20
High-definition 1080p content has been available for quite some time. But why haven’t we seen more content available online?
Pirating. Major motion picture studios are worried about pirating. This in turn discourages them from making premium 1080p content available via streaming. But Intel recently announced a solution that will allow studios to be able to provide content, without the concern of pirating. The solution? Insider.
Setting the Stage for Beautiful Video: Flash Player 10.2
Dec 02Adobe recently posted the beta for Flash Player 10.2 on Adobe Labs. As shown in a sneak peak just last month at Adobe MAX, Flash Player 10.2 beta with Stage Video can deliver brilliant HD video with dramatically little processing power. What does this mean to those of us in the video, motion graphics and animation realm? Adobe states, Using Stage Video, we’ve seen laptops play smooth 1080p HD video with just over 0% CPU usage.
That’s pretty darn good if you ask me 