Adobe today issued a call for entries for the 2004 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The awards program recognizes and honors the most talented student designers, illustrators, digital filmmakers and computer artists from leading U.S., Canadian and British design schools. Using software provided by Adobe, students submit projects in seven categories such as print, photography and digital collaboration.
Read MoreThe Pixel Farm has announced the release of its new low cost match moving application, PFMatch. Match moving is the process of analyzing video footage in order to create a virtual camera that can be used within 3D computer animation systems to exactly match the movement and camera parameters of the original sequence. According to the company, PFMatch was designed to take full advantage of the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. It is available for US$1,000.
Read MoreTuesday, January 20, 2004:
Xupport 2.0 public beta 8:
All-In-One Interface for Mac OS X.
Changes in Xupport 2.0b8:
– Some orthographic corrections
– Additional dialogs and information
– Indication of actual process in output window
– Optimized source code and applescripts
– Other minor corrections and bug-fixes
Xupport 2.0b8: http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/download/Xupport2.sit
Xupport provides a clean GUI (Graphical User Interface) to configure many
Mac OS X options, that are not or hard to configure manually, and more.
Chronopath has released Library 2.0.2, a maintenance update to the popular media cataloging solution. Version 2.0.2 adds Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar support (in addition to 10.3 Panther), a new icon showing the media that Library supports, and various interface modification. Library costs US$15.
Read More“Music, as any teen in a garage band will tell you, should be as simple to make as it is to listen to. That hasn’t always been the case with musicmaking software though,” writes Chris Talor for TIME magazine. “There had to be an easier way. Now Apple has found it with GarageBand, part of its US$49 suite of Mac-only iLife applications released last week. As the name suggests, GarageBand is aimed at amateurs.
Read More