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Mac Industry News:
• BitHeadz Announces New Synth Plug-Ins for Unity 3.0
Six plug-ins include FM synthesis, Electric Piano and brass model
• Winter NAMM Gears Up
Organizers anticipate 65,000 attendees at Anaheim Convention Center
• MOTU Announces Digital Performer for Mac OS X
Pre-release version to debut in January
• Buena Ships Dissolve Factory
Plugins support Final Cut Pro, After Effects
• Calendar: User Group Events at Macworld
Final Cut Pro User Group Film Theater debuts in SF
• Virtix Releases Zoom & Pan 2.0 for Apple iMovie
Plugin adds graphical user interface
• Cross Platform 5.3.3 Digidesign Plug-Ins CD for Pro Tools 5.3.x and 5.1.x Ships
Ensures compatibility for Pro Tools sessions between Mac and Windows systems
• Shave and a Haircut Gets Discount
Version for Maxon Cinema 4D cut by $150
• Emagic Releases Audiowerk Driver for Mac OS X
Update adds support for Mac OS X 10.2
• BitHeadz To Support Audio Units in Mac OS X
New features to be part of 3.1 update
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Running the venerable open-source image editor on Mac OS X
Even if you've never been in the same ZIP code as a Unix-based PC, you may have heard some of the buzz surrounding the GIMP. If you haven't, here's the scoop in a very small nutshell: the GIMP (which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, by the way) is a free image editor. While early versions of the GIMP left much to be desired, not the least of which was the fact that it ran solely on various flavors of Unix, the GIMP has matured into--dare I say--a viable alternative to Photoshop. Even better, the GIMP has been ported to other operating systems, Mac OS X included. Even more betterer, did I mention that it's free? So in these times of economic strife, when it may be hard to scrape up even an extra $99 to get yourself a copy of Photoshop Elements, taking the time and the bit of elbow grease necessary to get the GIMP up and functioning on OS X may be well worth the effort.
Blending CG text with the real world
As a compositing wizard, you may be asked to blend a CG element onto a real world surface. Transfer Modes and Opacity changes will only take you so far before you reach the end of their limit. In this After Effects Production Bundle Tutorial, we’ll take an image and composite it believable on top of a rusted piece of metal.
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After Effects Particle Playground piles up
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I showed you how you can use After Effects’ Particle Playground to create a plethora of falling turkeys. With the next holiday already here, let’s create some snow particles and have them pile up on a layer.
Part 1: An introduction to Time Particles
It's a sheer act of willpower that I get any writing done at all here at DMN. If I were to succumb to my temptations, I would hook myself up to life support, strap on a colostomy sack and play with Synthetik Studio Artist until I died of sleep deprivation. They'd find my skeletal corpse draped over my Wacom tablet, and, after they'd scraped the dried, applesauce-like goo off my mouth, they'd discover an expression on my face at once felicitous and manic. Here's one of the reasons why.
75 displacement effects and time particles
As with all things Studio Artist, I started off this collection of presets in one direction and found myself following another, winding up with a wide variety of somewhat indefinable brushes that can be roughly termed "displacement effects." The collection--Nagel Series 2 Paint Patches--includes a whopping 75 brushes, ranging from simple interactive pens to autodraw brushes to time particles.
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