For my Adobe Offsetting this month, I decided to treat myself with a DVD, while also supporting independent film making. A friend alerted me to a documentary that was released on DVD called “Persistence of Vision.” It chronicles the greatest work and ultimate failure of Richard Williams’ “The Thief and the Cobbler.” If you aren’t familiar […]
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Most people, like myself, wonder about Yiynova as a company. Do they have my best interest at heart? Who are they? Are they a company worth investing in? What experience do they have in the monitor tablet arena? These are all valid questions. In a world that’s dominated by the Wacom monopoly, it’s great to
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It seems that my heart belongs to Blender lately. Since this is the season of Valentines and heartfelt messages, I have to make Blender my February pick for Adobe Offsetting. Blender keeps proving from month-to-month that they’re serious about investing in making a quality product. I’ve just started learning how to model, but the amount
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Sorry for the delay of 2015’s Adobe Offsetting. I wish that not procrastinating was one of my resolutions for the new year. 2015 is going to be a year that I focus more on web projects at work and thought that it would be great way to start my donations. Bluefish Editor is a great text editor
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For the holidays, I received an Amazon Fire Stick. It’s a great little device that’s similar to the Chromecast or Roku. With the Fire Stick, you can watch free Amazon Prime Videos if you have a Prime account. Similar to Roku, they have built-in apps like PBS or Netflix, where you can browse and watch
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Over Thanksgiving week, I was fortunate enough to participate as a judge in Animation Desk’s iAniMagic contest. Animation desk is an animation app that’s available on iOS and Android. I would never thought ten years ago that we be able create animations on mobile devices let alone have something as incredible as a tablet. There were some
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About a year ago, I wrote about an innovative and new program called Made with Mischief. It’s a light weight but powerful drawing tool that uses new vector technoly called Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields. The result of that mouthful of words is an fluid and resolution-independent experience, giving vector art a more naturalistic vibe—from the creation to
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Over the past year I’ve learned a lot about supporting technology. Whether it’s online content, software, or hardware; monetarily supporting services helps further future development. It keeps the developers fed and happy. If you believe that a certain program could be the next big painting application, back it any way you can. If you can’t
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For December, I thought it would better to hear directly from the source with an interview. Gustav González, the main developer for Tupi, has been making great strides with his software even though he’s had limited development time and monetary support. If you’re not familiar with Tupi, it’s 2D animation software that’s similar to Flash or Toon
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It’s only fitting to donate to Synfig since that’s who I started with last November. Synfig is a powerful vector 2D animation tool that’s made great strides in the past year. They’ve been working on educational tutorials, improvements, and a clearer interface. Dimitry and his team has worked tirelessly to improve and build upon their strong
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