At the end of March, Smashing Magazine announced the release of their new book, Real-Life Responsive Design. Smashing offered a one-day sale price of only $29 USD for both the print and digital edition of the book with free shipping! With a bargain like that, how could I pass the book up? They still have special […]
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Since 2011 I’ve been using my iPad daily. It has replaced my laptop in many ways. From drafting to writing documents and notes, it covers the gamut of all my needs while being the size of a pad of paper. There have been ongoing rumors about the release of a 12″ iPad Pro. The thought of
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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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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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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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Yesterday I hopped out of bed with purpose. I was getting up early to test my new bike camera. In the past couple weeks, I’ve been learning to make and print in 3D using Blender and Blender Cloud. For my first project, I gave myself something easy to make so that I could focus on
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For those interested in making wonderful animations with the chance of winning a new computer, look no further! Kdan Mobile extended their iAnimagic 2014 competition. If you have a laptop or computer that’s a little long in the tooth, here’s your opportunity to get an upgrade. The first prize for the contest is a MacBook
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One of my previous blog posts helped set Yiynova on a path to create Linux drivers. As a “thank you,” they sent me their new premium stylus. Having Yiynova turn around Linux drivers in just a few weeks, was all the gift I needed. Now I’m able to use an affordable tablet monitor on all my favorite open-source software
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