Painting with Corel Painter X with Don Seegmiller! – Siggraph 2007
Corel Painter X is one of the most powerful tools ever created for the digital artist, and in this interview with Corel Painter Master Don Seegmiller we discuss the new…
Interviews
Digital Anarchy Brings Plus-Ins to Increase Your Productivity! – Siggraph 2007
One of the most powerful aspects of modern imaging and editing software was the introduction of an extensible architecture, which meant that folks could create specialized applications that “Plugged In”…
PDI DreamWorks Animator Phillipe Gluckman on Shrek and More! – Siggraph 2007
Phillipe Gluckman most recently served as the visual effects supervisor on “Shrek the Third” as well as the hit jungle comedy “Madagascar.” He previously served as co-visual effects supervisor on…
2007 Siggraph Conference Chair Joe Marks On His Goals for Siggraph – Siggraph 2007
Joe Marks is the Conference Chair for the 2007 Siggraph/ACM conference. In this interview Joe discusses where Siggraph is, and the challenges and goals it faces for the future. Siggraph…
Larry Weinberg & Steve Yatson on the History of Poser! – Siggraph 2007
Larry Weinberg was working as an animator in Los Angeles, and was looking for a good digital mannequin, and when he found that one didn’t exist, he created Poser, one…
Fjorg! The Iron Man Competition of Animation at Siggraph! – Siggraph 2007
As if animation wasn’t tough enough, DreamWorks Animation, along with HP, and AMD, dreamed up and sponsored FJORG! (pronounced FORGE) at the 2007 Siggraph conference, in which sixteen pre-qualified three-member…
Autodesk’s Rob Hoffman Discusses Recent Updates to Maya – Siggraph 2007
Autodesk’s recent acquistion of Maya, bolstered an already strong 3D suite of applications for Autodesk, and in this conversation with Rob Hoffman of Autodesk, we learn about recent updates to…
Paul Babb of Maxon on Cinema 4D, BodyPaint 3D and More! – Siggraph 2007
Chances are that if you have ever watched television, then you have seen Maxon’s application Cinema 4D or BodyPaint 3D in use. Maxon has been cross-platform since the days of…
The Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Scanner Makes It Easy to Scan in a Hurry!
A few years ago we interviewed Fujitsu about their ScanSnap automatic document feed scanner. At that time we said it was one of those rare devices that worked exactly as…
Pre-Press Guru Dan Margulis on Color Spaces, Canyon Conundrums, & CMYK Cowards – Photoshop World Boston 2005
An interview with pre-press guru and Peachpit Press author Dan Margulis on Color Spaces, Canyon Conundrums, and why understanding LAB, RGB, and CMYK is important to every Photoshop user! If…