It's spelled Softimage not SoftImage, and their main product is a 3d animation package, not a video editing package. (The editing package is Softimage|DS.)
>It's just a bunch of palm scribbles assembled on a piece of paper.
I might add that Degas' charcoal sketches of ballerinas are little more than "just scribbles on a piece of paper."
People used to say that Impressionism wasn't art because it didn't represent the world in a natural way. Amazing how many people today think Impressionism is not only art, but high art worthy of great analysis. Same applies to a lot of unusual (for the time) artistic practices of the early 20th century: Pick your art-ism... Impressionism, Cubism, Dadism, etc.
If you don't know who Degas is without doing a Google search, you probably shouldn't expect to have your opinions of what is and isn't art carry much weight, by the way.
Wrong idea. Ever taken a modern art class?
Typing out "asdfjkl;" by itself isn't creating art. Being the one to do it *first*, perhaps as a reaction to another art movement, might be.
I have to agree... I was an NPR junkie *before* I got my cable modem, and now that I can listen to just about any archived show in the last five years or so, I have no reason to turn the glass teat on anymore.
With the possible exception of BattleBots and Farscape, but that's a different issue entirely.
Headline News is little more than predigested pablum designed to plug Ted Turner's other assets anyways... I say stick with professional, independent media.
A couple of great streaming NPR news sites that definitely fall within that category:
NPR Online Hourly news updates. Living On Earth (environmental news) WHYY Online Philadelphia's NPR station... has Fresh Air, which is a great interview program.
A multiprocessing G4 by itself may not be any great shakes. But put one into a 3d animation pipeline with Maya and RenderMan on it and you've got a killer production machine. I'm not aware of a RenderMan port to the MacOS, but the political clout for it is certainly there. (Given the Steve Jobs/Pixar relationship, I mean.)
Slashdot Mirror
They're now owned by Avid.
I might add that Degas' charcoal sketches of ballerinas are little more than "just scribbles on a piece of paper."
People used to say that Impressionism wasn't art because it didn't represent the world in a natural way. Amazing how many people today think Impressionism is not only art, but high art worthy of great analysis. Same applies to a lot of unusual (for the time) artistic practices of the early 20th century: Pick your art-ism... Impressionism, Cubism, Dadism, etc. If you don't know who Degas is without doing a Google search, you probably shouldn't expect to have your opinions of what is and isn't art carry much weight, by the way.
Typing out "asdfjkl;" by itself isn't creating art. Being the one to do it *first*, perhaps as a reaction to another art movement, might be.
With the possible exception of BattleBots and Farscape, but that's a different issue entirely.
Headline News is little more than predigested pablum designed to plug Ted Turner's other assets anyways... I say stick with professional, independent media.
A couple of great streaming NPR news sites that definitely fall within that category:
NPR Online Hourly news updates.
Living On Earth (environmental news)
WHYY Online Philadelphia's NPR station... has Fresh Air, which is a great interview program.
Bless RealAudio.
Check out Maya for MacOS X.
Looks to me like Macintosh is (finally) taking some bold steps into the high-end 3d/production market.