No, but Maya is a plug-in for Photoshop and I think that was the context within which that statement was made.
Aah, no.
Maya is a high end 3d design and rendering tool used primarily in TV/ feature film and video-game production. The main relation it has to Photoshop is that you can paint textures for objects using photoshop.
As for the article, this seems mildly redundant at best and useless a worst. Graphic Design is my living (not exactly by choice . . ), and despite the spin in the article, my left hand is often as useful or more so than my moue hand. I taught myself photoshop 3 and have been getting more efficient at using it since then.
To get the most out of its tools, access to the shift and alt(option) keys is nessecary (subtracting from a selection for example). Holding down the spacebar completely eliminates the need to use the scroll windows at all. Learning keyboard shortcuts eliminates the need for most menu operations in a session, not to mention being that "cmd(ctrl) L" is much more effecient than menu selecting "Image>Adjustments>Levels."
I'm sure this device is useful for CAD, but the description doesn't sound like it is easier than pressing the space bar in photoshop or the option key to navigate Maya.
This may be an unconventional opinion on the matter, but i hope he doesn't release the completely original version.
Aint it cool news has a spotty record, but FWIW they have some titilating speculation about the discs. Lucas' as to the release date has been a lack of time on his part to do them right; a desire to make discs that take advantage of everything th medium has to offer. Supposedly that may be on the wayIdeally there would be a scriptable disk that can play whichever version you want.
I don't want greedo firing first. I would NOT mind lucas fixing the Emperor in Empire , who looks stupid, no matter how much nostalgia you have. I sort of liked the mildly extended shots in the SE (the extra stormtroopers han runs into. Supposedly ILMers convinced him not to add flips and jumps to the original obiwan/vader lightsabre duel in episode IV.
however you'll never see reversing around a corner -at overtly, as it's illegal in (I believe) all states.
Actually where I come from this is called a "Vermont turn-around" and is required on the Driving test. The rationale is that when you're lost on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, you need to be able to back into a driveway or turnoff and turnaround-there won't always be a road going the otherway or a parking lot to pull into.
I heard that a language called "Classcal" would be available as some
sort of mix ( please, try not to get sick ) between Pascal and Smalltalk.
Has anyone else heard rumors like this one?
I read this in the google newsgroup archive and I did so fast enough that I thoght it said Classic(Like the OS X OS 9 emulation environment).
Wow! They must be doing these does-this-look-like-money checks on every operation on the image that involves getting image data from outside the application! Crazy.
Whenever you open an image photoshop loads that image into memory. To facilitate editing it collects information such as, Hue, Saturation, Histograms of the channels, contrast . ..(see the Image>Adjust[ments] menu). I downloaded your image and sure enough, pasting it into PS CS OS X brought up this alert window.
Since Adobe doesn't release any half decent contour tracing software(streamline hasn't been updated since the days of windows 95 and even then it was very crude) I was fairly certain it wasn't doing any kind of shape anaylasis. Using Illustrator 10 I shifted the color on the same image (using various blend modes from the transparency palette) and found that even minor hue shifts change the bill enough to be opened. Putting a 28% opaque color field in front of the bill changes it enough, and in my quick experimenting It doesn't seem to react adversely when I adjust it back to the correct range.Oddly the test I did that, to my eye changed the bill the most (think bright yellow and kelly green as opposed to peach and lime green) did
I don't have a good scanner in front of me now, but some variation on these tactics would probably work on hi res files, since the low res ones tripped up the alarm. I am curious about the millimeter diameter circles in the blue channel noted in another poster's comment though.
IBM is a corporation whose main reason for existence is to make money and maximize shareholder value. Things like these have absolutely nothing to do with their "support" of free software.
Damn Straight. IBM's history can be found here , starting with the companies that preceded and merged to form big blue.
I was not too familliar with them before I read this, and I was suprised with the almost benevolent efficiency they seem to have mastered over the past century. Of course my source is biased - horses mouth and 20/20 hindsight- but it cannot be denied that IBM tries to help their employees, community while they are sponsoring those company singing troupes and earning those billions and billions.
There are numerous possible parallels to the current linux situation. IBM aggressively seeks new technologies in every direction and is not afraid to abandon older tech, even core businesses like the scales and IIRC, cash registers.
IBM isn't just boosting Linux becasue they wanna piss off MS and score some PR. They are doing so because they see a competetive advantage to earl adoption.
Disclaimer -My first PC was a IBM PS II 286 (DOA monitor, win 3.1), now on a dual ghz g4. I've never run a dedicated linux box.
How long before a bunch of open source revolutionaries are seen dumping Windows CD's into the bay?
What made the Boston Tea Party memorable was not the fact that tea was being dumped into the ocean but that tea was being ruined and a pun was being made in the same gesture. Dumping Windows discs into the harbor makes them wet, i.e. salvageable.
The Great Windows Disc Jockey on the other hand, would be something indeed. Jockey . . CD-ROMS . . Music. Hmmm.
How about a legion of polo players wielding iPods that run Linux, riding their horses around Patriots stadium and trampling retail copies of Windows XP at the same time?
Well 20 minutes of course, if the Mac is at your freelance gig and you have a dual Pentium III running NT 4 at home (which the mac should be much faster than . . . )
While this has been said, comparing PS and Xpress is like comparing Apples and Oranges. Think of the your standard movie poster, magazine page, or album art.
The parts of the composition that have dynamic ranges (usually reproduced photographs) are usually created or edited in a photo editing program, often photoshop. Any "straight" text (Not blurred or manipulated) is positioned and controlled using Xpress/ InDesign/ Pagemaker.
As you know, Photoshop is because it makes it so intuitive to edit selected parts of an image in whatever way you desire, without knowledge of f-stops, tonal range and lens filters
Quark's Xpress allows a blend of very intuitive text placement, and a framework for remarkably precise control of any attributes, such as spacing, size, color et all. Quark also has optional numeric placement (think X-Y coordinates), as well as shape/outline tools. Any shape can be used as a container for imported/linked images of several formats, as well as text.
None of this changes the fact that Quark Xpress is sort of kludgey. But it's kludgey in a very unique way, that once you're used to it, everything else seems foreign. Sort of like Windows:-)
Finally, as a young NYC designer (who uses PCs + Macs at work), I can assure you that even the "low" prices charged by small/bargain companies make Quark look affordable fast. Want to create/sell adhesive vinyl signs, such as those featured on storefront windows, Hot-Dog Pushcarts and the doors of commercial vehicles? You're looking at $800 for the low cost version of the software, and at least $1500 for a small 24" plotter/cutter.
No I don't work with them, but I've had reasonably good luck with ClipArt.com, and at a minimum price of $8 for 1 week, it is a very affordable service. The sign shop I'm emloyed at subscribes yearly, since our work is in public space, thus open to scrutiny.
They also let you browse their library prior to purchase if I recall.
This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time."
Actially, as I remeber, the Kessel run is more akin to "the traveling salesman problem" with moving targets than a standardized time trail. It involves collecting cargo from ships that started in a standard place and each started moving outward from each other in differrent directions. The faster the contestant's ship and logistical skills, the shorter ring it has to navigate, therefore a short distance implies a fast ship.
I think of all the Marvel Heroes, HULK is a much more fascinating character than most and definitely more than nostalgic. As revealed by a backstory search on goolge, Bruce Banner is a rich character with much backstory and a tortured soul.
Between Ang Lee's direction and what looks to be very dynamic character work, I think this wil be a very satisfying ride.
Some backstory
Everything from his relationship with his father to his girlfriend's father/nemesis has potential for interesting drama and conflict.
From Julk History PageRobert Bruce Banner was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Dr. Brian Banner and Rebecca Banner. He was loved by his mother, but hated by his alcoholic father, who was extremely jealous of his relationship with his mother.
A former atomic physicist Brian concluded that Bruce's intelligence was a mutation derived from Brian's exposure to radiation.
Brian Banner finally murdered his wife when she attempted to leave with Bruce. Bruce was raised by Rebecca's sister and later attended Science High School. He diverted his anger into his study of science.
Bruce Banner attended Desert State University in Navapo, New Mexico, where he studied with such contemporaries as Walter Langkowski (a.k.a. Sasquatch) Peter Corbeau and Raoul Stoddard.
Banner was a highly withdrawn intellectual unable to cope with emotions. Obtaining his doctorate in nuclear physics from the California Institute of Technology, Banner went to work at a nuclear research facility at Desert Base, New Mexico.
Before the days before the Gamma Bomb accident that would create the Hulk, Banner's father was released from the mental hospital. This release would lead up to the last confrontation between Bruce Banner and his father at his mother's grave.
Am I the only one who feels SFX have ridden the rise of computing (I hesitate to associate 1980-90s SGI hardware w/ intel, but . ..) to a point where the maket is so saturated and competetive that effects have become commodotized. Maybe this is "Score -1 Obvious," but it seems like ever since optical printers have been obsolete, the quality isn't the same as it once was.
Oh, and if you haven't seen heavenly creatures, I highly reccomend it. Very good effects for 1994 and in general a surreal fantastical "true story" based on a 50s murder case.
Though I agree with you regarding that particular shot, digital keying is not to blame here. That image reeked of color grading.
Basically color grading (in LotR) was the final digital color correction of the film, and was responsible for much of the films' palette (Blue-grays of Moria, Greens of the shire etc). Since the grading was done AFTER the final composite was rendered, it is noticable when they tried to do extreme shifts in color. FWIW, I think most of the matte work was pretty seamless (certain shots where focrced perspecive wasn't feasible, shots with actors superimposed on models).
(From IMDb)
"About 3,100 shots (78% of the Super 35 film) were color graded at Colorfront in Wellington, NZ using 5D Colossus software after being scanned by an Imagica XE scanner full 2K resolution (2048*1536). The color-graded shots were then recorded on Kodak 5242 intermediate film . . "
My friend, a fellow designer, has been complaining about this problem on his work machine for quite a while. It only affected me very rarely. This is odd because i have the same quicksilver g4 at home as he has at work. The key difference would seem that he connects to SMB/Samba servers daily, which I never connect to.
And for those of you questioning the validity of this issue . . as realgone mentioned, option and shift are vital to successful use of Adobe design products. Option allows you to de-select items and subtract from the currently selected pixel area while shift allows you to select additional items and and additional pixels. Also option is used to define the cloned area for the cloning stamp.
Ghost in the Shell wasn't that good. It was mediochre at best.
Though the movie had style, the actual story/dialog (at least the English version...) was pretty bland
And that's just it.
In Art school I saw the subtitled version and was blown away by its hypnotic music, subtle acting and, of course, stunning visuals.
A few years later while watching the subtitle version and could not believe it was the same movie. All of the ambience was lost in the translation, (mostly due to a crappy new sound track in addition to the "acting.")
Slashdot Mirror
Aah, no.
Maya is a high end 3d design and rendering tool used primarily in TV/ feature film and video-game production. The main relation it has to Photoshop is that you can paint textures for objects using photoshop.
As for the article, this seems mildly redundant at best and useless a worst. Graphic Design is my living (not exactly by choice . . ), and despite the spin in the article, my left hand is often as useful or more so than my moue hand. I taught myself photoshop 3 and have been getting more efficient at using it since then.
To get the most out of its tools, access to the shift and alt(option) keys is nessecary (subtracting from a selection for example). Holding down the spacebar completely eliminates the need to use the scroll windows at all. Learning keyboard shortcuts eliminates the need for most menu operations in a session, not to mention being that "cmd(ctrl) L" is much more effecient than menu selecting "Image>Adjustments>Levels."
I'm sure this device is useful for CAD, but the description doesn't sound like it is easier than pressing the space bar in photoshop or the option key to navigate Maya.
True enough, but search for Apple and Ebay and Amazon are above the computers and the fruit.
Aint it cool news has a spotty record, but FWIW they have some titilating speculation about the discs. Lucas' as to the release date has been a lack of time on his part to do them right; a desire to make discs that take advantage of everything th medium has to offer. Supposedly that may be on the wayIdeally there would be a scriptable disk that can play whichever version you want.
I don't want greedo firing first. I would NOT mind lucas fixing the Emperor in Empire , who looks stupid, no matter how much nostalgia you have. I sort of liked the mildly extended shots in the SE (the extra stormtroopers han runs into. Supposedly ILMers convinced him not to add flips and jumps to the original obiwan/vader lightsabre duel in episode IV.
Bit torrent file for the OS X client Here.
Actually where I come from this is called a "Vermont turn-around" and is required on the Driving test. The rationale is that when you're lost on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, you need to be able to back into a driveway or turnoff and turnaround-there won't always be a road going the otherway or a parking lot to pull into.
I read this in the google newsgroup archive and I did so fast enough that I thoght it said Classic(Like the OS X OS 9 emulation environment).
Which is funny.
Whenever you open an image photoshop loads that image into memory. To facilitate editing it collects information such as, Hue, Saturation, Histograms of the channels, contrast . . .(see the Image>Adjust[ments] menu). I downloaded your image and sure enough, pasting it into PS CS OS X brought up this alert window.
Since Adobe doesn't release any half decent contour tracing software(streamline hasn't been updated since the days of windows 95 and even then it was very crude) I was fairly certain it wasn't doing any kind of shape anaylasis. Using Illustrator 10 I shifted the color on the same image (using various blend modes from the transparency palette) and found that even minor hue shifts change the bill enough to be opened. Putting a 28% opaque color field in front of the bill changes it enough, and in my quick experimenting It doesn't seem to react adversely when I adjust it back to the correct range.Oddly the test I did that, to my eye changed the bill the most (think bright yellow and kelly green as opposed to peach and lime green) did
I don't have a good scanner in front of me now, but some variation on these tactics would probably work on hi res files, since the low res ones tripped up the alarm. I am curious about the millimeter diameter circles in the blue channel noted in another poster's comment though.
Damn Straight. IBM's history can be found here , starting with the companies that preceded and merged to form big blue.
I was not too familliar with them before I read this, and I was suprised with the almost benevolent efficiency they seem to have mastered over the past century. Of course my source is biased - horses mouth and 20/20 hindsight- but it cannot be denied that IBM tries to help their employees, community while they are sponsoring those company singing troupes and earning those billions and billions.
There are numerous possible parallels to the current linux situation. IBM aggressively seeks new technologies in every direction and is not afraid to abandon older tech, even core businesses like the scales and IIRC, cash registers.
IBM isn't just boosting Linux becasue they wanna piss off MS and score some PR. They are doing so because they see a competetive advantage to earl adoption.
Disclaimer -My first PC was a IBM PS II 286 (DOA monitor, win 3.1), now on a dual ghz g4. I've never run a dedicated linux box.
What made the Boston Tea Party memorable was not the fact that tea was being dumped into the ocean but that tea was being ruined and a pun was being made in the same gesture. Dumping Windows discs into the harbor makes them wet, i.e. salvageable.
The Great Windows Disc Jockey on the other hand, would be something indeed. Jockey . . CD-ROMS . . Music. Hmmm.
How about a legion of polo players wielding iPods that run Linux, riding their horses around Patriots stadium and trampling retail copies of Windows XP at the same time?
Well 20 minutes of course, if the Mac is at your freelance gig and you have a dual Pentium III running NT 4 at home (which the mac should be much faster than . . . )
When I visited Madison, Wisconsin in 2000, the Onion was based thereabouts and was available for sale while the net version was also freebie.
By late 2001 they had moved to New York City and give it a way for free (Bars, sidewalk fist. boxes).
The serious section of the paper is reproduced online as The AV Club accessible from the upper right hand corner of the home-page,
The parts of the composition that have dynamic ranges (usually reproduced photographs) are usually created or edited in a photo editing program, often photoshop. Any "straight" text (Not blurred or manipulated) is positioned and controlled using Xpress/ InDesign/ Pagemaker.
As you know, Photoshop is because it makes it so intuitive to edit selected parts of an image in whatever way you desire, without knowledge of f-stops, tonal range and lens filters
Quark's Xpress allows a blend of very intuitive text placement, and a framework for remarkably precise control of any attributes, such as spacing, size, color et all. Quark also has optional numeric placement (think X-Y coordinates), as well as shape/outline tools. Any shape can be used as a container for imported/linked images of several formats, as well as text.
None of this changes the fact that Quark Xpress is sort of kludgey. But it's kludgey in a very unique way, that once you're used to it, everything else seems foreign. Sort of like Windows :-)
Finally, as a young NYC designer (who uses PCs + Macs at work), I can assure you that even the "low" prices charged by small/bargain companies make Quark look affordable fast. Want to create/sell adhesive vinyl signs, such as those featured on storefront windows, Hot-Dog Pushcarts and the doors of commercial vehicles? You're looking at $800 for the low cost version of the software, and at least $1500 for a small 24" plotter/cutter.
They also let you browse their library prior to purchase if I recall.
Coming soon to a Reatailer near you . . . MS Windows X?
Actially, as I remeber, the Kessel run is more akin to "the traveling salesman problem" with moving targets than a standardized time trail. It involves collecting cargo from ships that started in a standard place and each started moving outward from each other in differrent directions. The faster the contestant's ship and logistical skills, the shorter ring it has to navigate, therefore a short distance implies a fast ship.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!!
Between Ang Lee's direction and what looks to be very dynamic character work, I think this wil be a very satisfying ride.
Some backstory
Everything from his relationship with his father to his girlfriend's father/nemesis has potential for interesting drama and conflict. From Julk History PageRobert Bruce Banner was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Dr. Brian Banner and Rebecca Banner. He was loved by his mother, but hated by his alcoholic father, who was extremely jealous of his relationship with his mother. A former atomic physicist Brian concluded that Bruce's intelligence was a mutation derived from Brian's exposure to radiation. Brian Banner finally murdered his wife when she attempted to leave with Bruce. Bruce was raised by Rebecca's sister and later attended Science High School. He diverted his anger into his study of science. Bruce Banner attended Desert State University in Navapo, New Mexico, where he studied with such contemporaries as Walter Langkowski (a.k.a. Sasquatch) Peter Corbeau and Raoul Stoddard. Banner was a highly withdrawn intellectual unable to cope with emotions. Obtaining his doctorate in nuclear physics from the California Institute of Technology, Banner went to work at a nuclear research facility at Desert Base, New Mexico. Before the days before the Gamma Bomb accident that would create the Hulk, Banner's father was released from the mental hospital. This release would lead up to the last confrontation between Bruce Banner and his father at his mother's grave.
What's Google?
Actuallly funny considering that if you google for an address, google gives you a link to Yahoo Maps where you can view the map.
If anything is guaranteed to expedite apple shipping, its sharks with fricking laser beams attached to them.
Am I the only one who feels SFX have ridden the rise of computing (I hesitate to associate 1980-90s SGI hardware w/ intel, but . . .) to a point where the maket is so saturated and competetive that effects have become commodotized. Maybe this is "Score -1 Obvious," but it seems like ever since optical printers have been obsolete, the quality isn't the same as it once was.
Oh, and if you haven't seen heavenly creatures, I highly reccomend it. Very good effects for 1994 and in general a surreal fantastical "true story" based on a 50s murder case.
Basically color grading (in LotR) was the final digital color correction of the film, and was responsible for much of the films' palette (Blue-grays of Moria, Greens of the shire etc). Since the grading was done AFTER the final composite was rendered, it is noticable when they tried to do extreme shifts in color. FWIW, I think most of the matte work was pretty seamless (certain shots where focrced perspecive wasn't feasible, shots with actors superimposed on models).
(From IMDb) "About 3,100 shots (78% of the Super 35 film) were color graded at Colorfront in Wellington, NZ using 5D Colossus software after being scanned by an Imagica XE scanner full 2K resolution (2048*1536). The color-graded shots were then recorded on Kodak 5242 intermediate film . . "
And for those of you questioning the validity of this issue . . as realgone mentioned, option and shift are vital to successful use of Adobe design products. Option allows you to de-select items and subtract from the currently selected pixel area while shift allows you to select additional items and and additional pixels. Also option is used to define the cloned area for the cloning stamp.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! WOOOOH!Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! WOOOOOOOOOH! WOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Ghost in the Shell wasn't that good. It was mediochre at best.
Though the movie had style, the actual story/dialog (at least the English version...) was pretty bland
And that's just it.
In Art school I saw the subtitled version and was blown away by its hypnotic music, subtle acting and, of course, stunning visuals.
A few years later while watching the subtitle version and could not believe it was the same movie. All of the ambience was lost in the translation, (mostly due to a crappy new sound track in addition to the "acting.")