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3D Animation

Keeping My Website Up to Date

December 29, 2008 A common complaint among 3D artists is about our website and demo reel: “Well, my website is out of date because I haven’t had time to make new pages recently,” or “I put a demo reel together last month, and it’s already out-of-date, but I don’t want to take the time to make a new one yet.” It seems that artists’ professional representation – their website and demo reel, what other artists, en Read On...

by Jono Forbes

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3D Animation

Beneath the Surface

December 24, 2008 As promised, here are some images that have come out of our Practicum project on the visualization of Aplastic Anemia. As always, modeling and rigging are done in Autodesk Maya and texturing is done in Adobe Photoshop. Modeled by John Corbett The animation begins with an image of the human leg and zooms in to this first model, which represents the vein network located under the surface of the skin. Gross, but ef Read On...

by John Corbett

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Audio Production

I Want This as a Career

December 23, 2008 I recently completed my sixth project for Lineplot Productions, an animation studio located in Cambridge, MA. I've been working as their sound designer on a freelance basis. The people at Lineplot put strong emphasis on the audio side of things regardless of the hundred other issues going on with an animated piece. So, yeah, it's a great gig. How did it come to be? It goes a little something like this… I completed Read On...

by Scott DeFusco

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What's Hot

Pushing the Graphic Envelope with HDR Photography

December 22, 2008 CDIA-Georgetown Photography Program Director Chris Alvanas recently wrote an interesting article for Nikon World about HDR Technology. "If you haven’t heard about high dynamic range photography, you soon will. It’s a hot topic among photographers, and many of those who are using it to create striking images feel we’re only at the beginning of its popularity. While HDR’s been around for a while, it’s the growt Read On...

by CDIA Photo News

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Web Development

Talking e-commerce with Amazon.com: Part 1

December 19, 2008 It's the holidays and if there's a time to shop it's between "black Friday" and the New Year. I decided it was time to get some e-commerce going one of my own sites, ArtofRhyme.com. The 8.5% referral fee www.Amazon.com offers on certain products is enough to get me to dig into their Web Service aws.amazon.com. Over the next couple of blogs, I'll be taking you through the process of utilizing Amazon's API to pull back information fro Read On...

by Joel McNamee

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