Display Review: Panasonic BT-LH2600W Reviewer: Jeff Sauer
LCDs have displaced CRTs on a lot of desktops over the last several years, but less often in places where image and color quality decisions are made....
Shoot Review: E frontier Poser 7 Reviewer: S.D. Katz
Poser is the 3D figure manipulation program originally designed as a digital mannequin for illustrators and artists when it debuted in the mid-'90s. At the time, Poser was a very simple, artist-friendly tool that made 3D accessible to artists overwhelmed by NewTek LightWave...
Shoot Review: E-on Vue 5 Infinite Reviewer: S.D. Katz
This is my third review of E-on Software's Vue 5 Infinite landscape-generation software, and it's the review I've been looking forward to writing. It's a coming-of-age story about a promising hobbyist's...
Shoot Review: Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2.0 Reviewer: S.D. Katz
The first version of Autodesk SketchBook Pro just missed the goal of being the definitive stylus-based drawing environment with a fast, key-stroke-free methodology — but it was on the right track...
Shoot Review: Wacom Cintiq 21UX Reviewer: S.D. Katz
I‘ve used Wacom tablets for more than a decade, but only as an adjunct to paper; while I have storyboarded using the Wacom, it is usually for the inking stage. Many artists, however, have completely switched to tablet drawing and painting in their work...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Over a nearly 40-year history, leading filmmakers have been generous with us giving interviews that were directed at their peers and, as a result, took...
It's a 'G' Thing By Kristinha M. Anding
Michael Kanter of Channel G is into doing good. Indeed, he says, the "G" of the nonprofit organization's name stands for everything good not least of all,...
Mark In
What if it took only a few minutes to create a large, seamless high-resolution display from multiple projectors, and you didn't have to worry about the...
Shoot Review: nNovia QC Deck Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
At NAB this year, nNovia introduced its second-generation product, the new QC Deck, a small digital video recorder (DVR) that uses removable hard drives....
Mark In
In 1990, Jim Plant, now NewTek's CEO, said that in the future your favorite TV show will probably be made by someone you know....