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February 8th, 2012
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| | | | MAXON CINEMA 4D Helps Digital Artist Barton Damer Win Big for Malaria No More Foundation
Damer’s Winning Design – Malaria Kills – Raises Funds and Awareness for Malaria No More Foundation
MAXON, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, congratulates digital artist and motion designer Barton Damer on winning first honors place in the Veer Creative Catalyst: Design for Change Competition, an international contest inviting artists to design a compelling socially-themed piece for a charity or cause of their choice.
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| | | | Stardust Delivers Multiple Realities to Let Consumers ‘Coupe’ their Lives for Mercedes-Benz
Alan Bibby-Directed Interactive Feature Bridges the Sedan and Coupe Worlds of the All-New C-Class
Innovative creative studio Stardust collaborated with the digital visionaries at Razorfish to create an interactive campaign for Mercedes-Benz USA that launched in October 2011. Directed by Stardust's Alan Bibby, the rich visual narrative engages Internet viewers to explore the two latest Mercedes C-Class models - the all-new 2012 Sedan and Coupe. With a swoop of the cursor, layers of the sedan or coupe are artfully peeled back to expose various features of the elegant luxury vehicles. This tale of two vehicles can be experienced now on the Mercedes-Benz website.
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| | | | DAZ 3D Ships Victoria 5 – the First Genesis Figure
The world's most widely supported 3D woman, Victoria, is the first original model built on the new GenesisTM 3D figure platform
If you think getting older is cause for alarm; spend some time with Victoria 5. Out today, Victoria 5 is the latest version of the 3D community’s favorite figure and a bold leap forward from the original model DAZ 3D pioneered in 1999. Built with DAZ 3D’s award-winning GenesisTM platform, users can now apply unparalleled levels of flexibility and realism to the shape, personality and joints of their creations, in ways that are sure to enchant their audience. Crafted entirely by hand, with extreme attention to detail, and no compromises in quality; Victoria proves that some things truly get better with age.
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| | | | Adobe Runs New Creative Suite Promotion
CS2, CS3 and CS4 Users Get 20% Off when Upgrading to the Latest Version
Adobe Systems Incorporated runs promotion giving Creative Suite users on older versions of the design software a special opportunity to upgrade from their individual or suite product to the latest version – including Creative Suite 5.5, Photoshop CS5 or Illustrator CS5 – with a 20 percent discount. The offer runs through December 31, 2011 giving creative professionals a chance to upgrade to the latest in design software capabilities and performance.
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| | | | Adobe Unveils Creative Cloud
Company Radically Re-imagines Creative Software
At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Cloud, a major new initiative from the company that radically redefines the content creation process. Adobe Creative Cloud will become the focal point for creativity, where millions can access desktop and tablet applications, essential creative services, and share their best work.
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| | | | Adobe Touch Apps Redefine Creative Software
Six New Tablet Apps Kick-Start Major Company Initiative: Adobe Creative Cloud
At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Touch Apps, a family of six, intuitive touch screen applications, designed for Android tablets and Apple iPad that enable anyone to explore ideas and present their creativity anytime, anywhere. Inspired by Adobe Creative Suite® software, these stunning new apps bring professional-level creativity to millions of tablet users.
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| | | | OptiTex Releases Mac OS version of Dynamic Clothing Engine for Use with DAZ 3D’s Figure Art Software
Native support for both Mac and Win OS, 64-bit capability, and an array of enhancements brings true cloth simulation to DAZ Studio 4, the popular 3D character design and illustration tool
2D/3D CAD software leader OptiTex, and DAZ 3D, a leading developer of professional quality 3D models and software, are pleased to announce a new Dynamic Cloth Engine plug-in for Mac OS and a coinciding upgrade to the OptiTex Windows plug-in, which now enables it to support 64-bit architecture.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Creating a Helix in Adobe Illustrator - Part 1
 In Part 1 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati explains how to use the free transform tool to take the first step in creating a helix with AI. This series will get you through many challenges including using the free-transform tool in a perspective environment, creating the illusion of wrapping a shape around another and shading using the pathfinder tool.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Vincent Rosati on 05/15/2009 | | | | |
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Radial Patterns with Adobe Illustrator
 In this video tutorial Creative COW leader Vince Rosati presents a simple technique to use an obscure function in the rotate tool to quickly create radial patterns in Adobe Illustrator. Use this technique with gradients or more complex shapes to create incredible radial patterns.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Vincent Rosati on 10/03/2008 | | | | |
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Adobe Illustrator for Video and Film
 In this Adobe Illustrator review from The Creative COW Magazine, Tim Wilson looks at the ways that Adobe's Illustrator CS3 is designed with video and film artists in mind.
Review by Tim Wilson on 06/10/2007 | | | | |
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Creating a Cartoon from Video
 In this 3-part tutorial, Creative cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After Effects and Adobe Illustrator CS2. While the tutorial spans 50 minutes and covers a wide range of topics (some in depth and some in general), after you have gone through the process once, you will find that it's easy to adapt the Cartoonification technique to your own needs.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz on 03/13/2006 | | | | |
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Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - Live Paint
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon demonstrates the new Live Paint feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 which makes coloring vector images a snap.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/27/2005 | | | | |
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Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - New Features
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon examines some of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 including the control palette, underline links, custom work spaces and exports such as SWF, SVG and PDF.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/26/2005 | | | | |
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Inside Adobe Illustrator CS - LIVE TRACE
 In this video tutorial, Creative COW Leader Franklin McMahon goes over the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2.0 that helps create bitmap images to vector illustrations.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Franklin McMahon on 04/25/2005 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Illustrator
Creating Customizable Dashed Lines with Adobe Illustrator
 This mini-tutorial is for those who've often worked in Illustrator and have needed to turn a dashed line into individually selectable shapes. This may also be useful for pasting dotted path shapes into After Effects or other applications.
Tutorial by Seth Taylor on 02/14/2005 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Illustrator un-intentionally scaling .pngs?
by Chris Noll in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
Hoping someone has an answer, I have been searching for days with no resolution. I use illustrator to create backgrounds for games. I have been using the "Save for web and devices" to export as 24 bit pngs. for the most part thsi works but there is always some little...
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| | | |  | Re: Illustrator Black Prints Brown...
by Vincent Rosati in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
Can you ensure that your Illustrator / File / Document Color Mode is set to CMYK. Then make sure you're viewing CMYK in the Color palette. The C: 75 M: 68 Y: 67 K: 90 color is pretty rich, but might not produce the color that you want. C: 40...
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| | | | | Illustrator Black Prints Brown...
by Cara Maib in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
I have an Illustrator document that is all zebra stripes in pure black, but no matter how I try to trick the program, it prints in a dark brown instead. These are the colors as they stand: H: 344 S: 11 B: 0 R: 0 G: 0 B: 0 #000000...
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| | | |  | Expand bounding box without resizing artwork
by Kirk Smith in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
I've got a raster illustration that I'm trying to live trace into vector artwork. Illustrator is doing a really good job of tracing it, but unfortunately there's something I can't seem to overcome. The raster image goes right to the edge of the image on the left and right, so...
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In Part 3 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati shows you how to perform flat shading on the helix created in the previous tutorials.
In Part 2 of this 3 part Adobe Illustrator tutorial series, Vincent Rosati uses the pen tool to draw the helix structure.
