Looks like the newest version of photoshop won't be named CS4, but will have a tabbed "consolidated" view.   Found a video on youtube showing off that tabbed interface. And Adobe's sneak preview.   Read More

Artgerm on Deviant Art Leo Burnett has a similar looking ad campaign right now. nike has it animated on their site.   Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Shanghai, China Creative Directors: Attlee Ku,Tao Lei Art Directors: HuangCheng, Mellow Yu, Liao Yi Yuan, Kevin Copywriters: Ray, Elva Illustrator: Huang Cheng Photographer: Heizi Published: April 2008 Also, I've started a new category on the site. "Inspiration" for posts like these. Hopefully the category will spark some creativity. Read More

Is it just me or does it seem like After Effects gives you more useless error messages than any other program. Every time I use after effects I feel like I'm moments away from either a crash or a prompt to press "ok" to a dialog box of jibberish. I found that mographwiki has been collecting user submitted AE messages. My personal favorite is the now classic question mark. Nothing else... just a question mark and an "ok" button.  But it's not all ... Read More

Congratulations to all the winners from the Idea Conference. Thanks to everyone who came out and attended any of the classes. Especially those who had kind things to say about my Beginner Photoshop/AE class. I thought I'd post some of the content from that class. Here is the above headshot used in the advanced tips and tricks class as a photoshop CS3 file. After Effects Sheep Noise : In the effects controls of a layer with an effect applied, shift click name of the ... Read More

Here is some great work from Gkaster. Thanks for the contribution. I'm told he's a fellow C4D user. As a novice user myself I'm hoping I can get him to share some of his secrets. I love those reflections, I'm guessing he used the advanced renderer. Read More

Slick spot from Fox Sports Design. Hit the jump to see what they had to say. Read More