Processing.org‘s fabulous exhibition has been updated with Grass, an installation by The Barbarian Group for Saturn (the car) shown at the recent Wired Nextfest here in New York. As usual, something that looks quite simple has a lot of elements: Being from Kentucky, I suddenly want to take off my shoes. Installation: Barbarian Group relied […]

Live 6 now lets you work in arrangement view with video as easily as with audio. That could mean you’ll be seeing lots of homebrewed Ableton Live music videos online very soon. Live 6 isn’t any VJ app, in that you can’t use the video clips in Session View — a feature I’ve heard users […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]

Circuit bending master and artist Reed Ghazala has some sobering thoughts on the state of surplus supply shops: “My deep connections in surplus tell me the whole thing is dying.” (See comments on Circuit Bending Tips: Resistance Substitution Wheel is Dead; How to Make Your Own. That’s sad, as the trend comes just as the […]

In celebration of Google’s acquisition of YouTube, CDM’s Adrian Anders has rounded up some of the best YouTube videos, from more Museum of Techno madness to mashups with legos, DJing with 45s, and behind the scenes of music production with Album Leaf. First, some musical inspiration: Anders: The Album Leaf – Making The Album “Into […]

Nucleo is a plugin which speeds After Effects performance by using multiple processors or processor downtime to for preview and background rendering. From the Features: Fast (Nucleo) Render Supports rendering out to both sequences and movies in any format supported by After Effects. Fast (Nucleo) Preview Emulation Allows you to specify which type preview you […]