Interview: Plaid on AI, live performance, physical modeling, and touring

From Egyptology and Commodore Amiga to reflecting on AI and selecting the best physical modeling tools, Ed and Andy (Plaid) open up about their work and practice. We’re turning this year into the next with talks with our favorite artists.

Magnetic Masking demonstration in Final Cut Pro 11 running on a MacBook, showing a car highlighted in green in the edit window plus a status dialog, timeline view open.

New in Final Cut Pro: AI you’ll actually use, more mature iPad version

Final Cut Pro 11, like Logic Pro 11, marks new machine learning-powered functionality – but don’t fret; some of this is stuff you’ll actually use. There are non-AI improvements, too, like overdue keyboard shortcuts. And its iPad version is gradually becoming more mature, too. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new in the free Mac update and latest iPad release.

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2024

Eye-popping TouchDesigner techniques with noise, AI, point clouds, and more

It must be back-to-school season because there’s a superb crop of new TouchDesigner tutorials ready. Best of all, a couple of these start with real basics, which is good not only for beginners but also for refining your skills from the ground up. Get those CHOPs up.

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2024

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