Today I have been experimenting with Wacom’s second generation Bamboo graphics tablet and I love it. If you consider graphics tablets to be the realm of the professional graphic artist or animator then it is time to seriously think again. Read more
For some this may appear to be a task you never expected to see a tutorial for, yet I know for some getting your head around a new operating system can take a little bit of effort. This simply screen cast takes you through the basic step in writing to data to CD/DVD. Read more
We recently compared the Dropbox cloud file storing service with Apple’s MobileMe (read the article here). Still new to using Dropbox we asked veteran user @ColinNapier to take us through his top five uses of Dropbox. Read more
iStopmotion is one of the best (and easiest) animation applications I think have used. The interface is simple and the quality of the output is brilliant coping with video sources from iSight to High Definition digital SLR cameras.
I have been using iStopmotion for five years and to be honest I use it in the same way each time it loads. I tend to keep the workflow simple, a digital camcorder connected to my Mac via Firewire and then simply hitting the red button to capture each single frame. Read more
I have been a massive fan of the Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy for a couple of years now. Like most people I am generally working on about a dozen projects at once and each project has a large number of “next action” tasks that I have to work through to keep everything just ticking over.
Managing my life using the brilliant ‘Getting Things Done’ application Things for Mac has really helped me become more efficient, and I now tend to remember to do those “must do that” tasks from conversations or emails. Read more
