Previously we published a six step guide to rotoscoping. The tutorial covered the back to basic manual production of rotoscope animation, akin to the type used in the famous a-ha ‘Take on me‘ video.
A marriage of Apple and Microsoft products isn’t really what you would expect to see in a home media system but Rivet (at only $18) offers just that. Rivet sits on the your Mac and will share your music, film and photo libraries with the XBox 360.
So you have an AppleTV and you record television to your Mac via the great Elgato EyeTV software. One of the minor annoyances I find with the Apple TV is trying to rewind or forward when watching a video.
Rotoscoping was first invented in 1914 by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series “Out of the Inkwell” with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film reference for the character Koko the Clown.
Many of you will know that it is possible to change the default mail.app icon but did you know creating your own has never been easier ? Well thanks to John Godfrey’s photoshop template you can not create your own mail icon in a matter of minutes. Better still you can create your own custom mail style stamps to use in other projects.
I was recently listening to a respected ICT consultant describing Apple’s iCal application as “‘too basic for business” I have come across this a few times with regards Apple products and every time it is meant as a criticism !
Plasq’s Comic Life is a firm favourite in the classroom. Last year all new Macs came with Comic Life pre-installed and any school lucky enough to purchase a new suite will know how much students love the power and ease of use that Comic Life brings to Digital Storytelling.
Anyone who has ever attempted to record music in a home studio via a (simple) four track will know only too well the pain and agony that runs parallel to the process. A few years ago the humble four track was the only affordable recording system for home use and computer based recording was the domain of large expensive studio systems.
