Roleplaying games as visual media just took a step closer to reality with the launch today of a new website for hobby game players around the world. Now roleplayers have the opportunity to experience a Dungeons & Dragons® campaign in a whole new way: through a Web series hosted exclusively at www.thefirstpaladin.com. Viewers can watch The First Paladin™, a campaign being played with D&D Next rules, and see the game evolve dynamically as game master Peter D. Adkison and the players make their own choices. This new series is produced by Hostile Work Environment™, a new multimedia company owned by Adkison, the former CEO of Wizards of the Coast and owner of Gen Con®, LLC.
SIGGRAPH 2012 – Day 3 (News)
Huge improvements are being made on the side of motion capture. Some not very affordable but necessary steps to increasing our knowledge base for producing high fidelity capture and playback. Today, I had a chance to catch up with the guys at Reallusion who do have a motion capture solution that is financially more in reach with our readership than most other products on the market.
SIGGRAPH 2012 – Day 2 (News)
Well, finally back from another day of strolling the aisles and perusing the booths looking for anything that I think will interest the Microfilmmaker community. There is great deal to get excited about for the future of film making and the developers that are creating the tech to make it happen. Here are the hits from today.
SIGGRAPH 2012 – Day 1 (News)
It was exciting to get back on the showfloor for SIGGRAPH and get to see the latest in software innovation as well as burgeoning technologies. I was able to catch up with a few developers that we've showcased on our site before as well as check out a few new products that you will hopefully be able to take advantage of in the future.
SIGGRAPH 2012 (News)
SIGGRAPH 2012 is right around the corner and I'm prepping to go. Check back here Tuesday and Wednesday night for update on the products I am able to see.
CS6: San Jose Reviewer’s Workshop Early Insights
San Jose:
CS6 Reviewer’s Workshop
Training in the Adobe Headquarters in San Jose
This past week, I had a chance to check out some pretty incredible new features from Adobe’s new CS6 release along with Flash reviewer Mike Muwanguzi and Photoshop reviewer, Nate Eckelbarger.
While I’ve had a chance to receive training from Adobe on their new products for a number of years now, this is the first time the training has happened when we weren’t under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Normally, a select group of press representatives is invited to explore the new software at either Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose or at a special event in NYC 6-8 weeks before the release of the new software. In the past, this time barrier between exposure and ability to share has resulted in a loss of overall excitement as even the most cutting edge improvements become simply accepted shortly after exposure! Since the NDA usually lasts until they start releasing the actual software, the fact that the software launched the Friday before the training in San Jose meant that the NDA had expired by this past Tuesday when we began.