This is a very boring and simple After Effects sample we created. Although we are finished with After Effects and are unlikely to make any more video tutorials for it, unless requested, that’s what we do when we are bored. It required just a couple of effects such as Box Blur and Lens flare besides Illustrator files. Be advised not to watch it unless you are extremely bored. Continue reading
Last night, I came back home really late. My wife was already at sleep. A cold front came down from Canada. So it was cold. I wanted to have a cup of hot cocoa. I looked for my favorite coffee cup and couldn’t find it. I spent another 10 minutes in vain. Eventually, I became very frantic. After another 10 minutes of search, I still couldn’t find it and had to resort to Plan B. What’s my Plan B? Adobe Illustrator… I went to my work room, started up my iMac and then launched Adobe Illustrator CS2. In a matter of 10 minutes or so, I managed to recover my favorite coffee cup.
The following tutorial shows steps to design a coffee cup, using Adobe Illustrator CS2. There is nothing special in this tutorial if you are a member and have seen video tutorials like ‘#16: Designing a 3D Wine Bottle’ from the Illustrator Basics for Dummies series. You just create a shape, rotate it and then create a label and paste it with 3D Revolve > Map Art. Continue reading
During WWDC07 in June, Apple and Electronic Arts (hereafter, EA) jointly announced that EA would make 2 games available in July and another 4 games in August for Mac OS. The word has been kept, and the first 4 games, Continue reading
Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) has announced and opened a new website where Mac users can share MS Office files with others. According to MacBU’s blog,
“Art of Office is a place for people to submit artistic and/or useful content made using Office applications (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). Whether it’s creating pixel art using Excel (a la our Post-it Notes) developing an animated short story in PowerPoint or artistic pieces in Word, this online community allows you to share, rate, remix and discuss user-submitted content with other Mac Office users around the world.”
Click on the button to go to Art of Office. 
The following tutorial video quickly overviews some of the basic functions of Boinx Software’s FotoMagico Pro, which we introduced some 9 hours ago. In this video, we create a simple sample labeled Sample 2 that is presented in the review article, utilizing three photo images and an audio clip. The photo images used in this video comes from Webshots. Continue reading