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What Software Do You Use?
It entirely depends on the production.
Software is really just a tool, like different paintbrushes and
media are to a classical artists. A true artist can use a
paintbrush, pencil, pen, oil, charcoal, watercolor, and even sculpt
(some even use chocolate syrup). Likewise, as digital artists, we
are constantly learning new software and tools to meet each specific
need.
We use Adobe's Premiere and
Microsoft's Movie Maker to edit our videos. Even if we use Premiere,
we still run the videos through Movie Maker to take advantage of
their video compression technology. Premiere allows us more control
over titles, effects, and adding many layers of sound, videos, and
images.
For 3D animation, we use Discreet's 3D
Studio Max, Alias/Wavefront's Maya, Blender, and we've even used
Anim8or. We tend to use whatever the artists are familiar with and
we have access to. Plus all the original characters start with
a pencil and paper.
For creating textures and images, we
mostly just use Adobe's Photoshop. Photoshop has been around a long
time, and you have a lot of control over creating multiple layers
and adding effects to your layers.
For web animations and graphics, we
use Adobe/Macromedia's Flash. We tend to even use Flash to output
animated Giffs (images that move a few frames so that they look like
animations).
For web design, we use Microsoft's
FrontPage and rarely Adobe/Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Plus we mostly
just code directly in Notepad or Visual Studio, depending on the
project.
For online hosts and website services,
we often use Go Daddy because they are cheap, reliable, and they've
got lots of features. However, you can't beat that $3 domain name
deal that Yahoo does. We use FileZilla as our FTP software, but we
do most of our FTP interactions in Windows Explorer.
Plus I find that we use Windows
Calculator a lot. =^) So much so that we often move it to the Quick
Launch area on the Start Bar. To activate your Quick Launch, right
click the Start Bar, click Properties, and click Show
Quick Launch. Then just drop your different launch icons over
there, move around their order, etc. It allows you to launch any
software at any time with just one click. Plus we use Word, Excel,
and occasionally PowerPoint.
Here are some of the videos we made
and what software we used:
Fruits VS Bugs: 3D Studio Max,
Photoshop, Premiere, and Movie Maker
MGM Logo: Anim8or and Photoshop
John in the Park: Blender, Maya,
Photoshop, Premiere, and Flash
Bucket Full of Cheese: Movie Maker
Wiki-Trivia
(from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News):
News
is
any
new
information
or
information
on
current
events
which
is
relayed
by
print,
broadcast,
Internet,
or
word
of
mouth
to a
third
party
or
mass
audience.
The
reporting
and
investigation
of
news
falls
within
the
profession
of
journalism.
News
is
often
reported
by a
variety
of
sources,
such
as
newspapers,
television,
and
radio
programs,
wire
services,
and
web
sites.
News
reporting
is a
type
of
journalism,
typically
written
or
broadcast
in
news
style.
Most
news
is
investigated
and
presented
by
journalists
and
can
be
distributed
to
various
outlets
via
news
agencies.
There are many categories of news. The weather is typically presented by a certified meteorologist or, on smaller stations, a less-trained "weatherman" and is considered news. Other news categories are: sports, fashion, society, entertainment, business, cartoon strips, features, lottery numbers, lives of celebrities, advertising, and more. Until the 1970s, when women's lib issues came to the forefront, most newspapers had a "Women's" section devoted entirely to fashion and society news. Papers even printed "cheesecake" feature photos of attractive young women in bikinis, often transmitted by the AP or UPI wire services, illustrating various news events or feature ideas.
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