Camera Tracking with Blender
Ever wonder how to make it look like a 3D object is moving in relation to a moving camera? For the effect I’m talking about, have a look at this: The car on the left is created in Blender,…
Category Media Production
Media Production
Video Editing – Adobe Premiere, vs Final Cut, vs Avid, vs Vegas Pro
I’ve been looking around at upgrading my video editing software, and found this discussion here, and because of this decided to stay with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3: http://www.wwug.com/cgi-bin/readwholethread.fcgi?forum=adobe_premiere&post=070426024433.htm&toppostid=31752 I have access to Final Cut Pro, and Sony Vegas Video, but…
Open Source e-Commerce – Magento vs. Ubercart
To my eyes, the most promising open source e-Commerce platforms I’ve seen lately are Ubercart and Magento. We’re actually currently using Ubercart here as I write this, for this very site! Ubercart is actually a module for Drupal (a powerful…
Organizing Content with Drupal
This article has some good ideas on how to handle categorizing your content in Drupal:
Drupal Performance and Scaling using Caching
This article has some excellent ways to use caching in Drupal, to make your Drupal site perform better:
3D Flash Game Example
Here is an example of a 3D Flash game, that uses Away3D: If you use the arrow keys while making your character jump by clicking with the mouse, you can get some Matrix style turns. 😉
3D Animation in Flash
Want to do 3D in Flash? There are 3 basic ways to get 3D animation in Flash. Methods: You can export video (or a series of images) from your 3D program, and import it into Flash. These would be basically…
SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 Released
Version 1.0 of SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library were released not log ago. SWX is the native data format for the Flash Platform. SWX RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in SWX. It’s simple enough that you…
April Flash Player Update breaks AMFPHP
Wade Arnold has an important post on the upcoming Flash Player update and the security changes that will break AMFPHP. As SWX-PHP uses AMF-PHP as a library, it too will be affected. Wade’s post has a crossdomain.xml file that you…
Artist/Band sites with Drupal
I found a nice article on how to make nice artist/band sites with Drupal. It lists the modules you could use, and even gives examples of Drupal sites that other artists that use Drupal. If you’re a musician, a site…