The new Open Movie (completely open source) Big Buck Bunny has been released! It’s only 10 minutes long, but as you can see, it’s very professional looking! Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo. Please note that the version on this page is a little bit lower quality, since it’s squished down. The animation … Read more
If you’re interested in learning 3D, specifically Blender, I came across this set of Tutorials that’s formatted in a "class" kind of way: http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html It has videos broken down into different functions and tasks, so it makes it easier to find a specific thing that you’re trying to figure out how to do. Seems like a … Read more
For those that heard me talk in the Seattle Flash User Group tonight, I thought I’d post some links to the things I was talking about. For search engine optimization and Flash, there is SWFObject. This is great because it nabs a few birds at once, by getting rid of that annoying "click here to activate" thing … Read more
Finally, after long wait, our first Refill for Propellerheads Reason, has been released! This Refill comes from over 3 years of sound design, of my personal library. You can listen to the demo here. I had some people guess what it was, just from hearing the demo, both on KVR and on the Propellerheads forum, … Read more
I found a nice tutorial about how to theme your product pages in Ubercart. In Ubercart it’s easy to get basic product pages, but to make them look unique requires a bit more finesse. Here’s the post from the forum: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/development/3868/nifty_products_tutorial_part_1 And while we’re talking about themes, this seems to be a nice module for … Read more
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: http://3d-synthesis.com/movies/Lincoln_1961_02.mov The car on the left is created in Blender, the car on the right is real. To make 3D generated objects look like they’re … Read more
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 because of the integration with other CS3 apps and high degree of features, I think … Read more
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 content managment system). Drupal has another e-Commerce module… Drupal e-Commerce (yes, not very imaginitive, I … Read more
This article has some good ideas on how to handle categorizing your content in Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/176252
This article has some excellent ways to use caching in Drupal, to make your Drupal site perform better: http://www.achieveinternet.com/blogs/apc/drupal-caching-cache-router