Apple has finally killed Shake. This has been a long time coming since they announced  back in 2006 that they would be no longer develop Shake. I am sorry to see such a good product killed. Many said this would happen when Apple bought Nothing Real, I guess they were right. All links to Shake [...]

Weta Digital recently formed a dedicated R&D group headed by former Autodesk senior manager Sebastian Sylwan. He will be going to SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans in two weeks to recruit talent for the group. The aim is to bridge the gap between R&D and production. Sylwan and Joe Letteri, a Weta Digital partner and [...]

In his first video blog for AREA, Marc Petit, Senior VP, Media & Entertainment talks about the entertainment industry in these challenging times. There is no indication on how often Autodesk will produce a new posting. http://www.the-area.com/blogs/mpetit/landing_in_the_blogosphere

We all have dealt with cheap clients. With them almost every job becomes a debate about something, mostly about price. This short dose a great job of making fun of the arguments we all have heard, by putting them in real world situations.

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in. Fontplore Showreel from Mphasize on Vimeo. And the clou [...]