I came across some interesting news this week whilst previewing some of the new features that will be available to owners of Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad later this year as part of the OS4 upgrade. See preview information here:
iPhone OS4 overview: http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/
iPhone OS4 Keynote speech: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialevent0410/
I own an iPhone and can’t wait to get my hands on the upgrade. However what stood out the most of all the new features is iAd. This is Apples planned in-app advertising platform similar to Googles Adsense. At the moment AdMob …

I stumbled across this artist around 2 years ago on one of my trips to Forbidden Planet @ Tottenham Court Road Branch . Unknown to me at the time, this artist had an affiliation with another of my favourite artists Tanaka Tatsuyuki via STUDIO4℃, a Japanese animation studio.
This animator mainly works freelance these days making music videos and other shorts. He has worked with the Wachowski Brothers to direct “Beyond”, a segment of The Animatrix and is said to be working on another short movie ‘Sachiko’, his second feature-length film. …

Just seen this site. It looks to be only a week old and has amassed a huge following. It has a large database of recent movies although the quality is very dodgy!
One feature I have to admit that I like is the thumbs up and down for the links. You get to see the percentage of people who have verified the link as working and not working. Its really helpful for seeing if a link is corrupted before you click it.
I’ve tried searching for a couple movies here (they …

Blender 3D!! Simple!

Blender is open source and packs a lot of features found only on high end 3D software which costs in the thousands of pounds/dollars –[insert local denomination]–!!
I haven’t produced any 3D recently however the feature set offered by blender is close catching up to the feature set offered by the big boys.
Not only this, but if you goto the download page for blender you will quickly notice that this software runs most major platforms and looks and performs well on each of them. I’ve even run it on …

Tanaka Tatsuyuki has to be in my artist top-10, and has been responsible for some of the most sophisticated animations in the industry. He forged his name in the late 80′s whilst working freelance as a key animator on the arm mutation scene in the cult anime classic Akira.

Since then he has joined with a few other artist (including another favorite of mine) at Studio 4°C. He now spends his time creating illustrations, manga, and short animations and other commissioned works.
His book titled Cannabis Works is a joy to read …