After five years of keeping the project shrouded in secrecy, Microsoft Tuesday revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product in a category the company calls "surface computing." The technology, formerly code-named Milan, lets Microsoft turn a seemingly ordinary surface, such as a tabletop or a wall, into a computer. Introduced Tuesday at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, Microsoft Surface is a "multitouch" tabletop computer that interacts with users through touch on multiple points on the screen.
CS Odessa on Thursday announced the general availability of ConceptDraw 7, a major new upgrade to its vector drawing and diagramming software package. ConceptDraw 7 costs $299 (£150); an upgrade from previous versions is $99 (£50). A free trial demo version is available for download.
The famed D&AD Global Awards were held London on last night – with the cream of the global creative design and advertising industry present to celebrate the Black and Yellow pencils winners.
Director Corin Hardy’s dark vision for The Horrors’ She’s the New Thing is a gory affair that sees the band come under attack from nightmarish animated creatures.
The end is nigh for FreeHand MX, the venerable vector-based illustration app that became an Adobe property when Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005.
Flash CS3 Professional, the first version of Flash released under Adobe's aegis, is arguably the most dramatically enhanced program in the new CS3 suite. Flash has two interacting components: ActionScript, Flash's powerful programming language, and the timeline-based stage, Flash's unique design environment for generating vector-based (scalable) animation. My only complaint with Flash CS3's predecessor - Macromedia Flash Professional 8 - was a lack of really exciting innovations in the design aspects of the program. I no longer have that complaint. The most exciting new features in Flash are on the design side, along with some fine-tuning and nice small enhancements in the coding environment.
San-Francisco creative agency Mekanism has designed, created, and animated a series of characters and storylines set in a BP-branded environment to support the global integrated branding efforts of one of the world’s leading retail and gas outlets.
Toom Boom Animation has announced the release of Storyboard Pro. The software costs $799.99 (£407).
ModBook maker Axiotron has announced that it's retooling the device, which is based on an Apple MacBook. As a result, first deliveries of the ModBook have been pushed back to May, 2007.
Apple TV has suffered from being Apple's "other product," the new product that isn't the iPhone. But make no mistake: Apple has put a lot of wow into this device that brings media stored on your computer to your TV.
The new version of Illustrator includes innovative colour scheme creation tools, new drawing tools and better integration with Flash for Web animation design...
Flash is the first member of the old Studio 8 to take on the new Creative Suite interface. It’s a definite improvement over the Macromedia interface...
XChange International has released seven of its popular XTensions as Universal Binary software for XPress 7.1.
Hornet has collaborated with creator/director Clay Weiner to animate his character-driven tales about being that magical, miserable time of life known as Puberty.
The 2005 decision by the US Supreme Court in the Grokster v. MGM case is partly responsible for Viacom Inc.'s dispute with Google ending up in court, an expert on copyright law said in a Sunday opinion piece in The New York Times newspaper.
To create an inspirational sequence for serial-killer film Zodiac, director David Fincher turned to the artists at LA VFX-house A52.
A Microsoft attorney will attack Google's book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.
Microsoft Tuesday said that reports published last month claiming that Google profited from sites pimping pirated movies and software show why copyright holders shouldn't trust the search company.
Travelling art exhibit DRAW is pitching up at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) film, interactive and music festival in Austin, Texas. The event is hosted by animation community site MyToons.com.
