All New Digital Arts Web Site

The new site is live. If you have any problems or even any suggestions let me know.


TriCasterOnline.com will be going away 'cause we absorbed the ecommerce into the main site.

Cryptic Message from NewTek

http://www.newtek.com/core/

Lightwave 10?

Update: Viral Marketing.
On the link above it says (in Galactic standard I'm told) "Cross The Threshold"

I was trying to keep this updated but it's hopeless. The discussion thread over in the NewTek forums has a couple thousand posts now.

NewTek Winter Bundle-Up Promotion

TriCaster Studio with Free Sports Graphics Pack and LiveSet Pack ($590 Value)
TriCaster Broadcast with Free Sports Graphics Pack, LiveSet Pack and SpeedEDIT ($1185 Value)

The fine print:

• Offer is good on new TriCaster STUDIO and TriCaster BROADCAST systems purchased between January 16th and February 28th 2009.  
• Systems must be purchased from a NewTek Elite Partner or Authorized Reseller to be eligible.  
• Promotion is not retroactive, and cannot be combined with any other offer.  
•  Applies to Commercial sales only
  
 

Call Us at 1-800-692-6442

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Lightwave 9.6 Is Released

LightWave v9.6’s new capabilities include improvements to animation, rendering and workflow, with FiberFX cloning, Layout snapping and automatic drag-and-drop file loading. More than 625 feature requests and reported issues have been implemented and resolved between 9.5 and 9.6. LightWave v9.6 is the fifth free update in the LightWave v9 series.

"This LightWave update again illustrates NewTek’s ability to quickly provide artists with the latest innovations to stay at the top of their games and do their best work,” said Jay Roth, president 3D division, NewTek. "Now more than ever, LightWave’s many benefits, including the ability to be used in tandem with other applications, make it a necessary part of the pipeline for those doing 3D projects of any kind.”

Numerous visual effects projects benefit from LightWave's world-class capabilities, including the 2008 Visual Effects Emmy-winning "Battlestar Galactica" and National Geographic documentary “Inside the Living Body.” 

LightWave v9.6 numerous benefits to artists include:

·       FiberFX Cloning – Provides the ability to place multiple instances of hair on an object

·       Layout Snapping – Allows the quick connection of one item to another, saving time and additional steps

·       Drag and Drop – Allows an icon of an object or scene to be opened by dropping the icon into Modeler or Layout  

·       New and Improved Export Buffers– Enables multi-pass pipeline users to output more buffers (layers) in high dynamic range, rather than be limited to 8 bpc (bits per channel), for greater flexibility

·       Multi-threaded Pixel Filters – Provides faster rendering of projects that integrate pixel filters

·       Depth Buffer Normalizing – Allows 3D scene elements exported into film or video footage to automatically blend properly, even if moving relative to one another

·       Ray Cutoff – Enables artists to decide at what point to cease ray bounces when rendering a scene with numerous reflections, refractions and transparency, significantly shortening render time 

·       Open to other render engines – Other rendering engines conforming to the LightWave v9.6 SDK can be used directly from within the LightWave interface 

·       Three New Nodes –  

o         Car Paint: Greatly eases the creation of complex polished surfaces

o         Flake: A simple procedural texture based upon the flakes often seen in car paint

o         Curve: Allows the creation of complex gradients  

Pricing and Availability
A free trial edition of LightWave v9.6 is available by download from www.lightwave3d.com/lwtrial. There are now more than 30 hours of free LightWave video training at www.lightwave3d.com, in addition to an extensive library of printable tutorials.

Think Different?

YouTube Changes the Way We Think

This is what's so fascinating about online video culture. DIY tools for shooting, editing, and broadcasting video aren't just changing who uses the medium. They're changing how we use it. We're developing a new language of video—forms that let us say different things and maybe even think in different ways.

I guess we're on the cutting edge of sociatal revolution (with apologies to Rush)

Improvements at YouTube

HD Support and a bigger player: More

TriCaster Spotlighted on Wired News Site

Wired News - TV Studio In A Box

Nate Flannery of the Horizon League (one of our customers) is interviewed for the article. The Horizon League has ten TriCasters, one for each school and they produce over 400 live events a year.