I must say, each pastry you pull from your pocket is more delicious than the last… You have magic pastry pockets! Magic pastry pockets? YES, and they’re covered with these links!!
Dylan Cole – Cities!? Vehicles!? yes, only the best for you and your crew. Mr. Cole means business.
25 3D Characters – AMAZING. Really, so realistic, except I know that old guy with the beard has way more liver spots in real life.
Akiotheme – It’s not live yet, but when it is… pure UI development bliss. A UI for your company, your cat, your muffin, your back mole… you get the idea.
Finch Rock – I bought a truckload of finches just to wake up to this racket in the morning.
Visual Recipes – Because it’s easier to overcook it, when you know how it looks.
Wilkinson Treehouse – Hello Mr. Wilkinson! Your treehouse is fabulous! Would you just look at that… that wild squirrel gnawing my leg.
Hybrid Medical Animation – If you were a tiny bubble floating in and out of organs, or a Dennis Quaid stunt-double for Innerspace.
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So, crack your virtual bottles against your virtual skulls. 3DVia is cranking out the goodness this week at the 2010 Games Developer’s Conference. Yes, it’s all fun and games, but just maybe a chance to add a lil’ gleam to snazzy up your product scene.
Along with their new Social Game Billions, they’ve just made the magic behind the creation of it available to you… absolutely free. 3DVia Studio is available for download and 3DVia Scenes is the backdoor to getting your ideas out the virtual door. More after the snap!
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Because the popular 3D CAD apps have no visible appendages to beat each other down into an oily goo or give their own opinion on medicine, politics or art, we’ve decided to see what the web has to say about how they all stack up in this regard.
To do it, we’re using a nifty little web app from Aaron Zinman and the MIT Sociable Media Group called Personas. It’s part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT university and an interesting way to see how your name can be used to lock you into a little house of web activity.
However, instead of a person’s name, we’ll enter the names of a few popular CAD companies – SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Alibre, Pro/E, and Inventor – to see who has more character and then poke and laugh at the results.
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If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing like spinning around till you stumble and slam your head through a 3D display. The small joys of life. Much like being able to model 3D on a display while wearing some dope looking lenses and chewing on a stick of butter. At least it use to be like that for SolidWorks users.
Some people got excited when SolidWorks added Stereoscopic 3D support using StereoGraphics CrystalEyes in 2005. Technology and user’s interests changed, and two years later… they canned it.
So what happened? What did SolidWorks do with the ability to viewing models with 3D glasses and a 3D monitor or projector? We got a hold of Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks to find out what happened and whats going on to bring back the flurry of 3D that’s all the rage with the kids these days.
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3DVia also has billions of reasons to make you excited about Mogaloos, how many you capture and how you feel about the color pink as the backdrop of the universe.
This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco, 3DVia is showing off 6 new games developed with 3DVia products. Among those is the first game built using 3DVIA Studio, an online social game, called Billions, that I can tell you right now is the very reason I’ll be staying up all night gorging myself with Twizzlers and Coke in front of the computer screen.
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Stop. I’m telling you right now, you can quit using the excuse that you shave your body for swimming and bike riding adventures as a cover-up for your camouflage body painting hobby. Instead, you can now tell everyone that your body is being prepped as a touchpad of epic proportion.
We’re stuffing every oversize pore with the idea of projected UI wherever you go, but the latest Human-Computer Interaction experiment from Chris Harrison called Skinput turns your skin into an input device that’s hard to tear off.
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When you drive a car that fast into a wall of bananas flambé you’ve absolutely gotta remember to pull the e-brake before you caramelize into a sticky goo resembling these links.
Russ Schwenkler – He will amaze and astound you with the finest Vexel art this side of Carburetor county.
Snake Oil? – I take all of these, three times a day for the pure reason they can be put onto a chart like this.
Popular Science online for free – egad! and it’s searchable. Bring the kids in! It’s the future of hovercrafts from 1956!
Flying Hovercraft – Speaking of hovercraft, this Kiwi inventor made one… THAT FLIES!
Background Check Yourself – Turn yourself into a stalker of yourself, or a PI that’s on the hunt for your skeletons. Smart idea.
Old Spice Manmercials – Sometimes I like to smell like a punch or a dirty basement filled with grandpas.
Neighborhood Treasures – A Pictory Mag adventure of the neighborhood kind.
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Kick the wads of paper away from your coworker’s head and pick him up off the floor. It’s ok to slap him if he’s still unconsciousness, because he’s about to thank you for showing him a way to go through massive amounts of design iterations with fewer convulsive reactions or concussions.
Last week, we discussed ways to create SolidWorks assembly versions. You have options, but there’s one option that’s quicker. Now we’re going to walk you through the steps and throw some sketchin’ in at the end to mix it all up just right.
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You can shake whatever you want, but if you’re a photo editor, graphic artist or cutting edge product developer, you’re gonna have tremors of pen tablet euphoria when you hear Wacom has a product redesigned especially for you.
It may not be news about a multi-touch Cintiq or a portable Cintiq, but the new Wacom Cintiq 21UX is here and it’s got the features you actually need to make quick work of photos, graphics and models. Here’s the quick run-down for you and the kids.
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It almost hurts me to say this, but the cool factor is just too much to bare… Microsoft Excel rocks at sketching cell-shaded line art.
If you know me, you know I abhor spreadsheets list creation management hell. However, I’ll get past the fancy formatting and formula options used to drain the liquid centers from our souls for a few moments, to gaze upon the magic that is the the pixel art of Felipe, aka Shukei. He uses the freeform tool in Excel the create some of the most complicated line art you can imagine.
There’s a feature that makes Excel perfect for doing this, a feature a few CAD systems, both 2D and 3D could learn from. First check out Felipe’s process. 13 hours, speed up into a mere 5 minutes. Amazing.
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SolidSmack is a very small behemoth of an online community about 3D CAD, technology, design, robots, and ninjas… Ok, maybe not ninjas so much, but those guys are COOL so there just might be something about some dang ninjas.
