It happened when I cranked it down as far as it would go, but you’d never expect baby rhinos to come out and start gnawin’ on your wrists. Musta been these links that riled ’em up. Frederic St-Arnaud – Say it with me, photo-realistic matte art. This is beauty which incredible films and illustration are…

I seriously do not know where to start after my eyeballs have been water-boarded with sweet, nerd-core tech that was the SolidWorks World Day 1, General Session. With it being the single best session I can remember out of all I’ve been to, there’s plenty to talk about. However, the big news is this… SolidWorks on the Mac. And not only on the Mac… SolidWorks on Linux, Windows, Chrome OS or even Firefox…. but it doesn’t stop there.


I’m so close to SolidWorks World 2010, I can almost smell the enormous influx of SolidWorks geekery blanketing the So Cal city of Anaheim over the next week.

This is going to be my 4th SolidWorks World, with an unexplainable gap between thoroughly enjoying the very first SWW out in Palm Springs and the last three in San Diego, Orlando and now, Anaheim.

If only we all had buckets and buckets and buckets of paint in our possession and a powerful paint canon for occasions such as this. We have 3D color palettes people. Lock, load and FIRE.

ColoRotate is on the web app scene serving up a new way to use and abuse color. Their online 3D tool and associated Photoshop CS4 plugin take that boring, flat color palette and cleverly add in the 3rd dimension. It’s more than an interesting take on color and palettes. It’s a look into functional 3D UI’s… on the web.