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A Word About Mudbubble.

// August 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Flash

Chris Georgenes Site Mudbubble.com

I haven’t blogged that much about Flash, but now I am working on a new Corn Star and knee deep in Flash.  Chris Georgenes started working with Flash in 1999 and now is an expert in the field.  He is a consultant to Adobe on the program and has a great tutorial there for character designing.  What I like about Chris’ background: he has a fine arts degree, he turned to Flash as a last resort to help bring a project in on a deadline, he’s now an authority in the field.  His approach in the above tutorial helped me to take Brad Goodchild’s design of Corn Star into a Flash reality.  Enjoy the site and his portfolio page.

A Road Map for Photoshop.

// August 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Photoshop

For great tutorials and advice about Photoshop checkout: PhotoshopRoadmap.com .  The owner of this site is very passionate about Photoshop.  He has over 9 years- yes that’s 9 years of experience, collecting tips and tutorials to help the novice user.   He’s compiled a list of 64 essential guides and tips, to help you master Photoshop.

Inspiration Needed.

// May 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cinema4D, Photoshop

To continue to create you need to be inspired.  What gives me inspiration, I admit is some photoshop eye candy.  Two sites in particular are photoshopcafe and ImagineFX.  Photoshopcafe has not just tutorials but a cool gallery section with pieces done entirely 100% photoshop. (no scans or photographs, illustrator). Yet ImagineFX’s homepage is great because they feature members latest work and have a image of the day.  Just visiting their site, I know I can pick up some inspiration.  

Golden Hinde "Penny West" - Brandon Hall Artist.

      I also need good music to create and two internet stations that I listen to are last.fm and pandora.  Pandora is part of a music genome project –  well that’s what they state.  You can create your own radio station of music you like.  The program that pandora uses randomly picks more music within the same genre. You can give each song they pick a thumbs up or down.  Very cool. Last.fm is also very cool they also recommend songs on your music choices.  They just recently added personalized visual radio,  I have to spend some time on that.  Hmm and with iTunes adding the genius feature seems to be a theme here.  I wish I had some literature to list to inspire me hmm no.

Welcome. New Look. New Attitude.

// May 14th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Cinema4D, Photoshop

If you’ve visited this blog before, thank you. You are probably thinking what happened? As a digital artist you can’t underestimate 2.0 and social networking. I know I have for far too long just depended on my website Rigler Digital. No more. This blog will hopefully reflect the enthusiasm I have for all of the different software we use: Cinema4D, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver and last but not least After Effects. On the last version of the blog there had been 6 months between some posts, yea not good and not happening this time. So I hope you will subscribe now if you are new and find the posts here full of info and entertaining. To recap from our last podcast I had discussed PhotoshopDisasters and C4Dload. PhotoshopDisasters on blogspot is a great place to visit when you need to take a break from your current project and laugh. You can’t believe that this work gets approved and printed – on a very large, commercial scale. My own theory with these sites is that you can learn from others mistakes.
C4dload is from a Twitter success. The creators of c4dload found the RiglerDigital Twitter page and continue to post about their new site. It originates from Germany by Milan Herzog. Yes if you speak and write German the site is best. However, they are working very hard to make the English translation a success. I myself registered on the site and am looking forward to new tutorials and new discussions in the forum. It’s fun to participate in new sites –kind of like new blogs.