Training
That trickery of engaging the audience while they are actually learning something. It’s trickery we tell you!
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April 24 2013
Paperless: Digital Drawing Tools for Artists on the Go
In 2009, I wrote a post about my search for a digital tablet that I could use as a replacement for my sketchbook and notebook. I’ve been an advocate for tablet devices as artistic tools for many years. Mainstream business culture is waking up to the potential that ultra-portable tablets like iPad and Android tablets have as work devices. We are spoiled for choice of Office-compatible apps and suites, email clients, file sharing… everything you need for a day away from the desktop. For us visual types, there are even…
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April 18 2013
A Different Way to Make Your To-Do List
You know when you have those moments in life where you say to yourself ”Why didn’t I realize this before?” And usually it’s around what could be considered a mundane ho-hum everyday sort of thing. But probably BECAUSE it’s around a mundane ho-hum everyday sort of thing – so, you know, it’s something you touch and interact with everyday – the impact will be significant. I’m talking about the daily To-Do list. In these days when we’re focused on the power of relationships – be it IRL (that’s In Real Time, folks)…
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April 2 2013
Small bits of Fantasy and SciFi
Asimov’s and Sci Fi magazines are a great inspiration to me and my artwork. A collection of 6 or so short sci fi and fantasy related stories are held in a $10 book. For me the short form stories are just enough to build a world and deliver a concise story leaving plenty of room for your mind to travel. Many of the stories I used as scripts to create storyboards and Visual Development. Quite a few stories build settings that I would have never thought of or concepted. The short…
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March 7 2013
Language, Personality, and Computer Code
The last couple of weeks have been a flurry of activity. Along with our usual flow of production, we’re participating in Intel’s Perceptual Computing Challenge. Part of the process for entry included creating a working demo showing the basics of what we’re intending to do, take video of someone using the demo, and submit the code. Because we’re planning to create the app in Unity, this meant a crash course in how to connect Unity with the provided SDK (Software Developer Kit, tools and docs to help us get started)…
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February 26 2013
Conferences…as an attendee!?!
I had the pleasure of attending two conferences this past month that I wasn’t a speaker at. I got to attend them purely as a member of the audience. Those of you who are speakers know that this small shift in category of attendance really affects how you approach the conference; in this case I could chill, just listen, only participate in a conversation if I felt there may be a longer-term goal in there to pursue. But for the most part –I could be pretty dang anonymous and take…
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