Graphics

WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilities that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum. In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library. The library includes 23 Effects and 26 Transitions and is available with source code…

After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the…

Crytek had their new CryENGINE 2 on show at GDC and we caught up with Martin Mittring, Lead Graphics Programmer on the CryENGINE, for all the juicy details on the graphical guts behind their upcoming DirectX 10 monster Crysis

If your friends are anything like mine- you guys love to settle in front of the TV and watch Jack Bauer kick ass on 24. Well- the season premiere episode this year created a ton of buzz amongst digital artists and graphic animators. Jarrod Davis of Zoic Studios created the most realistic, brilliant…

Tina and I checked out the AMD booth at GDC 2007. On display was the new AMD Imageon mobile graphics chipset and Drew Angeloff who helped explain to us exactly what a graphics chipset is and what exciting new technologies are coming to mobile graphics from AMD in the very near future. Check out…

This booth at TechFest was sooooo much fun. It made me want to run home and get on video messenger with my friends. They've taken some advanced digital effect concepts and simplified them so that we can use them in our every day internet life. You can add special effects to your videos, do it live,…

Microsoft Windows Vista offers a dramatically improved gaming experience on the PC. It has an improved graphics driver model that makes it easier to install new graphics cards as well. We now have access to THE GAME FOLDER, which you can find from the START MENU which gives you a nice pretty list…

Our good friend and animator Ted Bracewell has kindly produced another animation for us. This time he's back with Alien Wasps! He also spent some time to show how he actually created the animation. Check out the video here.  Enjoy!

Friend and animator Ted Bracewell has graciously put together this brief how-to-create an animation cartoon for 10. The actual video for this how-to is right here. To get a glimpse of some past cartoons and one of my personal favorites check out Constipated Johnson. Now, I will let Ted take…

For a few years now I have been a huge fan of artist Ted Bracewell. He's designed some personal comics for me over the years and his short animated films are some of the best around. He's clever, creative and as you will see, really funny. To make constipated Johnson he used mostly adobe products…