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South Africa’s New Media Events, Conferences and Expos

Here's a list of regular, worthwhile-looking New Media events. By that, I mean to exclude print media and advertising unless the primary focus is online. I'll add as I notice others.
Web, software, digital design, development and internet entrepreneurship events are welcome. I'll also note those I have attended and add some micro-reviews when I have [...]

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PC)

Here's my Dreamweaver CS4 two-page keyboard shortcut cheat sheet for PC.
OS X version coming soon..
Download Dreamweaver CS4 Shortcut Sheet V1 for PC here(129KB)
You may also like the Adobe Flash CS4 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet.
Trevor Morris inspired me to do this with his great Photoshop Shortcut sheets.

Adobe Flash CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PC and OS X)

Here's my Flash CS4 two-page keyboard shortcut cheat sheets for both OS X and PC.
This is Version 2, with clearer bold sub-menus.
Download Flash CS4 Shortcut Sheet V2:
Mac OS X (251KB)
XP/Vista PC (254KB)
You may also like the Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 PC Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet.
Trevor Morris inspired me to do this with his great Photoshop Shortcut [...]

Dynamics Workshop: Cinema 4D

Client: Multinational media training institute
Location: London, UK
Date first run: February 2006
Involvement: Entire process, solo project
Applications: Cinema 4D
Target: Potential 3d and multimedia students

Here's most of the media from one of my 'complete beginners' workshops. They were created a while ago but work fine in newer versions of Cinema 4D (principles and tools are the [...]

Modelling Workshop: Cinema 4D

Client: Multinational media training institute
Location: London, UK
Date first run: August 2006
Involvement: Entire process, solo project
Applications: Cinema 4D
Target: Potential 3d and multimedia students
I ran this workshop several times throughout 2006, as a promotion for a 3D Animation diploma. The workshop was aimed at complete beginners not only to 3D, but often to application use in [...]

Animation Schools

We all hear Gnomon (Hollywood) and VanArts (Vancouver) being namedropped all the time, but here's a look at some of the big name schools from the Animex festival.

Supinfocom Arles, France
Ecole des Metiers du Cinema d'Animation, France
Ecole Emile Cohl, France
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK
Glasgow School of Art, UK
Thames Valley-Ealing, UK
Duncan of Jordanstone [...]

Keyframing in 3D Apps

Keyframing in 3D applications - soft interpolation vs linear
Hi, prompted by a question by Jason, here's a look at what happens and why when you keyframe in Cinema 4D.
As default, Cinema 4D uses curves between keyframes, making your animation smooth, which is usually a good thing.
However, look at the following example. Lets say I want [...]

The Evolution of Video Games

SifR Embedded Web Typography

"A small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics."
There is a way to embed any font into your webpage, and retain good web standards. Try selecting the title text on the website [...]

Lazy guide to Ajax

We all hear about Ajax constantly touted as an indispensable technique. It has risen 578 places on itJobsWatch since last year, the biggest increase of all keywords harvested by the site. But what is it and how is it being used, in a nutshell?
1) Ajax is a group of technologies, and a specific way of [...]