Monthly Archives: April 2012

About Avid Sibelius 7 First

Whether you are songwriter, aspiring composer, student or teacher Avid Sibelius 7 First is the easiest, fastest way to share and write music. Even if your comfort level is more with instruments than notation software you will find the interface an intuitive guide for your songwriting process. Continue reading

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336 New Colors Added to Pantone Plus Series

Pantone has announced the addition of 336 new colors to the popular Pantone Plus Series. This means that the Plus Series now offers 1677 colors. These new colors were designed to provide more flexibility and a great range of options. Continue reading

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What’s New with Adobe Creative Suite 6 for Students and Teachers (CS6)

Adobe CS6 is here promising to unleash creativity and prepare students for success. Adobe CS6 software offers a whole new experience for the development of digital media. Continue reading

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Repeat of “Introducing Game Design in your High School” Webinar [Thursday 4/26]

We’ll teach you how to use 3d content like items created in Autodesk Maya, Revit, Inventor, 3ds Max and others to create games, interactive content and mechanical/architectural visualizations. Great resources and training sources will be shared. Continue reading

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Observations from the NYSTEEA Conference

It’s always great to hear success stories from the schools, and this show was no exception. There are always teachers who are happy to share their positive experiences from the classroom. It makes what we do very gratifying. One particular teacher explained how his classes were creating some fantastic, realistic architectural renderings in Autodesk Revit. Continue reading

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Getting Girls Interested in Pursuing STEM-related Careers

This new infographic reveals how societal perceptions of gender play a big role in how young girls view STEM. Girls start off by taking a higher number of math and science classes and even get better grades. But they start losing confidence at some point. Continue reading

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Webinar Alert: “Introducing Game Design for College/University”

Professors, Deans, curriculum directors and career and technology directors are welcomed to participate in this free webinar. During the webinar we will go over methods to bring game design programs to Colleges and Universities. This is a perfect addition to animation programs plus there are also benefits to architecture and engineering programs. Continue reading

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How to Record Music with a Computer Part 2: Setting Up

Ok, now you are at the point where you made the commitment, you are going to record music with your computer and have bitten the bullet and bought your software and hardware. Now you have to plug all this stuff in and make sure it all talks to each other. Continue reading

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“Create Your Own Virtual 3D Army” Webinar from Autodesk

Take a tour of Autodesk Softimage 2013 Crowd FX technology with Mark Schoennal, Autodesk Technical Specialist. Learn what Crowd FX is and how to use it to create large numbers of interacting 3D characters to create crowd simulations that will impress. Continue reading

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Building an Amazing Tool for Flash Games: Adobe & Unity

Adobe announced last week that they are working with Unity Technologies to develop the best tool for creating content for the Flash platform. Continue reading

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