On creativity, brain trusts, Newt and fixing a Bolt. Two great articles discussing Pixar's inner culture and its current influence on Disney, one at the Harvard Business Review ("How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity"), and one at the New York Times ("Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup").

Who can deny it by now? If DV had been available in the late 1800s, film cameras would've never seen the light of day (pun intended). Now it's the turn of film projectors to go digital. Read the news at Digit Magazine.

Digit Magazine takes a look at Photoshop CS3.

Bit-Tech.net has a great article on recent hard drive developments and what the latest terminology means. It also mentions that larger capacity flash memory will soon be integrated to desktop hard drives, bringing drastic changes in data read/write speeds: "Hybrid technology will eventually move across to desktop drives [and] we will all be able to enjoy lighting fast boot times and that ever-pursued snappiness on the desktop."

Harry McCracken takes a first look at Corel Painter X for Digit Magazine.

Lev Manovich, a leading theorist of digital culture, media and art, and author of the fundamental book "The Language of New Media" has posted some interesting articles on his website discussing changes brought by After Effects, 3D applications and virtual cinematography (Gaeta's "Universal Capture") to visual aesthetics. Definitely recommended. (Note: articles can be found under the "NEW ARTICLES 2006" section)

3dsense Media School have posted an article on the development of a new version of CrowdIT, a crowd generation tool for 3DS Max. The article contains some UI screenshots and a brief document listing the new features of the upcoming version.   [ more... ]

MaxArea.com are offering a PDF article that compares 32-bit vs 64-bit Max 9 versions for $5. They have also posted a few videos that can be downloaded for free. Visit MaxArea.com for more.

Image Metrics' software captures nuances in facial expressions and leaves the dots in the jar. The New York Times has the article. (Login required)

Studio Daily has an interesting article by Debra Kaufman on Christian Volckman's "Renaissance" animated feature.