Create Digital Motion

Motion graphics, live visuals, VJing, video production, and interactive art

NVIDIA Sets Notebook Graphics Drivers Free, Makes GPGPU, PhysX Mobile; ATI, Your Move 5 Jan 2009, 6:31 pm

Finally, NVIDIA extends a welcome mat. Photo by Anna Irsch.For graphics cards, drivers are everything: it’s just not possible to be on top of stability, performance, and functionality without access to new, stable drivers. But for Windows notebooks, unlike desktops, traditionally you had to turn to OEM PC vendors to get your NVIDIA graphics [...]

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Freeze Your Booty: Lemur VJing on New Year’s Eve in 10-Below Wind Chills 5 Jan 2009, 6:05 pm

Keep Your Resolutions Dance Party NYE 2009 from Robotkid on Vimeo.How did you spend your New Year’s Eve, visualists? And how much do you love live visuals and dancing?Our friend Robotkid (aka Josh Randall) just showed me this video of the frigid dance party in Boston, complete with –10-degree (Fahrenheit) wind [...]

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What Great Concert Visuals Did You See in 2008? 5 Jan 2009, 5:47 pm

Accent Feed of San Diego has a fantastic list of the 10 Most Innovative Concert Visuals ‘08. Now, I’m not normally a big fan of top ten lists, but in this case I couldn’t agree more with Migeux. And likewise, with the likes of United Visual Artists’ project for Massive Attack and the incredible Nine [...]

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Premiere CS4 Adds AAF, OMF, Final Cut Support; Celebrate File Freedom 2 Jan 2009, 6:40 pm

Adobe has quietly added some features to Premiere CS4 I would consider really huge. Adobe Updater is normally the little app that delivers Acrobat Reader updates what seems like every other weekday, but imagine my surprise when I opened it today: a little New Year’s present.AAF support (Advanced Authoring Format, an attempt to create [...]

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Happy New Year, Quivering in Processing 2 Jan 2009, 5:27 pm

Here’s another visualist way to celebrate the coming New Year, from Douglas Edric Stanley:twothousandnine(I’m not including a screen grab as that’ll kill the surprise.)Hmmm, perhaps a series?

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Happy New Year Stop Action, From Karsten Schmidt 31 Dec 2008, 8:44 pm

Happy 2009! from postspectacular on Vimeo.I can’t say it any better than this. A big Happy New Year to the planet. 2009 looks to be a breakout year for Create Digital Motion, with all we’ve got planned – starting with helping you get on top of your New Years’ Resolutions tomorrow [...]

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Free Video Converter for Windows, with Batch Processing, Splits, More 31 Dec 2008, 7:05 pm

Doing live visuals and other projects means sometimes endless conversion and editing tasks, but many of the dedicated tools for the job are just too much. I’ve been playing around with Video Converter from Extensoft, which is about perfect I think in terms of what you most often need to do. It’s an ideal [...]

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Christmas Lights, Controlled by Processing 29 Dec 2008, 6:05 pm

You’ve likely seen impressive sequenced Christmas lights in videos before. Very often, though, these setups use proprietary systems. Here, Processing makes it quick and easy to code lighting effects in a friendly, open-source environment. And, naturally, if you think you might want to do something like this and don’t want to wait for Christmas 2009, [...]

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“Shine on Me”: One Hilarious Music Video, Every Possible Fantasy Special Effects Cliché 29 Dec 2008, 5:35 pm

We are truly entering a glorious era of visual effects, one in which you won’t have to wait for epic, budget-blowing fantasy box office train wrecks (ah, Willow) just to see eye candy onscreen. Now you just need to wait for someone to blow a massive budget on a music video.Want proof? How about this [...]

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2009: The Year You Learn Processing 26 Dec 2008, 5:07 pm

All is quiet as this week folks celebrate Christmas and Hanukah. But this is a quick note to say that we won’t be waiting until the ball drops to jump start one New Year’s Resolution a lot of readers have: learning Processing, the artist-friendly, multimedia-savvy, open-source coding platform. We’ll be kicking off a series of [...]

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