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NAB 2012 – Maya Hotkeys in Max 2013

April 22, 2012

Categories: 3D Printing   Community Events   News

At NBA 2012, Pedro chats it up with Gary M. Davis, Senior Technical Specialist at Autodesk. You can find him on the autodesk Area blog, and today he’s going to talk about Interoperability in 3D Studio Max 2013.

  • Interaction mode suports Maya HotKeys
  • Maya Navigation conrols
  • Interoperability with the suite
  • Full body Ik in Motion Builder
  • Motion Capture with Microsoft Kinect Drivers by Brekel
  • Xsens motion capture rig
  • Facial animation with Facewatetech.com

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NAB 2012 – Max 2013 Scaling Units for 3D Printing

Categories: 3D Printing   Community Events   News

Pedro chats it up with Gary M. Davis, Senior Technical Specialist at Autodesk about unit conversions for printing real world objects in 3D Studio Max 2012.

  • Interoperability with Maya and other formats
  • Photometric based system units

Tips for Properly scale objects for 3D printing

  • Systems based on real world properties
  • Set up and Match system and display units
  • Reference size of build platform for 3D printing
  • Reset scale transformations to match system units
  • Reset units by scaling components

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NAB 2012 – Maya 2013 Highlights

April 21, 2012

Categories: Community Events   News

Pixil crew makes it out to NAB 2012. Pedro gets an exclusive talk with Daryl Obert, technical marketing at Autodesk on the new cool stuff in Maya 2013. You can find Daryl on the Autodesk Area blog, and today he’s going to show us some cool stuff for Maya 2013.

  • Viewport 2.0 Depth of field
  • Preview DOF rigged cams
  • Sibl support
  • Unified Node Editor
  • Combines Hypershade, Hypergraphy/Dependency Graph
  • Drivable ramp shaders
  • Send to 3D Studio Max
  • Maya Hotykeys in Max

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Promtr the Best Teleprompter for the iPad

February 29, 2012

Categories: Development   News

We are on the cusp of launching the first of many practical utility apps that will aim to increase productivity by streamlining efficiencies.  Promtr is currently submitted to Apple for review and anticipation is building for its release.

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Leveraging the Check In

Categories: Marketing

Food for Thought

First off, Happy Leap Day!

As I sit here over a cup of coffee staring out of the 50 year old windows of one of West Palm Beach’s most delectable breakfast restaurants, I pause to reflect on the disservice of not offering a check in deal on Foursquare.  You’re probably thinking, it’s a 50 year old diner, what do you expect?  The truth of the matter is that this place is although, yes, very old it is the antithesis of a stereotypical blue hair southern diner.  Psychedelic art lines the painted brick walls and indie music or rock reverberate the Bose speakers throughout.  This old diner is a hot spot for late night dinning and should be astute enough to know that they need a checkin special.

To their credit, it appears they’ve taken at least a little bit of time to register for  the “American Express Shop Small” campaign but that doesn’t help me considering I don’t use an AMEX card.

So, what am I really saying?

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Go-to Marketing Research Websites

January 30, 2012

Categories: Marketing

Any good Marketing Strategist will tell you that strategy is all about research.  With that, you can save a lot of time by bookmarking and subscribing to credible sources.  Here are a few sites that we use as our go-to marketing resources:

 

E-Marketer - Digital Marketing Intelligence for Business

E-marketer is a go to resource for topics such as Social Media, Branding, or Consumer Behaviors and more.  One of the best things about e-marketer is that every story comes with a companion graph or chart that illustrates relevant data pertaining to the topic like the one below.

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Top 10 Thingaverse Models for your MakerBot

January 27, 2012

Categories: News

As our team anticipates the arrival our of first Maker Bot, we’ve been spending a lot of time in front of our white board, brainstorming and sketching concepts, opportunities and ideas. We can’t wait to start printing off our own stuff!! When we run out of ideas, we found a site that can always provide inspiration from the wonderful community at Thingaverse.com.

As designers, musicians and geeky people, we have our own taste of practical tools we can’t wait to get our hands on.  So we’ve put together a list of our favorite thingaverse STL models.

Headphone Shelf Hook

For every audiophile, having a dedicate place to put those big headphones away makes perfect sense with the Shelf Hook. The simple and clean design promises a clean and productive workspace with an easy access to those bulky portable stereos.

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Bringing in the New Year 2012

January 2, 2012

Categories: News   Photography

This new years eve, we decided to venture out downtown and capture a long exposure time lapse. Shorter then we expected, we put together a glimpse of our night in West Palm Beach. Armed with LED glowsticks and flashlights, we managed to capture a few cool light paintings. Interestingly enough, we captured the attention of two on-lookers who joined in the light painting fun (shouts out to you Nick & Natasha!) From everyone at the Pixil team, we wish you all a very happy New Year!

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