ImagineFX live chat

January 31st, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog

We're happy to announce that ImagineFX live chat has just been launched. So if you've ever wanted to talk in real-time to fellow digital artists, then click here to get started.

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PHP 4.3 required by WP 2.5

January 30th, 2008 by Ryan

WordPress has required PHP 4.2 or greater for awhile now. With WP 2.5 this will change. No, we’re not going to require PHP 5. We are merely bumping our requirement from 4.2 to 4.3. Some 4.3 specific functions slipped into WP 2.3, so we already have a 4.3 requirement in a few areas. Those accidental 4.3 dependencies haven’t created any great outcry, so a requirement bump to 4.3 seems safe for the vast majority of our user base. Moving our requirement up to 4.3 allows us to drop some PHP 4.2 compatibility code and forgo jumping through hoops to avoid using 4.3 specific functionality.

With PHP4 support being discontinued, we’ll be evaluating our PHP requirement with each release of WP. For now we’re being conservative with a move to PHP 4.3.

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Ballistic sale

January 30th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog

Hey, I realise that I'm confirming a stereotype here, but have you checked out the Ballistic sale? OMG, look at how much you can like, SAVE!

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Arty chocolate

January 29th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog

Following on from my shopping & art story, I give you... chocolate & art! Check out these choccy bars with lovely designs on them. I want. Place serious bets on my next story being about shoes. Oh yeah, and art.

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s/2.4/2.5/g

January 28th, 2008 by Ryan

As mentioned on several other blogs already, we are skipping the WordPress 2.4 release and moving on to WordPress 2.5 in March. We enjoyed the holidays a little too much and just didn’t have the time to finish the big features we are working on. We are considering building this extra time over the holidays into our roadmap. This would mean one less release per year. We’d release in Spring, Summer, and Fall, and then again in Spring of the following year. With six months of development time, the Spring release would contain the bigger features that don’t fit into the shorter Summer and Fall release windows. We’d also have some buffer so developers could be a little lazy over the winter holidays without having to scramble to release after the New Year.

So, look for WordPress 2.5 in March with some big new features.

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The future of character animation

January 28th, 2008 by roy spencer

The future of computer games and animated films is not in spaceships or dragons or laser death rays, but rather in the mysteries of the human heart. What makes a relationship really work? What is the magic within human bonds of friendship, sexual chemistry,...

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Friday 25th Jan update

January 25th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog

It's Friday once more, so that can mean only one thing - new site content! Today we have both a workshop and interview with the mega-talented Dehong He. See how Dehong paints water adventures in this workshop, and then find out about the young artist in this interview.

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3D World 101’s Quick Questions

January 24th, 2008 by Jim Thacker

Our Quick Questions in issue 101 span a range of topics: from the dynamics of ice to the use of particles to stitch a mosaic of small image tiles together into a larger composite image. Full-sized screesnhots and other supporting files, including scene...

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3D World 101’s Photoshop tutorial

January 24th, 2008 by Jim Thacker

Architectural visualisation work doesn‘t stop when you close 3ds Max. To create truly striking images, leading professionals carry out extensive Photoshop work on their renders. In our masterclass in issue 101, top international agency SPINE3D runs...

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Win copies of Turtle 4.1

January 24th, 2008 by Jim Thacker

Enter issue 101's prize draw and you could win one of two copies of Illuminate Labs' powerful rendering software, each worth $1,499 Enter our prize draw from issue 101, and you could win one of two copies of Turtle, Illuminate Labs’ add-on renderer...

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