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  • Adobe Muse – Yay or Nay?

    Below are two articles to check out from CreativeBloq.com that talk about the good and the bad of Adobe’s Muse software. The first article is from 2011, which includes a handful of developers’ critique and the other article is a bit more recent (June 2014), talking about Muse CC.

    http://www.creativebloq.com/creativity/developers-respond-adobe-muse-8112915

    “Web designers are finally understanding the web as a medium in its own right, aspiring to be accessible and device-agnostic. Now Muse strives for print-like perfection, regardless of how many images and conditional comments that requires. This is misguided.” – Tom Muller, Graphic Designer

    http://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/muse-cc-hands-review-61411870#null

    Also of note is Muse’s good integration with Photoshop CC, which is always important to the design process and moving from mockup through production.

    In my opinion, up-and-coming graphic designers are doing themselves a huge disservice by not learning how to code HTML and CSS. They would be holding themselves back from a HUGE area of job opportunity. As a tool that aids in creating a low-touch interactive wireframe mockup, Adobe Muse definitely cuts the time down significantly for designers, and brings it up a notch visually (rather than annotating functionality from a static Photoshop wireframe). However, given alot of the hiccups that Muse presents, getting a high-touch website from the software is far-fetched, and you’ll lose that saved time recoding/redeveloping the site afterwards.

    In summary, LEARN CODE KIDS!

    -Cory

  • Sync 2d artwork with your movement, using Adobe Character Animator

    Sync 2d artwork with your movement, using Adobe Character Animator

    Adobe wows the design world yet again. With Adobe Character Animator, you can bring 2D image artwork from Photoshop or Illustrator to life by capturing your performance using a camera and microphone, reproducing your facial expressions, synchronizing mouth movements to your speech, and giving you control over all aspects of a character’s movement through the mouse, keyboard, and programmable behaviors.

    While I don’t see this taking over traditional animation methods any time soon, it seems like it will stir the pot for animators, both aspiring and old school. The movement interaction/artwork sync alone shows that this software will be a fun time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of internet cartoon shows come out of this, what with the high-quality/low-budget appeal that Adobe Character Animator has. If anything, I can see this tool saving a lot of time with pre-production for animators.

    The software will be installed along with the new After Effects release. There hasn’t been a release date set by Adobe as of yet, but I’ll definitely keep my eyes open for it.

    Read more details here.