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Support the Students in the Mac Lab
Click DONORS at The Valhalla Foundation to become a Mac Lab Booster or click the Donate button to use PayPal (both are tax deductible)
100% of your donation will be used to purchase books, supplies, software, etc. for the students in the Mac Lab
Welcome to the Mac Lab
I'm completely redesigning the site this summer so things make look a bit unfinished for a while. (As if this could ever be "finished")
Visitors from the World Outside the Mac Lab
Please read the FAQ and Blog before emailing me
Parent/Student Info
Broadband, Flash Player, and QuickTime required. General Information about the Mac Lab (50 MB) | Absence/Tardy/Grading Policy (15 MB)
Syllabi for Digital Art | 3D Design and Animation | Multimedia Production (Adobe Reader required) and this Mac Lab Blog entry for other information
Assignments and other information may be found on class pages: Digital Art | 3D | Multimedia
All students are required to create and maintain a Website: Links to Student Websites
Best Student Work
Best Digital Artwork 720 x 640 | 900 x 800 (Updated May 7) | Download the .mov file 900 x 800 | 720 x 640 | 540 x 480
Best of 3D Animation Movies (Reload the page if a movie stalls) | Source for dynamic loading (fla only, not the movies)
Whoa! Check out the just completed Solitude Movie Trailer by Steven Moyer, Chris Jones, and Adam Lee (turn up the volume!) Interviews
Ace in the Hole by Adam Lee | Ben of the Dead by Adam Lee and Matt Ricacho
Best Websites of 07/08 School Year — Veterans: Mariam Bier | Bryan Binotti | Lauren Carlton | Kyle Haller | Alyson Varner | Bobby Lanes | Brian Fleming | Grant Gilligan | Steven Moyer | Hannah Johansen | Adam Lee | Alex Stockwell | Robbie Fikes | Rookies: Dylan Morrison | Sial Tamoor | Taylor Schmidt | Matt Semaan | Eric Cronkhite | Nolan Case | Jason Savage | Worth a look for one reason or another: Shaun Cunningham (watch the, um, unusual Flash movies) | Devon Murphy (surrealistic interface) | Grant McAlpine (click on The Pen)
Best Websites of 06/07 School Year: Daniel Fields | Kyle Russell |
Tutorials
The road to success in the Mac Lab
Mac Lab Saturday School
A new record >> 68 students came to the June 2nd 2007 MLSS! (The old record was 60) Here's a pic taken after some of the early-birds left. Here's an earlier set taken with a fisheye lens.
07/08 Dates: Sept 15, 22, Oct 6, 20, Nov 3, 17, Dec 1, 8, 15, Jan 12, 26, Feb 2, 23, March 1, 8, April 5, 19, May 3, 10, 31, -- 7:00 to Noon
Special Thanks for Helping to Support the Mac Lab!
A new Mac Lab section with tutorials for these great resources is coming soon
Maxon for continued support of our 3D students — Long live Cinema 4D!
Cineversity for the ever-growing Cinema 4D video tutorial library — 500+ tutorials and counting
3D Attack for the great monthly Cinema 4D magazine
MiniFonts and FontsForFlash for the best pixel fonts in the world!
CartoonSmart for the terrific Flash tutorials — An absolute treasure for the cartoonists in class
Pro Photo Secrets for Shane Goldberg's fabulous Photoshop tutorials — More treasure!
Ambrosia Software for Snapz Pro X, WireTap Pro, and iSeek — Fantastic utilities for the kids!
Stupendous Software for a myriad of iMovie plugins — Titles and effects galore
PotionFactory for PodcastMaker and VoiceCandy — Are students supposed to have this much fun?
SmileOnMyMac for DiscLabel — No more Sharpies for our CDs and DVDs!
Lemkesoft for the Graphic Converter — Opens and coverts any odd image formats
Graphic Authority for the Photoshop resources — Brushes and backgrounds and frames, oh my!
Realmac Software for RapidWeaver — For when we don't have time to Dreamweave(r)
Ergonis Software for PopChar X, KeyCue, and Typinator — Brilliant, time-saving programs
Flash Valley for the killer components — Fantastic new tools for the advanced students!
Linecraft for 7 Web Behaviors — Open browser windows with ease from within Flash
Rainmaker Research for SpellCatcher X — Not that students ever misspell words ;-)
Flying Meat (yes, Flying Meat) for FlySketch — Onion skinning the monitor (very cool program!)
Pangea Software for all those games — For the Game Art and Design program we're going to pilot
Photoshop Seminar/Field Trip Nov 3rd
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is hosting an all-day seminar at the San Diego Convention Center on Nov 3. Click here for more details. Update: 22 of us had a blast learning some great Photoshop techniques from Scott Kelby.
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