http://www.bandofhorses.com
Very Simple Very Clean Very Nice – Check it out.

Found a great site with downloadable sound effects to enhance your major projects and its legal – people get payed to upload their own stuff and then you get to download their MP3  loops, songs and sound grabs from every imaginable noise generating object in the solar system for free.  Check it out and use it to make your project really sing. 

http://www.soundsnap.com

Also a very neat little game tutorial for Flash that will get you gaming it up in no time.  Simple and highly playable space invaders platform.  Get into it.

http://www.gameinnovator.com/quickflashgame.php

http://tv.adobe.com
It’s free and it’s excellent. Get into it.

 Blender 2.5  includes a whole new interface, great new modifiers and text driven command searches and much more.  I really like the look of it, am amazed by the way the smoke and liquid modifiers/simulations work and I’m looking forward to using it.  Check it out at Blender Nation.  Some might say 2.5 is for Blender what Obama is for the US.  I probably wouldn’t go that far.  Keep your eye out for more Durian previews too.

http://www.blendernation.com/index.php?s=Blender+2.5

Pixel Pinkie launched today on WIN TV in Tassie and NINE on the big island.  While I didn’t watch the first episode I would be interested to see what sort of flavour the series has.  The audience is tweenage girls and the content of the website is similar to other  multi-platform media merchandising machines.  The website is very well put together with clear and contemporary styling and ease of navigation and some interesting little features like using ”pixels” to buy stuff to do up your own virtual world and a home page that responds with interactive niceities to your mouse overs

In terms of the content of the TV series I wonder whether Blue Rocket has broken any new ground or just recycled the same cultural forms saturating ABC Kids and other cartoon and child oriented TV.   Blue Rocket’s blurb would indicate that the overall plot is about challenging the current stereotypes on modern feminine beauty and coolness with a “being true to yourself ” theme running through the series.  Does it acheive this purpose?  Well that remains to be seen.  What do you think?  Was it worth the $650,000 that Screen Tasmania invested in the show?  Does it raise the bar for children’s television in content, style and purpose?  Does it help to give Australian media production more credibility or less?  Or is Pixel Pinkie just more of the same and soon to be forgotten?  Vote in the poll and leave a comment. 

For all those Pre T’ C,G &D students it is well worth noting the fact that Blue Rocket is on the up and up have a lot of  interesting stuff  to play and view on their website.  They are FLASH fanatics with great ideas for functional navigation, nifty layout and simple yet effective 3D visualisations and animations.  Check it out. Research them,  contact them and get inspired to make your own cool stuff.  Enjoy.

http://pixelpinkie.tv/

http://www.blue-rocket.com.au/homepage.html

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/28/87341_tasmania-news.html

Mr Kuilenburg recently won the UTAS advertisement competition.  Well done Mr. K!

http://tools.themercury.com.au/video/video_popup.php?vid=1555

This is a great little animation builder.  Good for a laugh and a powerful tool to test your storyboards, listen to dialogue and share your ideas with others quickly.

Google xtranormal  – For some reason the links kept taking people to my facebook login – dodgy.

http://designcentral.wordpress.com/videos/