It looks like more Flash friends noticed my existence here at inperiod.com. Thanks to Pnut's Thoughts for mentioning me and a big thanks to the friends at Flazoom.com for linking back and for being a new potential daily reader...

A special thanks goes out to netdiver.net which is designed and operated by Carole Guevin. Netdiver is an excellent new media portal with daily news, news about the new media culture industry, snapshot galleries, portfolios, Flash galleries and so on... She just added thelinkz » to her Portals toolbox. Garole happens to be a respective contact for a long time, and I'm happy to expose more of Netdiver here and at thelinkz ». So again, stay tuned...

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As a Flash addict I supposed to be in love with vectors. I don't think so! I love pixels too. In fact, pixels rule. Don't know where am talking about? Funkreich does! Take a look at the art of pixelling explained in a short tutorial and don't forget to visit their flyer museum. A long time before a reasonable version of Flash came out, animated pixels ruled! Pixel Industries picked up the art of animated pixels in a thorough manner.

Yes, I'd like to share a portion of my extensive - still offline - resource of super pimp pixel pleasure. You might expect here more as well. Because I often bite off more than I can chew, so I must share the fruits from the pixel seeds before they are popping all over the place.

So I like to start with the designer's lunch boxes and the visual culture online magazines such as Pixelsurgeon, Australian INFront, Surfstation, Kiiroi, Onyro (alias Ant) and so on ... We understand design is kinky (DiK).

After that, I hope to share more pixel oriented projects like drupedesign, the Baby Factory by Charles Forman from setpixel.com. For know, you have to deal with Golden Shower, Habbo Hotel, Junkbot (Lego Build), macrocity, redmouton and something like the Official Nerd Olympics.

Yeah I know there's indeed some Flash involved and I also forgot to mention an awesome lot. But like I said, stay tuned for more pixel oriented eye catching goodies.

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A well known fact for the most computer graphics (CG) artists out there is the Free Maya Personal Learning Edition from Alias | Wavefront (Win/149 Mb, Mac/136 Mb).

Maya is a brilliant renderer. However, for the average amateur computer graphics artist, the price of the award winning Maya Complete software package has always been the greatest bottleneck. Therefore Alias | Wavefront announced the Free Personal Learning Edition of Maya. The only exception, or say requirement, for using the Personal Learning Edition is that you may not produce commercial films such as Final Fantasy and the package may not be used by training centers or academic/educational institutions for instructional purposes.

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