Look What You're Missing! June/July 1999 NewTekniques ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- o TekTALK: Continuing the Vision - Joe Tracy announces the new editor-in-chief of NewTekniques. o FEATURE: Thumb Wars, Thumbville USA - Dick De Jong and Molly Dinkins take you inside the minds and office of O Entertainment, "The battlefield, is a studio in a rustic office park in San Juan Capistrano - the home of O Entertainment, the budding brain child of Steve Oedekerk. Inside Thumbville, animators, compositors, and editors were feverishly working their fingers to the bone to finish Thumb Wars, a hilarious parody of the original Star Wars films." o TUTORIAL: A Gas With Glass, Seeing Through the Mysteries of Transparency - Dave Jerrard teaches you the principles behind realistically modelling transparent objects. A tutorial for LightWave 3.5+ / 5.5+ o TUTORIAL: The Sky's the Limit, Using LightWave's SkyTracer Plug-In - Jared Brookes simplifies the use of the SkyTracer plug-in so you can make the most of it. o TUTORIAL: LightWave in Sony DCS, Parts 1 and 2 - "We start by coming through theater doors into a virtual movie theater, and move through five "worlds of entertainment" shown on the movie screen." Chris Seiler takes you step-by-step through the creation of a Sony Digital Cinema Sound LightWave promotional video. o TUTORIAL: ??? - A bonus surprise tutorial from Dave Jerrard. o TUTORIAL: ??? - A bonus surprise tutorial from Scott Wheeler. o Wave F/X: Starship Troopers, Bringing CG Characters To Life - Greg Nelson gives you an inside look at the all-CGI Starship Troopers television series. o Mojo: Star Wars: Episode 1, Bring Me the Head of Jar-Jar Binks - Mojo saw The Phantom Menace; but, did he like it? What advice does he have for George Lucas to consider while making the next epsiode? o Plugged In: Explosive LScript Programming, Part II, Projectile Motion - Bob Hood introduces the KaBob effectee script, so that you can get things in motion. o Renders - Artwork from Nick Boughen, Bobby Ware, Matt Thelin and Bob Varga. o NEW COLUMN LightWave Fundamentals: Disco Ball - An introductory tutorial series for LightWave 3D by Jared Brookes. In this first part of the series, learn how to model your own discothéque from the floor up. The Gateway (special section) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- o First Words: Customer Support - Words from dhomas trenn, "Service, more than a smile." o Second Words: The NEW NewTekniques Online - dhomas trenn introduces the new and enhnaced online bonus area for NewTekniques readers. o FEATURE: Fonts, Fonts, Fonts: A whole world of font fun ready and waiting for you - What if you could use TrueType fonts with ToasterCG? What if you could use standard postscript fonts in almost any Amiga program? Or maybe you're just bored of two-dimensional, one color fonts? dhomas trenn tells you how you can get around the Amiga's lack of support for TrueType and Type 1 format fonts in most Amiga applications, how to organize your fonts, how to speed up the font requester, and introduces you to some very impressive free and commercial font enhancement software. o REVIEWS: - Cine.Man Toast Project Studio One/Two, Font Machine, Candy Factory Pro, and Wedding Wipes. o Flying High: To Leave the Amiga or not to Leave... - The Video Toaster NT, is expected to be released in the very near future. Should you buy one immediately? Should you give up your Flyer? Flyer master Joe Tracy tells you what he thinks. o Toast Master: Seeking to Obscure - Bohus Blahut teaches techniques to hide a person's identity, obscure license plates, hide objectionable t-shirt messages, cover up nudity and more. Video and Audio solutions for your Video Toaster. o Image Effects - When cecilia gets going, there's no stopping her. This issue, you get not one, not two, but three ImageFX tutorials: o Color Curves - cecilia continues to share her image processing wisdom. This time, she's taking you on an excursion to the Culloden battlefield in Scotland, to explore the world of Color Curves. She's got knowledge from the nuns, tips for The Exorcist and X-Files fans, the low-down, the high-down and the mids in between. In case that isn't enough, there's more... o The Saga of the Ripple and the Wipe - The great tale of the adventure into the world of creating a ripple wipe effect. How to create a water ripple transition between still images or animation sequences. And more... o Safety In Numbers - With so many different aspect ratios and resolutions being used in video/film today, it can be a bit confusing and often difficult to make the proper adjustments (cropping, scaling, panning, etc.) when trying to move from one format to another. What's needed is a simple way to overlay Action and Title Safe Area guides so you can see what you're doing. Find out what it all means, and learn how to do it the easy way. o Silicon Alchemy: PowerPC and Reality? - What's all the fuss about? What can or can't PowerPC do for your Amiga? How good is it? What about the future? Dave Haynie answers these questions and many more. o Insight: Conversions - dhomas trenn gives you some insight on simple and quick language translation, reading Microsoft Word documents on the Amiga, accessing clip-art graphic formats, converting HTML to standard text, and quick ways to read FinalWriter and ProWrite documents. o The Idea Factory: Video Slide Shows - Bob Ketchum -chhk- has some great ideas -chhk- for making money. -chhk- This time -chhk- he tackles something so fundamental, -chhk- so easy, -chhk- that literally -chhk- NO prior experience is needed. -chhk- It's fast -chhk- and maybe fun too. This time, -chhk- it's Video Slide Shows. -chhk- He's also got some good advice on using copyrighted music in your productions. o Business Matters: First Impressions - We hear it all the time: First impressions go a long way. This is especially true in business relationships. A client's first contact with you can decide whether or not you will get their business. Join Kevin Hanley in Business Matters for some tips on how to make a good first impression. o The Producers' Lounge: Why Aren't You Surfing the Net? - Kermit Woodall takes you on a trip around the world wide web to get you acquainted with some important and useful information resources. o News - G3/G4 PPC Coming to Amiga, Amiga Changes Continue, Amigas at NASA, AmiWest'99. -- dhomas trenn ---------------------------------- Advanstar Communications --- Editor-In-Chief, NewTekniques magazine http://newtekniques.com/ - http://newtekniques.com/thegateway/