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Installing Maya for OS X
Using the Terminal and setting up a root password
by David Nagel
I've never written a tech tip on how to install any application on the Mac before. But let's face it: OS X is different, and sometimes you're going to have to do some very un-Mac-like things to get around in it. So today we're going to take a look at the first application I've encountered for OS X that requires you to go into the Terminal program and engage in a little Unix-speak to get it working. Regardless of whether you plan to use Maya at any time, this is stuff you'll have to do eventually anyway, so you might as well follow along.

Bazley Films Goes to the Park
Animator Richard Bazley starts the second in the Edwin Carp series
by Frank Moldstad
With the critical success of his new animated short film, The Journal of Edwin Carp, Richard Bazley has relocated from Los Angeles to his native England to set up his own company and make a sequel—The Return of Edwin Carp.

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Saving Face -- FaceStation's Sensor-Based Technology Makes Facial Capture Quick and Easy
Real-time Capture or Capture From Previous Videos
by Denise Harrison
Let's face it. Capturing a performer's mug for animated characters - shape as well as expressions - is tedious, and accurately portraying different expressions is a tricky job. Eyematic's FaceStation uses sensors, not markers, for creating and driving facial character animation in real time.

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