Adobe’s Procreate-like Digital Painting App Is Now Free for Everyone

Lifehacker: Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator are household names for creative professionals on Mac and PC (though Affinity is trying hard to steal those paying customers). But now, Adobe is gunning for the tablet drawing and painting market by making its Fresco digital painting app completely free.

The Subtleties and Dynamics of Job Costing Explained

www.signshop.com: How many times have you wondered how your competitor could afford to sell a job at a ridiculously low price? In many cases, the other guy actually can’t afford it. While these shops may cover their direct material and labor costs, they may not have allocated a reasonable share of the overhead.

Artists Use 14,000 Eyeglass Lenses to Explore Japan’s Landscape

mymodernmet.com: Nestled in the Japanese Alps, Omachi City has a unique relationship with water. In the winters, the shrinking city is blanketed with thick snow, while its summers are wet with heavy rain. It also boasts winding rivers, stunning mountainside lakes, and hot springs. The city’s natural surroundings have inspired a striking, site-specific installation composed of 14,000 prescription lenses.

LiveHear: interaction at large live events

LightSoundJournal.com: For a few years now, Emiliano Morgia has been living in Dubai and, together with his founding partner Gianni Bruzzese, has created the platform, LiveHear, which allows the public to enjoy large-scale events such as pyrotechnics or drone shows, visible from a great distance but not audible.

Plot Luck: Manny Treeson Lights Great Wolf Lodge

Live Design Online: Manny Treeson, a principal at NYX Design, has designed the lighting for Great Wolf Lodge in Perryville, MD. a BRC Imagination Arts project. "The lighting design for the Phase 4 Great Wolf Lodge is focused around support for the evening show titled, The Legend of Luna, and it also needs to create a totally different look and feels for the lobby throughout the day," says Treeson.

ETC Professor Provides a Practical Education in Horror

News - Carnegie Mellon University: From the very start, Comley, an associate teaching professor who teaches Experience Design and other entertainment classes at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), thought of her haunted houses as training grounds.

The Startling History of the Jump Scare

Atlas Obscura: One of the most iconic moments in Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie Carrie comes right before the credits roll. By now the titular Carrie is dead, having massacred her high school bullies, stabbed her abusive mother, and destroyed her family home with herself inside. After the dust settles, we cut to a dream sequence with the sole survivor of this killing spree, a teenager named Sue.

Q&A: Scenic & Lighting Designer Patrick Anthony Of Filigree Theatre

Live Design Online: Patrick Anthony is a freelance lighting and scenic designer who works regularly with Austin, Texas-based Filigree Theatre, The Vortex Repertory Company, Austin Shakespeare, and Capital T Theatre and internationally at the Dublin Fringe Festival. In addition to his work as a designer Patrick teaches stagecraft in the department of theatre at Southwestern University. Patrick is the recipient of the 2012, 2016 & 2021 B. Iden Payne award for Outstanding Lighting Design, as well as the 2016 & 2017 Austin Critics' Table Award for Lighting Design, and was recently nominated for two more B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Scenic Design and for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Filigree Theatre’s production of Antigone. He teaches Stagecraft in the Department of Theatre at Southwestern University.

Bloody Brilliant: Pre-College Students Learn with Carnegie Mellon Prop Department

News - Carnegie Mellon University: Wearing white coveralls while standing in front of plastic-covered shelves on each wall of the props department in the Purnell Center for the Arts, Arden Zemler Wu placed a capsule filled with fake blood into their mouth, then snapped it with their teeth so the gooey mixture oozed past their lips.

Best Cordless Drills for 2024

Pro Tool Reviews: For most people, a drill is the very first power tool they own. While things used to be as simple as choosing the brand you like, determining which is the best cordless drill for you can mean searching through hundreds of models.

2024 Latinx Theatre Commons National Convening

HowlRound Theatre Commons: The LTC will be partnering with the Latino Theatre Company to create programming specifically for the Commons during the second weekend of the festival. Participants at Encuentro will attend festival productions, dialogue with artists brought in from across the country, and have dedicated time to wrestle with theatrical forms, themes, and conventions. We seek to bring current LTC Steering and Advisory Committee, our partners, and community members together.

The magic of design

Dance Australia: After reading Emma Kingsbury's extensive CV, it was something of a surprise to see how young the face was smiling back at me on Zoom. At 36 years of age, Kingsbury is a theatre designer with a CV as long as Gandalf's beard. She has created sets and costumes for the whole gamut of the performing arts: film, TV, opera, ballet.