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It’s possible to create symbolic links in Windows Vista just like in Unix. This is helpful if you need to make a directory or file appear to be in different location. In a command prompt:
mklink /D d:\alias_location d:\actual\location\of\directory
The /D stands for directory link, because file links are also supported. Even better, [...]

Hey gang,
working on some characters with secondary motion I came up with a pretty simple spring op including some caching / plotting functionality and thought I’d share it.

When you start building new tools or a new pipeline you have to answer quite a few artist-centric questions such as what you want these tools to do and how they will fit into the workflow. You also have to answer a few technical questions unless you might wind up in a quagmire consisting of [...]

I’ve finally decided to pipe the site’s RSS Feeds through Feedburner.
Update your subscriptions if you wish. The links can be found in the footer, entries to the left and comments to the right.
Cheers!

I think this will be the year that 64-bit Windows really takes off.
We’ve getting more 64-bit machines out to developers and testers. The advantages and problems of 64-bit are pretty much the same as two years ago, when I first wrote about the lack of QuickTime support on 64-bit.
32-bit on 64-bit
The first thing you [...]