Eden Maxwell guides members of the Metropolitan New York Macintosh Alliance through the process of "Video Storytelling on a Less-than-Indie Budget" using FotoMagico and the iLife suite in MetroMac's December 2006 newsletter.

Our customer Eric has a couple of items for sale which might be interesting needing a high resolution video camera to work with iStopMotion:

Basler 102fc Video Camera

Condition : Mint (only tested). Click here for Specs.
New Price $3850; Eric's Price $3000

Edmund Optics M6Z 1212 TV Zoom Lens 12.5mm-75mm

Very nice lens. Condition : Mint (only tested). Click here for Specs.
New Price $315; Eric's Price $225

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Ian Grant, Lecturer in Digital Art at Thames Valley University, has posted a couple of very innovative and interesting Quartz Composer related projects on his website:

• Quartz Composer and the Nintendo Wii Remote - QCWii a demo application (with source) making use of the open source "Darwiin-Remote" framework and a Nintendo Wii controller.
• Digital Puppetry Project Using Quartz Composer - involves chroma keying and other elaborate techniques.
• Movie Time-line Thumbnail Viewer
• Tiger Reflections Patch Version 2 - Can be turned into a Final Cut Pro plugin using FxFactory.
• Iris Transition
• Aqua Style Circle

Very cool stuff!

This is a great opportunity for some of you aspiring animators to get a foot in the industry: Cuppa Coffee wants your animated shorts. They are looking for exciting talent to be part of a new animated television and web series for a teen and up audience. Detais and submission information is available on their website. The deadline is May 1st, 2007.

Katrin Rothe answers this question in 9 cutout animations she cut together into a 4 minute movie, available in iPod format from her website. The animation has been received enthusiastically when opening for a short film festival at the Central in Berlin.

Set Structure Member is a Quartz Composer modifier patch and can be used to do two things:

1. Create a structure from scratch or
2. Modify an existing structure.

Quite a few built-in patches in Quartz Composer work on structures or deliver structures as output. There are also patches to get data out of structures, e.g., Structure Key Member. However, we felt it a limitation that there is no way to create or (programmatically) modify a structure inside Quartz Composer compositions. This is why we created a custom patch for doing exactly that. Look at the bundled demo composition for a simple example.

Boinx_Set_Structure_Member_1.0.zip
Zipped Directory, 64 KB
For Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

The 2nd CocoaDevHouse Munich is happening at our offices on Saturday, Feb. 24th starting 10am. Already a number of top notch Mac developers have signed up. See you there ...ahem here.