Awesome COOL 3D Artworks

Max-UK 3D Artwork - Armor, used under permission.

Ulead COOL 3D (C3D) and Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio (C3DPS) are 3D titling and animation softwares that you can use to create 3D logos and 3D animations. Before COOL 3D 3.5, people in Ulead only think COOL 3D can be marketed as a web animation and 3D titling tool. But when we saw Popov Vladimir (from COOL 3D Deisgn) to use COOL 3D to do 3D modeling and really did a good job, we were amazed by his talent and how COOL 3D can be used for, so we decided to include some 3D artworks from Popov in COOL 3D 3.5 (with Popov's permission) to let people know the capabilities of COOL 3D. And when we were developing COOL 3D Production Studio, the next version of COOL 3D 3.5 (we called it COOL 3D 4.0 at that time), we added a feature to import 3D Studio files and a Lathe Object Editor and FreeForm tool in C3DPS to let people do the 3D modeling more easily (these features were all done by me). I think we really did a great step in COOL 3D Production Studio. In today, Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio is still one of the best-selling products in Ulead, not only because it does good in web animation, 3D titling and 3D modeling, it now can also be used in DVD menu button creation and to create video animation frames in Ulead DVD and video products and other non-Ulead softwares.

It's really amazing to see someone using your tools to do some awesome artworks, especially when they are doing very well. Max-UK is another user of Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio. The first time I know him is in Ulead's official user web-board. At that time I enjoyed answering people's questions and help to solve the problems that people have with Ulead products in the web-board. Then I saw Max showed up in the COOL 3D board and kept posting about his amazing artworks by using C3DPS. After that, Max created a Renderosity user page to show his fine C3DPS artworks. He started from some 3D space ships, and now he is working on some 3D armors (the armor image you see in this article is also made by him a few days ago). He said he will continue to post some more 3D stuffs by using C3DPS, you can go to his Renderosity user page to see more.

Max, you really did great on this. It would be a pleasure to me to see your artworks. :)

Interesting Technology - Multi-Input Touch Screen

Just found the video on the net, and it reminds me about the movie, Minority Report. In the movie, Tom Cruise uses a light-sensing screen with his fingers to control the computer to search the criminal database for information. This video is much like the idea in the movie, but the computer screen in this video is a touch screen which can accept multiple inputs at the same time, also it can sense the finger pressure user pressed on the screen. If this video is not a fake, then I think it might change the user interface of many softwares in the future.

Update: I just found the video is really not a fake. You can find more information in here.

In my opinion, mouse and keyboard are really not suitable for human beings to input data. If we can find an new way to use the user interface, then we can make our lifes much better. Multi-Input Touch Screen might be a way to go, Voice Recognization might be another. Hey! What will happen if we integrate MITS with Ulead PhotoImpact or Voice Recognization with Ulead InstaMedia? That must be very interesting! :) However, it's not me to make decisions to support these technologies or not.

Technologies we see today is only a fiction yesterday. The world is really changing fast and we have to catch up. Maybe it's the destiny of a engineer.

Australian magazine PC Authority just give Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 a positive review

Today I just know from the Yahoo MUG group that the Australian magazine PC Authority just published a positive review in its March issue for Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8, however, it's still not published on the website of PC Authority. If you want to see it first, you can check the scanned image of the review provided by a MUG user, Richard Neale.

Hi Richard, if you do not want me to share the link, just let me know. :)

MSP8 got a 5 of 6 points in this review, I think it's not bad. As I've wrote in the Amateur Video Editing Group at Yahoo, I like MSP more than Ulead VideoStudio because MSP has much more freedom and possibilities to let me edit my video. I know there are still something in MSP needed to be improved, but that's what I thought about MSP, easy to use, creative and stable. I really like MSP a lot but will MSP survive in this competitive world? I (and many other Uleaders) do wish it will.

If you have any comments, let me know.

Peter Lin and Ookawara are blogging again

Peter is the Vice President of Ulead Asia-Pacific Sales Center, and also the General Manager of Ulead Japan and Ulead EU. Since last April he was blogging about his thoughts and feelings on his family, Japan and Ulead, but in October he had stopped the blogging for some reason. Now he is back on blogging again. Peter is a Taiwanese but because he is familiar with Japanese culture and is graduated from the Nihon Denshi College, a specialized information technology institution in Japan, so he moved to Tokyo with his family. If any of you can understand Japanese and wish to know something about Ulead or Japan, you can go to his blog to read some.


Ookawara, the Board Director of Ulead Japan and a Japanese, is also back on blogging on his life again, but it's still in Japanese. He usually writes about wine, sakei, movies and some Japanese cultures in his blog, maybe you will have fun on reading his blog.

Yesterday is the last day of the Chinese New Year vacation of Ulead headquarter in Taiwan. After this weekend we will go back to the office on next Monday. Just wish it will not be a mess day. :)