“All of this stuff may or may not happen to be in a new version of After Effects at some future point in time, maybe.” That was the legalese they produce at Adobe… But at any rate, there are A FEW EXCITING THINGS you can look forward to:

Light Falloff -
Tired of those pesky lights being unrealistically bright and not conforming to our sketchy understanding of the physical universe? Worry no more! Now there is a built in slider that will simulate light-fall off from spotlights and more, so you can have murky shadows…

Rack Focus -
Possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen. They took a video of a boy pretending to hold something in his hand, animated in a ball of fire, separated the hand (foreground) from his face (bkgd) and then applied a rack-focus-map to all the layers. Then you just slide back and forth and viola, simulated rack focus!

Source Code -
all videos will be coordinated and you can switch between any source code you want… I’m sure editors are happy about that

Image caching -
each layer will individually cache their data, so if you change one little thing, it will take less time to update the whole image

Multi Ram Processing -
didn’t actually understand this, except that when you use it, limit the number of virtual CPUs, use a smaller amount of RAM, and disk caching will now default to 20gbs, and u should use it with an ext HD.

3D Glasses -
apparently they already had this filter, but now there will be a one click 3d-stereo-camera rig you can set up and different preview options to try out all the diff kinds of 3d glasses that exist today

RED film -
raw film data can be processed in AE, just like those snobby fashion photographers instantly color correct their pics on set

and finally…
WARP STABILIZATION & SUBSPACE CONTROL!!!!!
A new stabilization filter that uses a default cloud of 500+ tracking points to stabilize an image. We got to see all the crosshairs, but that won’t be available in the future. They had no idea how to term their controls, so one is actually called Subspace. It is all to reduce artifacting and warping around the edges of stabilized footage. Also cuts back on the amount of scaling and cropping. A vast improvement, but not universal for every shot. Personally I think it might cause a little motion sickness, but you’ll have to judge for yourself.

I was going to include a video preview of the Warp Stabilizer, but even though AENY promised it would be up the next day, all my Google efforts produce nothing but Star Trek engine designs…  but keep an eye out!

He doesn't have a tan... Superman.

Yes, friends, after this week we will have recorded 37 episodes of the New York Geekcast (”…in a row?”). And the topic for our latest outing is an oft-requested one: comics and comic books.

Since the scope this topic is rather broad, we’re making this a CALL-IN SHOW, and we want to hear from YOU. Visit our Facebook group for the phone number to call, and take part in our grand celebration of sequential art, tonight between 10:30 and 12pm EST. Talk to you then!

All the mics we wish we owned/used to record.

Have no fear faithful listeners, while we’ve been away for one hot minute we’re cooking up two new episodes that’ll be released shortly.

Obscure will be about our favorite rare movies, video games, and what not that we hope you go out and find and enjoy.

and…

Dungeons and Dragons will be about….well The Geeks playing Dungeons and Dragons with some good buddies of ours while we go over what we love about this role playing game.

Stay tuned!

The event will be held at 69th Regiment Armory @ 68 Lexington Avenue NYC. It starts at 11am on Saturday April 10th and we’re at table D2.

Both of us geeks will be selling various wares that we’ve created such as My Monster and Shapesmith Book, and David’s Little Guys short!!! We will also have a limited number of New York Geekcast posters to adorn your studio, bedroom or basement in your mom’s house.

And even if you don’t want to necessarily buy some of our awesome creations (Though why wouldn’t you?) you can still stop by the table and pick up a postcard, sticker, or just let us interview you about your love of comics and what you enjoy about MOCCA.

Nelson, Andrew and I will be attending the PAX East 2010 event in Boston next weekend, March 26th-28th. We’ll be trying to cover as much as we can as we wander around through the masses of gamers and games. What is PAX East, you might ask? For the uninitiated:

“PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers. Even with all this amazing content the best part of PAX East is hanging out with other people who know their shit when it comes to games.”

So if you’re going, be sure to look for us, and if not, you can check out our coverage here. If you have any questions or suggestions on things we should definitely see, leave us a comment or drop us an e-mail. We’ll see you there!

PAX East 2010

We’re going to be editing it this weekend, so that when Valentine’s Day rolls around
you have a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ to listen to while you cozy up together with your geeky dates.

…Don’t worry, it’s not Ghostbusters 2. We swear it’s better. Plus, no Yanoosh.

Thanks again to our listeners for calling in and making this record such a good time!

Hey peeps,

The New York Geekcast will be covering the Penny Arcade Expo 2010 in Boston this March 26th-28th.

Are you going? If so let us know. Perhaps we could interview you there!

For more information, visit the PAX East website by clicking here. Registration is filling up fast! Don’t delay!

Let’s try this again…

This Thursday, we will be recording episode 27 of the New York Geekcast, “Media Overload”.

We’ll be discussing how there’s way too many games, movies, shows, books, and albums that we’re trying to find time to play, watch, watch, read, and listen to. That is, if we can decide which of the dozens of multimedia players out there we want to consume this media on.

If you’ve got questions or other remarks on this episode, either leave us a comment on this post or shoot an e-mail to thegeeks@nygeekcast.com. Or find us on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks!