Inside Digital Design: Art 3.0 with Dr. Woohoo!
Adobe Configurator, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PatchPanel, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe SwitchBoard, Algorithmic Art, Apparel Industry, Chuck Taylor, Color Visualization Art, Conferences, Converse, Coverage, ExtendScript ToolKit, Fashion Industry, Flash Plug-ins, Generative Art, Generative Design, Generative Surrealism, Inspiration, Mass Customization, Textile Design Add commentsScott Sheppard and Gene Gable were kind enough to spend some time with me discussing art, the tools that empower us and some of the inspiration behind some of my artwork on their show Inside Digital Design Radio & TV.
“Drew Trujillo, Designer –better known as Dr. Woohoo! joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Gene Gable this week to share his background and an inside look at his amazing design work. Fusing the best of art, technology, and design Dr. Woohoo’s technical and programming background help him to bring his visions to life. Drew explains, although his early background was in traditional mediums he soon became passionate about animation and digital art applications where his current expertise tests the boundaries of Adobe’s Creative Suite.”
11/15/08- Art 3.0 with Dr. Woohoo!
Inside Digital Design Radio & TV is a weekly broadcast program providing news, information, product reviews, and in-depth interviews for today’s creative professional. Covering the latest digital design tools, tips and techniques, insights from industry icons and designers, anecdotes from the history of design, and a good dose of creative inspiration. The original content is distributed and produced by Inside Media Networks. The show airs weekly in key U.S. national markets and is then made available to a global audience, online and as a podcast via Apple’s iTunes.
DIY: Extending the Creative Suite
Curious about writing your own scripts to generate artwork and this is all new to you? As I mentioned in the show, if you’re interested in extending the Adobe Creative Suite applications beyond the capabilities of Actions, here’s what I recommend: 1) Start with Adobe’s Configurator. It’s a wonderful tool for creating your own toolbars into Flash plug-ins. Here’s some more info on how you can download it, etc.: Adobe Configurator and beyond… 2) Next up is Adobe’s ExtendScript Toolkit. You probably have this application installed on your computer. Get comfortable with the JavaScript reference guide associated with the Adobe application you are interested in controlling. When you have created a few scripts, you can then combine these scripts with the Configurator so that you can launch them from your Flash plug-in and integrate it within your custom toolbar; and finally 3) to have nearly complete control over extending the CS applications requires some experience with Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe SwitchBoard (connects the dots between AIR applications and Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and/or Adobe PatchPanel (connects the dots between Flash plug-ins that run within Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) – the last two are SWC libraries available for free from Adobe Labs. If you’re comfortable with writing code in Flex Builder, definitely check these tools out – they’re creatively empowering. If you prefer to simply take advantage of tools that other people make, stay tuned and I’ll post them as they come in.
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