#planet studio
I'm not sure that I would care to characterize it as "free of advertising". In
the "demo" issue, page 1,2 and half of 3 are basically just a reprinting of the
Yost Boutique and Schreiber Imagine brouchures on their IPAS routines — no
"review"-like comments, real info, etc. The other half of page 3 is a
press-release type feature list for 3DS r4. Page 5 is all press releases. Page
5 is the Fabulous Ed Kellerman's article on heirarchial-motion effects in
AniPro. Page 6 is an article on using 3DS on a network, but us "adapted from
the 3DSNET.TXT file in CompuServe's ASoft forum" — ie worthless to anyone
reading this message (in fact, as the "article" includes the <20 machines per
MCF, it's even less useful than a subscription to CIS, as Jamie's just
enlightened us). Page 7 is a one page article on Video Post, which, if this is
a "newsletter" for those with 3DS, it seems to provide no info or "tips" beyond
what's in the manual (less, actually). The final page is a continuation of the
networking article, a "how to contact us" and a Question/Answer section fielded
be the (equally – to EdK) Fabulous Brian Rudolph.
I've sent off a subscription, but if things don't get more weighty than
this…. For instance, I subscribe to a "newsletter" for Aldus Freehand users
called "Before&After". It's $36 for 6 issues. There are NO ads. No press
releases masquerading as "reviews". There's nothing but page after (full
color) page of neat effects and the exact how-to steps to achieve it, as well
as a letters section, and a "make-over" section where they take someone's
submitted publication and discuss the design/layout issues involved and how to
improve it. This publication is definitely "worth" it, even to me, and I don't
get to use Freehand _that_ much.
I HOPE that Planet Studio is a good (nay, great) publication. I'll give it a
chance to get on it's feet — but I can read press releases in any of the 10+
industry mags I get sent FREE. I don't need to pay big bucks for them.
Dave