(Available in the iTunes App Store for the iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. The app is free to download, while single-issue prices are $4.99. Subscription to the magazine for 1 year is $18.99 for 4 issues) Along with my early love for animation, I also became intrigued by special effects as a youngster. Cinefex Download FreeTrekstor ereader suite download. My mind was blown seeing DeLoreans disappear in a flash of smoke and fire trails, of animated characters moving real-life chairs around, and in 1993, seeing computer-generated dinosaurs that just had me wishing my family’s Macintosh Performa could do what I was seeing on the big-screen! Unknown to me at that time, the magazine world had a publication that would be a dream come true for my ‘acquired tastes.’ I still remember going down to Cedar Rapids, IA in December of 1997 with my family, and visiting the Barnes & Noble there (the closest one to my hometown of Waterloo, IA at that time). I had been amazed by James Cameron’s Titanic a few days before, but almost every store had already sold out of the official movie ‘companion’ book. It was while perusing the periodicals, that I came across Issue 72 of Cinefex. That $8.50 purchase was like a portal to me. Encased within, were stories and anecdotes on bringing back to life the once proud ship, and then sinking her using as many modern day effects tools as possible. Cinefex also broke down the different effects shots by company (over 14 in all!). Over the next 15 years, I’d purchase the magazine periodically, and read up on some of the films I was most curious about. Cinefex would often cover films that I couldn’t find detailed making-of material anywhere else (such as A.I. Artificial Intelligence). After buying an iPad 2 in 2011, I was hesitant to actually buy any magazines or subscriptions for my newsstand app. Entertainment Weekly just didn’t do it for me anymore, and I was wary to drop money on the UK’s Empire magazine (not that they aren’t a good publication, I’m just a little too cheap). But to me, the iPad’s screen seemed the perfect size to be filled with the pages of Cinefex. It just so happened that the magazine was also eyeing the realms of digital publication, and in August of 2012, they released their app, designed by New Scribbler Press. The scrolling menu showing all of Cinefex’s issues. Once the application opens, you are treated to a horizontally-scrolling ‘issue library,’ showcasing covers from every issue of Cinefex. Any issues you purchase will be seen above the library area, in a zone marked ‘My Issues.’ Currently, issues #128 to the most recent issue are available for single purchase, but there are expectations that soon, the entire Cinefex library will be available for single-issue purchase. As of my writing this review, issue #127 is available as a free download to test the app’s capabilities. However, I decided to actually complete a purchase, and went for issue #130, which detailed the effects work of such summer productions as Marvel’s The Avengers, and Prometheus. Price-wise, paying $4.99 for a digital edition of the issues feels more comfortable to me than paying $12.50 for a printed issue (and a little easier than scoping out multiple Barnes & Nobles for the latest release).
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