1. Stylit (Paul Asente)
If you’ve always wished you could draw better but never knew how, this is probably the thing for you. Engineer Paul Asente has come up with a technology that lets you draw any 3D model by simply shading a circle. Yes, add the highlights and shadows in the colors you wish, and Stylit will transfer those to a perfect 3D shading.
2. Syncmaster (Michael Cragg)
If you’ve ever tried to sync music to video, then you’ll probably want this next technology. Syncmaster analyses the waveform of any audio clip to pick out the highlights. It then displays those highlights as lines on the waveform that you can then match your video cuts too. Very handy!
3. LoopWelder (Geoff Oxholm)
If you’ve ever tried to extend a video by looping it, you’ll know that loops can be very obvious when the end point of the loop doesn’t match well with the start point. LoopWelder solves this by analyzing the video to find all the possible loop points within that clip. That way, it can randomly switch between loops for as long as is required.
4. ConceptCanvas (Hailin Jin)
ConceptCanvas allows you to do quick and accurate searches for images with context. For example, if you want to create a poster with a person carrying a backpack, you can simply draw a blue rectangle and label that “person”. When you search “person carrying backpack”, ConceptCanvas will return images of people with backpacks, orientated to the same direction that your blue rectangle is.
5. InterVector (Holger Winnemoeller)
InterVector allows you to quickly produce vector drawings from scans or photographs of objects, without using the pen tool. The simplified tool provided automatically detects lines and contours, so you don’t really need to plot points. You can refine the selection by adding or removing areas, and simple sliders allow you to further refine the vector shape produced.
6. Wetbrush (Zhili Chen)
Wetbrush could well be a mixed media artist’s dream. What it does is it pairs with a regular tablet to allow you to draw or paint with various types of media like oil or gauche. The system will adjust the pressure and flow of the pen so it feels like you’re painting with that exact media. After you’re done, you can send the image to a 3D printer to have it printed out so you can for example, truly create an oil painting on your computer.
7. QuickLayout (Danielle Morimoto)
When you’re doing a layout for print or web, the worst thing that can happen is for someone to request for the insertion of an additional image at the very last moment. With QuickLayout, insert an image into a row of images and they all automatically resize to fit the row. You can choose to add gaps between the images, or to shift images to separate rows. Either way, the entire document responds to the changes in layout automatically so you don’t have to change the entire piece.
8. SkyReplace (Xiaohui Shen)
We’ve all been there. You’ve just found the perfect spot for a great photo opportunity, but the skies are overcast and there’s nothing but grey. SkyReplace makes it easy for you to insert your own sky into your photos, letting you search for appropriate skies directly within the program itself. What’s impressive though, is how it adjusts the color of what’s left in the foreground to match the sky you’ve inserted, making for a perfect match.
9. VoCo (Zeyu Jin)
This is so good it’s scary. VoCo takes a clip of audio, analyzes it, and produces a string of words according to what is said. Rearrange or change the text, and VoCo will rework the audio to say exactly what the new sentence is. And it does it in the tone of the original speaker! If you’ve recorded about 20 minutes of speech from someone, then you can even write your own words and VoCo will make it seem like that’s what the person said. The video says it all.
10. CloverVR (Stephen DiVerdi)
With 360 video, AR and VR getting more commonly used, new methods of editing video have to be found that don’t require you to take off your VR headset just to edit. That’s where CloverVR comes in. With this, you can not only edit VR footage while wearing your headset, but also define the starting viewpoint for each clip in your video, so there is better flow overall.
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