LOS ANGELES — In the wake of last week's introduction of 64-bit versions of Avid's Media Composer and Symphony, Digital Film Tools has announced that all of its Avid plug-in product offerings — Compos ...
November 15, 2011
LONDON — The Mill London (www.themill.com) has hired Jon Chads as its business development director — creative. Chads joins the studio from BMB London where, as head of broadcast, he was responsible f ...
November 14, 2011
SANTA CLARA, CA — Today, Nvidia introduced its new Maximus (www.nvidia.com/maximus) technology, which accelerates work by enabling a single workstation to simultaneously handle interactive graphics an ...
LOS ANGELES — Last night, the The Hollywood Post Alliance (www.hpaonline.com) presented the Sixth Annual HPA Awards, honoring post professionals in 12 different creative categories, as well as for Eng ...
November 11, 2011
NEW YORK — Sonic Union (www.sonicunion.com) mixed the soundtrack for a new Verizon spot out of NY/Chicago-based agency Mcgarrybowen. Directed by Biscuit Filmworks’ Noam Murro, the commercial promotes ...
HOLLYWOOD — Seven-year-old Identity FX, which originally established itself supplying 2D VFX for films like Transformers and Hancock, has been dipping its feet in the 3D stereo conversion waters over ...
November 8, 2011
NEW YORK — Design and visual-effects company Phosphene (www.phosphenefx.com) created numerous CG environments for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s new action-comedy Tower Heist, starring ...
November 7, 2011
NEWBURY PARK, CA — Maxon (www.maxon.net), the maker of 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, has released a new Adobe After Effects plug-in that allows motion graphics artists to e ...
November 3, 2011
SUNNYVALE, CA — AMD (www.amd.com) has launched the FirePro V4900, an entry level-priced graphics card aimed at DCC and CAD workflows. The FirePro V4900 leverages AMD’s most advanced graphics technolog ...
LONDON — VFX software developer The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) has released Katana 1.0, a new look development and lighting tool that’s designed to replace conventional CG pipelines with a flexibl ...
October 28, 2011