Earlier this month, director/producer/screenwriter George Lucas addressed a crowd of thousands at the annual SIGGRAPH show in LA. For 45 minutes, the famed filmmaker recalled the challenges he faced i ...
August 10, 2005
NEW YORK - Design and animation studio FlickerLab (www.FlickerLab.com) has moved into a new studio that takes up an entire floor at 7 West 18th Street.
DALY CITY, CA - Digidesign (www.digidesign.com) is now offering two new Avid MediaDrive standalone SCSI hard drives, in 146- and 300GB configurations, as well as a new MediaDock Shuttle 146GB removabl ...
DALLAS - Effects artist Scott Balkcom has joined Frames, the Dallas-based creative editorial boutique.
August 9, 2005
BANGKOK, THAILAND - Oriental Post Co. Ltd. (www.orientalpost.co.th) has purchased and installed Imagica's newest scanner, the Imager XE Advanced Plus.
HOLLYWOOD - Creative studio Big Machine Design (www.bigmachine.net) recently completed work on the show open for "R U The Girl?", the UPN's new series starring members of the pop band TLC.
BURBANK - AlphaDogs (www.alphadogs.tv) has hired Paul De Cham as its new general manager. De Cham was operations manager at Matchframe Video, and has also served at Laser Pacific, Lightning Dubs, Vidf ...
August 8, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Softimage showed Version 5 of its XSI animation application at SIGGRAPH last week. The 32-bit/64-bit tool runs on Linux and Windows environments (including Windows XP 64), and has an ent ...
LOS ANGELES - Alias introduced Version 7 of its Maya application at this year's SIGGRAPH show. The new release is available as a download to platinum members immediately and sports a rounded out featu ...
August 3, 2005
LOS ANGELES - NewTek is at this year's SIGGRAPH with Versions 8.5 and 9 of its LightWave 3D application. Version 8.5 will be released within the next few weeks while V.9 is expected to begin shipping ...