NEW YORK — Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon have launched the #DontFrackNY video contest in an effort to get New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking for gas in the state.
December 18, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk (www.autodesk.com) has released Smoke 2013, the latest version of its Mac-driven editing and visual effects tool. The new release underwent a massive redesign to make it easie ...
December 17, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Royale (www.weareroyale.com) has launched The Bell Ringer, its own interactive holiday fundraiser. Proceeds that the studio collects will be donated to The American Red Cross Disaster Re ...
LOS ANGELES — Reseller and systems integration company MelroseMac has been named an "Elite Partner" by Avid. The company is now certified to provide expert consultancy on the full range of Avid digita ...
BEVERLY HILLS — Nominations for the 70th Golden Globe Awards were announced this week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Jessica Alba, Ed Helms and HFPA president Dr. Aida Takla O'Reilly ma ...
December 14, 2012
BEVERLY HILLS — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) has announced that 282 feature films are eligible for the 2012 Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, February 2 ...
By Larry Jordan www.larryjordan.biz I have eagerly looked forward to the Thunderbolt-based Drobo 5D since it was first announced last July. Recently, the good folks at Drobo offered to send me a 5D fo ...
LONDON — Life of Pi, the new, epic adventure film from 20th Century Fox and director Ang Lee, relied on Codex recorders as a part of the production’s 3D workflow. The Codex systems (www.codexdigital.c ...
December 13, 2012
NEWBURY PARK, CA — Maxon Cinema 4D training resource Cineversity (www.cineversity.com) has released a new plug-in that allows users to easily add Adobe Illustrator or PDF artwork to Cinema 4D Release ...
December 12, 2012
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — VFX artist Derek Scherer (www.derekscherer.com) recently contributed to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey while working with Weta Workshop. Weta Workshop is the special effec ...
December 11, 2012