LAS VEGAS – Vicon (www.vicon.com) teamed up with 2K Sports recently to capture signature hockey moves for use in its upcoming videogame NHL 2K10. An outdoor motion capture volume was set up at Caesar’ ...
June 19, 2009
TORONTO - Eyeon Software’s (www.eyeonline.com) node-based compositing application, Fusion 6.0, is now available as an Open Release Candidate. Fusion 6.0 is optimized for the latest processing an ...
LINCOLNWOOD, IL - Research Technology International (www.rtico.com) has acquired the film scanning and film recording equipment business from Imagica Technologies Corp. of Japan. Imagica has been desi ...
TORONTO - The Ontario government recently announced that it would invest nearly $23 million into Starz Animation Toronto (www.starzanimation.com) in an effort to "build a new center of excellence" tha ...
June 17, 2009
ALBANY, NY - Working Pictures has added video editor Bill Pyke to its staff. He spent the last 11 years of his career in Manhattan, working as an editor for a variety of networks, including ABC, NBC, ...
SAN MATEO, CA – This week, Luxology plans to release Modo 401, the latest version of its 3D animation, painting, modeling and rendering package. Company co-founder Brad Peebler sees Modo 401 as a mile ...
June 16, 2009
DALLAS – FirstCom Music is reacting to the lagging economy and restricted travel budgets with an environmentally friendly “virtual booth” that will go live during the Promax/BDA conference taking plac ...
NEW YORK - Aron Baxter is now creative director at Nice Shoes. He joined the studio in 2003 as a senior VFX artist and later moved over to Guava, the company’s sister VFX company. With the merger of N ...
June 15, 2009
NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Production music library Megatrax (www.megatrax.xom) has acquired Nashville-based Aircast Production, a music and media production company that specializes in custom music scoring, i ...
CHICAGO – Commercial post house Filmworkers Club (www.filmworkers.com) has upgraded two of its facilities with three da Vinci Splice systems, which enable the studios’ existing da Vinci 2K Plus system ...
June 12, 2009