BEVERLY HILLS — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. Forty-four pictures had orig ...
December 1, 2011
LONDON — Visual effects software developer The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) has released Mari 1.4, the latest version of its 3D digital painting tool. Designed to meet the needs of VFX texture and m ...
November 30, 2011
SAN RAFAEL, CA — Autodesk is teaming up with HP, AMD and Xsens to host 3December 2011 ( http://area.autodesk.com/3dec ) from December 5 to 8. The virtual celebration of 3D computer graphics provides 3 ...
November 29, 2011
I recently got the opportunity to attend the Rotoscoping With Mocha, with Steve Wright online seminar offered by the CGSociety (www.cgsociety.org). Here's some of what I took away.
November 25, 2011
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — NSW will be the production base for a new animated feature film based on Lego toys. Warner Bros. contracted Academy Award-winning Sydney animation studio Animal Logic to make the f ...
November 17, 2011
NORTH HOLLYWOOD — NewTek attracted hundreds of artists, directors, actors and producers to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Leonard H. Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood last week for ...
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
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 ...
November 14, 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
HOLLYWOOD — Two-time Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 1. Lasseter directs and creatively oversees all films and associated ...
November 4, 2011