NEW YORK — Last week, I received an “Anonymous” email with a letter attached to it that was said to have been prepared by a core group of former Look Effects employees. The visual effects studio, whic ...

August 21, 2014

LONDON – Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) showed their PowerVR graphics, GPU compute and ray tracing technologies at the recent SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. The company’s solutions span across ...

August 20, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements have been sele ...

August 18, 2014

CHENNAI, INDIA — Gemini FX, the Chennai-based digital film operation that’s part of the Gemini Industries and Imaging group, has purchased three turnkey Quantel (www.quantel.com) Pablo Rio 4K color an ...

August 18, 2014

LOS ANGELES — On Saturday, the Television Academy presented the 2014 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for programs and individual achievements. The event took place at the Nokia Theatre LA Live in Los Angele ...

August 18, 2014

DENVER — Motion capture technology specialist Vicon (www.vicon.com) launched several new products at this year’s SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. Pegasus and Pegasus Advanced is a new set of retargeting an ...

August 13, 2014

ROUND ROCK, TX — At the SIGGRAPH show, Dell (www.dell.com) introduced new members of its workstation line. The Dell Precision Tower 5810, Tower 7810, Tower 7910, and Rack 7910 are designed to address ...

August 13, 2014

SAN JOSE, CA — Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) is now shipping its Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) which dramatically accelerates ray tracing, enabling users to interact with computer models of such high vis ...

August 13, 2014

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – At SIGGRAPH, Lenovo (www.lenovo.com) is launching their new ThinkStation P Series of desktop workstations, which includes the high-end P900, the P700, and the P500. The ne ...

August 12, 2014

MARKHAM, ONTARIO – AMD (www.amd.com) is at SIGGRAPH 2014 with additions to its FirePro professional graphics family. The line up ranges from entry-level workstation solutions up to the ultra power use ...

August 12, 2014