VENICE, CA — Blur Studio (www.blur.com) used Thinkbox Software’s XMesh and Frost for the fluid shots that make up the two-and-a-half minute opening clip featured in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” ...
February 29, 2012
BROOKLYN — Ogilvy/NY called on Charged Studios (http://charged.com) and director Adam Pierce to create a new Web spot for UPS that combines live action and stop motion animation techniques to promote ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Luxology LLC (www.luxology.com) has released Modo 601, a major new release of its artist-friendly 3D content creation software. Modo 601 includes character animation, built-i ...
BATON ROUGE, LA — Pixomondo (www.pixomondo.com), which offers visual effects services through a network of worldwide locations, has plans to open a new facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility ...
SAN JOSE, CA — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (www.cypress.com) is collaborating with Nvidia on next-generation touchscreen solutions for Android-based mobile devices based on Cypress’s Gen 4 TrueTouch S ...
February 28, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — The 84th Annual Academy Awards took place last night, and while Hugo ( see article ) came into the evening with the most nominations (11) and took home statuettes for VFX, Sound Editing an ...
February 27, 2012
BUDAPEST — Brendan Bakker, a graduate student at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands, won an iMac for his entry, Skyscraper Village, in the 2011 Fall ArchitectsJURY (www.architectsjur ...
CORVALLIS, OR — In autonomous robotics, the right inputs reveal the right path. Each day the University of Waterloo’s WAVELab Research Group navigates these waters as they work out the best ways to he ...
LOS ANGELES — Pixomondo’s (www.pixomondo.com) visual effects supervisor Ben Grossmann and digital effects supervisor Alex Henning – along with Hugo’s VFX supervisor Rob Legato and special effects supe ...
Behind the scenes at the Oscars: Interview snippets with some of the winners.