CHICAGO — SIGGRAPH 2012 (www.siggraph.org) is looking for cutting-edge Real-Time Live! content that will be presented as part of this year’s Computer Animation Festival. The show will take place in Lo ...
February 29, 2012
SANTA CLARA, CA — HP and Nvidia have teamed up to create a new workstation that breaks away from the bulky tower format. The HP Z1 (www.hp.com/z1) is an all-in-one workstation with the high performanc ...
PORTLAND, OR — Red Giant (www.redgiant.com) has released Magic Bullet Denoiser II, a re-built version of its popular Denoiser 1.0 tool for removing unwanted noise and artifacts from video footage. Ava ...
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.” ...
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 ...