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Posts from category "Visual EFX and Tech"

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Nextrendz Releases Stylus for ‘Draw Something’ Game

May 16, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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If you’ve been looking for ways to get an edge over your friends as you play the new hit game Draw Something, you may think about Nextrendz new touch-screen stylus, The Draw Thing. Draw Something is the new app that has taken the world of smartphones by storm. An online [...]

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Adobe Introduces New Creative Cloud

May 11, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Adobe has announced the release of its Adobe Creative Cloud, a new way of providing tools and services for creatives. A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, [...]

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Endless LLP Acquires U.K. Effects House Cinesite

May 10, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Indie U.K.-based equity firm Endless LLP has acquired top digital VFX house Cinesite from Kodak for an undisclosed amount. The deal involves Cinesite’s existing management team, supported by its new investment backer. The new deal will give Cinesite the resources and stability to fulfill a long-standing desire to expand the [...]

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Photoshop CS6 Offers Alioscopy’s Auto-Stereo Conversion

May 7, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Alioscopy USA’s 8-view auto-stereoscopic camera conversion algorithm is now part of the new Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended software. Photoshop artists will now be able to create, import, and edit multi-view 3D content to be ‘Alioscopy-ready’—for playback on Alioscopy displays in ‘no-glasses’ 3D. This relationship represents a closer step to making [...]

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Evil Eye Contributes 200 VFX Shots to ‘The Avengers’

May 2, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image
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San Francisco-based vfx house Evil Eye Pictures has contributed nearly 200 visual effects shots for the Marvel’s The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon, which opens this Friday. Weta Digital, Digital Domain, Fuel VFX, Hydraulx, ILM, Lola VFX, Cantina Creative, Luma Pictures, Mova, The Third Floor and Trixter Films were among [...]

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FMX ’12 to Highlight VFX, Virtual Production

by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image
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The 17th FMX event, the international conference on animation, effects, games and transmedia to be held May 8-11 in Stuttgart, Germany, has announced highlights of its special virtual production and visual effects programming—including looks at Avatar, Tintin and The Lorax as well as chats with ILM, Weta and more top [...]

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VIZ Media Forms New Digital Division

April 24, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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San Francisco-based manga and anime house VIZ Media has formed a new announced the formation of VIZ Labs, a new division of the company led by Gagan Singh, exec VP, president and CTO. VIZ Labs will focus on innovation in digital content distribution, and will consolidate engineering and digital business [...]

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Smith Micro Adds Service Release 2 to Poser

April 19, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Smith Micro announced today that it has added Service Release 2 enhancements to its Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 3D graphics software. It has also added Japanese and German versions of the products for international Poser users. “For artists who invest their time and creativity mastering animation software, being [...]

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Autodesk Presents Smoke 2013 at NAB

April 16, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Autodesk introduced Smoke 2013, a redesigned version of its all-in-one video editing and VFX tool for the Mac (priced at $3,495) at the NAB event in Vegas yesterday. “Autodesk combined over 20 years of visual effects leadership and customer feedback to create video editing and effects software that serves the [...]

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Autodesk Unveils New Animation Store

April 15, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Autodesk has introduced a new animation store for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design 2013, which began shipping last week. The store can be accessed from the 3ds Max products to provide a simplified 3D animation workflow that allows users to search, customize and purchase motion clips without leaving the [...]

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