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‘Monsters, Inc. 3D’ Moves to December 2012
Family audiences are going to have one more animated title to choose from this holiday season. Disney has announced that it will release the new 3D version of Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. on Wednesday, Dec. 19. The film was originally slated to be out on January 18, 2013. Directed by Pete [...]
‘Golden Calf’ is Malta’s First Animated Feature
Award-winning Maltese production house Pro.Motion Limited, in collaboration with Malta Film Funds, is gearing up for production on the Mediterranean island nation’s first-ever full-length animated feature film, titled The Golden Calf. Production is set to begin in earnest next year. The 3D animated flick centers on two eight-year-old cousins who [...]
Rhythm & Hues Adopts MARI as Primary Paint Tool
VFX and animation studio Rhythm & Hues has adopted The Foundry’s MARI software as its primary paint tool. Using MARI will give the studio’s artists freedom to focus on being creative without having to spend time worrying about time-consuming processes like file management. “Before we started using MARI artists had [...]
RevUp Render Introduces V-Ray 2.0
Cloud computing technology innovator RevUp Render has announced a new version of its cloud rendering service supporting V-Ray 2.0 rendering software from the Chaos Group. Using this new platform, 3D graphics professionals can take advantage of the massive render farms and high-end production workstations. With V-Ray 2.0 rendering software running [...]
And the Winner is Snipple Animation!
We are thrilled to announce that the fantastic team at Snipple Animation has won our 25th Anniversary Issue ad contest. Their colorful ad generated the most audience response online! (They should be commended for spreading the word and launching a nice grassroots campaign to get lots of votes for their entry!) [...]
Pixel Toon ‘Hit Squad’ Gears Up
Like your animation a little rough around the edges? A cool new indie film project from comedy shorts team Super Pixel Brothers titled The Hit Squad is gearing up to start production next month. Billed as “Family Guy meets Nintendo at a Spinal Tap orgy,” the film follows Roddy Stones [...]
Photoshop CS6 Offers Alioscopy’s Auto-Stereo Conversion
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 [...]
Calabash Explores 3D with ‘Dora’
Nickelodeon’s hit kids show Dora the Explorer has a whole new dimension to experience thanks to Calabash Animation, the award-winning Chicago-based studio led by Wayne Brejcha and Sean Henry. Calabash partnered with Nick to create the show’s new minute-long opening. Check it out here: http://www.calabashanimation.com/videos/552_Dora_s7_Open_web.ogv Working with character animation created [...]
Autodesk Unveils New Animation Store
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 [...]
Google Celebrates Eadweard Muybridge’s Birthday
The famous galloping horses of English photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge (1830-1904) are moving once again on Google’s homepage today in honor of his 182nd birthday. The famous photographer used multiple cameras to capture animal movement and invented the zoopraxiscipe, a device used to project motion pictures. Muybridge is also considered [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
