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Cinema 4D Aids Futuristic Vision of ‘Oblivion’

April 30, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

VFX and animation tech house Maxon has announced that the designers and animators charged with visualizing the complex in-camera and on-screen motion graphics sequences of Universal Pictures sci-fi flick Oblivion utilized the company’s Cinema 4D software to bring their futuristic vision to the big screen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: [...]

MAXON Announces New Cinema 4D/After Effects Pipeline

April 4, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

MAXON has revealed the first step in its strategic alliance with Adobe Systems today, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its 3D application, CINEMA 4D, and Adobe After Effects. The recently revealed next release of Adobe’s industry leading software will include two MAXON technologies directly within the [...]

MAXON, Adobe Form Strategic Alliance

March 19, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

MAXON, developer of 3D animation software CINEMA 4D, has announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Inc. to collaborate on technology for creatives in the motion graphics and vfx industry. As part of the venture, both companies will collaborate and engineer a pipeline between Adobe After [...]

Major LightWave Upgrade Announced at SIGGRAPH

August 7, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

The LightWave 3D Group announced today LightWave 11.5, the most-recent version of its Emmy-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software. A complete 3D pipeline, LightWave 11.5 adds features to streamline productivity, including a new Genoma character animation and rigging system for Modeler, predator and prey flocking, Instancing, soft-body Bullet Dynamics, [...]

Animation Block Party Spotlight: Part 3

June 18, 2012 by Casey Safron 1 Comment divider image

Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will be introducing Animation Magazine readers to some of the award-winning animators who have screened at past ABP festivals. Ting Tey created the film Bridge as her [...]

Short on Minutes, Long on Talent

June 2, 2012 by Ellen Wolff No Comments divider image

The 2012 edition of the Annecy Festival puts an amazingly diverse and creative range of animated shorts from all over the world in the spotlight. Animated short film submissions poured in by the thousands to Annecy for the 2012 festival, which runs from June 4-9. Though just 49 shorts were [...]

Adobe to Preview Creative Suite 6 at NAB

April 12, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

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Adobe will showcase new software and innovations that improve how broadcasters, filmmakers and video professionals create, deliver and monetize high-quality productions across multiple screens at the upcoming National Assoc. of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas. Highlights of the show will include the first public demonstrations of Adobe Creative Suite [...]

Polish Animator’s Career Takes Flight

August 7, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

Damian Nenow’s Paths of Hate receives this year’s Jury Prize at SIGGRAPH. Damian Nenow’s lifelong obsession with flight and objects that traverse the sky has finally paid off in a big way in 2011. The 28-year-old Polish animator’s powerful short Paths of Hate, which showcases an astounding aerial dogfight scene, [...]