Disney to Debut Animated...
The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...
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An Exclusive Sneak Peek at 2014's ‘Legends of Oz’
Roger S. Baum’s further adventures of his great-grandfather’s beloved characters are given a new animated life in Summertime’s Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return. In the world’s supply of film-worthy fairy tales, the attempts of American authors make up but a tiny fraction. Whether the United States’ relative youth or its [...]
Wacom Delivers the New Cintiq 22HD touch
Wacom has released the new Cintiq 22HD touch, a state-of-the-art addition to its expanding interactive pen display portfolio, now featuring multi-touch. Combining multi-touch with Wacom’s renowned pen technology, the new Cintiq 22HD touch offers an immersive on-screen experience and a more intuitive and natural way to work. Additional features including [...]
Thinkbox Releases Stoke MX Particle Tool
Thinkbox Software has unveiled Stoke MX, a particle simulator plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max designed to simplify and accelerate the creation of high-volume particle clouds driven by velocity fields. Stoke MX supports a large number of emitter and velocity sources, and introduces new workflows. Previously unavailable capabilities include multi-threaded particle [...]
FMX Opening Day: Funke, Pixar and R&H
Not even a Lufthansa airlines strike could keep FMX 2013, the renowned conference on animation, vfx, games and transmedia, from starting Tuesday (April 23) in Stuttgart, Germany. An anticipated 3500 attendees from around the globe, including heavy-hitters from Pixar, Autodesk, Ubisoft, industry professionals, students and enthusiasts arrived for an array [...]
Autodesk Debuts 2014 EC Suite
Autodesk has announced the new features of its 2014 Entertainment Creation Suite, which comprises the latest editions of award-winning 3D animation, visual effects and creative tools Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage and SketchBook Designer. The toolset is available in three configurations to meet demands of variously sized teams, budgets [...]
Autodesk Unveils New Gameware at GDC
At the Game Developers Conference taking place in San Francisco this week, Autodesk unveiled new versions of its widely used game development middleware from the Autodesk Gameware product line. Updates for the company’s Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK ‘wares bring developers enhance compatibility for multiple platforms and game engines, increased [...]
NVIDIA Unveils Premiere Visual Computing Appliance
Computer hardware firm NVIDIA debuted an industry first at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. this week: a Visual Computing Appliance (VCA), a new device that will enable small and medium sized businesses to enhance GPU performance on any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. The [...]
March 2013 Tech Reviews
The Foundry’s Nuke 7.0 U.K.-based vfx software tool designer The Foundry has certainly carved out a nice niche for itself in the world. After buying out Digital Domain’s internal compositing system Nuke, Foundry made it available to the public. And, with the demise of Shake at the hands of Apple, [...]
Animation Mentor Accepting New VFX Program Applicants
Online animation and visual effects school Animation Mentor is now accepting applications for the inaugural Summer 2013 term of its new VFX Fundamentals program. Students are encouraged to visit the Registration Portal early to ensure their choice of industry professional instructor and class time. The VFX Fundamentals is a series [...]
Autodesk Kicks Off ‘Gwen & Dave’ Animation Contest
Autodesk is calling on artists/aspiring travel agents to design the ultimate animated getaway for Gwen and Dave–stars of the new short from Autodesk and Hatch Studios–for a chance to win great hardware and software prizes. Contest entries can be in the form of an imaginative short film and/or postcard created [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
