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Pixologic Releases ZBrush 4R5 for Windows and Mac

Pixologic announced another new release of its Zbrush sculpting and painting program, adding a broad array of features. Improvements to general workflow and usability in ZBrush 4R5 include new Quick Save and Auto Save features, which should help make it … more »

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Som Sabadell: “Ode to Joy”

A city plaza is filled — slowly, and with an orchestra built from the ground up — with music (Beethoven's beloved "Ode to Joy") in this short produced for the 130th anniversary of Spanish banking giant Banco Sabadell earlier this … more »

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Adobe Buys Portfolio-Sharing Social Media Site Behance

Adobe took another decisive step into the cloud yesterday with the announcement that it had bought Behance, a social-media platform for portfolio-sharing among creatives with more than 1 million members. The move will bolster Adobe's plans to bring a strong … more »

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In the Field with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

If you pre-ordered the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC) shortly after its NAB debut, it's been a long road. The camera missed its originally scheduled ship date as Blackmagic Design dealt with behind-the-scenes issues having to do with the camera's CMOS … more »

Q&A: Marco Solorio on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Marco Solorio is the owner of OneRiver Media in Walnut Creek, CA. As an early user of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC), he's employed it on a number of projects, shooting ProRes most of the time but switching to raw … more »

Q&A: The Diamond Brothers on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Based in New York City, Jason and Josh Diamond, aka The Diamond Brothers, have been among the first users of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC). They've put the camera through its paces on music video and TV shoots. We got … more »

Let’s Cook

Stu Maschwitz used the the $3000 Blackmagic Cinema Camera with a Redrock Micro EyeSpy rig and Canon 50mm f/1.2 L lens to shoot this video of his wife and sister testing new scents for their handmade candles. For a wealth … more »

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Eyeon Ships Connection v1.5

Eyeon updated its Eyeon Connection plug-in for Avid's AVX2 architecture to v1.5, adding new features to its round-trip functionality between Eyeon Fusion and Avid Media Composer, Symphony, NewsCutter, and DS. By building a bridge between Avid's NLE environment and Fusion's … more »

Centre NAD Reassures Montrealers: No Danger of Being Snatched by a Royal Eagle

The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in … more »

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The Glitch

Spend much time playing video games? Heck, if you spend any time playing them, you'll recognize the kind of existential crisis facing the characters in "The Glitch," which imagines gameplay bugs from the other side of the screen. The folks … more »