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Review: Tiffen Dfx Video/Film Plug-in
Just about anyone working in the film and video world will recognize the Tiffen name. Most know the company for its terrific lens filters and Steadicam brand. That’s indeed what you’ll find (along with a lot of other filmmaking and …
Five Questions: Chip Potter, Founder and President, MECHnology Visual Effects Studio
One secret of MECHnology's success seems to stem from its dual-purpose ideology: Produce and innovate while keeping your artists happy. The Hollywood-based boutique effects facility, which has a laundry list of film (The Aviator), TV (Burn Notice, Southland, Without a …
Redrock Micro Announces FS700 Digital Cinema Camera Support Systems
Redrock Micro has unveiled a new set of rigs for the Sony NEX-FS700, which brought coveted features like neutral density filters and a 4K sensor to the market earlier this summer.Redrock designs its rigs with multiple rig adjustment points so …
Funny or Die, with the help of Sir Patrick Stewart, Simon Pegg and Gold-medal swimmer Ryan Lochte, serves up this riff on the 30th Summer Games as they wind down to a close.
Nike Amsterdam wanted a "visually spectacular brand film" for its latest midfielder cleat, the CTR360. Working from prototypes from the client, Toronto-based Tendril modeled everything with exacting detail, including the killer visual effects.
Southpaw Takes Asset Management Open Source
Update 08/09/12: Both Tactic Team and Tactic Enterprise have been released as open-source software. An earlier version of this story indicated that the Enterprise version would require a paid license, but that is not the case. We regret the error.Southpaw …
SIGGRAPH 2012 – Emerging Technologies Media Tour
Preston Smith, Emerging Technologies Chair at this year's show, takes you on a tour of the always thought-provoking, sometimes mystifying exhibits that inhabit this hallowed segment of computer graphics evolution. One highlight this year is a multi-camera 3D rig.
NVIDIA Maximus Fuels Workstation Revolution With Kepler Architecture
SIGGRAPH 2012 — NVIDIA today launched the second generation of its breakthrough workstation platform, NVIDIA Maximus, featuring Kepler, the fastest, most efficient GPU architecture.The Maximus platform, introduced in November, gives workstation users the ability to simultaneously perform complex analysis and …
Christie’s One-User HoloStation Scales Down the CAVE
Christie Digital debuted the HoloStation, a scaled-down virtual-reality system, at SIGGRAPH this morning. The company calls it a "compact personal visualization solution" — a high-quality immersive display system that can be tucked into the corner of an office, rather than …