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Full-CG Shots Help Tell the Story in Last Resort
As TV shows go, it's pretty high concept. The crew of the U.S.S. Colorado, a U.S. Navy submarine loaded with missiles, questions an order to fire nukes at Pakistan and is suddenly treated as an enemy combatant, taking potentially deadly fire …
Just in Time, NVIDIA Releases Quadro K5000 for Mac Pro
With the next-generation of GPU-accelerating Maximus technology, reconfigured for the company's newest Kepler-based GPU architecture, NVIDIA has announced the Quadro K5000 graphics card for the Mac Pro. It had its public unveiling at IBC in Amsterdam. For those editors, colorists and compositors already …
Tracking in Blood, Gore, and Smoke for the “Pig Lady”
Filmmaker Steve Makowski was in high school when he first heard the story of the axe-wielding creature known as “Pig Lady” who lived in the woods not far from his family’s New Jersey home. According to legend, anyone wishing to …
Laika Expands the Stop-Motion State of the Art for Paranorman
Hillsboro, OR animation studio is known for the handmade look of its painstaking stop-motion animation work. But on Paranorman, the company pushed the stop-motion envelope, using 3D printing technology to extend an innovative face-replacement technique and bringing a few fully …
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 …
Fabric Engine’s Creation Platform Helps Software Developers Tap AMD GPUs
Fabric Engine is aiming to make the development of proprietary, high-performance software viable for a broader range of VFX studios. The company's new Creation Platform, shown in the AMD booth at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this week, is a framework …
OptiTrack Shows $4999 4.1 Megapixel Mocap Camera
OptiTrack announced the new Prime 41 motion-capture camera at SIGGRAPH this week. At $4999, it represents an upmarket move by the company, which hopes to make high-end motion capture affordable for the customers who have adopted its inexpensive mocap systems.The …
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 …
Autodesk Announces Extensions for 2013 3D Animation Software
The 2013 versions of Autodesk Maya 2013 and Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 3D animation software, part of the company's Entertainment Creation Suites 2013, today received extensions to enable more intense number crunching during complex workflows and give artists a shot …