Encore Hollywood has brought on visual effects artist John Roden as 2D Supervisor. Roden, who has broad experience as a compositor, matte painter and graphics designer for film, television and advertising, will seek to build and lead a team of artists engaged in those disciplines as part of a larger effort by Encore to grow its visual effects capabilities.
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Red Giant Software, publisher of
Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode, today added a new motion graphics tool
to its growing line of professional digital video products. Radium Glow
is used to add optical glows and glitter to projects easily.
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Kung Fu Panda has captured critics and audiences with its irreverent mix of kung fu and heart, a tale of a slacker panda who dreams of being a kung fu master. Design and branding studio Shine was tasked with creating a main title sequence that conveyed all this while serving as a bookend to the 2D dream sequence that opens the film, and crediting 900 people who worked on it. The result, which clocks in at nine minutes, is a mini-movie in its own right.... »
Producer Keith Collea talks about the techniques employed on The Gene Generation, from pre-production all the way through to screening the film, to make this futuristic, sci-fi thriller on a shoestring budget. ... »
Digieffects, a developer of
popular visual effects software plugins today announced that it
has shipped Simulate: Illuma, a plugin package offering a
specialized collection of effects plugins for creating light
and glow effects.
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Side Effects Software, an industry leader in 3D animation and visual effects software, is pleased to announce the planned release of Houdini 9.5 on July 15, 2008. Houdini 9.5 brings the 3D industry's first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collaborate seamlessly in a multi-platform environment. Houdini 9.5 public beta release is available today for download on all platforms.... »
Red Giant Software has released Primatte Keyer 4, a new version of its professional green-screen tool that adds support for Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Motion pro video applications.... »
Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc.
today announced the launch of Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro, the most
flexible line testing software available in the industry. Pencil Check
Pro completes the animation pipeline by offering a wide array of
capture options, an efficient line testing process and an advanced
feature set.
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VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion
capture systems, today announced the VICON MX T-Series. The MX-T Series
includes an all-new camera design and new Giganet device with cameras
available in a variety of resolution options, including the T160 (16
Megapixel), T40 (4 Megapixel) and T20 (2 Megapixel). The T160 16-megapixel
camera represents a four-times resolution increase over existing
professional optical motion capture solutions.
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Resident’s clients are an impressive group. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Matchbox 20, and director Hype Williams have all used Resident on their music videos and for the "video walls" that play behind their concert performances.... »
If you need to make really different, yet cool looking graphics fluttering in the wind, this is a no brainer. One job will pay for the investment.... »
Red Giant Software, publisher of a
line of professional digital video tools, including Magic Bullet, Knoll
Light Factory, and all Trapcode products, today released Trapcode
Horizon. This new Adobe After Effects plug-in is a unique mapping tool
that ties the After Effects camera to a 3D world. After Effects users
can use Trapcode Horizon to create photorealistic backgrounds and
QuickTime VR-like experiences.
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Usually PSAs are rather simple talking heads fare. But the :90 spot “Burma Viral” via Ogilvy & Mather Amsterdam, MTV and The Burma Arts Board set its sights much higher and tasked creative production studio Shilo to create an epic CG spot that was photo-real, yet stylized. ... »
Smoke & Mirrors New York proudly welcomes award-winning VFX Supervisor/Senior Flame Artist, Kirk Balden into the fold. Most recently, Kirk was a VFX supervisor/Flame/Smoke artist at LA-based A52 where he worked on notable projects for Microsoft, Nike, Lexus, Jeep and the main title sequence for HBO's Emmy nominated original program, Rome. Prior, Kirk permalanced as a Fire/Inferno artist at Sea Level, Venice working on Superbowl spot Visa Snowball, Gillette, and Toyota to name a few. In Addition, Kirk has held posts at Hydraulx (Santa Monica), Ring of Fire (Hollywood), and Sony Pictures Imageworks (Culver City). ... »
