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Monitoring 3D Better with Matrox’s MC-100
We have been doing 3D for about four years now here at DJ Woods, and still we find that during production we need different options for handling different alignment issues. Until recently, when we worked on set and needed to …
Free Stuff: DAZ Gives Away Studio 4 Pro, Bryce 7 Pro, and More
If you like free software, you might want to head over to the DAZ 3D website this month, while the company is giving away downloads of its Poser competitor DAZ Studio 4 Pro, the venerable 3D landscaping software Bryce 7 …
Luxology: Building Modo from the Ground Up
Modo is one of the most unique and interesting 3D creation applications available. It has clearly taken its own development path. The team that developed it, lead by Brad Peebler, were originally at NewTek developing LightWave. I often complained in …
The Fascinating Story of How Autodesk Came to Be (Part 2)
Founder John Walker is a very interesting guy. He, like Riddle (read more about him in my previous post), is a brilliant programmer and by some accounts a bit of a wacko—not my words. (PC Week columnist Jesse Berst once …
The Fascinating Story of How Autodesk Came to Be (Part 1)
Autodesk has been around since the early 80s when John Walker and some of his programmer friends founded it as a small company based on their original product, AutoCAD, an early Computer Aided Design program acquired from programmer Michael Riddle. …
Top 7 Things Filmmakers Can Be Thankful for This Year
This is far from an exhaustive list, but when you’re gathered round the table this Thursday, why not say a word of thanks—depending on the crowd, maybe only in your head—for these recent developments in production and post. Let’s hope …
Five Questions: Paul Ghezzo, 3D-CG and VFX Supervisor, Zoic
In the past several years, thanks in large part to enticing Canadian film subsidies, Vancouver, BC, has become a kind of Hollywood North for visual effects and animation. Zoic Studios opened shop there in 2006, relocating several from its LA …
4K LCD Screens … on a Beamsplitter Rig!
OK, this is interesting. In the rear of the Central Hall at NAB — if you’re reading this from the show on Thursday morning, you have time to go back there and check it out — the Japanese company Keisoku …
Want Home 3D Without the Glasses? Start Thinking Small
The terms you agree to in order to enjoy stereo 3D in movie theaters are pretty well settled — you pay more money for your ticket, you sit in the dark and put on those goofy glasses, and you enjoy the …
Panasonic Opens 3D Innovation Center
Panasonic just opened its Panasonic 3D Innovation Center-Hollywood, an addition and “West Coast base” of the existing center at its regional North American headquarters in Secaucus, NJ, which opened in September. Panasonic already has an R&D presence with its Panasonic …