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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. …
Steve Jobs and the Gift of Pixar
I clearly remember the day the workplace changed when we got our first color-display, Mactintosh II desktop computers. The graphic designers I worked closely with in those days in magazine publishing were at first deeply resentful and then, in a …
Bookmark This: Lee Unkrich’s Tumblr
It ain’t much to look at now, but Pixar director Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3 and more) has launched a new Tumblr account marking his first day of work on an upcoming project with the tweeted promise, “Every day I’ll …
Boardwalk Empire Leads Creative Arts Emmy Winners
HBO took home 15 Creative Arts Emmy Awards during this Saturday’s ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in L.A., followed closely by PBS and FOX, with 10 and 9 total wins respectively. Boardwalk Empire earned just about half of those total …
Aardman Animation’s “Dot” Wins Webby Award
The Brits and our neighbors to the north in Canada will take home more than a few Webby Awards tonight in the Online Film and Video categories. The Internet awards show, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and …
Behind The Grufallo, Oscar nominee for best animated short
One of the short animated films up for an Academy Award this Sunday is “The Gruffalo,” which combines CG animation and miniature photography. Based on a children’s book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, “The Gruffalo” tells the story of …
The Bakery CTO Arnaud Lamorlette on the Evolution of CG Lighting
Arnauld Lamorlette, a founder of Buf in Paris, was in Los Angeles to attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s Sci-Tech Awards ceremony. There, Lamorlette, pictured at right, along with Eric Tabellion, above, will receive a Technology Achievement …
Last-Minute Projects and Free Stuff for Your Stocking
If you’re still scrambling to finish those digital holiday greetings to clients and customers by the end of the year, help is on the way from plug-in and stock media companies offering time-saving comps as well as deep discounts and …
Enjoy a Few Minutes of CGI Wonder
The above video, Silestone — “Above Everything Else” from Alex Roman on Vimeo, is currently making the rounds as a marvelous achievement in CGI. Apparently no real apples, lemons, grapes or anything else were used. On the one hand it’s …