Forum: Industry News

Ballistic Publishing and CGNetworks is proud to present the annual EXPOSÉ AWARD winners, honoring the best artists in a diverse range of categories and styles. We also present the first ever EXPOSÉ Grand Master... Everyone get over to CGNetworks, check out the awards and pick yourself up a...

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe After Effects 6.0, an extensive upgrade of its award-winning motion graphics and visual effects software. This major release integrates a revolutionary new text engine for creating unique and compelling typographic animations. Available for Windows...

David Nagel of Digital Media Net takes a very in depth look at Series 1 of AutoFX's Dreamsuite special FX plugin for Photoshop...read on...! Full Review Here News Source: DigitalProducer.com

johnmont of FXGuide.com has taken a 'part 1' look at the new Photoshop import feature of Shake v3. Wonder over and have a read. Thanks to FXGuide.com Full Review Here News Source: FXGuide.com

Chris Maynard has produced another cool Flash based tutorial for Digital Fusion. This newest addition is a good way to show an "item" blast through a vapor or cloud like structure...check it out. Thanks Chris!!! News Source: CMIStudios.com

Discreet and Oregon3d are giving advanced training sessions covering 3d Max and Combustion at Siggraph. Follow the link for course info and speaker details. Source: CGNetworks.com News Source: CGNetworks.com

Furnace was released on Shake earlier this year and has already been adopted by many leading post houses including ESC Entertainment who are known for their extensive work on the Matrix films, Weta in New Zealand famous for their involvement with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and Warner Bros....

Discreet have posted 30 workspace files for all to download and peek under the hood. These professional workspace files are part of Discreets continual effort to ramp up the educational side of Combustion, the fantastic desktop compositing programSource: InsideCG.com Tip Off by Jack Pfeiffer ......

NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPUs will be widely available in major retailers in time for July 4th Weekend. July 4th is typically a huge weekend for consumer electronics sales. Source: CGNetworks.com News Source: CGNetworks.com

Be sure to polish off your reels, as ILM has recently announced that they will be interviewing artists for possible full-time and project-based positions. Source: CGNetworks.com News Source: CGNetworks.com

Our Friend Isaac Kerlow from Disney, has revised his book 'The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Effects', which is now available for pre-ordering at Amazon.com. This third edition is now up to date with the latest digital effects techniques. Source: CGNetworks.com News Source: CGNetworks.com

The Mac version of the CinePaint installer/launcher has been updated. CinePaint is the relatively new name for Film Gimp, an open-source graphics application targeted toward filmmakers. The update is available now as a free download Source: Digital Producer Full Story Here News Source:...

2d3, a developer of Emmy Award-winning professional 3d camera-tracking solutions, announced today the launch of SteadyMove Pro, a feature-rich-yet-easy-to-use shot stabilization software for film and video professionals and prosumers. Currently supported as a plug-in for editing and compositing...

This CGNetworks artist spotlight features Robert 'Lunatique' Chang, digital illustrator and EXPOSÉ 1 Advisory Committee member. We take a look at Robert's background, inspirations and artwork. Source: CGNetworks.com Full Story Here News Source: CGNetworks.com formerly known as 3DFestival

We have just launched a new site dedicated to VFX jobs! Employers can post all their jobs, and potential employees can post a 'mini resume' detailing their skillset etc. Visit VFXJobs.com, register and good luck with the job hunting! Cheers guys, Paul

A little old, but still a great little story for the Shake fans....Shake was the main compositing software used on The Two Towers. In fact, it is fair to say there was no shot that wouldn't a t some point in the process go through Shake!Source: By Alex Lemke and Steven McKendry - Weta Digital Ltd....

VFXTalk.com & eyeon Software Inc are proud to announce VFX002, the second installment of the VFXChallenges. The VFXChallange is a collection of 12 monthly challenges, that culminate in a chance to win a full copy of eyeon Software's compositing application Digital Fusion 4! The second...

Sam Nicholson, president and CEO of Stargate Digital, opened Stargate Films on his own in 1989. When the digital age hit, he branched into Stargate Digital. Now he employs 75 people year-round, and handles more VFX projects at one time than you count on two hands. Nicholson talked to VFXPro about...

GenArts has released an update to Sapphire, a plugin collection for Apple's Shake compositing system. The new 1.01 release adds support for Shake 3 and is available now for Mac OS X, Linux and Irix. Full Article Here News Source: DigitalPostProduction.com

Escape Studios, a visual effects school in the UK, has announced the Ridley Scott Awards, a new initiative to seek out and support individuals who want to enter the film, television and games industries. News Source: 3DFestival.com

We have experienced some minor downtime, fortunately there was no loss of data or anything disastrous!! The downtime was caused by an update to the server control panel stopping apache...but all is well...Sorry for the inconvenience all!! If you experienced any loss of posts or anything that...

CGChannel has just published an Interview with Alyn P. Rockwood, the man who will be chairing SIGGRAPH 2003, what does it take to get this gig...???...read on Full Interview Here News Source: CGChannel.com

For all the fruit loving people out there, Apple's new 'pumping' G5 64 bit processor has proclaimed itself the 'fastest desktop computer' around!! Check out this promo movie, it looks VERY nice!! News Source: CGChannel.com

Clio-winning visual effects and design company A52 today proudly detailed their visual effects work for Biscuit Filmworks and director Noam Murro for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners/San Francisco's Goodyear broadcast campaign. Full Story Here (thanks to 3DFestival.com) News Source:...

You can now get a free one year personal edition license for Motionbuilder just by filling in this form and submitting before July 1st 2003. While this is usually off limits for VFXTalk news posts, i just thought some 3D members would REALLY appreciate this one :) Top work Kaydara!!!! ...