Forum: Industry News

http://wwws.warnerbros.es/vforvendetta/cmp/vfx.htmlThe official Spanish website for V For Vendetta showcases Cinesite's work on the movie's visual effects. The site features many before-and-after clips. View them all here!

http://www.nextlimit.comNext Limit Technologies, announces the official release of Maxwell Render v1.0 on April 26th 2006. Maxwell is a new render engine based on the physics of real light. Its algorithms and equations reproduce the behavior of light in a completely accurate way. All of the...

http://www.metaphrenie.com/artwork/work_folder/motion/quicktime_viewer_16x9_lg/adidas_tunit.htmlThere's a great new advertisement out for adidas for the new f50 Tunit created by METAphrenie. It has some amazing graphics and is a great example of 3d and compositing pulled togeather to create...

http://www.A52.comOver the past weeks, viewers of the NCAA Tournament and other high-profile broadcasts have seen numerous :15 UPS spots – each appearing to be a single, unedited shot – in which UPS driver/delivery agents literally “cover more ground faster than ever.� In a spot named...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/happyfeet/trailer2/There is a new trailer out for Happy Feet. Dive into the World of the Emperor Penguin in this Animated Movie!The hero Mumble, son of Elvis and Norma Jean is the worst singer in the world... but he can tap-dance something fierce! Mumble is...

http://www.21boom.comThe Science Channel has tapped 21Boom, a Manhattan based creative group, to design and produce a Discoveries This Week vignette for Nintendo’s Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day game. The sixty-second spot utilizes live-action footage and animated graphics to...

http://anthemfx.comAnthem Visual Effects has once again been tapped to create visual effects for IDT Entertainment’s anthology series “Masters of Horror,� now in its second season, said Lee Wilson, President and Visual Effects Supervisor at Anthem. This new season, a series of 13 original...

http://www.autodesk.com/toxikAutodesk, Inc. today launched Autodesk Toxik 2007, the latest version of its collaborative digital compositing software for feature film production. The software's robust creative toolset helps film studios and post-production facilities deliver vivid, high-resolution...

http://www.envypost.co.ukENVY, a leading visual effects facility in SOHO, London chooses Fusion as their primary effects application. ENVY is quickly becoming the largest high-end post facility to emerge from SOHO in recent years. Fully HD-capable and complete with Smokes, DS Nitris systems and a...

http://www.thatstudio.com"Flakes" hits the small screen Portland, Oregon artists Jason Baskin and Dan Fredman (otherwise known as "ThatStudio") have teamed up to create "Flakes," an original 3D animated series for mobile devices. A tribute to challenging roommates everywhere, "Flakes" is the story...

http://www.nakd.tvThe Ebeling Group director-designer collective Nakd has rolled out a 1:30-second promotional spot for Nike’s new sports contact lens Maxsight from Bausch & Lomb. The mostly animated piece fuses black-and-white live-action footage with CG to take the viewer on a surreal journey...

http://www.adobe.com/products/productionstudio/The SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival has bestowed its Best of Show Award to ONE SHORT RAT, directed by Alex Weil of New York-based Charlex, while Special Jury Honors went to 458NM, directed by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck and Tom Weber of...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcampApple introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as a download beginning April 5, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac, and once...

http://www.fluidny.comNew York-based Fluid exercised its graphics/editorial skills and original music scoring/sound design chops for a number of creative projects that are part of the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, an internationally renowned festival held each year in Durham, NC. ...

http://www.2d3.com/html/products/moujou_overview.html2d3 launches moujou for Autodesk's Maya! moujou is a plug-in for Maya that gives you the automatic tracking power of boujou within the Maya interface. Check out here for more info.

http://softimage.com/downloads/default.aspxThe Trial Version of Softimage XSI 5.1 is now available for Download so if you have been waiting to see what XSI has to offer then head over to softimage and try it out yourself! Click here to download!

http://www.yuco.comyU + co took a page out of Los Angeles’ literary past in creating the main title sequence for the new Paramount Pictures release Ask the Dust. The studio’s design team collaborated with director Robert Towne on the project, delivering a beautiful and spectacular main title...

http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/80/11680.phpIn this exclusive interview by MovieWeb, King Kong VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri talks about his work on King Kong and the challenges he faced! Also includes some sneak peeks on his work on upcoming projects. Read the Full Interview here!

http://www.themill.comThe Mill have just finished working on a breathtakingly beautiful promo for Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Directed by the band, and co-directed by The Mill’s Telecine Producer Eva Maria Daniels, ‘Saeglopur’, meaning sea wanderer, tells the sad story of a doomed young boy...

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2838AWN has a great article covering Blue Sky Studios' work on Ice Age 2. The article includes some great images showing wireframes and early renders of your favourate chartacters! Check out the full Article here!

http://www.moooz.comFabio Zangla's work has been featured on Expose 3, 3D Artists, 3D Total and in the CG Underground honor gallery! Check out his website at www.moooz.com to see what he is all about and prepare to be blown away!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150SUPERMAN RETURNS will become the first live-action Hollywood feature to be converted from 2D to IMAX 3-D. IMAX Corp. will use its proprietary 2D to 3-D conversion technology to convert approximately 20 minutes of the film into An IMAX 3-D Experience. "Releasing...

http://www.nvidiacom/quadroNVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced a new line of NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions. This new line-up includes: The NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M – the Company’s first professional GPU designed...

http://www.r255g255b255.netJenna Jameson flexes her muscles as never before as a mallet wheeling, white clad, arcade obsessed femme-fatale in this viral spot for Adidas. Conceived, directed and animated by NYC creative collective Tronic this spot gives a whole new meaning to being hit over the...

http://www.whodooefx.comWhoDoo EFX has designed, created and produced over 70 digital visual effects for Paramount Pictures’ romantic comedy “Failure to Launch,� which stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey, now in theaters. The company’s client for the project was Kim Locascio,...