Forum: Industry News

http://www.Baraka.co.ukBaraka Post Production completed the post production on the exciting new debut music video for Sewn by The Feeling directed by talented Director, Caswell Coggins from Draw Pictures. The treatment called for the lead singer to be literally sewn and stitched up by long...

http://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/Apple is now shipping the first Universal version of its Final Cut Studio video production suite that delivers up to 2.5X the performance when running on a MacBook Pro* notebook computer. Final Cut Studio features state-of-the-art tools that complement...

http://www.framestore-cfc.comFramestore CFC's Commercials team has got a bit of a rep for raising the bar in digital VFX. Nowhere more so than in the case of the 3D team's creature work, and the last few years have seen an ark-full of astonishing, photo-real creatures emerge from the 1st Floor of...

http://www.radium.comProduction house Radium lent its CG and visual effects expertise to create a high energy street-party themed spot for Target - a client of Peterson Milla Hooks, Minneapolis. Directed by Spaz Williams, with Radium’s Creative Director Jonathan Keeton, the spot features Target...

http://www.sharvonique.comSharvonique Renee Fortune of Sharvonique Studios, an independent animation studio based in the Washington, DC area, is producing an Anime music video for INTO DARKNESS, an alternative rock/metal song created by UK band Eternal Descent. “The music video is being made...

http://www.softimage.comSoftimage Co., a division of Avid Technology, Inc., today announced the latest update to the company’s flagship character production software - SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® v.5.1. This release offers a range of new features designed to simplify deployment and asset exchange for...

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/magbulsuit.htmlRed Giant Software today announced the availability of Magic Bullet Suite 2.1. The software plug-in now supports Adobe After Effects 7. Magic Bullet Suite 2.1 also includes the robust DeepColor RT GPU render engine, which runs up to 7x faster than the...

http://www.radium.comRadium, worked with Element 79 and MJZ director Phil Joanou to create the effects featured in Gatorade’s latest spot. The :30 Homewreckers commercial promotes the sports drink company’s boldly-flavored Gatorade Fierce and features a hardcore home-court game between NBA...

http://www.thoughtequity.com/sonypicturesSony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Thought Equity, home to the world’s largest entertainment motion content library, today jointly launched the Sony Pictures Collection, a distinctive library of film footage that includes scenes shot during the...

http://www.brightsidetech.com/HDRContest/HDRContest.phpBrightSide Technologies, invites you to join the world’s first High Dynamic Range Video Contest! We are looking for creative ideas for videos using the full capacity of HDR Technology to “Display The Real World�. Maybe it is a beautiful...

http://www.framestore-cfc.com/It is the near future, and Great Britain is now a fascist state. A masked vigilante known only as "V" conducts guerrilla warfare against the government. When he rescues an ordinary young woman, she joins his struggle against the forces of oppression... V for...

http://www.zonadesign.comThe ZONA Design, Inc. created programming and promotion package elements for Animal Planet’s Horse Power, a new program targeted to teens and young women. Horse Power premiered on Animal Planet in February. Horse Power follows America's top teenage riders as they and...

http://film.nvidia.com/page/gelato.htmlThe NVIDIA Corp., has announced the release of NVIDIA Gelato 2.0 rendering software, the latest major release of its high-end, GPU-accelerated rendering software. Gelato also comes with the Mango plug-in for Maya and (coming soon) the Amaretto plug-in for 3ds...

http://www.carsthemovie.comThe Disney-Pixar's exciting new computer-animated feature "CARS" will stage its World Premiere on May 26th at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina in one of the most unique and elaborate movie events of all-time, it was announced today by Dick Cook, chairman...

http://www.rioting.comRIOT recently provided visual effects and final post production services for Wanna Luv U Girl, the new music video from blue-eyed soul singer Robin Thicke (featuring Pharrell). RIOT Editor Gavin Holmes collaborated with Director Hype Williams on the video, the first release...

http://www.framestore-cfc.comSchool of St Ivel, the new 30-second spot for St. Ivel Gold Omega 3, finds a brilliant visual metaphor for the benefits offered by Omega 3 oil, an essential fatty acid contained in the product. A gigantic shoal of digital fish offers a visual analogue for both blood...

http://www.iridas.comIRIDAS will be presenting an exciting line-up of four all-new products at NAB this year. Brief product descriptions and contact information for arranging demos are below: 1. FrameCycler DI Powerful new application for conform, review, and remote collaboration. FrameCycler...

http://www.yuco.comIn designing graphics for Disney's new comedy hit, The Shaggy Dog, yU + co set out to prove that there's a little canine in everyone. The studio's charming design work both opens and closes the film and doggy imagery, naturally, abounds. The design team reconceived the...

http://webrel2.softimage.com/open/video/Games_reel_Final_360.wmvSoftimage has released their 2006 Games Reel, in time for GDC, featuring amazing work created by their customers around the world! Click here to watch the reel.(Windows WMV)

http://www.alienware.comDell announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alienware to further satisfy the growing number of consumers and businesses seeking the highest-performance PC products, including those used for gaming and multimedia digital content management....

http://www.modo3d.comLuxology, LLC, the creators of modo, a leading subdivision surface and polygonal 3D modeling platform, today announced the immediate availability of a “universal binary� version of modo for Intel-based Macintosh computers. Used by Apple to conduct iMac performance...

http://www.yuco.comyU + co created the main title sequence for the new DreamWorks comedy She's the Man, delivering a spunky, high energy graphic treatment that gets the film off to a good-humored start. Directed by Andy Frickman, She's the Man is loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...

http://www.thepixelfarm.co.ukThe Pixel Farm, a company focused on innovation in the field of high-end digital post-production, is pleased to announce the release of PFClean1.5. Since its release in 2005, PFClean has already been adopted by a growing number of DI and post-production facilities...

http://www.a52.comAward-winning Los Angeles visual effects and design company A52 today detailed their visual effects work for a new broadcast spot from Partizan director Olivier “Twist� Gondry, ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles and Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. The:30 spot entitled...

http://www.perceptionnyc.comBranching into the world of indie film, design/post boutique Perception created the opening title sequence as well as all of the graphics for the acclaimed sports documentary Through The Fire, directed Jonathan Hock, which aired on March 13th on ESPN and will be...