The Foundry and Pixar Animation Studios today announced a concerted technical collaboration to bring KATANA and RenderMan together, creating a combined best-of-breed toolset for high-end lighting and rendering. KATANA will now include a full RenderMan license as standard, along with a base set of shaders and free KATANA batch render licenses to help get the […]
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It’s over twenty years since professor Marsha Kinder coined the term ”transmedia” and over seven years since professor Henry Jenkins published the seminal work ”Convergence Culture”. Transmedia as such is, as many have pointed out over the years, not anything particularly new, despite the aura of buzzwordyness the term has acheived. Still, it’s apparently a […]
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 SyFy Network aired The Asylum’s Sharknado a B-Movie that embraced its genre status, and took twitter by storm. Starring Tara Reid and Ian Ziering, the movie drew 1.4 Million viewers, a respectable number for a SyFy feature if not a winner in the overall ratings game. On Twitter, the squall […]
A series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools continues. Here's a month of news for color-related Premiere resources. For even more on color, see PVC blogs CUT.N.COLOR by Steve Hullfish and Answers Occasionally Given by Alexis Van Hurkman, as well as the Tao Colorist Newsletter from Patrick […]
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will showcase a selection of its visualization products including a preview of a new handheld display for the MREAL System for Mixed Reality (MR), currently under development, at the Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) annual Conference in Anaheim, California, from July 23-25, […]
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), announced that its Media & Entertainment (M&E) support and learning content for its 2014 product line is now live and available under Creative Commons (CC) licensing; that equates to 20,000 pages of documentation, 70 videos and 140 downloadable 3D asset files. “Autodesk embracing Creative Commons licensing is a big win for […]
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NVIDIA today unveiled the visual computing industry’s new flagship technology – the NVIDIA® Quadro® K6000 GPU, the fastest and most capable GPU ever built. NVIDIA today also launched a new line of professional graphics GPUs for mobile workstations, delivering the highest levels of performance and graphics memory ever available on mobile platforms. The Quadro K6000 […]
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MAXON today introduced CINEMA 4D Release 15 (R15) that redefines the 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting and rendering software workflow. The next generation release of the widely-used 3D software platform reinforces the leadership MAXON has earned over the past 25 years by elevating the creative experience from project planning to content delivery, and is […]
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Here’s how to light your subject, not the audience. Flash solves so many problems in commercial and event situations – bad down light, uneven light, insufficient light, multi source colored light. But flash can be really annoying to conference audiences, convention goers and social event guests. Clean flash exposure is so easy to postprocess. Little […]
