Archive Feb 2007 |
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| DreamWorks quarterly report reveals better than expected | AMD announces first chipset combining a CPU with an ATI graphics processor, with HDMI and Windows Vista support. | A review of Autodesk Impression, a program for taking CAD drawings and converting them to look like hand drawn renderings. | 28 Feb, 2007 | 28 Feb, 2007 | 27 Feb, 2007 |
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| A video tutorial on lighting up scene using the Brazil rendering system. | Autodesk's Maya Nucleus, a new framework for the production of complicated 3D elements like water, rigid bodies and cloth. | And the winners are: The Danish Poet for Animated Short, Happy Feet for Animated Film, and Pirates of the Carribean for Visual Effects. | 26 Feb, 2007 | 26 Feb, 2007 | 25 Feb, 2007 |
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| An interview with Christopher Stewart, Digital Effects Supervisor for Stargate SG1/Atlantis. | Former head of Electronic Arts' Worldwide Studios joins Microsoft. | Warner Brothers hires writers to pen a live-action Justice League feature. | 25 Feb, 2007 | 25 Feb, 2007 | 24 Feb, 2007 |
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| Variety writes on Ed Catmull's changes to Disney, and his goals of a radical shift to how Disney operates. | NewTek starts offering the LightWave v9 Training Bundle, a special offer that provides hundreds of dollars in training materials free with the purchase of LightWave 3D. | Adobe creates an all new, online quarterly Adobe Magazine for Creative Professionals. | 24 Feb, 2007 | 24 Feb, 2007 | 24 Feb, 2007 |
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| Final Cut Pro 6 is reportedly to be unveiled at the NAB convention in April. | A tutorial on using V-Ray to create studio lighting. | The Gnomon Workshop have just released 2 new training DVD - 'Introduction to Maya' and 'Dynamics Training'.
| 23 Feb, 2007 | 23 Feb, 2007 | 23 Feb, 2007 |
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| Sony Imageworks buys 50.1% of Indian visual effects and animation studio FrameFlow, based in Chennai, South India. | An interview with Chris Renaud, writer and co-director of this year's Oscar-nominated animated short ''No Time for Nuts''. | Digital-Tutors announce the release of 'Training for Shave and a Haircut for Maya' | 22 Feb, 2007 | 22 Feb, 2007 | 22 Feb, 2007 |
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| An interview with Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder and president of Pixar Animation. | e-on software starts shipping the final version of Vue 6 xStream and Vue 6 Infinite. | Pixar opens up a section on their website for Lifted, their upcoming animated short | 21 Feb, 2007 | 21 Feb, 2007 | 20 Feb, 2007 |
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| The latest version of Blender3d has been released hosting a list of improvements including fluid dynamics, soft body dynamics, UV tools, sculpting and more. (Link Fixed) | Autodesk announces Productivity Booster, a 3ds max 9 extension which allows customers to work more efficiently with more than 30 productivity enhancements. | Vray Elite have release a new making of which show how they created The Old Gas Station. | 20 Feb, 2007 | 20 Feb, 2007 | 20 Feb, 2007 |
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| Iloura posts a video Making Of for their work on Charlotte's Web. | Digital-Tutors, announce the availability of their newest training CD ''Animating Walk Cycles in XSI' | AnimWatch profiles ''The Joy Kinematics'', by Mario Ucci. | 19 Feb, 2007 | 19 Feb, 2007 | 18 Feb, 2007 |
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| Eidos announces it will be opening a new game development studio in Montreal, which will begin development on four games for ''next-gen platforms.'' | Sketchr.net, an online sketching web service. | Running Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu Linux, a how to. | 18 Feb, 2007 | 17 Feb, 2007 | 17 Feb, 2007 |
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| Lighting a 3D model to match its environment, a tutorial. | The Wachowski brothers of The Matrix triology fame to start production on ''Speed Racer'' in May. | Introduction to Modeling in Maya - is Digital Tutors newest release in an expanding library of interactive video-based training. | 16 Feb, 2007 | 16 Feb, 2007 | 16 Feb, 2007 |
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| Mudbox, a high resolution brush-based 3D sculpting software built from the ground up to address the needs of the professional digital sculptor. | A tutorial on project setup, management and quality assurance for small businesses. | Softimage profiles Cavia Inc, who used XSI to handle the data and create the characters for Bullet Witch, their next-gen game title for the Xbox 360. | 15 Feb, 2007 | 15 Feb, 2007 | 14 Feb, 2007 |
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| DreamWorks are releasing Puss in Boots in 2011, but a French studio is pinning $24 million to release a Puss in Boots adaptation in 2009. | Gears of War wins big at the 10th annual Interactive Achievement Awards. | | 13 Feb, 2007 | 13 Feb, 2007 | 13 Feb, 2007 |
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| ZBrush 2 64-bit for Windows is now available. | Winners of the 5th Annual VES Awards have been announced. | A Technology Preview of Terragen 2 for OSX and Windows. | 13 Feb, 2007 | 12 Feb, 2007 | 12 Feb, 2007 |
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| The winners and runner-ups of the 8th Animex awards have been announced. | VMWare is bringing 3D virtualization of Windows applications and games to the Mac. | Disney announces Toy Story 3 for 2009, but John Lasseter won't be directing, but rather, Lee Unkrich would, who has been co-director on Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo. | 11 Feb, 2007 | 11 Feb, 2007 | 10 Feb, 2007 |
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| Penney Finkelman Cox, a veteran animation executive who helped launch Sony Pictures' foray into animation, is stepping down to become a producer for the division. | Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, said that he and John Lasseter intend to bring back traditionally animated movies. | Ubisoft to expand and create 1000 more jobs, 500 of which will would work at a new production centre that would make animated short films based on Ubisoft brands. | 10 Feb, 2007 | 10 Feb, 2007 | 10 Feb, 2007 |
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| Yahoo has a Special Effects feature that goes behind the scenes of ''Bridge to Terabithia'', and Weta's work on it. | Corel introduces Paint X. | After the Oscar nomination, co-writer/director/producer of Happy Feet, George Miller, says that a sequel is ''certainly now a real possibility''. | 09 Feb, 2007 | 09 Feb, 2007 | 09 Feb, 2007 |
| IGN visits the headquarters of Imagi Entertainment, the creators of the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CG film. | 09 Feb, 2007 |
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