Archive Sep 2007 |
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| The Making of ''Salad,'' a CG image created as a tribute to the artist H.R. Giger and the classical painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. | Behind the scenes of Adult Swim's stop-motion blockbuster Robot Chicken. | An interview with Ben Procter, lead robot illustrator on Transformers. | 30 Sep, 2007 | 28 Sep, 2007 | 27 Sep, 2007 |
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| Illuminate Labs AB today announced that Turtle 4.1 is available for download as a Release Candidate. | The Making of Chaleur et Paix, or ''Warmth and Peace'', by Mohammed Khalil from UAE. | Terminator 4 is indeed happening, and is heading for a 2009 release. | 27 Sep, 2007 | 27 Sep, 2007 | 27 Sep, 2007 |
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| Pixelmator, the OSX image editor, has moved out from Beta and the final version is now available. | Mule, the lightwave network rendering plugin moves to version 1.5. | Nvidia is reportedly aiming at rolling out embedded graphics chipsets | 26 Sep, 2007 | 24 Sep, 2007 | 24 Sep, 2007 |
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| George Lucas discusses with TVGuide the Clone Wars animated series, and how bringing it to TV would be a challenge due to its mature theme. | Advent Children is coming on Bluray, with added scenes, and others getting a re-rendering to add dirt and more effects. | George Miller of ''Happy Feet'' is set to direct ''Justice League'', and last word it is now a live-action not animated. | 23 Sep, 2007 | 22 Sep, 2007 | 22 Sep, 2007 |
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| Electronic Arts is in search of a partnership or acquisition in Japan, aiming to achieve greater penetration in that market. | An interview with Aasa Ooraikul who recently graduated from VFS and was also a guest speaker at Poxar's SIGGRAPH 2007 booth. | The Gnomon Workshop have just add three NEW DVD's to its 2D and 3D libraries | 22 Sep, 2007 | 20 Sep, 2007 | 20 Sep, 2007 |
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| Softimage announce the release of XSI 6.5. | Intel is set to compete in the high-end graphics market, with plans to introduce teraflops-fast chips in 2010. | Wacom introduces a ''Special Edition'' Intuos tablet in celebration of the company's 25th anniversary. | 20 Sep, 2007 | 19 Sep, 2007 | 19 Sep, 2007 |
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| AMD announces a triple-core ''Phenom'' microprocessor. | The123D announces its latest model collection - The Gym Equipment Kit - This is a collection of high quality accurately detailed 3D models to add richness to your sports, gym and exercise visualisation projects! | 15 entrants were selected for consideration for a Scientific and Technical Oscar, amongst them is RealFlow, Houdini, ILM, Digital Domain and Sony. | 18 Sep, 2007 | 18 Sep, 2007 | 17 Sep, 2007 |
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| Intel acquires Havok, the game physics engine company, to be a whole subsidiary. | Over on the Adapt 2007 website you can read their latest interview with 3d character artist, Fausto De Martini. | ''In Production with Rob Cohen'', an official blog authored by Rob Cohen that follows the production of The Mummy 3. | 17 Sep, 2007 | 17 Sep, 2007 | 16 Sep, 2007 |
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| nVidia puts online the slides of its SIGGRAPH 2007 sessions. | VFXWorld reviews modo 301 and gives it a positive verdict. | Desktop Factory starts accepting orders for their ''low-cost'' three dimensional printer. | 16 Sep, 2007 | 16 Sep, 2007 | 15 Sep, 2007 |
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| Wacom starts shipping the ''Bamboo'' line of widescreen tablets. | Over at MTV Movies is an interview with director M. Night Shyamalan about his adaptation of ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' to live action. | Mobile Modeler, interviews Dwi Irawan Adi Prasety - CG Artist. | 15 Sep, 2007 | 13 Sep, 2007 | 13 Sep, 2007 |
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| Apple released Logic Studio today, adding a new live performace application to the suite called MainStage. | Adobe confirms an online Photoshop Express is in the works, and that it would be completely free when released. | A nice collection of video tutorials can be found over on the website of freelance 3d artist, Ben Mathis | 12 Sep, 2007 | 12 Sep, 2007 | 12 Sep, 2007 |
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| Variety reports that a sequel to ''Open Season'' is in the works, and is heading directly to DVD. | Luxology releases modo 301, adding sculpting and animation features to the application. | ''The Lightspeed Automatic Interactive Lighting Preview System,'' a paper presented in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007. | 11 Sep, 2007 | 11 Sep, 2007 | 11 Sep, 2007 |
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| Winners of the 2007 Emmys were announced, and South Park grabbed the Animation award for the World of WarCraft episode. | MyToons.com, the new premier online animation community, today announced that it will show its support of art and animation with the new Bust In & Win Contest, running August 3 through October 26, 2007 | Pixar held two courses, and presented a paper, at SIGGRAPH 2007, and online they have now put all the material presented. | 10 Sep, 2007 | 10 Sep, 2007 | 09 Sep, 2007 |
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| Toon Boom Studio 4 has been released. | Warner Bros. has picked up the rights for the anime classic ''Robotech'', and is bringing it to the big screen with Tobey | Luxology introduced Luxology.tv, a video website with sculpting videos created with modo 301 beta. | 07 Sep, 2007 | 07 Sep, 2007 | 07 Sep, 2007 |
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| In the run up to the ADAPT conference later this month, an interview with one of the key speakers Ryan Church is published. | AMD to update ATI Linux drivers, taking help from the open source community. | Warner Bros. to unveil an immersive online animation experience with all of the key characters from its core animated properties. | 07 Sep, 2007 | 06 Sep, 2007 | 06 Sep, 2007 |
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| Microsoft today released Silverlight 1.0, its cross-browser, cross-platform ''Flash-competitor'' plug-in and platform. | PipelineFX, makers of Qube! software, starts offering online software license rentals. | A review of Vertus Fluid Mask 3.0.2. | 05 Sep, 2007 | 05 Sep, 2007 | 05 Sep, 2007 |
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| Google Earth now has built-in flight simulator: fly around anywhere.
| Check out the interview with Academy Award winner Ed Jones, that has been posted on the Adapt 2007 website. | Simon Reeves writes an introductory tutorial on 3D compositing; not specific to an application. | 04 Sep, 2007 | 04 Sep, 2007 | 03 Sep, 2007 |
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| Newtek posts online a series of the guest presentations they held at their SIGGRAPH 2007 booth. | Check out a few videos that Khalid A. Al-Muharraqi did for Luxology to show the users the new Sculpting tools on Modo. | A new Animation category has been introduced into the upcoming VES Awards, set for February 2008. | 03 Sep, 2007 | 03 Sep, 2007 | 02 Sep, 2007 |
| DAZ3D releases Carrara 6 | 01 Sep, 2007 |
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