Technology

Allegorithmic Opens New Offices in China, North America

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Allegorithmic opens two new subsidiary branches in China and North America.

Lynx Laboratories Launches 3D Camera

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Startup company Lynx Laboratories launches the Lynx A Camera, the world's first point-and-shoot 3D camera.

Imagination Technologies Ships Caustic Series2 PC Boards

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Imagination Technologies ships its Caustic Series2 R2500 and R2100 ray tracing acceleration boards.

Premiere Pro Powers Got Milk? Super Bowl Ad

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Rock Paper Scissors’ Adam Pertofsky cuts the “Got Milk” spot for ad agency Deutsch featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson using Adobe Premiere Pro.

Sony Launches Colorworks 4K Television

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Colorworks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility, opens a new facility focused on 4K television postproduction.

LightWave 3D Announces Availability of LightWave 11.5

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: CG, Technology, Visual Effects
LightWave 11.5 enhances 3D creativity with new Soft Body Bullet Dynamics, After Effects integration, Interactive Modeling Tools, Genoma character rigging system and much more.

A Lean, Smart and Agile FMX 2013 Announces Conference Highlights

Posted In | Blog Categories: Special Announcements, FMX 2013 | Site Categories: CG, Education and Training, Events, Games, Technology, Visual Effects
Starting April 26, this year's FMX 2013 has put together yet another stellar lineup of speakers and sessions.

SilhouetteFX Releases Version 5

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SilhouetteFX releases Silhouette V5 which incorporates hundreds of upgrades as well as brand new features.

FMX Conference Announces Paradigm Shift for 2013

FMX 2013, Europe's most renowned conference on digital entertainment, adopts the slogan, “lean, smart and agile,” and focuses on the ongoing paradigm shift in the animation, effects, games and transmedia industries.

Rob Blau Joins Shotgun

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Leading developer Shotgun hires Rob Blau as Head of Pipeline Engineering.

Atomic Fiction Takes Flight with Shotgun

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Films, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: CG, Films, Technology, Visual Effects
Visual effects and animation studio Atomic Fiction taps Shotgun Software’s Shotgun production management tool for Robert Zemeckis’ aviation drama “Flight.”

Park Road Taps SGO’s Mistika for The Hobbit

Posted In | News Categories: Films, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Australia | Site Categories: Films, Technology, Visual Effects
Park Road Post taps the power of SGO’s Mistika for the DI workflow for Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

YUVsoft Launches Render Version of its 2D to 3D Suite for NUKE

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Technology | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: 2D, 3D, CG, Technology
Render Version for NUKE significantly cuts costs for Stereo 3D, post production facilities; enables large-scale batch rendering for depth propagation and stereo generation.

Motion Capture Society to Host Mixer January 24

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The Motion Capture Society and Motion Analysis Studios host an evening mixer featuring technology demos from Motion Analysis, Faceware, and Pixomondo on Thursday, January 24.

Kodak Bankruptcy Exit Plan Approved

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In a significant step toward its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Eastman Kodak Company receives approval to borrow up to $844 million for interim and exit financing.

Oculus Appoints Laird Malamed COO

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Laird Malamed joins Oculus VR as the new Chief Operating Officer.

Geomerics Opens Vancouver Office

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Geomerics opens a new office in Vancouver to be closer to its growing US and Canadian customer base.

The Foundry Launches Hieroplayer

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Computer graphics and visual effects software developer The Foundry launches a brand-new review tool for VFX.

App Developers: Can You Quit Your Day Job?

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It takes guts to quit a good job to launch a company, especially during the worst economy since the Great Depression. But that’s what George Christopher and Suresh Kumar did in late 2011.

Playing the Long and Short Game with HTML5: Part 1

Posted In | Blog Categories: Profiles | Site Categories: Internet and Interactive, Mobile and Wireless, Technology
Emotions have been running high in the HTML5 application development space in recent months. With the current worldwide explosion of mobile and web app use currently underway, many feel HMTL5 is the bright future of cross-platform development.