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Rocket Headline News

Tracey Farrar Joins Render Rocket as VP of Business Development

Render Rocket LLC, the leading provider of cloud-based, self-service rendering solutions for digital content creation companies, today announced the hiring of Tracey Farrar, a highly experienced sales veteran formally of GPL Technologies and PipelineFX, as Vice President of Business Development.

Blogs

Saving the Universe, One LEGO Brick at a Time

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 2:48am

NetDevil, based in Louisville, Colo., is one of those fairy-tale software developer stories: guys who love games start company in basement; work hard; move upstairs to spare bedroom; attempt to save the universe. That would be LEGO Universe, the online game the company recently released in collaboration with the LEGO Group of Billund, Denmark, and NetDevil’s parent company, Gazillion Entertainment.

Blogs

An Interview with Marc Petit, Senior VP of Autodesk M&E

By Dan Sarto | Friday, June 3, 2011 at 3:32pm

Marc Petit, Senior Vice President of Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment division, talks about how studios are meeting the challenges of economic uncertainty and workforce globalization and how his company plans to meet future need for technology tools, including adoption of Open Source standards.

Headline News

Image Metrics Releases PortableYou Platform For Customizable 3D Avatar Creation

Image Metrics (OTCBB: IMGX), a leading provider of facial animation technology, today announced the availability of PortableYou, a groundbreaking new platform for developers as well as online and mobile entertainment, social network and communications companies.

Foundry Headline News

The Foundry Bring Weta Digital's Compositing Technology To Nuke

Following on from The Foundry’s collaboration with Weta Digital on the MARI 3D texture painting technology, the two companies have entered into a new agreement to bring to NUKE the deep compositing technology developed by Weta Digital during their work on Avatar.

Headline News

Digieffects Integrates Workflow-Enhancements into Delirium & Damage

Digieffects (www.digieffects.com) announced today it has integrated powerful, innovative workflow-enhancing technology into its family of Delirium v2 and Damage v2 VFX plug-ins, significantly accelerating the editing and VFX workflow for Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro artists.

Final Headline News

Square Enix Launches Final Fantasy XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition

Square Enix is pleased to announce the launch of FINAL FANTASY® XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition which offers the entirety of all FINAL FANTASY XI content to date in one digital package.

Blogs

An Interview with Animation Director Bill Kroyer

By Dan Sarto | Monday, May 23, 2011 at 3:36pm

Bill Kroyer, animation director, teacher and one of the board of governors of the Motion Picture Academy, shares his thoughts on the original Tron, where it broke new ground and what impact it had on the computer animation field. He also talks about the new digital animation program at Chapman as well as some of the political issues animation faces within the Motion Picture Academy.

Foundry Headline News

The Foundry Joins The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 10:54am

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), has ranked 54th in The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100. Published May 8th, the second annual The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing international sales.

Software Headline News

Crater Software Releases CTP V2.0 Cartoon Animation Software for Windows

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:52am

CTP is software specifically designed for broadcast and film quality animated series production. To run the CTP just a standard Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer, a simple scanner and a graphics tablet are needed to produce animated series in broadcast-, high-definition- or film resolutions.

Black Headline News

Mirada Collaborates with Director Chris Milk to Create '3 Dreams of Black'

Mirada has teamed up with @radical.media director Chris Milk on an interactive music video experience called "3 Dreams of Black" for Danger Mouse and composer Daniele Luppi's Spaghetti Western-inspired concept album ROME.

Blogs

No-holds-barred Production Rendering

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 2:17pm

The perennial goal of creative professionals working on animation and special effects for motion pictures and television -- as well as computer-aided design (CAD) professionals -- is to deliver top-notch work on time and under budget. While production times might be expected to decrease in direct proportion to available processing power, the ambitions of creative professionals are outpacing Moore’s law. Evermore complex rendering algorithms deliver increasing levels of visual subtlety and devour advances in processing power as quickly as they become available.

Blogs

Solitude and Zombies: Waking up to a New Gaming Industry

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 2:08pm

In a nutshell, it seems that the players, the games, the business models, the game delivery mechanisms, the platforms, the market size and the way players interact with games have all changed. And through it all, the PC -- the most open and innovative of all the gaming platforms -- is experiencing a renaissance.

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