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Iridas Releases SpeedGrade DI

Iridas announced the release of SpeedGrade DI. The new application offers an industry-leading feature set for digital color grading and film finishing. In addition, SpeedGrade DI anchors the industry's first complete color pipeline with SpeedGrade OnSet (look management) and FrameCycler (calibrated review with grading applied). The result is complete mobility of color data up, down, and across production pipeline, opening the door to new, collaborative color workflow models.

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Color Headline News

da Vinci Upgrades 2K Plus With Version 4.0

da Vincis 2K Plus, the leading color enhancement system and the most widely used system in digital intermediate (DI) applications, has recently been upgraded with the release of version 4.0, which includes the introduction of the ColorTrace and Toolbox2 options. Major enhancements in the new release include fingertip access to many powerful Toolbox2 features such as enhanced PowerVectors, enhanced Defocus, and realtime vfx.

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Color Headline News

Iridas Releases First Component of New Color Pipeline

Iridas, an industry leader in uncompressed playback technologies announced the release of Service Pack 2 for FrameCycler 3.5. This update introduces a key component of the new Iridias color pipeline. With SP2, FrameCycler playback applications now allow users to view sequences with SpeedGrade .look files applied. Color graded playback is thus now possible from every workstation or screening room at any point in the filmmaking process.

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Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk to Acquire Software Developer Colorfront

Autodesk Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Colorfront Ltd., the leading developer of color correction technology for film studios and digital film laboratories, for $15 million. This acquisition will bring comprehensive new expertise in film laboratory processes, digital post-production, color science, image processing and hardware platform optimization to Autodesk. The transaction is expected to close in the next 45 days, and to be neutral to Autodesks earnings in fiscal year 2006.

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Color Headline News

Discreet Lustre 2.6 and Autodesk Incinerator 1.0 Announced

Autodesk Inc. will release Discreet Lustre 2.6, the latest version of its industry leading digital color correction system, and the Autodesk Incinerator 1.0 system that is planned to enhance the realtime performance of future Lustre-based products. New to the market, the Incinerator system is an inline cluster of configurable processing units that connect to one or more Lustre stations, boosting system performance and interactivity during digital color grading sessions. The Lustre 2.6 system delivers a host of new features, including additional conform and editorial capabilities.

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Effects Headline News

CaféFX Helps Build Sin City

When director Robert Rodriguez of Troublemaker Studios set out to make a stark black-and-white movie based on three of the books from Frank Millers SIN CITY ("A Hard Goodbye," "That Yellow Bastard," and "The Big, Fat Kill") he was determined to be true to that original style and to make a film that looked like nothing else. Shooting actors on greenscreen, he employed ComputerCafé Group's CaféFX to create the backgrounds for one of the episodes, essentially, to create Sin City from the ground up.

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Grading VFXWorld

SpeedGrade DI: The Next Phase in Color Correction

Andy Stout gets the lowdown from users on why Iridas new SpeedGrade DI offers the future direction of how we will do this business.

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Color Events

SpeedGrade DI Demo

Begins: January 26, 2005

IRIDAS, a leader in playback and non-destructive color grading technologies for the film and digital content creation industries, will demonstrate SpeedGrade DI at the Hollywood Post Alliance Retreat.

In Event Types: Seminars / Workshops, Business / Management, Live Action, Visual Effects, Other

Discreet Technology Embraced by Holiday Films

What do a disfigured musical genius, aviation pioneer Howard Hughes and a resurrected vampire have in common? This holiday season, their stories are being told using digital content creation tools from Discreet.

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Color Headline News

Warner Bros. Animation Uses ColorBlind for Nick’s SpongeBob SquarePants Mov

Warner Bros. Animation department used Quik Pix Inc.s ColorBlind color management software (recently upgraded for use on Linux platform) to render the SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS animated motion picture, a Nickelodeon/Paramount production to be released on Nov. 24, 2004.

Warner Bros. reported significant savings in time, material and labor during the animation phase of the film.

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Film VFXWorld

Meet the 'Sky Captain' Visionary: Q&A with Kerry Conran

Bill Desowitz discusses the groundbreaking Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with first-time director Kerry Conran.

In Production | VFXWorld

Color Headline News

Crayola Swings into Action with Spider-Man 2

Crayola's new SPIDER-MAN 2 inspired activity line allows kids to melt crayons and mold them into their own Spider-Man and Dock Ock characters with the SPIDER-MAN 2 Character Maker, draw webby designs with Crayola Spider Writers, pens that ooze a spider-web-like ink and even decorate their windows with all things "Spidey" with SPIDER-MAN 2 Window Markers and Window Clingers.

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CommArts Illustration Competition Deadline Nears!

Communication Arts Illustration CompetitionWorld Wide WebMay 9, 2004Deadline: March 15, 2004

Juried by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and illustrators, each years ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL features the best work in drawing, painting, collage, electronic and three-dimensional illustration.

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Film Headline News

Kodak Releases Two New Film Stocks in VISION2 Line

Kodak has released two new film stocks that incorporate the companys advanced VISION2 color negative film technology, adding 100- and 200-speed, ultra-fine grain color negative films to the product line.

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Color Headline News

Digital Anarchy Unveils Primatte Chromakeyer 2.0 for Photoshop

Digital Anarchy announced the availability of Primatte Chromakeyer 2.0, a chromakey compositing plug-in for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Primatte allows users to use blue and greenscreen masking technology with Photoshop and digital still images to create complex layered effects.

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Animation ANIMATIONWorld

Concept to Creation: Basic Tips

Mark Simon begins his series of twelve excerpts from his new book Producing Independent 2D Character Animation: Making and Selling a Short Film, with some helpful tricks of the trade. Includes a QuickTime movie clip.

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Game Headline News

NewKidCo And E.T. Phone It In

NewKidCo, has shipped E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL for Game Boy Advanced, the first in the company's highly anticipated line of games based on one of the most beloved and successful films of all time, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in March 2002 with a long-awaited re-release. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is an action-packed adventure game that captures the excitement and strength of the characters that made the film so popular and pits them against the same challenges faced in the film like assembling the transmitter to "phone home," breaking E.T.

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Visual Headline News

New At Visual Magic Magazine

Check out the latest "behind the scenes" features and tutorials from Visual Magic Magazine...

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Color Headline News

Nothing Real Shakes Up Linux

Nothing Real announced recently that their popular compositing tool Shake is now available on the Linux operating system. Version 2.3 is the company's first release to support the Linux platform, making Shake available on Windows NT, IRIX and Linux operating systems. The new release, which was Beta-tested by Cinesite Europe on the Linux platform, includes several new features and improvements. New color correction tools allow artists to color match different elements of source material quickly and easily. In addition, the new tools allow for selective color replacement.

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Color Headline News

SIMON GOODCHILD completes his first commercial

SIMON GOODCHILD, recently signed by London-based SHERBERT, has completedhis first commercial, "Colour Screams," a :40 spot for Procter and Gamble'snew washing powder, Vibrant. The agency was Grey Advertising. The spot,which uses abstract shapes and pure color to create a mood of vibrant,non-bleeding color, was designed with Truespace and Adobe Photoshop.

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Production ANIMATIONWorld

FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue - Getting the Money on the Screen

Wild Brain's Dave Marshall, co-director of FernGully 2, discusses how he tailored the pre-production process of FernGully 2 to guarantee the best final film for the budget.

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Production ANIMATIONWorld

'FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue '- Getting the Money on the Screen

Wild Brains Dave Marshall, co-director of FernGully 2, discusses how he tailored the pre-production process of FernGully 2 to guarantee the best final film for the budget.

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