VFXWORLD concludes March with a look at some more cutting edge 3D design visualization: Tara DiLullo Bennett reports on several case studies and initiatives in uncovering Autodesk's global investment in the education market; J. Paul Peszko catches up with Palumbo and Honda to discuss a hybrid sports car prototype and the 2007 Acura MDX, respectively; and Karen Raugust looks at a growing trend in architecture: sustainable design.
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Tara DiLullo Bennett reports on several case studies and initiatives in uncovering Autodesk's global investment in the education market.
This month for "The Digital Eye," Autodesk's Chris Ruffo describes how 3D tools are being used by architects and engineers for digital visualization, enabling clients to "experience before they build."
Hollywood's S4 Studios has completed the on-air animated and live branding campaign for Chiller, NBC-Universal Cable Ent.'s new all-HD channel featuring 24-hour horror and thriller programming. The campaign is S4's latest major stride as it continues its emergence into a full-fledged design studio. Chiller, which launched March 1 on DirecTV, will be available as an HD simulcast channel (also with standard def), with video-on-demand and broadband-on-demand also available.
Roger, a broadcast, advertising and design studio founded by creative directors Vasil Hnatiuk, Terence Lee and Mark Yamamoto, delivered the graphics package for Nickelodeons new ME TV programming block.
In addition, Roger is the recent recipient of the Newcomer of the Year Award presented at INSPIRE 07.
J Paul Peszko looks at four leaders in sports motion graphics to find out how they're staying on top of their game.
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) is hosting the exhibition, Design at Play: The High Design and Low-Brow Humor of Cartoon Network, a formal presentation of the Atlanta-based network's multiple award-winning creative work that is scheduled to run at the museum's downtown facilities at 285 Peachtree Center Ave.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today (Jan. 4, 2007) announced the 15 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, which will be presented at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, Feb. 10.
Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical achievements for 2006 are:Technical Achievement Awards(Academy Certificate)
To Joshua Pines and Chris Kutcka of Technicolor Digital Intermediates for the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
"Sustainable Packaging" will become a major theme taught in Graphic Design classes at The Art Institute of California -- Los Angeles during the Winter Quarter 2007 starting Jan. 8, 2007, in Santa Monica, California.
Instructor Suzannah Mathur, who has a master's degree in Sustainable Product Design, will teach a class specifically on sustainable packaging to help make designers more knowledgeable about the choices they have. Mathur explains, "Packaging accounts for most of waste. [The content of a package] will break before its package does."
Registration for the Gnomon School Winter Term 2007 (Jan. 8 through March 18) has begun. You can register online at www.gnomonschool.com, in person, via mail or by fax. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. If you would like to have a tour or get some advice on which courses to take, call 323-466-6663 to make an appointment with Michael "Santi" Santiago.
Look Effects has expanded into graphic design with the recent unveiling of its new division, The Captain. The Captain offers TV, advertising and feature film client creative services that include the conception and production of main title sequences, show opens, logo design, film graphics and branding.
The Captain also achieved major client wins from HBO, Fox Sports and Dockers. Heading up the division are designer/director Mason Nicoll, exec producer Ellen Stafford and business development director Eric Todd Smith.
Design Festa started in 1994, and is a freestyle International Art Event open to artists from all over the world to exhibit their creative talent. Design Festa is the biggest art event in Asia! The event features a wide variety of creative work, including painting, sculpture, fashion, installations, multimedia, film-screening, live music, and performance art. Design Festa is held twice a year at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan's largest exhibition venue.
Design Festa vol.24 Date: December 2 (Sat) & 3 (Sun), 2006 Open: 11:00 - 19:00 Place: Tokyo International Exhibition Center "TOKYO BIG SIGHT"
2007 Adobe Design Achievement AwardsWorld Wide WebAugust 2, 2007Deadline: April 27, 2007
Adobe Systems is hosting the 7th annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The program honors and recognizes the most talented and promising student designers, photographers, illustrators, animators and digital filmmakers from the world's top design, film, interactive and Web higher education programs. This year, the competition will accept entries from 30 participating countries.
Dosch Design has launched the product line DOSCH CAD, which contains many of the popular DOSCH 3D models in additional and optimized file formats. The models can be used in most CAD-applications such as ArchiCAD, Autodesk AutoCAD, CATIA, form.Z, MicroStation, Ngrain Producer, RenderWorks, Rhino, SketchUp, solidThinking, Solidworks, Think ID, UGS NX, VectorWorks and many more.
The polygonal 3D models are provided in the formats: DWG, DXF, FLT - Open Flight, IGES, Iris Inventor, NGrain, Rhino, SLP, STL, Universal 3D and VRML.
In his first book, DESIGN FIRST FOR 3D ARTISTS, Geoffrey Kater taught emerging production designers and animators how to create and nurture their own personal design style. Now, in his second book in the series, DESIGN FIRST FOR 3D SKETCHBOOK, Kater provides hundreds of full-on designs and thumbnail sketches that serve to inspire designers, 3D artists and filmmakers alike. DESIGN FIRST FOR 3D SKETCHBOOK can be ordered through the Design First site, www.designfirstfor3D.com or at www.lulu.com.
STASH MAGAZINE has announced the winners of the 2006 Global Student Animation Awards. The three Category Winners and Best of 2006 were selected by an international panel of 16 judges from all parts of the animation, vfx and motion design industry.
The audience choice award is the result of more than 10,000 votes cast by online viewers of the 2006 semi-finalist films.
2006 Animation Winner & Best Of 2006 AwardHUMANS / Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli / Otis College of Art & Design
2006 Motion Design Winner
Newspeak has started up in New York City as a young design boutique specializing in motion design, art direction and identity development. Founded by Erik Montovano, its creative director, he is joined at Newspeak by Andreea Prichea as exec producer. The companys initial projects are a major show package for mtvU MTVs 24-hour college network, and show packages for three Vh1Classic series.
Luxologys modo earned Best OS X Graphics at the 11th Annual Apple Design Awards at Apples Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) held this week in San Francisco.
Dan May has been hired as president of Blackmagic Design Inc. May joins Blackmagic as the company begins the re-location of its U.S. corporate headquarters to Milpitas, California. All operations currently handled by the Las Vegas, Nevada, office will be transferred to the Milpitas office. Blackmagic Design manufactures the highest quality video cards and converters for the post-production and television broadcast industries.
The VisMasters Design Visualization Conference is a one-day event focused on the business, art and technology of design visualization. Featuring speakers from some of the most prestigious and well know architectural and visualization firms, participants from all facets of the industry will find a new found appreciation for the art of visualization and insights into what lies ahead.
Students in 24 countries will have the opportunity to test their skills in a number of creative endeavors and, perhaps, get a jump-start on their careers with a prestigious award from Adobe Systems.
Adobe has this date issued a call for entries for the sixth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards for promising students in graphic design, photography, illustration, animation, digital filmmaking and computer arts.
Autodesk Inc. announced the availability of the latest version of the AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition (PLE), a special non-commercial-use version of the industry-leading industrial design software. Previously released versions of the PLE software have been downloaded more than 100,000 times by students and industry professionals eager for access to the latest AliasStudio software. Autodesk has continued this important product program so that the industrial design community can explore, learn and become productive to realize their ideas with this leading industrial design software.
DesignMentor Training announces the addition of master illustrator/animator, Chris Georgenes, to its roster of Flash trainers. Georgenes teaches Flash Animation, the final class in DesignMentor's comprehensive Flash Design Portfolio-Builder Program, where students learn character animation and techniques used to enhance any Flash design project. By using basic frame-by-frame techniques and tweening, Georgenes teaches students to draw and animate simple characters, add motion, drama and expression.
Entertainment and design company Imaginary Forces (IF) recently designed and animated the dynamic title reveal in the TRANSFORMERS teaser trailer. The teaser for the Michael Bay-directed film is online now at the official website, www.transformersmovie.com, and will play in theaters with Disney's PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST beginning July 7.
Portfolio Review Show
Featuring Graduates from:
*Media Art and Animation
*Game Art and Design
*Graphic Design
*Interactive Media Design
*Interior Design
Where:THE TURNIP ROSE1901 NEWPORT BLVD.COSTA MESA, CA 714-997-5871
When: June 14, 2006 from 5pm-7pm
LINK:You can view the site through this link:
http://www.herecomestheguide.com/sites/detail.htm?site_id=1388
