Shoot for the stars and take a trip high above the corporate towers and historic attractions of one of the most famous cities in the United States with "Los Angeles Aerials 2 -- Downtown" and "Los Angeles Aerials 2 -- Surrounding Area," the newest royalty-free stock footage collections from Artbeats.
After Aang's unsuccessful attack against the fierce Firelord Ozai during the Day of Black Sun, he will finally face his mortal enemy and seal his destiny in a riveting, two-hour AVATAR television movie premiering Saturday, July 19 from 8 to 10 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. "Sozin's Comet" is the culmination of a week of new episodes, which will begin to roll out on Monday, July 14 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) and conclude with Aang's ultimate battle.
Texas Instruments DLP Cinema in conjunction with the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) screened Sony Pictures' summer film, HANCOCK at Camp Arifjan military installation. Of the 9,000 troops deployed at this remote site, 220 will be the first to experience the movie in a digital cinema format enabled by DLP Cinema projector technology. The installation of a DLP Cinema projector will provide military members the highest technical quality image in the world.
Service Packs for both Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009 are now available for download. Service Pack 1 for both products improve performance in several key areas including rendering, modeling and interoperability.
3ds Max 2009 Service Pack 1 can be downloaded here.
3ds Max Design 2009 Service Pack 1 is available for download here.
Avid Technology has unveiled Avid Deko 5.0, PostDeko 8.0.1 and DekoCast 4.1.2, an upgraded suite of real-time on-air graphics systems designed to increase productivity and enhance creative output throughout broadcast graphics operations.
Unlike competitive graphics products, Avid's suite of on-air graphics solutions reduces the need for additional staff training and costly specialized expertise by providing easy-to-use design tools and templates that enable customers to get productions to air, quickly.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for Gamecaster’s U.S. patent application.
Suite Imagery has released three new royalty free animation volumes in the Nature's Motion series. The new volumes, Nature's Motion 5, 6 and 7, each contain 20 new animations in full HD resolution. These animations serve as professional looping motion backgrounds useful in all levels of video and multimedia production.
Nature's Motion 5 is a collection of 20 animated cloud animations. The volume has a nice variety of color, clouds, and mood making it useful in many applications.
Tweak Software is releasing RV, the company's first commercially available software package. RV is a highly customizable cross-platform image and sequence viewer that is capable of playing back uncompressed film resolution clips.
Free downloadable trial versions of the software are available upon request at www.tweaksoftware.com.
RV is a real-time, film resolution, high-dynamic-range image and sequence viewer for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The application can play back uncompressed film resolution sequences, and includes native support for stereo 3-D.
DART, Central America's leading production company and post facility, has selected SpeedGrade XR to drive their DI finishing pipeline. SpeedGrade XR offers a complete set of grading and finishing tools for all available RAW and video formats. DART, who recently purchased Silicon Imaging 2K cameras for their production work, will now be able to review, color correct, and assemble projects using the native RAW files straight from the camera.
Johannesburg, South Africa-based Jock Animation will use Maximum Throughput's Sledgehammer NAS (Network Attached Storage) system to support their work on a full-length animated feature film currently in production.
Maximum develops ultra high-performance, software-based solutions for networked storage infrastructure and media management.
Adding yet another prominent game developer to its client list, Allegorithmic announced that its procedural texturing middleware, ProFX 2.6, will be integrated by NCsoft Europe and its development teams. ProFX was selected for its ability to quickly produce extremely small texture files -- dramatically reducing downloading times and greatly improving the gamers' overall experience.
Red Giant Software, publisher of Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode, added a new motion graphics tool to its line of professional digital video products. Radium Glow is used to add optical glows and glitter to projects easily.
Unlike most glow filters that just blur the source video, Radium Glow provides pinpoint control over the glow, with editable shapes that can generate precise outlines or create glimmering points. The advanced edge controls, built-in masking, and output controls in Radium Glow let you mimic real light behavior.
You've got a great idea for a game. You're setting up a new company and need the best games pipeline up and running as soon as possible. Softimage is here to help bring your vision to life.
The Softimage Games Incubator Program, in conjunction with DEVELOP Magazine, gives you access to Softimage software for a three-year period with no payments in the first year. This allows you to keep your start up funds focused on producing your game -- not your tools. Invest in the best talent and start creating, instead of worrying about paying for software to start up.
Autodesk today began shipping a Korean version of Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 software. To meet the needs of a growing 3-D community in Korea, this version offers a translated user interface, as well as Korean product documentation and training materials. 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009 software are also available in French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and English.
Next Limit Technologies has released an update for their revolutionary rendering software: Maxwell Render version 1.7. This latest update -- available now for existing customers -- offers several new and vastly improved features including:
--A new Physical Sky system: several real-life, physically accurate parameters can be used to control the look of the sky and the resulting light in the scene, ranging from common Earth values to exaggerated fantasy skies.
From video encoding to oil and gas exploration and from medical imaging to scientific research, thousands of CUDA developers in the high performance computing (HPC) community are leveraging a revolutionary GPU computing platform that was announced just one year ago.
With more than 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler to date, the combination of CUDA and Tesla technologies have been the foundation for industry changing applications, making it the most rapidly adopted GPU computing technology platform in the HPC community.
Emergent Game Technologies is giving more power and options to game developers with the pipeline integration between its award-winning Gamebryo video game development platform and SOFTIMAGE|XSI 3-D animation software.
Digieffects has shipped Simulate: Illuma, a plugin package offering a specialized collection of effects plugins for creating light and glow effects.
Simulate: Illuma includes the following effects:
--Halo: An easy to use bloom/blur effect with color channel control.--Lightracer: Enhances visible light sources, particularly in dark settings as well as providing options for creating unique image looks.
In this month's edition of "The Digital Eye," Larry Mahoney describes a breakthrough in color-critical display technology, resulting from HP's collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.
Wiredrive 2.0 is a customer branded web-based platform for creative professionals used in organizing and sending video reels and client presentations for production, sales and promotional purposes.
Side Effects Software and GarageGames have released Houdini Apprentice HD 9.5 with Torque Exporter for $99 from GarageGames.com. This full-featured solution lets independent game developers develop, then export next-gen quality art content directly into the Torque line of game engines.
Houdini Apprentice HD offers the same indie friendly licensing that is currently available with the Torque line of game engines. The exporter is also included with Houdini Escape and Houdini Master versions 9.5 for commercial game development.
FlickerLab has partnered with Gonzoft, the developer of GO, to launch the real-time animation system in the United States. GO, available exclusively in the U.S. through FlickerLab, will be introduced at the world's brand and property marketplace, the 2008 Licensing International Expo in New York, which ends today.
Those who like making subtitles raise your hand. Adding subtitles to your project may prove daunting, time-consuming, and error-prone. However, subtitle work is much easier if you have a copy of Boris RED 4.3 in your toolbox.
RED is a very capable text creation tool that provides a rich environment for static lower-thirds -- the common way of treating subtitles. But how do you make hundreds of lower-thirds without going mad? Follow the easy steps in this tutorial to generate any number of subtitles automatically.
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3-D animation and vfx software maker Side Effects Software will release Houdini 9.5 on July 15, 2008.
Houdini 9.5 brings the 3-D industry's first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3-D artists can collaborate seamlessly in a multi-platform environment. Houdini 9.5 public beta release is available today for download on all platforms.
SplutterFish, a high-end 3-D rendering software solutions provider, has released the highly-respected Brazil Rendering System V2 Rio Edition, a free version of its award-winning Brazil r/s V2 renderer for 3ds Max. Brazil V2 Rio is a fully-functional rendering suite which allows artists to learn and explore the depth and capabilities of Brazil r/s. Artists can download Brazil V2 Rio at splutterfish.com.
