Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation announced the release of Toon Boom Studio Express 4. With this release, Studio Express 4 increases your ability to easily create eye-catching animation, all within a more user-friendly interface.
Feature highlights include:
*New flexible docking user interface*Calligraphic line styles for a unique animation look*Feather edges for creating blurs and glows*Vectorization using textures for bitmap integration
Karen Raugust reports on how the famed AI-based 3D animation system is being adopted by key VFX/animation schools.
Toei Animation Europe S.A.S, a subsidiary of Toei Animation, will stream new trailers for a number of their most popular animated series on their corporate Web site (www.toei-animation.com). The video previews are available now.
Primera Technology, the world's leading manufacturer of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc duplication and printing equipment, announced an agreement with Charismac Engineering for disc burning software that runs on Apple's Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard operating system.
Primera will now include Charismac's new Discribe v6.0 software in all Bravo-Series and XR-Series Disc Publishers.
Okino Computer Graphics, a leading provider and pioneer of data translation solutions to the DCC/Animation and enterprise Fortune 1000 markets, announced today that its currently shipping software products have received the "Autodesk Inventor 2009 Certification."
Okino has been a registered Autodesk developer since 1995 and has been shipping this completely robust and error free Autodesk Inventor conversion pipeline since Inventor v5.
Luxology announced the immediate availability of modo 302, the newest version of its award-winning, artist-friendly 3D content creation software.
Free for registered modo 301 customers, modo 302 adds new natural lighting capabilities, additional layered Photoshop file support, an animation Track View, new modeling tools and numerous other enhancements.
PipelineFX, makers of Qube! software, the leading render farm management software for film production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced the availability of Qube! version 5.3.
The Qube! GUI adds a number of enhancements in both power and usability. The image viewer now supports displaying arbitrary image formats like OpenEXR by launching external viewers such as fCheck or exrDisplay.
NewTek, manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products today announced the start of an Open Beta program for LightWave Rendition for Adobe Photoshop on the opening day of Photoshop World in Orlando.
Based upon the rendering engine of Emmy Award-winning LightWave 3D, LightWave Rendition for Adobe Photoshop gives creative artists the ability to render models imported through Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Autodesk today began shipping two new versions of 3ds Max, its leading 3D modeling, animation and rendering software.
In February 2008 the company first announced 3ds Max 2009 software for entertainment professionals, and 3ds Max Design 2009 software, a tailored 3D application for architects, designers and visualization specialists.
Key features in 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009 include:
--New Reveal rendering toolset, which streamlines iterative workflows.
Anupam Das of EA tests Houdini 9.1 and discovers several improvements, including FBX support and new additions to fluid and animation tools.
In this month's edition of "The Digital Eye," Autodesk's Maurice Patel explores how gaming is driving VFX and Design Visualization through performance, interaction and immersion.
AMD announced it is advancing application performance with stunning imagery through the introduction of the first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support.
The ATI FireGL V7700 professional graphics accelerator provides superior rendering speed, 3D performance and color fidelity for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Medical Imaging professionals.
HP today unveiled new customizable desktop PCs that offer a wide range of personalized features and options to fit the needs of every consumer.
The company also announced the availability of a digital storage device, the HP Media Vault mv2120, which is designed to store, protect and share digital media, as well as advanced monitors and accessories to enhance the digital lifestyle.
Side Effects Software is pleased to announce the Houdini for Mac beta program. With the recent redesign of the Houdini UI, Houdini has become much more artist-friendly, making it a great fit for the Mac. At the same time, Apple's switch to Intel processors provides Houdini artists with a wealth of processing power.
FUNDAMENTALS OF RIGID BODY DYNAMICS IN HOUDINI -- the third release in a growing collection of interactive training for digital artists learning Houdini, the award-winning advanced 3D animation and special effects software -- is out now from Digital-Tutors.
FUNDAMENTALS OF RIGID BODY DYNAMICS IN HOUDINI presents an intuitive workflow to creating rigid body simulations and effects as well as provide more than three hours of practical projects and training for artists learning Houdini's rigid body tools.
NextComputing, manufacturer of high performance, portable computer, announces the incorporation of Intel L5420 Xeon 45nm Quad Core processors (Harpertown) into its line of NextDimension, flextop computers.
NextComputing will offer up to two Harpertown Quad Core processors into the following computer models; the NextDimension Pro and Pro HD, the NextDimension Evo and Evo HD, and the Vigor Pro SD.
RE:Vision Effects announces the availability of ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) v.3.3, OpenFX (OFX) version.
ReelSmart Motion Blur applies more natural-looking motion blur to a video sequence by automatically tracking every pixel. RE:Vision Effects' tracking technology is at the heart of ReelSmart Motion Blur, so there is no handwork involved.
Users can add as little or as much blurring as is needed, and can even remove motion blur.
Digini, Inc. has introduced subscription-based pricing model for its Blade3D game development environment, which allows everyone from novices and hobbyists to professional users the ability to easily create games.
Built on Microsoft's XNA 2.0 platform, the Blade3D game development tool set is the first product to offer a truly integrated development environment where games can be deployed with no modifications on Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Vista.
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the next system software update for PlayStation3, slated for release in late March, will add Blu-ray Disc (BD) Profile 2.0 or BD-LIVE.
This will enable PS3 owners to experience interactive features, such as downloadable video content, ringtones and games.
In addition to BD-LIVE, the system software update (version 2.20) will enable photo and music playlists on PS3 to be copied to PlayStation Portable, among other new features.
Digieffects has released Damage, a new set of plugins for video and film postproduction professionals.
Digieffects Damage is a collection of four effects designed for post production professionals who want to create an extensive variety of digital and/or analog defects, errors and artifacts in their footage.
It supports Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED.
TurboSquid announced the latest 3D modeling and translation tools from nPower.
These products include several NURBS modeling titles and several translators for using 3ds Max with other CAD programs. nPower Software empowers 3D artists, designers and engineers by connecting end users with advanced technology tools. nPower's superior suite of NURBS and Boolean tools for 3ds Max and Viz provide sophisticated 3D design environments.
Bill Desowitz chats with Jeff Brown of NVIDIA about its recent acquisitions of mental images and AGEIA.
Microsoft is reportedly not in discussions with Sony to include Blu-ray DVD technology to its Xbox 360 console, REUTERS reported Thursday.
In an interview with REUTERS on Wednesday, group product manager for Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg said "Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience."
TiVo and YouTube announced an agreement on Wednesday to stream Internet videos directly to users' TV screens.
"TiVo's strategy is to bridge the gap between Web video and television and make as much content available as possible for our subscribers," said Tara Maitra, TiVo's vice president and general manager for content services to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
This is the second major entrant into the Internet video to TV game; Apple introduced Apple TV with similar features recently.
RealD 3D, the global leader in 3D, continued its innovations in 3D cinema at the ShoWest film conference with spectacular demonstrations of its RealD XL larger-screen technology, which allows RealD's next-generation 3D experience to reach screens over 60 feet wide with a single projector.
RealD XL was first unveiled at the November 5, 2007 premiere of Paramount Pictures' BEOWULF in Los Angeles.
