This year at NAB 2007, April 16-19 in Las Vegas, Autodesk will launch a series of extensions for its latest visual effects, editing/finishing and color grading products. These extensions are only available to subscription customers. The Systems Subscription model is designed to provide customers with more features and enhancements, more often, and with less disruption than traditional upgrade models.
Iridas announced the release of FrameCycler Professional 2007 and FrameCycler Digital Daily System 2007. Both applications are available on the Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. The new versions offer a more intuitive interface and numerous functionality enhancements. In addition, Iridas' DualStream stereoscopic technology is now available for all FrameCycler applications.
motor, the new rotoscoping tool from Imagineer Systems, will make its industry debut at NAB 2007 in Las Vegas, April 16-19 (booth #SL729). Imagineer will demonstrate motor's unique approach to rotoscoping for fast, high quality matte production for commercial, film and corporate video production. motor is built on Imagineer's industry-unique 2.5D planar tracking and spline technology: an advanced design technology previously only afforded to high-end visual effects design tools.
BBC Motion Gallery, the clip and short form program licensing division of BBC Worldwide, announced the debut of royalty-free footage collections available for purchase through its newly redesigned website, featuring immediate access to production-ready clips, improved search functions, and both clickless previews and large-screen previews in QuickTime 7.
Toronto-based eyeon Software Inc. announced the addition of two new products for NAB 2007 in Las Vegas (April 16-19): Rotation and Vision.
GenArts Inc. announced the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins version 2.05 for Avid AVX products. The new version is compatible with Avid systems running on the Intel-based Mac platform and includes various improvements for both Mac and Windows platforms.
Karen Raugust explores a growing trend in architecture: sustainable design, which relies on 3D visualization to prevent waste and minimize short- and long-term ecological impacts.
J. Paul Peszko catches up with Palumbo and Honda to discuss two instances of cutting edge 3D design work.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software, a complete integrated post-production solution. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium offers unprecedented levels of integration across major new releases of its video, audio and web software, including Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Encore CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and Adobe Soundbooth CS3.
Tara DiLullo Bennett reports on several case studies and initiatives in uncovering Autodesk's global investment in the education market.
RE:Vision Effects announced the immediate availability of ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) for Autodesk Toxik (2007 and up) and Assimilate Scratch (version 3 and up). Other OFX hosts will be added to the list of supported applications once they are verified to work properly.
RSMB as an OFX plug-in product comes with two plug-ins:
Polhemus announced a Rhino software plug-in for the PATRIOT, a 6DOF tracking system, that when used in conjunction with the Polhemus stylus, turns the system into a hand-held, free-form digitizer.
Janet Hetherington talks to the innovators of the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), a futuristic mammogram procedure that may soon become the norm.
Wildform Inc. announced the release of WildPresenter Pro 3.1, a major update to its award-winning multimedia presentation software. The new update includes many of the features most requested by Wildform customers including:
* Full screen mode. WildPresenter output can now automatically scale to play at full screen size in both web browsers and in standalone projector files.
The Foundry has announced Furnace 4 plug-ins for Shake, a major product release comprising next-generation motion estimation technology and a host of other tools, designed to ease the routine processes involved with the production of digital visual effects.
BOXX Technologies Inc. is offering the new NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 professional-class graphics solutions on its 3DBOXX and APEXX Workstations and renderBOXX nodes.
Released recently by NVIDIA, these groundbreaking new cards offer a unified architecture that delivers higher GPU efficiency, resulting in significant performance improvements for visual effects, architecture design, and complex simulation and data intensive visualization.
PhoeniX Technologies Inc. (PTI) recently launched its next generation Visualeyez II VZ4000 Active Optical Real-Time motion capture system to help animators dramatically eliminate post processing costs while saving thousands of dollars on mocap development projects. Visualeyez II is equipped with a robust and lightweight mechanical design (3 kg) for easier portability, making it easier to transport the equipment to different studios, as well as the flexibility to mount the system on a wall, ceiling or tripod within an animation studio.
Luxology Llc. announced the immediate availability of modo 203. With enhancements to UV editing tools, faster rendering speed and a new DXF translator plug-in, modo 203 offers significant performance and workflow improvements to its worldwide base of modo customers, and provides one of the fastest paths to creating high-quality 3D content for game development, design visualization, film visual effects, video production and graphic arts.
IBM announced a new emerging technology that helps blind and visually impaired people experience streaming video and animation on the Internet. Designed at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory, the new multimedia browsing accessibility tool potentially opens a world of rich content to visually impaired people around the world, who number more than 161 million.
NVIDIA Corp. announced the release of Gelato 2.1, the high-quality, GPU-accelerated rendering software, which now includes support for Joe Alter's Shave and a Haircut software for CG hair and fur effects. Other enhancements in this newest release of Gelato include support for Autodesk Maya 8.5 and 3ds Max 9.0, improved stereo rendering, fog lights and significant performance improvements.
eyeon Software announced the release of the Fusion 5.1 Learning Edition, which gives compositors of every skill level the opportunity to learn Fusion.
The learning edition was created to give everyone the chance to experiment, test and grow his or her compositing skills on eyeon's award-winning desktop visual effects software.
wondertouch has released three new libraries in its Professional Emitters (Pro Emitters) product line for particleIllusion 3.0 software. Each library contains 30 emitters that are thematically geared to providing sophisticated, ready-to-use, motion graphics style particle-based effects.
PipelineFX announced the release of Qube! 5.1 render farm management software.
DAZ 3D announced the release of the Mac-Intel compatible version of Bryce, the popular 3D art and animation tool. Now able to run natively on Intel-based Mac computer systems, Bryce 6.1 gives artists greater performance and stability as they develop 3D environments and animations for print, multimedia, video and the Web.
mental images announced the upcoming availability of mental mill Artist Edition at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco. mental images is known for providing artists and visual effects professionals with leading edge software tools to render their imagination visible such as mental ray and now mental mill, which is a breakthrough technology for the creation of hardware shaders in all popular formats.
