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ATI Delivers Improved Gaming With CrossFire Xpress 3200 Chipset

ATI Technologies Inc. has apparently changed the rules of the motherboard industry with the introduction of its CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset, delivering the enthusiast gaming platform of the future. Developed from the ground up for multi-GPU gaming, the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset arguably enables the world's fastest gaming performance, advanced overclocking capabilities and bedrock stability available in an AMD-based PC motherboard today.

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Rendercore Launches Macintosh OSX Support for Maya 7.0

Rendercore Inc. provides complete integration and support for Mac OSX version of Maya 7.0 from Alias.

"With prevalence of Mac OSX as an important part of creating photoreal imagery in the computer graphics industry, we worked diligently to include the Maya Mac OSX version shortly after its introduction," commented Brian Kim, technical director for Rendercore.

Animation Headline News

ILM Relies on Vue 5 Infinite From e-on

Industrial Light & Magic is using Vue 5 Infinite, e-on softwares natural 3D environment solution, on some of its upcoming projects, filling a void in its existing tool set.

"e-on products are a great addition to our production tool set and we are planning to expand their use throughout our entire facility, said Cliff Plumer, Lucasfilm cto. You will probably be seeing a lot of Vue in future productions.

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RE:Vision Effects Releases RE:Flex for Fusion 5

RE:Flex from RE:Vision Effects brings intuitive morphing and warping directly to eyeon Software's Fusion 5. RE:Flex is especially easy to learn because it uses the Fusion's own drawing and masking tools to direct the warping and morphing; as such, there is no need to learn a whole new user interface.

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NASA Enlists Houston Students for Mars Project

Media arts and animation students from The Art Institute of Houston have been enlisted by NASA to create new designs for an all-terrain vehicle for exploration on Mars, reports the HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL. The 11-week quarter class will have students developing the vehicle, a power module to help recharge the vehicle when out in the field and a stationary land base.

"When academia participates in real world problems, students move from theory to application which involves risking and failing," says Anthony C. Bruins, NASA's Mission Control Center system architect.

Effects Headline News

wondertouch Releases particleIllusion Professional Emitter Libraries

wondertouch announced the release of the Professional Emitter Libraries, a collection of six new particle emitter libraries for the company's award-winning particleIllusion 3.0 software, widely regarded for creating high-quality, complex particle animations.

Digital Headline News

Bauhaus Announces New Fully Digital Storyboarding System

Bauhaus Software will offer Boardomatic v2, a new fully digital storyboarding system for Bauhaus Mirage, the company's award-winning 2D animation product. Designed for 2D animators and storyboard artists accustomed to working on paper, Boardomatic v2 combines a customizable template system, automatic pan generation, print formatting and much more.

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PNY Technologies Offers NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI

PNY Technologies Inc. is now shipping the latest in its line of high-def graphics-to-video solutions, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI. Adopted by major television networks and film companies, NVIDIA Quadro SDI solutions have been integrated with numerous broadcast and video applications from industry leaders to enable high-def live-to-air 3D graphics, broadcast news, traffic and weather graphics, 2K digital film playback and digital intermediate uses.

Media Headline News

Editshare Launches Next Gen Collaborative Editing & Shared Media Storage Systems

EditShare will be unveiling the next generation (version 4.0) of its award-winning EditShare family of systems at NAB 2006, (booth SL 1410). Available by the end of Q2 2006, EditShare version 4.0 will bring users a host of new productivity enhancing features, including support for uncompressed HD, faster hardware and larger hard drives, and a new scalable architecture.

Mobile Headline News

NVIDIA & DiBcom Team on Digital TV For Mobile Devices

NVIDIA Corp. and DiBcom, the leader in semiconductor technology for mobile digital TV, are teaming to create a DVB-H reference design for mobile handset TV platforms.NVIDIA Corp. and DiBcom, the leader in semiconductor technology for mobile digital TV, are teaming to create a DVB-H reference design for mobile handset TV platforms. By working together, the two companies can offer a solution that will deliver dramatic advancements in the broadcast quality of mobile TV on next-generation mobile handsets.

Motion Headline News

Ubisoft Installs Vicon MX40 System

Ubisoft Montreal has installed the 24-camera Vicon MX40 system. The leading game publisher is home to a new purpose-built motion capture studio equipped with a 4,500-square-foot stage designed primarily for full-body performance. Ubisoft Montreal decided to bring motion capture in-house to develop pipelines that tie directly into its game engines and game designs, and to eliminate the logistical costs of traveling to U.S. West Coast-based motion capture service bureaus.

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The Pixel Farm to Release PFTrack 3.5

The Pixel Farm announced that it will start shipping PFTrack 3.5 in March. Already one of the most advanced camera tracking and motion analysis products available, this latest version reaches new heights of operability, with many additional features including a more sophisticated camera solver, segmented shot solving, improved geometry tracking and extensive UI and workflow improvements.

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Wildcat Realizm Selected for Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator

3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm graphics technology has been chosen by Sun Microsystems Inc. to provide the foundation for the newly announced Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator. The new Sun XVR-2500 card is available in high-end Sun Ultra45 workstations. Powered by Wildcat Realizm graphics technology, Sun XVR-2500 graphics deliver high levels of image quality and realtime visualization capabilities for a wide-range of professional applications.

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Rendercore Supports Maxon Cinema 4D HAIR Module

Rendercore Inc., a worldwide leader in remote rendering solutions, announced the complete integration and support for the recently introduced HAIR module from Maxon.

This new module lets users quickly and easily add astonishingly realistic hair to objects. The hair can be styled using HAIR's extensive tool palette, and a custom 3D shader gives artists complete control over the appearance of the hair. HAIR is not only easy to use, it's very fast, offers excellent rendering quality and requires very little memory. An average configuration can easily render millions of hairs.

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BFG GeForce 7800 GS AGP Graphics Cards Now Available

BFG Technologies Inc., a leading U.S.-based NVIDIA supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards and other PC enthusiast products, announced that their new BFG GeForce 7800 GS OC 256MB AGP graphics cards are immediately available through leading retailers and retailers.

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BOXX APEXX 4 Sets Speed Record with XSI

BOXX Technologies Inc. announced that its new APEXX 4 personal workstation is setting new speed and performance records with SOFTIMAGE|XSI. APEXX 4 was released in January, and is a top-of-the-line four-processor, eight-core personal workstation specifically engineered to maximize productivity for todays visual effects professionals.

Digital Headline News

Digital Ribbon Signs Partnership for On-Demand Rendering Service

Orlando-based Digital Ribbon has signed a cross-marketing agreement with Maxwell Render, a digital animation firm based in Spain, who will provide use of its digital animation software to Digital Ribbon clients. Both firms will earn commissions on software licensing agreements.

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NVIDIA Takes the Power of GeForce 7 Series GPUs Mainstream

NVIDIA Corp. launched the new NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS graphics processing unit (GPU). The latest addition to the Companys award-winning GeForce 7 Series line up, the GeForce 7300 GS boasts the video and gaming features of todays most advanced GPUs to deliver stunning, high-def video up to 1080i resolution and cutting edge gaming effects. In addition, the GeForce 7300 GS GPU is primed for the upcoming Microsoft Vista operating system (OS).

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