NEW YORK - Thor Raxlen recently established Lair, a new live-action, visual effects, character animation, design and post finishing studio. Lair (www.lair.tv) is spread over four airy floors of a brow ...

August 5, 2010

HOLLYWOOD - The Hollywood Post Alliance (www.hpaonline.com) has appointed Avid’s worldwide marketing manager/post production, Vincent Maza, to its board of directors. He brings broad expertise to his ...

August 5, 2010

NEW YORK - Pomann Sound provided full audio post for Animal Planet’s The Uprising, which airs this weekend.

August 5, 2010

AMSTERDAM — Stephen Rivkin, the Oscar-nominated Avatar editor, will be the keynote speaker at the IBC Digital Media Training Workshops ( http://www.ibc.org/training ), run by Future Media Concepts and ...

August 4, 2010

LONDON — London VFX house Cinesite ( www.cinesite.com ) is now offering stereoscopic 3D visual effects services for films shot in stereo, as well as conversion of 2D films into 3D. Cinesite’s first st ...

August 2, 2010

TEWKSBURY, MA - Avid announced that it is expanding its ISIS shared storage product family with the introduction of the ISIS 5000. The company introduced the flagship Unity ISIS back in November of 20 ...

July 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES - The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) has released “The VES Handbook of Visual Effects,” what the organization describes as “a Bible for VFX practices and procedures. ...

July 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES - Gothenburg, Sweden’s Craft Animations (www.craftanimations.com) is offering Director Studio, a suite of over 25 specialized vehicle and camera tools.

July 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES - Xsens (www.xsens.com), based in The Netherlands with offices in LA, is at SIGGRAPH with its new MotionGrid, a position aiding system for its MVN full-body, camera-less inertial motion ca ...

July 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES – Allegorithmic (www.allegorithmic.com), based in France, previewed Substance Designer at SIGGRAPH, its next generation texturing software solution. The Substance Designer package includes ...

July 29, 2010