HOLLYWOOD — At a gala event held on the Paramount Pictures lot on last week, Canon introduced its new Cinema EOS digital camera system to the Hollywood community. Canon executives, leading cinematogra ...
November 11, 2011
NEW YORK — Sonic Union (www.sonicunion.com) mixed the soundtrack for a new Verizon spot out of NY/Chicago-based agency Mcgarrybowen. Directed by Biscuit Filmworks’ Noam Murro, the commercial promotes ...
TORONTO — Eyeon’s now-shipping Fusion 6.3, which features GPU-accelerated architecture and OpenCL supercomputing, tackles a big user request: volumetric lighting within the existing Volume Fog Tool.
November 10, 2011
HOLLYWOOD — Seven-year-old Identity FX, which originally established itself supplying 2D VFX for films like Transformers and Hancock, has been dipping its feet in the 3D stereo conversion waters over ...
November 8, 2011
HOLLYWOOD — NetApp ( www.netapp.com ) has introduced a solution for bandwidth-intensive environments that offers facilities high performance and always-available data access to maximize collaborative ...
November 7, 2011
NEW YORK — Design and visual-effects company Phosphene (www.phosphenefx.com) created numerous CG environments for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s new action-comedy Tower Heist, starring ...
GRASS VALLEY, CA — AJA Video Systems (www.aja.com) has announced that the company’s desktop solutions and mobile I/O devices will support the latest Avid releases, including Media Composer 6.0, NewsCu ...
November 4, 2011
MILITAS, CA — Blackmagic Design (www.blackmagic-design.com) has introduced Desktop Video 9.0, a new software update with advanced capture and playback for the Avid Media Composer 6 family of software ...
HOLLYWOOD — Two-time Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 1. Lasseter directs and creatively oversees all films and associated ...
BEVERLY HILLS — Eighteen features have been submitted for consideration in the “Animated Feature Film” category for the 84th Academy Awards. The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tu ...