February 25th, 2006
Blue-screen, green-screen, chroma-key - it’s all the same thing. To put simply this is the process of filming a scene, object or person in front of a pure coloured screen (typically either blue or green) so that the colour can be removed later to achieve certain special effects.
Stormface Pictures
Mole Richardson
February 22nd, 2006
It was another big night for Pixar and the computer graphics community as the Academy of Motion Picture See winnersArts & Sciences feted its Scientific & Technical Award winners.
Pixar
Variety
February 15th, 2006
BOXX Technologies Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance workstations and render nodes for visual effects professionals, today announced that its new BOXX APEXX 4 workstation has achieved another impressive performance benchmark when running Autodesk’s Maya software. The only personal workstation based on four Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors specifically targeted at the visual effects space, the BOXX APEXX 4 is optimized to maximize the performance of today’s professional animation , modeling and effects software.
Digital Animators
February 13th, 2006
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2006 — The Visual Effects Society (VES), the effects industry’s preeminent professional organization, has announced the nominees for their annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in the field of visual effects and animation. Santa Monica-based Entity FX garnered a coveted nomination for “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series” for their work on Smallville, the WB series about Superman’s teenage years.
Prweb.com
Entity Fx
February 13th, 2006
Hollywood’s Master Storytellers the long-running film series that showcases the most celebrated and successful filmmakers in the motion picture industry, will host Industrial Light & Magic’s Best Visual Effects Academy Award® nominees for War of the Worlds on Thursday, February 16, it was announced by Gordon Meyer, the creator, host and one of the executive producers of the influential series. War of the Worlds will also be Hollywood’s Master Storytellers first regular presentation at its new home, the world famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatres Complex at Hollywood & Highland.
Comingsoon.net
hollywoodsmasterstorytellers.com
February 13th, 2006
Over the last week, Adobe came out with a rather significant announcement. For around $1,000, you can purchase Adobe software that integrates 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) into Adobe Acrobat documents. Although you need to purchase Adobe Acrobat 3D, the software that allows you to put CAD designs into the Acrobat document, others can view the design for free as long as they have the free Acrobat reader. This will not only change the CAD industry, but will likely spill over into the DCC market, and will have significant impacts there.
dccafe.com
February 13th, 2006
More than 200 shots completed for original one-hour movies
(February 09, 2006) Anthem Visual Effects has completed over 200 visual effects for IDT Entertainments “Masters of Horror,” a series of 13 original one-hour movies in HD co-produced by IDT Entertainment, Industry Entertainment and Nice Guy Productions, according to Lee Wilson, President and Visual Effects Supervisor at Anthem.
Anthem Visual FX
February 12th, 2006
CEO Carol Bartz to Assume Role of Executive Chairman
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Jan. 17, 2006 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that Carl Bass, the company’s chief operating officer, has been named president and chief executive officer, effective May 1, 2006. Bass also has been appointed to the company’s expanded Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Autodesk.com
February 12th, 2006
Boxx has released new information that its Apexx 4 quad personal workstation is setting new speed and performance benchmarks while running Softimage XSI.
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How to: Build A Blue/Green Screen
