Category Archives: Tools of the Trade
Escape Studios – Making it as a VFX Artist Open Day
Escape Studios Headquarters here in the UK is having another special open day for professionals and students a like. This time 3D Creative Director from world reknowned studio The Mill, Jordi Bares is taking the helm for the day … Continue reading
New Graduate Program from the Moving Picture Company
One of the biggest VFX monsters have announced a new 8-week program for aspiring VFX students. This is aimed to help students improve there skills needed for the industry and to help with there studies. The program is broken down … Continue reading
Avid Restructures; Cuts 410 Jobs
Boston.com reports that Avid Technology Inc. has decided to layoff 15% of its workforce, and sell off Softimage, its 3D animation software, in what executives are calling, “a major restructuring.” The number of jobs cut will amount to 410 full-time … Continue reading
Pixar’s Renderman Heads to Mumbai
Indian animation news source, Animationxpress.com says that Pixar is partnering with Maximus, an 3D animation based school in Mumbai, to provide Renderman training. Maximus is the first education institute in Asia to offer certified RenderMan training.”We are excited to have … Continue reading
Digital Anarchy Products Sold to Red Giant
Broadcastbuyer is reporting that Digital Anarchy, the company which has delivered visual effects and 2D software for the past 7 years, has sold their entire video product line to Red Giant Software. Effective Monday, August 4th, the company will transfer … Continue reading
Autodesk to show Stereoscopic Workflow!
Well it’s finally here, the long awaited stereoscopic pipeline from Autodesk. While others have been rolling out stereo tools here and there Autodesk has been mum. The only thing anyone from the company would say about the subject is that … Continue reading
Is Final Cut Server Production Ready? Yes!
Ani-Jobs’ tech insider has just posted our first product review! In the review, he praises Apple’s release of Final Cut Server 1.1. He writes, “I can setup an automated workflow which will recompress my media, burn timecode, automatically post to … Continue reading
Toonz Develops Storyboard Software
AWN says the R&D company Digital Video, which is behind the making of the 2D software Toonz, has announced a new production software called Story Planner. With Story Planner it is possible to create from start to finish a storyboard … Continue reading
Autodesk Releases Service Pack 1 for 3d Studio Max 2009
Autodesk has released it’s first Service Pack for 3d Studio Max 2009. The Service Pack fixes a variety of issues and bugs across most every function of the software including Hair, Biped, Inverse Kinematics, Particles, and Spline Mapping among others. … Continue reading
cineSync Pro released today
DMN Newswire–2008-5-26–ADELAIDE, Australia, 26th May 2008: RSR, the company behind the world leading post production workflow tools cineSync and cineSpace, today announce the full release of cineSync Pro – the ultimate synchronised review and approval solution. Expanding on the hugely successful and … Continue reading
