GDC
Emergent Game Technologies Updates Gamebryo Lightspeed
12-Mar-2010
San Francisco, Calif. - Emergent Game Technologies, a provider of 3D game development solutions, has revealed the latest updates for its development engine Gamebryo LightSpeed at the annual Game ...
Poser Pro 2010 Debuts at GDC 2010
12-Mar-2010
Aliso Viejo, Calif. - Smith Micro Software Inc.’s Productivity and Graphics Group has launched Poser Pro 2010, the fastest way for professional artists and production teams to add 3D characters to ...
Khronos Unleashes Graphics Acceleration with OpenGL 4.0
12-Mar-2010
San Francisco, Calif. - The Khronos Group has released the OpenGL 4.0 specification, an update to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface) that is deployed ...


Web Exclusives
The Next Frontier: Female Gaming Demographics
10-Mar-2010
By Wanda Meloni As an analyst I am drawn to trends that shift markets. I see nothing shifting the gaming market more significantly right now than the impact that girls and women are having on the ...
Nvidia, Sportvision Bring Gold Medal
9-Mar-2010
Contrary to a previous statement in a press release titled “Nvidia, Sportvision Bring Gold Medal Special Effects to NBC’s 2010 Winter Olympics Broadcast,” which ran in our news area, Nvidia’s Quadro ...
Building a Digital Media Industry
5-Mar-2010
Singapore focuses its efforts on making the country a leading force in this arena


News
Oscar Winners Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Logorama Employ Autodesk Technology
12-Mar-2010
San Rafael, Calif. - For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking tools from Autodesk Inc. Autodesk Digital Entertainment ...
AMD Foundation to Sponsor Video Game Design Category for The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
11-Mar-2010
Sunnyvale, Calif. - AMD announced the AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The $65,000 grant will be used to help ...
NewTek LightWave 3D Artists Receive Coveted VES Awards
10-Mar-2010
San Antonio, Texas - NewTek, manufacturer of 3D animation and video products, extends congratulations to all the 2010 Visual Effects Society (VES) Award winners who pushed the limits of technology to ...


Student and School News
Gnomon School of Visual Effects Introduces Full-time, Three-year Program in Entertainment Design, Digital Production
12-Mar-2010
Hollywood, Calif. - Gnomon School of Visual Effects, provider of professional training for artists in the entertainment and design field, announced its first, full-time, three-year curriculum for ...
Gnomon and VES Present The Visual Effects of Heroes and V
3-Mar-2010
Los Angeles, Calif. - Alien invasions, cities torn apart by catastrophic disasters, and epic superhero battles all sound like yet another summer blockbuster, but for the artistic teams at Stargate ...
Dover Studios Releases Maya Shading Networks 2nd Edition Visual Effects Training Video
3-Mar-2010
Halifax, Canada - Dover Studios Inc. released Maya Shading Networks 2nd Edition, the company’s latest visual effects training video. Maya Shading Networks 2nd Edition is a practical guide to creating ...


IBC 2009 News
Digital Vision Updates Product Portfolio
17-Sep-2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Digital Vision, supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television postproduction, announces the development of Film Master and Phoenix product line 2009 ...
AJA Video Keeps the Ball Rolling for Timeline Television
17-Sep-2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands - AJA Video Systems, a manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 video capture and playback cards and FS1 frame syncs are ...
CineSync Debuts During IBC
16-Sep-2009
Adelaide, Australia - Australian software developer Rising Sun Research (RSR), a sister company of vfx company Rising Sun Pictures, has debuted cineSync. With increasingly truncated production ...


Siggraph 2009
Siggraph 2009
17-Aug-2009
SIGGRAPH 2009 was in New Orleans this year. The last time the show hit the Big Easy was in 2000, and the one thing that has remained the same is the weather. August in New Orleans is always hot and ...
SPHERON-VR High Dynamic Range Capture Device Technology
14-Aug-2009
SPHERON-VR presented its High Dynamic Range Capture Device Technology at SIGGRAPH 2009. At the show, Spheron displayed its latest version of the SpheroCam HDR with new touchscreen interface for the ...
SIGGRAPH 2009 Presentation Recordings Available Online and on DVD
13-Aug-2009
Soma Media has recorded more than 180 presentations from SIGGRAPH 2009, including talks and other key events. The end result is a Web site from which presentations can be purchased and downloaded ...


Online Exclusives
Industrial design, Italian Style
5-Mar-2010
SolidThinking, Inc. did not make an appearance at MacWorld this year, but the company is introducing SolidThinking Version 8.0 to the international design community at about the same time.
GenArts Webinar
4-Mar-2010
Creating Emmy-winning visual effects with Adobe After Effects and GenArts Sapphire
Sony Opens 3D Technology Center
2-Mar-2010
“Making 3D is easy,” says 3D film expert Buzz Hays. “Making good 3D is hard.” With that truism in mind, the newly opened Sony 3D Technology Center will soon begin to train cinematographers, directors, ...


NAB
Alioscopy 3D Auto-Stereoscopic Workflow
30-Apr-2009
Alioscopy USA, a 3D visualization technology provider, demonstrated during NAB 2009 finished auto-stereoscopic 3D content playing on its LCD display. The company also provided information on how ...
3Dconnexion Launches SpacePilot Pro
29-Apr-2009
Fremont, Calif. - To meet the demands of design engineers working in 3D applications, 3Dconnexion announced the new SpacePilot Pro, designed to deliver advanced control of 3D models, easier access to ...
BOXX RTX Workstation for Stereoscopic Workflows
28-Apr-2009
Boxx Technologies' upcoming RTX motion media workstation was selected by two software developers, Assimilate and Iridas, as the hardware platform for demonstrating stereoscopic workflows at NAB 2009 ...


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