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Crash Course
After leaping his way to video-game stardom through six successful action games, Crash Bandicoot—the popular spiky-haired marsupial—is expanding his range as a character, appearing for the first time ...
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Devilish Effects
In case you're not a fan of Mike Mignola's comic books, Hellboy was a Nazi experiment gone good; a red demon baby conjured up at the end of World War II by Hitler's occult scientists and rescued by US ...
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Grand Opening
Creators of new prime-time television shows have just a short period—often only a few weeks—to win the loyalty of a substantial viewing audience or risk being replaced by the network.
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Building an Empire
Rome wasn't built in a day. It took approximately six months. At least, that's how long it took Stargate Digital to create a photorealistic 3D version of the ancient city used in a dramatic 35-second ...
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Affordable Arrays: Storage in the Studio - Part 2
Digital content professionals have unique requirements for data storage. They need extremely high capacity and as much speed as they can afford. Unfortunately, most studios operate under tight budgets ...
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DAMming the Flow: Storage in the Studio - Part 3
Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those technologies that can be defined in a variety of ways. Is it simply a method for organizing electronic files? Is it software that controls the flow of ...
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Net Savings: Storage in the Studio - Part 1
Jim Farney, senior marketing manager for media industries at SGI (and former longtime owner of a major postproduction facility), says that while most large studios already are using and benefiting ...
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Wacom Cintiq 18SX
At work and in my personal life, much of my time is devoted to composing creative digital content. For years, I've incorporated a 12x12-inch Wacom Tablet Digitizer 2 (so old that it's no longer listed ...
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DV Authoring Revolution
It's not an apples-to-apples comparison, of course, considering one is hardware and one is software. But, imagine this: In a two-year span from 1999 to 2001, DVD authoring software went from a high of ...
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Products - 4/04 - Part 1
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Market Outlook, Industry News - 4/04
As the accompanying chart from Jon Peddie Research shows, the industry will experience a continued increase in advertising and capital expenditures through 2006. There are several reasons for this ...
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Digital Juice Libraries
Stock film and video footage provides access to resources that often are rare, unique, and difficult to produce internally, but finding them can be a source of frustration. Searching for the necessary ...
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User Focus: Making Waves
Although memorialized in a Hollywood blockbuster film, that incident, sadly, was not the area's worst seafaring disaster. Nearly a century earlier, another fierce New England storm—the Portland ...
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Alias's Exposé Yourself Contest
When artists started dropping their pencils and paintbrushes in favor of digital tools, they opened themselves up to a new range of capabilities, which in turn, led to new artistic possibilities.
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Anark Studio 2.5
Having used Anark Studio 1.5 following its release in 2002, I was impressed by the ease with which I was able to create custom interactive graphics for the Web or a CD-ROM. Recently, I was afforded a ...
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Indie Opportunities
Contrary to popular belief, the independent game-developer community is not made up entirely of nerdy teenage boys who spend more time stealing other people’s code than creating their own. A ...
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Products - 4/04 - Part 2
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