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Aping Film
As King Kong made a much-hyped swing into theaters this winter, he made an equally anticipated entrance onto the gaming scene. Released on all the major game platforms, Peter Jackson’s King Kong is ...
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A digital Revolution
The Wachowski brothers’ film noir-styled “kung-fu meets sci-fi” movie, The Matrix, won a visual effects Oscar in 2000 for, among other effects, the stylish “bullet-time” shots in which Keanu Reeves’s ...
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Bug's-eye View
Although Josh Staub fell into his career as a digital artist by chance, his animated short movie, The Mantis Parable, happened very much on purpose. And now, those efforts are paying off: His ...
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DreamWorks' Matte Department
Creating matte paintings for CG animation requires a different approach than it does for live-action films with digital effects, according to Ronn Brown, head of the matte-painting department...
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Space Devices
Years ago, when I first started working with computer graphics, trackball input devices were the rage. Back then, utilizing a computer mouse was for “ordinary” users
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Endorphin 2.5
Motion-capture systems allow the acquisition of actual human performances, with all the timing, body mechanics, and gravity that make for compelling natural motion in animation.
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Product Spotlight - 3/06
RealViz has introduced VTour, new content-creation software based on the company’s Stitcher and ImageModeler programs for the creation of photorealistic 3D environments from 2D pictures or panoramas.
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Game On
However, there is more to game development than being energized and party-ready; it’s big business-especially when Hollywood comes knocking.
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Role Model
Once the domain of techno and hard-core gamers, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have expanded in recent years to include a wider demographic than ever before.
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ILM's state-of-the-art (storage) studio
When George Lucas moved a large part of his filmmaking empire from San Rafael, California-a small town north of San Francisco-into a state-of-the-art, four-building complex on 17 acres of parkland in ...
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CASE STUDIES: Storage stokes the creative process
Change is a constant in today’s studios as they struggle with crunching deadlines, the need to juggle multiple projects at once, and the prospect of overhauling their server, storage, and networking ...
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