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An Animation Celebration
by Ellen Wolff
If there's one word that characterizes this year's Computer Animation Festival, it's . Yes, the digital heavyweights of Hollywood are represented, as......
Step By Step:
The Day After Tomorrow
By Ellen Wolff
In 20th Century Fox's The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich presents an apocalyptic vision quite different......
Integrate Review—3Dconnexion SpaceTraveler
By Frank McMahon
3Dconnexion's SpaceTraveler is an odd sort of addition to a producer's desktop suite... ...
Integrate Review —
Discreet 3ds Max 6
By Frank McMahon
It's always refreshing to see a software update that truly stacks up the new features. Many upgrades offer only service pack-like tweaks, fixing things that should have worked in the first place. Discreet 3ds Max 6 offers many new......
Skin Deep
By Ellen Wolff
The phrase, “Beauty is only skin deep” has taken on new meaning in the world of CGI. Until the last couple of years, the process of creating CG skin was painstaking and the results were often unconvincing. Skin usually looked hard, opaque, fake. Then software that simulated translucency changed things dramatically — so much so that the Motion Picture Academy recently honored six individuals with Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards...
Sophisticating Shrek 2
By Larry Cutler and Lucia Modesto
About 2 1/2 years ago, the character technical director (TD) department at PDI/DreamWorks, Redwood City, Calif., started developing characters for the...
NAB 2004: Graphics, Effects, and Animation
By S. D. Katz
If you want a real preview of NAB 2004 go to Circuit City or the electronics department in Wal-Mart. Americans are buying large screen TVs, micro-projection displays, picture phones, digital cameras, hard disk-based recorders like TiVo, and of course DVDs in large numbers....
Grid Pipeline
By Michael Goldman
When Toronto's DKP Effects began production on the initial six episodes of UPN's Game Over, the first-ever primetime CG animated network series for production company Carsey-Werner ......
Sundance: At the Digital Media Center
By Cynthia Wisehart
When Robert Redford took his turn around the Digital Media Center at this year's Sundance, it seemed like more than a duty call. ...
Integrate Review—Boris Red 3GL
By Frank McMahon
Red 3GL is the latest update to Boris FX's flagship digital compositing program, Red, which has been around for years and continues to be used by thousands...