Novedge Pulse™ of CGW Magazine

CULVER CITY, CA — Andrew Z. Davis has been named President of Production Administration for Columbia Pictures, it was announced by Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures [more...]

VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Film School (VFS) soon will open a brand-new Animation & Visual Effects campus located in the 106,000-square-foot city-owned space in Gastown, which previously housed the Storyeum theatrical museum [more...]

SAN JOSE, CA — Adobe has announced a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company’s flagship offering for creatives, is now available [more...]

Framestore has character designed, animated and directed a boys and girls advertisement for Three Ireland's new "all you can eat everything" plan, completing the full-CG 30-second spot on a remarkably swift three-and-a-half-week schedule [more...]

LOS ANGELES — Amid glitz and glamour, the stars of daytime television came out to honor their own at the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles [more...]

NEW YORK, NY — The just-concluded COLLIDER Digital Production Conference proved to be an energetic and, at times, impassioned forum for the exchange of viewpoints and attitudes about ongoing trends in the visual effects, animation and digital production arenas [more...]

LOS ANGELES — AMD has unveiled its most powerful member of the AMD FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590 [more...]

ALAMEDA, CA — Perforce Software has announced Perforce Swarm, a code collaboration and peer review platform that enables development teams to work together better and faster, improving both the quality of their software and the speed of their delivery [more...]

LOS ANGELES — PipelineFX, creator of renderfarm management software for digital media creation, has announced the release of Qube 6.5 [more...]

HOLLYWOOD — Hollywood Center Studios has forged a new alliance with shooting and visual effects company Engine Room. The strategic relationship provides Engine Room live-action clients with exclusive rates for stage andproduction office rentals, as well as grip and lighting services provided by HCS [more...]

Battroborgs, TOMY’s motion-controlled battling robot toys, leap to vivid life in a CG spot thanks to the animation pros at Nathan Love [more...]

MOSCOW — The next wave of zombie action is about to be unleashed in Dead On Arrival 2 – the latest installment in the popular mobile video game created by the Queensland, Australia-based N3V Games [more...]

ROCK HILL, SC — 3D Systems has signed agreements to acquire approximately 80 percent of Phenix Systems, a global provider of Direct Metal Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printers based in Riom, France [more...]

MONTREAL — Visual effects production studio Rodeo FX has “magically” delivered 350 complex VFX shots for “Now You See Me,” serving as the film’s main visual effects vendor. The film was released by Summit Entertainment May 31 [more...]

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Sixteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored recently as winners at the 40th Student Academy Awards ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The medal placements were announced at the ceremony hosted by writer-director and 1978 Student Academy Award winner Bob Saget. Writer-director Kimberly Peirce and actors Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman and Quvenzhané Wallis presented the awards [more...]

Portland, OR — Red Giant has released PluralEyes 3.2 for Windows, a new update to its audio/video syncing software [more...]

LOS ANGELES – Thinkbox Software has released Deadline 6.0, the latest version of its renderfarm management solution for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X-based renderfarms. Rebuilt from the ground up using Digia’s Qt development framework and a MongoDB database, Deadline 6.0 facilitates identical performance, scalability, and flexibility across all platforms [more...]

A fairly recent but well received session at the past few SIGGRAPHs has been the Business Symposium. As such, SIGGRAPH 2013, to be held July 21-25 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, will host this valuable session [more...]

LOS ANGELES — At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, Adobe accelerated its shift to the cloud with a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company’s flagship offering for creatives [more...]

SIGGRAPH is fast approaching, and Pixologic, maker of its flagship ZBrush digital sculpting and painting program and Sculptris, easy-to-use sculpting software, has already set up a full schedule at its booth (529 in Exhibit Hall C) from July 23 through July 25 [more...]

The Computer Animation Festival is a major highlight of the SIGGRAPH trade show and exhibition, showcasing amazing animations selected from a plethora of submissions. Recently, the jury revealed the top prize winners for this year’s Festival [more...]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — SoftKinetic, a leading 3D gesture recognition software and solution provider, has entered into an agreement with Intel to license iisu, SoftKinetic's industry-leading middleware for close-range gesture tracking - to be included in the Intel Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit (SDK [more...]

Artists take viewers on a VFX journey in a stunning commercial across time and space [more...]

Logan and Conscious Minds bring Calvin Johnson, Alex Morgan, Neymar Jr. and Allyson Felix into animated games for Nike+ [more...]

Los Angeles – Wikipad, Inc. today announced its 7-inch Wikipad tablet will be available on June 11, 2013, at a retail price of $249 in the US, with an UK and global launch planned for this summer [more...]

Framestore's LA operation officially opened its new permanent home: a specially designed and ultra spacious studio in Culver City, California, heartland of the moving image [more...]

Designers in the automotive and architectural sectors always require up-to-date vehicle models for their 3D visualizations. To this end, Dosch Design has released a collection of the most common vehicle types each year [more...]

Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim (Interplay) and The Neverhood (Electronic Arts,) has partnered with Pencil Test Studios to create what some have called The Neverhood's "spiritual successor" – a clay and puppet animated adventure game called Armikrog. And they have taken to Kickstarter to get it funded [more...]

Got VFX? A new London boutique visual effects company, Milk, sure does [more...]

HOLLYWOOD, CA — VideoFort has become the first all-HD and Ultra HD stock footage library to offer unlimited royalty-free downloads to its members. VideoFort built its expansive stock video platform of nearly 100,000 HD video clips to accept and distribute Ultra HD 4K footage [more...]

AUSTIN, TEXAS — BOXX Technologies, has introduced the 3DBOXX 4120, a new, compact, professional workstation featuring the fourth-generation Intel Xeon processors E3-1200 v3 product family and Intel’s fourth-generation Core processors [more...]

Platige Image’s game division, led by Director Tomek Baginski, follows the success of their epic The Witcher 2 cinematic with a stunning game teaser for CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077. And in the process, the studio won a CLIO for their work [more...]

CHICAGO — The SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery's theme, XYZN: Scale, draws attention to a key critical affordance of computer-based authorship: the ability to iteratively scale our digital representations at will: in-out-up-down, back and forth, + and -. These core functions enable us to change size and location over time, and at different degrees of resolution [more...]

Next Limit Technologies, after months of development and testing, has released RealFlow 2013, out-of-the-box fluid sim software [more...]