Welcome to the second post in our color management series. Be sure to check out Part One if you haven’t already done so. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of calibrating and profiling your input & output devices in your color management workflow. This is probably the most important step in the color [...]

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At NAB 2010, The Foundry revealed its work on a plug-in to bring 3D camera tracking directly into Adobe After Effects. Their Camera Tracker plug-in, currently in pre-beta, looks set to provide long-missing functionality to After Effects, and once it has been added, it will likely transform the type of work seen from After Effects [...]

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20.04.2010 New Ford Campaign A Very Small Office (AVSO) Director Vincent Haycock and design and animation studio Offspring have once again teamed up with Team Detroit to produce a memorable Ford campaign. The trio of :30s, introducing the all-new 2011 Ford Super Duty line of trucks, is the next evolution of Ford’s Rant campaign and [...]

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After I received the final “Pixar Intro Parody” script from College Humor, it could tell that I had my work cut out for me.   There was a lot of pressure to make this one stand out.  First of all, this was a parody of Pixar.  Pixar is the be all and end all in animation [...]

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New Courses After Effects Project – The Open Crafting the Scene Intermediate Mokey Mathematics for Visual Effects and Design An Introduction to Maya 2011 Nuke 2D to 3D Stereo Conversion Matte Painting and Digital Environments Comprehensive Guide to RED Shooting & Post Intermediate RenderMan Intermediate Smoke/Flame Introduction to V-Ray Check out our Background Fundamentals orientation [...]

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This is the current build of the path tracer that is being developed as a successor to Arauna. In this scene a simple object is spinning, and frames are rendered using 8 samples per pixel. By averaging several frames, effectively 32 samples per pixel are shown when the camera is not moving. Screen resolution is [...]

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Join acclaimed animator Eric Goldberg and Animation Mentor CEO Bobby Beck as they discuss classic animation techniques. Goldberg, whose Hollywood credits include Looney Tunes, Fantasia/2000, Aladdin and the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s upcoming 2D feature The Princess & The Frog, talk about his career in animation, topics from his book Character Animation Crash Course!, and [...]

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TORONTO — James Cameron’s "Avatar" has surpassed $100 million in boxoffice at Imax theaters overseas, the giant screen exhibitor announced Thursday. Toronto-based Imax said the international $100 million milestone was reached on 85 screens outside of North America, bringing the global Imax per-screen average to around $1.6 million. Related posts 25 Outstanding Photoshop Lighting Effect [...]

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Entering the Zone is not always as peaceful as it sounds, not when it’s the Green Zone. In this film about lies and corruption, Double Negative (DNeg) was tasked with building a virtual war based on the 2003 Iraqi invasion portraying the massive buildup and search for Weapons of Mass Destruction that never actually existed. [...]

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