Post- ISM: Artists in Action In South Korea

December 4, 2003

ISM is quite simply the hottest and perhaps coolest 2D visual effects team in Korea.
ISM started as Submarine and recently revamped as ISM. Fxguide recently visited ISM in Seoul, South Korea to check out this creative boutique, and explore the growing Korean post-production market.

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Discreet opts to support Sony new SR format

November 30, 2003

It seems the industry has been waiting for a widely used – lower cost – better HD tape format. Will SR serve that role? Will SR solve the HD generation problem?

Fxguide spoke to Maurice Patel, Discreet’s systems product marketing manager, following last week’s annoucement that Discreet will be supporting Sony’s new SR HD format.

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dvMatte: A FCP Keyer for everyman and his dog

November 22, 2003

dvMatte pro 1.5 is a plug-in keyer for Final Cut Pro (FCP). The keyer is designed to solve the tricky problem of keying mini-dv footage. FXG took the dvMatte for a road test, and we were impressed with the results.

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Xstoner: Product test drive

November 18, 2003

Xstoner is a client-server software that allows PCs and Macs to directly connect and transfer files with a discreet system such as Flame/Inferno or Fire etc.

We took a system for a test drive and put it to the test. We were provided with a Mac OSX software and ran it connected to an Onyx 2 Inferno system. We tested using the latest Mac OS X Panther software, which caused more than a few interesting effects.

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Star Wars to Pixel Corp : Alex Lindsay- Artist in Action

October 28, 2003

Alex Lindsay is an extraordinary figure, an exILM Rebel Mac Unit visual effects artist who has set us a global training organisation, dvGarage. dvGarage believe that your ability to communicate your vision is just as important as math, reading and science. And they are building a network to bring that vision to the world. What is so extraordinary is that while many companies’ ‘vision statements’ may sprout such nobel ideals, dvGarage actualy does it, – not

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Artist in Action: Feature Film Editor & VFX Alan Edward Bell

October 17, 2003

Alan Edward Bell started as an editor in the film industry some 17 years ago. His visual effects career grew out of his extensive editing background. Alan explains: “I began as an apprentice editor and then worked my way up to be a first assistant, and then, eventually as a full fledge editor. I mainly work as an editor cutting feature films. My visual effects career grew out of that editing. So far,  I’ve managed to do both jobs and still s

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Combustion 3 shipping now

October 14, 2003

Combustion 3 software is now shipping on the Windows platform (Mac users will have to wait until early 2004.) The release includes a free morphing plug in and there will be release parties in NY and LA. Read more for details…

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Video Card Maker Smackdown

September 25, 2003

A battle of press releases has broken out between two makers of broadcast video cards… makes for an amusing read.

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IBC Quick Report

September 15, 2003

IBC turned out to be whirlwind 7-hour tour for me this year, due to the fact that I needed to get back to the states for my day job. The second annual fxguide gathering on Sunday night was fun…a great chance to meet other artists and discreet folks. We covered discreet’s annoucements last week, so before I hop on the plane here are some quick notes about Digital Fusion, The Foundry, Apple, and more. Read on….

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Exclusive: combustion 3 on OSX

September 9, 2003

Rumour over the last several months was that discreet was considering the future of combustion for the Macintosh. Today we can officially confirm that Combustion 3 will be available for the G5 under the next planned Mac OSX release, Panther (10.3).

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Smokin’ at IBC

September 7, 2003

Fxguide sat down this week with Discreet’s Maurice Patel to discuss the latest developments regarding the company’s editing products. Smoke has now overtaken Fire as the most visibly successful editing tool in the family. It is well priced and with both the new IBM Linux version and Tezro dual HD realtime configuration, the range of hardware platforms is expanding. The announcement last week of Smoke version 6.0 shows that the product has greatly expanded

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Discreet at IBC

September 5, 2003

IBC is Discreet’s biggest trade show in Europe and over the coming days we will be publishing a series of stories covering new developments in Smoke, Flame, Lustre and Combustion, leading up to our live coverage of IBC from the show floor. IBC attendance is predicted to be down to 40,000 people from the record highs of 2000 which saw 45,000 attendees but perhaps no worse than last year. Certainly, Discreet has a raft of new announcements, across all the sy

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Furnace from The Foundry – Tools for the Effects Artist

August 9, 2003

One of the more interesting products floating around the show floor at NAB was the Furnace plug-ins, a set of extremely useful tools developed by The Foundry. Longtime discreet users are probably well familiar with Tinder, an outstanding set of tools that are currently available as plugins for Shake. The Furnace tools provide some “automagic” cleanup of some common tasks effects artists have to deal with in the course of our jobs, as well as some outstandi

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Burn, baby burn! Discreet ships Burn

August 5, 2003

Distributed rendering for the discreet effects products was first demonstrated at the NAB Discreet Users Group meeting several years ago. It has taken a couple of years, but version 1.0 of burn running on Red Hat 8.0 has been released. Burn gives artists the ability to render flint, flame, and inferno batch setups (including action within batch) on network-connected systems running Linux Red Hat 8.0.

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Discreet Unveils 3ds max 6

July 30, 2003

This week at SIGGRAPH, Discreet announced the newest version of its acclaimed 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution-3ds max® 6. It includes a number of new features, such as integrated mental ray®, new dynamics, and new particle features. Click below to read the press release from Discreet…..

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