Speedsix Announces 5D Plug-ins Acquisition – UPDATED
Updated with information about support for inferno 5/8 and Digital Fusion 4 and as well as other info.
Speedsix Software has announced their purchase of the the sparks and plugins assets from the 5D liquidation. Hopefully we’ll have more information shortly, but in the meantime you can check out their press release….
Read the ArticleExclusive Interview: Discreet Purchases Several 5D Assets
Rumors have been flying around the industry regarding the future of 5D technology and assets. What’s happening to the sparks? What about Cyborg? As we first speculated back in October, Discreet certainly did end up having an interest in some of the former company’s assets. Fxguide had the great opportunity to chat with Maurice Patel, Discreet Systems Product Marketing Manager, regarding Discreet’s purchase of several 5D assets and how those assets fit into
Read the Article5D’s Assets Sold
You can read the background here first about the disappointing demise of 5D Solutions, Ltd.
We’ll be posting an exclusive report early on Wednesday morning regarding this story as soon as we’re able to publish. The rumor mill has been swirling since the weekend regarding the purchase of 5D’s assets…..
Read the ArticleArtist in Action: ROBOTA – Doug Chiang and Sparx*
He designed the Battle Droid, Destroyer Droid, Naboo starfigher, Watto, and the Jedi gunships. So what was so cool, so great, that it dragged designer Doug Chiang away?
FXGuide caught up with Doug Chiang and the team at SPARX* who are bringing his vision to the screen. We discussed design, compositing and on the way we got some amazing behind the scenes quicktimes, showing how this amazing film is being made.
Read the ArticleDigital Fusion Free Demo Copy
The friendly chaps at Eyeon have followed in Alias Wavefront’s footsteps and have released a free version of the new Digital Fusion Software DF4 for you to play with and test.
Read the ArticleArtists in action: Jim Rygiel & Randy Cook LOTR
After just finishing the second installment of Lord of the Rings and on the eve of that film LOTR:The Two Towers being released December 18, Fxguide caught up with Jim Rygiel, Visual effects supervisor and Randy Cook, to discuss Weta, the LOTR trilogy, the 5 disc DVD and some of the technology behind this amazing achievement
Read the ArticleArtist in Action: Ron Brinkman and HOPE
Many people know him as one of the creators of SHAKE, and author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, but Ron Brinkman is also a writer and director of a new short film “Hope”.
FXGuide caught up with Ron via Damian Allen, himself an experienced Shake compositor, Damian asked him about Hope, Shake and what he’s researching into next.
Read the ArticleWho are you: FXGuide in focus
Did you ever wonder how FXguide got started, – or which are the best tips on the site? Ever wonder who you are, when you visit, or where you live ?
Starting in December we have a huge range of new things coming and we are keen to connect with you about what’s coming and where we are right now.
Read the ArticleMill Film closes
With great sadness we report that Mill Film in the UK shut its doors today. Mill film has been a truely great contributor of visual effects shots, most noticeable Gladiator, for which they won the Academy Award and many others such as Black Hawk Down.
Read the ArticleArtist in Action: Die Another Day at MPC
Traktor directed this title track for the much awaited Bond film – Die Another Day – by arguably the biggest artist in the world, Madonna. The promo was posted at MPC, who also created visual effects for key sequences in the Bond film.
Read the ArticleGenArts offers 5D Customers special on Sapphire Plug-ins
During the month of November, GenArts is offering a special 20% discount
on Sapphire Plug-ins for any Discreet or Avid|DS machine currently
licensed for 5D Monsters plug-ins…
Eyeon Ships Digital Fusion 4
Eyeon Software says that the latest version of their 2D compositing and special effects solution, Digital Fusion 4, will ship October 28, 2002. Digital Fusion 4 is eyeon’s 9th major release and incorporates hundreds of enhancements and new features, including real-time RAM caching, floating point image processing, macro tools, advanced tracking, grid warping and integrated scripting.
Read the ArticleView Studio Creates Models for Minority Report With REALVIZ
REALVIZ, ImageModeler software was used to create 3D images from photographs, by View Studio in their work on the visual effects in the Tom Cruise / Steven Spielberg movie ‘Minority Report’.
Read the ArticleMasters of Previs: The very best at bad 3D
Increasingly Previz is being used in Features, Commericals and Film Clips.
Perhaps the 3 best previz artists in the world are David Dozoretz, Ron Frankel and Colin Gree, at JAK, Proof and PLF respectively. We spoke to them recently about the state of the art in Previz and some of their films such as Fight Club, Minority Report, Panic Room, Star Wars and at their current films such as Peter Pan, The Matrix Revolutions and Cat in the Hat.
Read the ArticleNew Cleaner for Mac
Discreet has announced it is shipping Discreet Cleaner 6 video encoding software for the Macintosh.
FXGuide caught up with the developers and had a chat with John Worthington of Discreet about the new release, the new features, and just why we need to encode New Orleans’ hurricane videos for our cel phones!!!
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