There wasn’t a huge gimongous public announcment at IBC, but Autodesk has revamped their hardware for the system products line. The company is switching from IBM to HP workstations, as well as changing their video I/O hardware for flame and smoke systems. We cover what we know about the new hardware and provide an overview of the new features in the “2007” effects and editing releases….

Greeetings from Amsterdam. We only had a bit of time at the show on the first day, after landing from the states around midday, but we did find some stuff that’ll be of interest to flame and smoke users. After years of the discreet file system being closed to outisde access, At IBC we saw several announcements regarding new WireTap-based apps. These applications allow users to access the stonefs via mount points on PC’s or view stonefs material metadata in

What would you get if you crossed a toxik with a lustre and made it look like a flame? We asked Dan Tatut, the CEO of CHROME Imaging whoe are makers of the insanely interesting “Matrix compositor”. While initially speced to be a compositing system, the product is really aimed at the TVC DI market. The product is a major standalone turn-key system in the mold of Quantel, Discreet, 5D and the Sony Socratto. It was the shake up in that pack that lead to th

This week we look behind Oliver Stone’s newest masterpiece, World Trade Center. Double Negative was responsible for recreating possibly some of the most iconic footage of the modern age. It is one thing to recreate or create mythical worlds or fantasy environments, it is something else to reproduce images that are still extremely vivid in the popular culture, and obviously very sensitive.

PFTrack, already established as a great 3D tracker, moved to provide a new level of functionality when it provided added object tracking in version 3.0. Now with version 3.5 this is refined even further. With Version 3.5 is due out soon, fxguide sat down with Richard Spöhrer Managing Director of PixelFarm to discuss the product in this week’s podcast.

We are proud to discuss the latest work from the ICT in LA. If you loved our Art of HDR story – this shows the latest research which will be shown in Siggraph 30th July. We speak to Per Einarsson and Sebastian Sylwan who worked with Paul Debevec and the rest of the team at ICT to take the HDR Lightprobe / light stage to the next level. Jeff Heusser and Mike Seymour from fxguide were lucky enough to tour LS6 just after it was first operational.

Vue software gives you the chance to create worlds and play god. Still, even good digital matte paintings, are not enough to meet the challenges of modern visual effects. Increasingly, rather than making matte still paintings, artists are required to create digital environments. This can be done a number of ways, with a range of tools. One of the more interesting and targeted tools is Vue from e-on software. The current release is Vue 5, but Vue 6 Infinite