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Christmas with the Dinosaurs
In “Christmas Dinnersaurs,” Evermotion shows what Christmas Eve might have looked like for two dinosaurs.
Free BB8 Model
He is the new android hero of the current “Star Wars” installment: BB8. Mac Mave Studios created a 3D model of the android and is making it available as a free download.
The Spirit of Christmas
London studio Blue Zoo Animation created a small 3D animated film that gets to the heart of the true meaning of Christmas—enjoy: “More Stuff.”
Apocalypse from a Can
A disaster scenario from France shows what awaits you if you do not recycle your beverage can properly.
Short “Filthy but Fine”
Director/animator Arthur Metcalf recreated Gotham in his short film—even darker, even more evil. His hero roars through the underworld with Batman and has only one mission ...
Animated Christmas Cat by Framestore
Christmas is directly easier to bear with animated-cat content—above all, “Mog” is considerably cooler than the Edeka commercial with the suffering grandpa.
New Funding Program for the German Film Industry
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has launched a new funding program for the film industry, the German Motion Picture Fund, which is equipped with 10 million euros per year.
Christmas Trailer for “The Secret Life of Pets”
What do pets do when no one is looking? Nothing but nonsense! Quite right, considering what their owners do to them when everyone is looking. Merry Christmas.
Making-of “The Good Dinsaur”
“The Good Dinosaur” (German title “Arlo & Spot) opens in our cinemas tomorrow. Here is CGMeetup’s behind-the-scenes look at Pixar.
“Zootopia” Trailer with a Sloth
The first trailer for the new Disney film “Zootopia” is here—and the office staffed entirely by sloths is is a real advance highlight.
First Selection of Animated Films for the Oscars
What, is it already Oscar time again? Indeed, things are getting started for 2016. These 16 animated features were submitted to the Academy.
The Blood of the Family
Finally online! “Les Liens De Sang” won this year’s animago trophy in the “Best Young Production” category—now the team has released its work in full.
Two Amateur Critics Meet …
News from the Blender Institute: the animated short film “Glass Half” was, of course, once again created exclusively with free and open-source software.
Death on the Raft
As everyone knows: It is not long now until this year’s animago on October 15 and 16! In advance, here is an extensive making-of treat for one of the nominees, published by CG Meetup.
Become a Peanut!
In Germany, the "Peanuts" will open in cinemas on December 24. A new trailer and a "Peanutize Me" character creator have now been released.
CG Robots Among Themselves
These students nowadays – they already make some wild animation stuff! Jack Anderson created "Wire Cutters" during his studies at Dodge College, in incredible quality.
The First “Cosmos Laundromat” Coup
"Cosmos Laundromat" is intended to become the first feature-length animated film created entirely open source. The first 15-minute part of the film has been released in full.
First “The Good Dinosaur” Trailer
Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” will open in cinemas on November 26.
Marvelous Designer 5
Marvelous Designer allows CG clothing to be cut as in real life, digitally sewn together and tailored to the CG character’s body. Version 5 has now been announced.
Peanuts in 3D on the Big Screen
Trailer for the new Peanuts feature film, which will open in cinemas just in time for Christmas.
Autodesk Webinar on Maya 2016
The Autodesk Meet the Expert webinar series will present “Top 5 Reasons (ok, maybe more) Maya is Easy to Use” on July 28. You can register here.
Robots in Therapy
Charming short film featuring CG robots in couples therapy from the ArtFX university in France
animago: “Best Character” Is Back!
What is it that makes a film truly interesting? Exactly – a figure with character. The category is back at animago 2015!
“Zootopia” Teaser from Disney
“Zootopia”, the new feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, will open in cinemas in March 2016.
“Moon and Wolf” at Filmfest München
In 2014, “Moon and Wolf” by Dwarf Animation Studio was nominated for an animago AWARD. Now young animation fans aged 5+ can watch the film in full at Filmfest München.
Animated Short Film “Mom”
Wooksang Chang from South Korea gave very special and attentive thought to mothers on Mother’s Day and released the animated short film “Mom” on that day.
Winners of the 22nd ITFS
On Sunday evening, May 10, the winners of the 22nd Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film were announced; here is an overview of all the winners.
“The Little Prince” Trailer
The animated version of “The Little Prince” looks promising in the trailer: a combination of a modern animation look and stop-motion animation for the prince scenes.
ToonBox Entertainment Expands
Expanding from Canada to Los Angeles has become unusual these days – for financing reasons, it is usually the other way round. But ToonBox is doing exactly that.
The Little 3D Prince
There are many varied adaptations of the classic "The Little Prince". The children's book is now being realised in modern form as a 3D cinema film.
3D Animation Course at Hands on HD
For EUR 1,000, including lunch and beverages, Hands on HD offers the unique opportunity to spend an entire week from 21 to 27 July looking beyond participants’ own areas of responsibility and becoming familiar with the complete workflow of an HD production.
Industry Highlight vs. European Championship Semifinal
Whether CGI puppet theater, effects in Krabat, or a Danish satirical gem, filmtoolsConsult and MedienCampus Bayern offered a strong alternative to the European Championship with interesting productions and high-profile guests.
Production Notes on the 3D Adventure Winx Club
Adaptation of the animated series as a feature film / Conversion from 2D to 3D / Founding of the Rainbow CGI 3D animation studio in Rome.
Winx Club Comes to the Big Screen
Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom opens on September 4.
“Dragon Hunters”: Production Spotlight in the Current DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Surreal landscapes, jump & run action, imaginatively designed dragon creatures, French comic art – European animated cinema is different. And it is cool. DIGITAL PRODUCTION reports on technical challenges and the successful cooperation between Germany and France.
Video: 3ds Max Lighting – New Features, Part 5
The fifth part of our 3ds Max video series covers lighting.
Video: 3ds Max Mapping – New Features, Part 4
The fourth part of our 3ds Max 2009 special focuses on mapping.
Video: 3ds Max Iterative Rendering – New Features, Part 2
The second part of our 3ds Max new-features series covers iterative rendering.
Video: 3ds Max Modeling and Animation – New Features, Part 1
DP launches an English online video series on the new features of 3ds Max 2009, starting with modeling and animation.
Short Interview on “Dragon Hunters”
Michael Coldewey discusses the making of the 3D animated film.
Image Gallery for “Dragon Hunters”
In Cinemas: The Cult Animated Series Realised as a 3D Film
Video: Trailer for “Dragon Hunters”
Surreal Landscapes Inspired by French Comic Art Await Cinema Audiences.
Alienware and Ascaron Seal Partnership
Alienware is supplying its desktop systems for development of the action role-playing game Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel.
VI-910 3D Scanner Used on “The Golden Compass”
Konica Minolta's 3D Laser Scanner Helped Framestore CFC Turn Models into 3D Characters
Blu-ray Opens New Paths for Games
The new storage standard offers software developers new opportunities for interactive games and bonus material.
MAGIX Video deluxe 2008 Premium- Software Package for HD Video Editing
The new MAGIX Video deluxe 2008 Premium already has the most important prerequisites for editing high-resolution material on board thanks to its included HD codecs.
MetaCom Produces Early Hessian Blu-ray Disc
MetaCom produces a Blu-ray Disc for Singulus Technologies with Sony Austria, completing the project in February 2008.
Ubisoft and EuropaCorp Expand Arthur Games
Ubisoft and EuropaCorp have signed a worldwide licensing agreement for games based on the two forthcoming Arthur and the Minimoys sequels.
2,000-Ton Steel Colossus Animated in 3D
MedienTeam Dresden presents the 600-metre-long Gotthard installation interactively.
In stores: Issue 06:07 of DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Directing a CG film like a feature film? In their joint 3D animated-film debut, CA Scanline and Bully Herbig proved that it can be done. DIGITAL PRODUCTION was on location and reports on the production.
Metricminds celebrates House Warming Week in Frankfurt
After four months of conversion work, the new metricminds studio is ready for use. To duly inaugurate the new location of the Frankfurt motion capture studio, the “HouseWarmingWeek” will be celebrated from October 29, 2007 – November 2, 2007. Customers, colleagues and interested people from the media landscape are invited to heat things up in Frankfurt.
Webcuts.07 honors the best Internet movies
Berlin cinema audiences and international visitors in Second Life followed the award ceremony for Internet short films from around the world and selected the audience-award winner.
Domefest Award for German 360-degree production
German film production company Softmachine and its Production Designer Prof. Eckhard Rocholl were honored with this year’s Domefest Award for the film “Adamas”.
Bitfilm and 20th Century Fox launch competition
To mark the launch of the new Robert Redford film "Lions for Lambs", the organizations are announcing a small film competition under the motto "What do you stand up for?".
TV-Loonland Takes Penelope Distribution Rights
TV-Loonland gains television, home-video, VOD, IPTV and mobile rights to the preschool 3D series Penelope across multiple regions.
SIGGRAPH 2007: Darin Grant of DreamWorks Animation in an Interview
DIGITAL PRODUCTION met Darin Grant, Head of Production Technology at DreamWorks, for an interview during SIGGRAPH 2007. Editor-in-Chief Matthias J. Lange spoke with him about the importance of SIGGRAPH, film productions, technological trends and the future of 3D animation.
SIGGRAPH 2007: Support for Mental Ray 3.6 in Massive 3.0
Mental Images and Massive Software announced at SIGGRAPH the support of the Mental Ray Rendering software in the Massive 3D animation system.
Dynamic development of animated 3D video menus
The latest version of the multimedia software Nero Vision also offers animated 3D videos for designing video menus. In order to create these templates as flexibly as possible, the companies Zeitwerk and Lumo Graphics had to dig deep into their bag of tricks.
Sennheiser advertises with elaborate 3D cinema spot
3D backgrounds from Maxwell Render, live-action shoot on 35mm with Arriflex 435 ES
Di-O-Matic Plans Voice-O-Matic for Autodesk Maya and Softimage XSI
The Voice-O-Matic program has been used for Autodesk 3ds Max for over four years. Di-O-Matic is currently working on a version of Voice-O-Matic for Autodesk Maya and Softimage XSI.
Exozet Creates Digital Snow for ARD Film
Exozet Effects created snow, character animation and retouching for ARD's Christmas film Krauses Fest.
2D via 3D: Anime Studio 5
Among other things, E-Frontier has given the latest version of its animation software a bone-rigging system
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media Appoints Eckhard Rocholl Professor
Head of degree programme for media design and computer animation is to oversee both disciplines nationwide
8th Animation Meeting takes place at the end of July
Event as part of the Munich Film Festival with making-ofs for "Hui Buh" and "Happily N`Ever After"
New Degree Program in 3D Animation and VFX
The Bavarian Academy for Television in Unterföhring is launching a new degree program in October
German Film School Invites Visitors to Open Day
On April 8, 2006, prospective students can obtain information on site
Medical Visualization: Zygote Releases Human Heart 3
Manufacturer calls it the “most sophisticated to date” 3D model of the human heart
Disney Swallows Pixar
Entertainment group secures animation studio / Takeover worth 7.4 billion dollars
Festival “Going Underground 5”: Two Film School Productions in the Final Round
3D animations “Gambare Saburou” and “Abstract Art” selected for the group of 14 finalists
NaturalMotion Offers Endorphin Student Edition
Single licence costs $995 / Full feature set with no commercial use
Prizewinners of the Bitfilm Festival Have Been Decided
Winners Determined by SMS Voting / Festival Ended on Sunday
Training to Become an Animation Artist
The Fourth Round of the 13-Month Expert Training at the
Macromedia Academy Starts on November 21 in Munich
Bitfilm Festival 05
3D animation, digital FX, flash movies, machinima, mobile video,
64-KByte-Demos as well as expert lectures and panels.
DIGITAL PRODUCTION Roadshow “Realization of 3D and Animated Film Productions as a Freelancer”
The well-known book author and demo artist Thomas Harbers presents current productions from the fields of architectural visualization, animated film and technical visualization. DP is cooperating with the private university SAE Institute as part of this roadshow. The workshop series takes place at 9 locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The venues are the respective SAE branches. The event lasts approximately 3 hours.
Participation in the seminar is free. External participants are asked to send an inquiry to mschlosser@saecollege.de.
Maxon User Meeting in Cologne: Updated List of Presentations Online
Company Speaks of Unexpectedly Large Turnout / Today Is the Official Registration Deadline
New Submission Record at the Bitfilm Festival Hamburg
820 Films from 48 Countries / Festival Runs from 2. to 6.11.2005 at the Mandarin-Kasino on the Reeperbahn
SIGGRAPH: Avid Unveils Softimage XSI 5.0
The new version offers native 64-bit support, new tools and Maya migration features
3D Festival Copenhagen at the End
The 3D Festival in Copenhagen, until now an international 3D competition with an associated trade show and conference programme, will not continue.
DIGIDATA Short Film Festival
Antonius - emotional artwork and Red Box Verlag GmbH present the 2nd DIGIDATA Short Film Festival at the Abaton cinema in Hamburg.
The festival is an initiative of former students and film freaks. Accepted are: Clips, short films, 3D animations, experimental films
Realviz Introduces Storyviz 1.0
Storyviz 1.0 is a previs application for simulating shoots and connecting storyboards with film production.
Cambridge Animation Systems Releases Inkworks 1.5
Inkworks 1.5 is a cartoon renderer for Maya and 3ds Max with direct integration into the Animo 2D-animation workflow.
Dosch Releases Cinema 4D Logo Animations
Dosch Design has released 25 editable Cinema 4D scenes for logo animation on Mac OS and Windows.
Inkworks 1.5 for Maya and 3ds max
Inkworks, the cartoon renderer for Maya and 3ds max from Cambridge Animation Systems, has just been released in a new version.
MotionBuilder 5 Expands Character Workflow
MotionBuilder 5 added a Story timeline, real-time OpenGL rendering, broader file support and professional mocap and asset tools.
Shave 2 Reduces Cinema 4D Hair Memory
Shave and a Haircut 2 improved Cinema 4D hair rendering and styling while cutting memory use to roughly one percent.
New Virtual Reality Show Format
Cyfi Picture AG is developing a new form of entertainment show for a large audience with the help of state-of-the-art digital computer technology.
Product Package from Discreet and Wacom
Combustion 2.1 is available as a package solution with Wacom’s Cintiq 18SX pen display.
New Establishment: Liga_01 Computerfilm GmbH
The newly established "Liga_01 Computerfilm GmbH," focusing on animation, was founded in Munich.
3D Animation: Discreet and yello Launch Inside 3D
Discreet and yello present Inside 3D on the shared.cc Internet platform. Inside 3D offers beginners in visualization workshops on subject areas such as stage construction, product design or mechanical engineering.
Training as a Character Animator with Maya
The internationally known Cologne training institute "die maske" is offering the "Character Animator" training course from the fall with the partners Alias|Wavefront, Discreet, MCX and blanx effects/interactive.
Postgraduate Course 3D Designer/in
Macromedia GmbH, Academy for New Media, is offering training as a 3D Desiger/in from June 2003 as a postgraduate course.
animago 2003 Submission Deadline Extended
animago 2003 extended its free-entry deadline by ten days to 31 March after requests from professional and student participants.
animago 2003 Extends Entry Deadline
animago 2003 moved its deadline to 31 March after CeBIT created scheduling pressure for professional and student entrants.
Final Call for animago 2003 Entries
The animago 2003 competition entered its final submission period, with free online entry open until 21 March for digital artists.
animago 2003 Competition Opens
animago 2003 opened with new Game Design and Interactive categories, free entry and an award event serving as an industry meeting and job exchange.
Maya Productivity Pack for New and Professional Users
Alias|Wavefront bundled Maya Complete 4.5 with six learning resources, support and bonus credits for Mac OS X or Windows users.