New Addition at Sony
Sony’s NXCAM product range is getting a new addition. A new 4K-ready camcorder called the NEX-FS700 is expected to include a Super Slow Motion feature and a new CMOS sensor.
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Ready to Launch: Mocha V3 & Mocha AE V3
Imagineer Systems will officially launch the new planar-tracking products Mocha Pro V3 and Mocha AE V3 at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas.
Maya and Softimage Receive Maxwell Render Plug-In Updates
Next Limit announces that new versions of the Maxwell Render plug-in are available for Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Softimage and details their new features.
A Lot of VFX for Little Money
"Iron Sky" is a film the fans wanted and therefore also paid for through crowdfunding. Tomorrow, the trash production opens in German cinemas—with Nazis, black humor, and plenty of VFX.
The Rumor Mill Squared
Unfortunately, it is only an unconfirmed rumor so far, but Sony is allegedly working on a camera with a square sensor.
What Is Behind RealFlow 2013?
A few months ago, the first preview videos of RealFlow 2013 found their way onto the internet. But what do these new “special features” contain?
V-Ray 2.0 Update for Maya
The new V-Ray RT GPU update for Maya comes with many optimizations. The improved performance is evident not only when rendering complex materials.
C4D – Glamorous Text Effects
Text Edge FX version 1 is available for the equivalent of just under EUR 12 and makes it child's play to present bevelled edges to impressive effect. The advantage of this plug-in is that it goes far beyond Cinema 4D's existing tools.
Reading Material for the Nikon D800
To shorten the wait for the Nikon D800 and D800E a little – here is the link to the English-language user's manual for the two camera models.
Adobe Story Update
The Adobe Story production scheduling software has received an update. Alongside several bug fixes, a number of functional enhancements have been added.
Nuke and Nukex 6.3v7
The Foundry is now shipping the latest version 6.3v7 of Nuke and Nukex. Improved compatibility with other software packages is an important feature enhancement.
Mocha Version 3
Imagineer Systems has announced that it will present the new mocha Pro v3 and mocha AE v3 versions and their price at NAB Las Vegas in April.
Practical Guide for the Canon EOS C300
A Best Pratices Shooting Guide from Canon has compiled tips for the best shots with the Canon EOS C300.
Wanna Have Some Fun?
We already presented the trailer for “The Chase” by the Space Patrol studio; now the entire 4.40-minute film is online – extremely worth seeing!
Universal Mini Base Plates from Arri
In this video, Michael Best from Arri presents the versatile Arri Mini Base Plates.
How to Create a Story
Story artist Emma Coats has compiled 22 rules for creating an engaging story that she learned while working for Pixar.
Oscar for Flying Books
Here it is in full length – this year's Oscar winner in the "Best Animated Short Film" category – "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore".
Ki Pro for the Third Time
New firmware for Ki Pro and Ki Pro Mini (the 10-bit 4:2:2 flash recorders) is available free of charge from today.
Writing Screenplays with Fountain
Screenwriters now have the open formatting syntax Fountain – it is intended to make distributing texts easier.
VES Awards for VFX Achievements
Rango was right at the front once again – the Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the VES Awards on February 7.
VES Award for Popcorn Film
The 2011 FMX trailer "a.maize", created at the Filmakademie's Animation Institute, has received a VES Award in Los Angeles.
Medium-Format Filmmaker?
After plenty of rumours, the new Nikon D800 has now officially stepped into the spotlight – with an FX-format sensor and 36MP.
External Monitoring for Final Cut Pro X
Alongside the release of Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3, Blackmagic Design has also released the Desktop Video 9.2 beta 1 update for its capture and playback products.
Cats and a Chameleon in Competition
The five candidates for the "Best Animated Feature" category at the Oscars have been decided.
FCPx Enters Adolescence
With the Final Cut Pro X software update (10.0.3), released today, Apple is once again attempting to catch up with professional editing programs – and is giving its editing program multicam editing, broadcast monitoring and XML.
Adobe Tool for Pre-Post
Viewing chaos after the shoot? With Adobe's new Prelude tool, film material is intended to be better prepared before the actual postproduction.
Shit VFX Artists Say
From the "Shit Somebody says" series: now finally the VFX artists as well. Perhaps one or another will recognize themselves?
VFX Oscar Nomination for Hugo Cabret
The Filmakademie Ludwigsburg can be proud – several of its graduates worked on the visual effects for "Hugo Cabret".
HIERO Beta Available
The Foundry is planning the release of its new workflow tool for February. Anyone who would already like to test it can do so with a beta version.
FMX Announces Program Focus Areas
FMX 2012 has changed its subtitle and is thereby setting new priorities: in its 17th edition, the "Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia" is concerned not only with animated films, visual effects and games, but increasingly also focuses on topics such as virtual production, previs, digital worldbuilding, lighting and rendering, cloud computing, industrial CG and transmedia.
ARRI Receives Technical Oscar
The winners of the "Scientific and Technical Achievements Awards" are decided each year before the official Oscar ceremony. This year, two of the awards are going to ARRI, among others.
Rendering Lighting Effects in Real Time
The Atrium Designer 2012 Service Pack 4 plug-in for lighting and real-time rendering is currently available for 49 euros or 63 dollars due to a Lumatix promotion.
Canon C300 Is Shipping
Now the time has come: Canon's new camera, the C300, is officially scheduled to ship at the end of January. Is Canon taking advantage of the favorable timing of the dispute between ARRI and RED?
RenderNodes for Vue 10
e-on Software has released a Linux-based rendering development. This is intended to make working with nodes in Vue 10 possible.
JVC Camcorder with 4K Resolution
The new JVC GY-HMQ10 camcorder with 4K resolution is scheduled to ship in the USA from March. The 4K camcorder is intended to be available for just under 5000 dollars.
And the VFX Oscar Goes to…?
The list of selected Oscar film candidates for the best VFX of 2011 is shrinking increasingly. Here is an overview of which ten films have so far made the shortlist for this year's Oscar ceremony on February 26.
First Blender 2.6 Update
With Blender update 2.61, new features have been added to the open-source software for the new year. The update is available for download.
External Microphone for Camera Filmmakers
An inexpensive and practical external shotgun microphone for audio recordings with SLR cameras and camcorders is now available from Hähnel. For just under 100 euros, the MK 100 is intended to make zoom and handling noises from internal microphones a thing of the past.
CinePostproduction Expands Project Support Team at Cologne Location
CinePostproduction Geyer Cologne is further expanding its digital postproduction services and its on-set services and strengthening its project support team. Kristina Söll assists customers as Postproduction Supervisor with technical consulting and project support.
Autodesk Video Portal
Autodesk has published a new video portal for the latest and most viewed Autodesk videos.
Disney’s Documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty” in Berlin
The Film Art & Animation department at the Games Academy is bringing the award-winning documentary about the
rise of Walt Disney Studios to the capital on January 27.
Andersson Technologies LLC Release SynthEyes 2011.1
The camera tracking and stabilization software application comes with high performance and a whole host of new features.
Mission: Impossible 4 – Behind the Scenes
The fourth part of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol opens in Germany on December 15. Selected scenes in the film were shot with IMAX cameras; director Brad Bird provides an insight into the production.
Celemony Melodyne Editor 2.0 Released
Celemony Software GmbH has announced the availability of Melodyne editor version 2 and many new features have been added.
New Exchange Plug-in for After Effects and Cinema 4D
Adobe has released a new free plug-in that allows projects to be exported directly from Adobe After Effects to Cinema 4D R13.
Canon EOS C300 and RED Scarlet-X Manuals for Download
A free manual is now available for the two cameras Canon EOS C300 and RED Scarlet-X and can be downloaded as reading material to heighten anticipation.
John Lasseter Receives Hollywood Star
Animated-film director John Lasseter has now also received his well-deserved star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
Platige Image and Pixar Have Made the Oscar List
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the ten best animated short films that made the shortlist for the 2012 Oscar nomination.
Celemony Melodyne Editor on Tour in Germany
Celemony product specialists demonstrate Melodyne in practice; the tour travels throughout Germany, including Berlin, Munich, Hanover and Frankfurt.
Canon EOS C300 – Unofficial Test Video
In this test video, Jonathan Yi shows the advantages and disadvantages of the Canon EOS C300 in a practical filmmaking test – in a highly amusing way.
Cinema Experience at Home
No more pixelated film material in the home cinema – the time is intended to come in January 2012, when Sony releases its 4K projector.
Lightworks Release Date Postponed
November 29 was intended to be the day – EditShare wanted to release the Lightworks NLE system as an open-source version. But the release has now initially been postponed for an unknown period.
HP Z800 Workstation on the Red Carpet
On the occasion of the Hollywood premiere of "Puss in Boots", an HP Z800 Workstaton was actually led across the red carpet.
New Pricing Policy at Adobe
Good luck for professionals, bad luck for freelancers: starting next year, Adobe wants to push the subscription model for its software more strongly and is making upgrades more expensive in the process.
Cameron and Scorsese in Dialogue
Two giants of film in a joint interview: Martin Scorsese and James Cameron talk about Scorsese's new 3D film “Hugo”.
Edius Becomes a 3D Editing Tool
Grass Valley will expand its Edius editing software with 3D editing functionality. Together with the new 3D support for peripheral devices, this is intended to enable users to realize a complete stereoscopic 3D workflow in Edius.
Rent Equipment Affordably with an App
The "Rent me" app from Honey Badger Software is intended to shed light on the darkness of equipment rental and its pricing rules.
New GH2 Hack by Vitaliy Kiselev
GH2 hacker Vitaliy Kiselev was faster than Panasonic again – the latest version of the GH2 hack is here.
Game Action Trailer by Michael Bay
Transfomers director meets EA games, as happened with a trailer for the latest part of the "Need for Speed" series, which is released on 15.11.2011.
Free Converter from Automatic Duck
Free is always good: Automatic Duck's video conversion program, which allows projects to be exchanged between Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro, is now available as a free download.
Time for Oscar
It's that time again: the film titles for the Oscar shortlist in the "Best Animated Feature" category have been published. 18 films made the preselection.
Here Comes Scarlet
The RED Scarlet-X entered into direct competition with the Canon EOS C300, because three hours after the premiere of the Canon Cinema models, RED also presented the features of the new RED Scarlet-X.
Canon Conquers Hollywood
Last night, Canon presented two new camera models under the name “Canon EOS Cinema” at a press event.
Media Composer 6
The new Media Composer 6 takes the stage – through mid-November, the focus is on new workflow tools, expanded round-tripping and even more integration into existing Avid tools.
The Revival of Silhouette Animation
"And Now for Something Completely Different" – the Monty Pythons were honored on the BBC with their own documentary and a typical silhouette intro.
Dragonframe 3.0 – Stop Motion Software
Far from going out of fashion and still popular – stop-motion films. Anyone planning a stop-motion project might want to take a closer look at this software.
HDMI Adapter for the Canon 5DII
Shooting video on the go? A new adapter called LockPort is intended to provide a full-size HDMI output for Canon video DSLR cameras – and put an end to the fiddling with mini HDMI.
Wickie Breaks the Million Mark
Vikings seem to be just as “in” as pirates. About one million visitors have seen the little red-haired Viking’s second adventure – “Wickie auf großer Fahrt” – in 3D since September 29.
Sony Vegas Pro Release 11
Contrary to earlier announcements, the new Vegas Pro 11 release does not offer all that many innovative new features, but it does provide practical updates.
New Canon High-End Model 1Dx
With its new professional DSLR, the 1D X, Canon could completely clean up the market – almost 7 µ per pixel, 18 MP resolution, 12fps RAW, 61-point autofocus, 1080-line video, and much more. The only thing missing: a handkerchief until the delivery date to catch the sweat of anticipation.
Expected Shortly: VR4MAX Release 7
Release 7 of the VR4MAX software for interactive 3D visualization and simulation now includes a new Atmosphere System and a LUA Script Engine.
Real Steel Making Of
Let’s get ready to rumble – Erik Nash, the VFX supervisor of “Real Steel,” has published a making-of of the robot fight scene.
Color Correction in Finishing
Autodesk Flame Premium is intended to make real-time color grading possible directly in the 3D toolset and provide an effects function set for finishing 3D stereoscopy projects.
We’re Buying a Transformer
Want to show Michael Bay how it’s done? From now on, you no longer need to spend much time building a Transformer robot, because a finished model is available to buy and can be animated.
More Disney Classics in 3D
Because of the great success of the 3D rerelease of “The Lion King,” Disney is said to have decided to bring further classics from its program back to cinemas as 3D versions.
The Huberbuam in 3D Are Available to Download
In our article “Mountains Close Enough to Touch” in the recently published DP 05/11, we already presented the ZDF’s 3D climbing-film project in detail. The documentary is now available exclusively online as a free download in the 3D version.
Canon Loves MFT
Redrock Micro has developed the “Livelens MFT” adapter with aperture control for Canon EF lenses. It is intended to make it possible to control the autofocus and aperture setting of third-party lenses.
GH2 vs. NEX vs. EOS 600D
Battle of the HD system cameras – the video quality of Sony, Panasonic and Canon was compared directly, with a foreseeable result.
Two New ZBrush Tutorials from Gnomon for Free
In two new tutorials, character artist Mark Dedecker, a specialist in modeling and texturing film and game characters, presents, among other things, ways to create clothing texture using Polygroups and explains how to generate 16-bit and 32-bit displacements.
V-Ray for Softimage Public Beta Program
V-Ray from Chaos Group will soon also support Autodesk’s Softimage software. Registered users of the Chaos Group website can now test the beta version for two months.
New Subscription Advantage Pack for 3ds Max 2012
3ds Max subscribers can now download a new Advantage Pack for 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max Design 2012.
New Color-Correction Tool for the YouTube Editor
The YouTube Video Editor, which lets you edit your videos directly in the browser, has been around for some time. New color-correction options have now been added.
The RED Rumor Mill
The rumor mill at RED has announced a new product – a 4K laser 3D projector.
Final Cut Pro X – The Update!
Apple has made an update for Final Cut X available – version 10.0.1 now with software trial, XML and XSAN; multimonitor and further functions have been announced.
Authentic Sound
UA releases the Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder plug-in for UAD-2. The authentic sound of the mastering tape machine is now available as a UAD-2 Powered Plug-In for Mac and PC.
Steinberg Elements Pack Now Available
Steinberg Media Technologies today released the Steinberg Elements Pack. Consisting of Cubase Elements 6 and WaveLab Elements 7, the new software bundle offers all the essential tools for recording, editing, mixing and mastering music on a PC or Mac computer.
The Foundry Releases Hiero
The Foundry announced the release of the new conform and VFX workflow tool HIERO at IBC. The new tool draws on Storm technology and closes the timeline-based gap in the shot-based Nuke workflow.
Adobe Buys IRIDAS Technology
At IBC 2011, Adobe announced that it had acquired technologies from IRIDAS, a leading company for digital color-grading tools and professional film and video content.
New Update for Golaem Crowd
The company Golaem announced a new update for its crowd-simulation software for Autodesk Maya, Golaem Crowd 1.2.
Final Cut Studio Available Again
Backtracking at Infinite Loop: Final Cut Studio can be ordered again, and anyone who simply cannot work with FCPX can breathe a sigh of relief.
Disney and Pixar Reunited with the Annie Awards
There was great anger at the last Annie Awards in Los Angeles in February. Animation giant Disney/Pixar boycotted the festival and did not attend the ceremony. The company was protesting the Annie rules and the ASIFA jury’s assessment. But the wind now seems to have shifted again.
Two New Pixar Films by 2014
According to the Huffington Post, Pixar will release two more films over the coming two years. So far, only titles and story teasers have been announced.
First Images from Pixar’s “Monsters University”
Anyone who can hardly wait for Mike and Sully’s latest adventures can see the first designs of the new characters here.
I/O from Blackmagic
Mobile editing with 2K and 3D – an external I/O card is intended to accept all the data a camera delivers while on the move via Thunderbolt.
The animago jury meets again
If you would have had a film for the animago competition this year, you will unfortunately have to postpone your participation until next year. Tomorrow, the animago expert jury in Berlin will review the films submitted for this year's award and decide on this year's nominees and winners.
The First VOD Facebook Film in Germany: KOKOWÄÄH
Today Warner Home Video Germany is releasing Till Schweiger’s KOKOWÄÄH on Blu-ray, DVD and as a download. For the first time in Germany, Facebook is additionally being used as a VOD platform for digital marketing.
New Open Project with Blender
From September, there will be a new film project from the Blender Foundation: the best artists in the Blender community will animate the science-fiction film “Mango” in an open project.
Christie Shows Its Work at the World’s Largest 3D Cinema Projection
Christie was there when a world record was set with the French 3D premiere of the Warner Bros. film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” on July 12 at the Palais Ominisports de Paris-Bercy. Guinness World Records officially confirmed the major event, in which the projection was shown on a screen 29.9 meters wide and 12.33 meters high.
Presented at Siggraph: Motion Capture Using Body Cameras
Researchers from Disney and Carnegie Mellon University presented an alternative to conventional motion-capture systems at this year’s Siggraph. Small cameras (around 20) attached to the performer’s body make it possible to derive movements of the body and limbs in the environment.