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AI Render for iClone & CC with ComfyUI Integration, Available in Open Beta
Reallusion announces the open beta of AI Render, a completely free plugin that bridges Reallusion’s intuitive 3D software, including Character Creator and iClone—with ComfyUI, the open-source, node-based interface widely regarded as the gold standard for customizable AI visual generation.
Through the Woodlands
Creatures made of tree branches and roots seem to have a firm place in the history ofVFX. Just…
Behind the FMX..
... are Mario Müller and his team. And we wanted to ask what they see as trends.
Latest version of the story development tool released!
Flix 6.5 has been released. The story development software from The Foundry now also supports Apple Silicon processors - and the VFX Reference Platform 2022.
FMX Spotlight: Producer Jinko Gotoh on Storytelling and Social Impact
Producer Jinko Gotoh and Women in Animation’s Imke Fehrmann discuss how animated storytelling can address social injustice.
Unity Course Teaches Real-Time Animated Storytelling
Unity’s beginner course covers real-time previs, animation and cinematography in approximately 25 hours of self-paced training.
FMX Revisits VR for Social Impact
Gayatri Parameswaran discussed Kusunda, Home After War and the role of immersive journalism in social-impact VR.
Royalty-Free 3D Models
Pond5 customers can rejoice. The company is releasing more than 100,000 3D models.
Stories with Flix 5.4
Foundry’s story-development and 2D-storyboarding tool has received a new version.
Free Storytelling Tips from Pixar
In six episodes, big names from Pixar Animation Studios (including Pete Doctor and Mark Andrews) show what the art of successful storytelling looks like.
The 10 best film twists
An exciting top 10 list of the least expected twists in film history - from Hitchcock to Lucas. If you haven't seen the films yet, there is of course a high risk of spoilers here!
New Release of Storyboard Pro
Toon Boom Animation releases Storyboard Pro 5 with an improved 3D workflow, easier editorial integration and preproduction pipelines.
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.
gamearea at the Book Fair
In cooperation with Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH, gamearea FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN is organising an expert workshop on interactive storytelling.
eDIT Focus: Animation & Character Design
Alongside their specialized expertise, the announced speakers will offer a number of exciting crossover topics.
Image Gallery for I Am Legend
The vfx film I Am Legend was certainly exciting. We bring back the film's highlights once again in an image gallery.
We Tell Stories Uses Web 2.0 for Fiction
The first We Tell Stories episode tracks its protagonist through a Google Maps mashup.
North Kingdom puts the Coke Zero game online
As preparations begin for this summer's European Football Championship, Coca-Cola Zero is putting a groundbreaking Internet game online, developed by Northern Kingdom.
Student Provides New Insights into Interactivity in Experience Worlds
With a 400-page final thesis, a master's graduate is causing a stir in the amusement-park and computer-game industry. In “Interactivity in Experience Worlds”, the inconspicuous title, Sebastian Grünwald links the interaction of computer games with the storytelling of theme parks.
DIGITAL PRODUCTION holds intensive seminar “Image aesthetics in camera work and storytelling by Hitchcock”
The seminar "Image aesthetics in camera work and storytelling by Hitchcock" on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at the Presse Club München e.V. explains in the field of image aesthetics how certain moods can be created and the story supported with the aid of the right camera settings.
Andreas Kleinert’s “Freischwimmer” in Hof
Typhoon and distributor Novapool Pictures present Andreas Kleinert’s latest cinema film at the 41st Hof International Film Festival 2007 (October 23 to 28, 2007): “Freischwimmer”. The surrealisti c evil fairy tale already attracted great attention at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate Degli Autori series.
30 Days of Night – Sensational new number 1 in USA!
not only Germany experienced a tremendous cold snap this weekend. The icy vampire thriller 30 Days of Night took the top spot in the US cinema charts as the best new release. Despite major competition on the opening weekend, 30 Days of Night impressed with box-office takings of 16 million dollars. Numerous horror fans found their way to the cinema and let themselves be swept away by Josh Hartnett as a bloodthirsty vampire hunter.
“HUNTING PARTY – When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted” opens on November 29, 2007
TV war correspondent Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) always work where things are hottest: Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, El Salvador… But one day Hunt cracks – abruptly ending the Emmy winner’s career.
Release announcement “The Mist” (“The Mist”)
Stephen King and Frank Darabont, the successful team behind “The Green Mile” and “The Convicted”, return with a new collaboration! “The Mist” with Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, William Sadler, Laurie Holden
as well as Nathan Gamble opens on January 24, 2008.
News from The Witcher
On Tuesday, ATARI celebrated the German premiere of the computer game 'The Witcher' in Frankfurt am Main. Around 250 guests had accepted the internationally active publisher’s invitation and come to CineStar METROPOLIS to experience the presentation of the fantasy role-playing game on the large cinema screen.
Bully as Boandlkramer
Clasart Film, a company of the Tele-München Group, is producing the “Brandner Kaspar” with Joseph Vilsmaier’s Perathon Film.
Director Wim Wenders filmed for “Palermo Shooting” at Essen/Mülheim Airport
German star director Wim Wenders, Campino, singer of Die Toten Hosen, and Milla Jovovich, model and actress, brought the world of film for one day to
Essen/Mülheim Airport.
Director Michael “Bully” Herbig reveals why he feels so at home in Germany: “No one interferes with me anymore.”
“I have every freedom here. I had to fight hard and work even more for it. I can write and produce my things myself. No one interferes with me anymore. [...] That is a huge luxury.”
NosTale – MMORPG from Asia now in Germany
With NosTale, Gameforge 4D brings one of Asia’s most successful MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) to Europe: The open beta has started in German.
Filming of THE READER has begun in Berlin
Production of THE READER, starring Nicole Kidman, Ralph Fiennes and David Kross, has begun in Berlin. Stephen Daldry is directing the dramatic love story based on the novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink and the screenplay by David Hare. Senator has acquired the German exploitation rights.
Emmy nomination for “Everyone Loves Jimmy”
Another Emmy nomination for a production by the Bavaria Film Group: “Everyone Loves Jimmy”, the sitcom produced by Bavaria Film on behalf of RTL (producer 1st season: Stephan Bechtle/producer 2nd season: Peter Fröhlich), must now hold its own in the “Comedy” category against competition from Brazil (“The Amateurs”/TV Globo), England (“Little Britain Abroad”/BBC Comedy/Little Britain Productions), Japan (“NEO – Office Chuckles”/NHK) and South Africa (“Sorted”/TOM Pictures).
“TALK TO ME” launches on February 7, 2008
Central Film now has the release date of "TALK TO ME" to announce. "TALK TO ME" takes you into the pulsating world of the American Sixties. In times of the civil-rights movement and racism, a man with hot soul and sharp words tries to realize his great dream.
Film retellers wanted
TOTAL RECALL- the Int. Festival of the Retold Film, is looking for people who retell films.
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg sets up new degree programmes
"Interactive Media" and "Education and Science"
SIGGRAPH Keynote: Awards and Theme Parks
SIGGRAPH presented its awards before Disney’s Joe Rohde connected theme-park design with computer graphics.
German Film School Launches New Master’s Degree Program Character Design & Development
Two-Year Postgraduate Program under the Direction of Disney Character Designer Harald Siepermann / Starts on March 1, 2006