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On the contrary: Over the last 12 months, one major player in the telecine market was acquired, and a relative newcomer to the film recorder market expanded its product family [...]

Although vendors of digital content creation applications strive to make their offerings as full-featured as possible, most acknowledge that they simply don't have the time or expertise in-house to incorporate [...]

Gone are the days when 3D animation producers had to spend several millions of dollars on a bank of mainframes and supercomputers and hire a cadre of high-level programmers to [...]

Turn on your television these days and you're bound to see content--everything from news and sports to promos, trailers, and credits--that have been enhanced with computer-generated text and digital video [...]

Ask vendors of digital ink and paint systems to describe this market, and most will say it's mature. But does this mean the market is in its golden years and [...]

NORMALLY, ACCORDING TO DAN Yaman, the only thing you can be sure an audience will take from an event is whatever free merchandise organizers happen to be giving away. Yaman [...]

HOW DO YOU INTRODUCE A NEW office chair and a new corporate image, and make the launch as dynamic and exciting as possible? When Allsteel was recently faced with this [...]

www.softimage.com Developed by traditional animators at Digital Video (Rome) and sold through Softimage, Toonz is an exposure sheet-driven digital ink and paint programme used in film, commercial, video, and interactive [...]

www.animationstand.com When Linker Systems first began shipping Animation Stand, the software utilised the pure exposure sheet philosophy, and made the assumption that every frame would stand on its own. Over [...]

www.animaster.com.tw AniMaster is a modular, PC-based system designed for mass production studios. The software's Ink and Paint module enables animators to paint cel and ink lines, and it provides a [...]

www.digicelinc.com DigiCel was formed in 1999 by ex-employees of 2D animation software vendor AXA. Today the company offers a line of 2D animation software for beginning and professional animators. FlipBook [...]

www.celaction.com CelAction2D is a suite of integrated programs that allows animators to design 2D character models as resolution-independent vector graphics or scanned bitmaps, and animate them according to user-adjustable exposure [...]

Digital ink and paint systems were adopted by traditional animators with some reluctance when they first entered the market several years ago, but animation studios are now embracing the software [...]

www.cratersoftware.com Crater Software's CTP is a PC-compatible application designed for broadcast-quality animated series production. The software provides numerous painting features in its paint system, including the ability to separate line [...]

www.cambridgeanimation.com Cambridge Animation has been a major player in this market for more than a decade. Its Animo software is used for feature films, animated TV series, commercials, games, and [...]

www.hash.com Hash is involved in web 3D animation through ArcticPigs, a young Amsterdam-based company that's developing a web viewer for 3D content created in Hash's Animation:Master. The ArcticPigs 3D viewer [...]

www.newtek.com Although NewTek hasn't created any exporters for LightWave, LightWave users can export their creations to the web using several vendor-supplied exporters, including those from Hypercosm, Macromedia, and Electric Rain. [...]

www.realviz.com Currently, RealVIZ's ImageModeler and Stitcher support leading web 3D technologies. ImageModeler is a software program for building 3D models from photos. Stitcher is designed for creating panoramic images up [...]

www.eonreality.com EON is a family of software for creating and distributing interactive, real-time 3D rich media. One of these products, EON Studio, is a development-tool for building interactive simulations. The [...]

www.electricimage.com Electric Image recently announced a free software update for its Amorphium Pro real-time 3D modeling, painting, and animation tool for professional design and web development. The update, Amorphium Pro [...]

Weaving dynamic 3D content into the web for interactive on-line experiences becomes easier than ever For the last several years, leading 3D modeling and animation software vendors have been keeping [...]

www.aliaswavefront.com Alias|Wavefront has developed on exporter plug-in that can transfer content from Maya into Macromedia's Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio software. The Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plug-in, which began shipping in [...]

www.curiouslabs.com Curious Labs, the development team and publisher of the Poser 3D character animation and figure design tool, offers the Curious Labs Pro Pack, which uses the Viewpoint Experience Technology [...]

Virtual sets have been slow to take off, but since prices have dropped and reliability and realism have improved, the market may be set for a boost Since it was [...]

NLE systems are becoming less expensive even as more and better features are offered. So do high-end systems still have a place in the market? The state of the non-linear [...]

If you judge the market only by the number of players, the scanner, recorder and telecine market is fairly small. But the vendors profiled below sell products that most post [...]

While the market for newsroom automations systems is mature in the US and Europe, industry players say there is lots of room for growth in Asia Walk into most newsrooms [...]

Despite the sophistication of today's modeling and animation software, cloth simulation is still difficult and time-consuming. But for a new commercial created for Jimmy Dean Sausage in which laundry seemingly [...]

'It's rare for a client to phone us and say, `We've got a big budget; can you spend it for us?'' jokes Chris Wallace, president of Toronto's TOPIX/Mad Dog, which [...]

What do you do when your client can only afford 2D effects for a television commercial, but you know that those effects would look a lot better in 3D? Pete [...]

When the Matrox Video Products Group officially formed in 1989, it was focused on developing video add-in boards designed to compete with Truevision's then popular TARGA series. Although the company's [...]

As digital content creation becomes more prevalent and complex, so too does tracking such content. There are now a variety of digital asset management systems, with a corresponding, range in [...]

Moon Crescent Studios is only 18 months old, but the Manhattan Beach, California-based company's first project, PC and the Web, is an ambitious 90-minute film detailing the adventures of a [...]

Fur and fat are two of the most difficult elements to model and animate in the computer. But in 'Bear Bump,' a Hankook snow-tire commercial from New York agency Conquest [...]

Broadcasters have slowly but surely started producing HD programming, and have been stocking up on the latest in HD cameras, lenses, and VTRs to produce such conten At an average [...]

Stock Footage Trends Beta SP or high definition? CD-ROM delivery or download capability? Big screen, small screen, or computer screen? When it comes to stock footage today, these options have [...]

Real-time capabilities of DVEs, character generators, and graphics systems are allowing users to develop more creative and compelling effects, titles, and graphics without having to worry about the time factor [...]

It's not uncommon today for 3D modeling and animation applications to have a limited number of 2D effects and compositing tools, and vice versa. Vendors have been offering such products [...]

Brits Stay Steady While Reaching Across the Pond The state of London's postproduction industry over the last year can be summed up in one word: steady. 'Business has been stable [...]

Prosumer non-linear editing systems promise to be able to do as much as higher cost systems. They deliver, as Audrey Doyle finds out, but not at the same speed as [...]

The benefits of virtual-set technology are abundant and understood. You can broadcast an infinite number of expansive virtual sets from just a few square feet of space. You can eliminate [...]

Compositing has traditionally been a difficult step in the post production process but ease of use and lower prices of new systems have made this procedure easier to handle Hardly [...]

These days, one person seldom, if ever, creates visual effects from start to finish. The effects are too complex. Instead, imagery and clips move from one department to the next [...]

orld-renowned music-industry veteran James Brown will perform his hit 'Sex Machine' at an innovative Seattle venue this month. Thanks to artists at Digital Domain in Venice, California, the 70-year-old legend [...]

The Pacific Northwest (specifically, Washington and British Columbia) is home to several facilities that provide a varied collection of production and postproduction services, including digital effects, 2D/3D animation, post audio, [...]

Research is traditionally the most time-consuming stage of the stock-footage purchasing process. When demo reels arrive from stock companies, you laboriously search through each one for the clip you need. [...]

According to producers at some of the nation's top advertising agencies, thousands of qualified directors and postproduction studios have the talent to succeed in the cutthroat field of TV advertising [...]

DreamWorks' new horror film, The Haunting, brings an entire Gothic mansion to life as a central character with an unhealthy attitude toward its occupants. As might be expected, the film [...]

When the devastating spate of deadly tornadoes tore through Oklahoma in May, Warren Faidley captured high-quality video footage of the terrifying storms as they plowed through neighborhoods at speeds of [...]

As virtual-set systems become easier to use and the workstations driving them drop in price, an increasing number of broadcasters are turning to the technology to gain a competitive edge. [...]