Animation Evolution

By Kristinha M. Anding

Siggraph 2008’s Computer Animation Festival is undergoing an expansion this year, and crucial to this evolution is the new blood brought by student animators. The festival’s two jury panels chose numerous student pieces for the general Competition Screenings...

Students and Siggraph

By Cynthia Wisehart

Increasingly, the work coming out of animation schools across the world helps to speed the evolution of imagery and storytelling...

Shoot Expertise: The Shooter's Toolbox

By Barry Braverman

The times are a-changing for shooters as our imaging tools are becoming increasingly varied. For specialized applications such as stop-motion and time-lapse,...

Shoot Review: Canon XL H1S

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner reviews the Canon XL H1S camera, an impressive update to the user-friendly XL H1...

Shoot Tools: Vinten

By Dan Ochiva

Prompter systems need to be hardy if they are to handle the rigors of on-the-go ENG-style shooting. That's just how Vinten positions its new lightweight...

Shoot Tools: QTV

By Dan Ochiva

While some companies are starting to address the market for prompters aimed at emerging and non-traditional users, until recently, you couldn't find much...

Shoot Tools: Vaddio

By Dan Ochiva

Until recently, gaining control over the images from robotic cameras was moot: There was no way to do it. Now, Vaddio can offer a way to do just that...

Shoot Tools: Sound Devices

By Dan Ochiva

Sound Devices 788T 8-track recorder, which debuted at NAB Show 2008, allows more tracks to be available to record audio...

Shoot Tools: Dolgin Engineering

By Dan Ochiva

As everyone watches budgets more intently, having one product do more counts for something these days. That's part of the thinking behind Dolgin's vDoubler...

Shoot Tools: Bodelin Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

If you needed a small, lightweight prompter system for a widescreen HDV camcorder, your choices before now have been pretty slim Bodelin adds a model...

Edit Review: Apple Aperture 2

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

For the Mac platform, Apple has little competition in most areas of its software universe. The company's iWork, iLife, Logic Studio, and Final Cut Studio...

Edit Review: VideoHelper and Sony Creative Software Quartet

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Sony Creative Software Quartet allows you to mix and match audio loops to develop precisely timed music to accompany your spots and videos. VideoHelper offers the Look and Load search engine to help you locate the cues that will serve your needs from the company's catalog of sliceable audio tracks....

Edit Review: dvGarage dvMatte Pro Studio 3

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Contributing writer Franklin McMahon reviews the dvGarage dvMatte Pro Studio 3 package, an affordable keying plug-in package that enables fine control...

Edit Tools: HP

By Dan Ochiva

According to an HP blog I came across, the IT group at DreamWorks Animation had been trolling eBay for the past few years to buy up all the used CRT displays...

Edit Tools: AntZero

By Dan Ochiva

Anyone faced with today's multiplying media will welcome the chance to check out a new digital-asset manager. Swiss-based AntZero offers AtomicView, a...

Edit Tools: Avid

By Dan Ochiva

In early June, Avid announced it was shipping its new HD editing systems and VideoRAID storage products. Originally announced during NAB Show 2008, the...

Edit Tools: EditShare

By Dan Ochiva

It's something you don't imagine either Apple or Avid collaborating on, so it fell to cross-platform editing-system developer EditShare to develop a single...

Edit Tools: Fujitsu-Siemens

By Dan Ochiva

Working with most laptops has meant putting up with less graphics horsepower, at least when compared to desktop workstations. Now, with products debuting...

Edit Tools: Red Giant Software

By Dan Ochiva

Magic Bullet Looks has become an increasingly popular plug-in to help set the look of a project, from simple exposure and film-process emulations to radical...

Distribute Tools: Philips

By Dan Ochiva

With 3D films creating buzz in theatrical releases, it's no stretch to see it turn up in digital signage. At InfoComm 08, Philips introduced a 52in. 3D...

Distribute Tools: Artisan Complete

By Dan Ochiva

The latest developments in digital signage aren't passive; they use the most recent interactive technologies to engage the public. Artisan Complete's...

Distribute Tools: Cisco

By Dan Ochiva

Increasingly, digital-signage systems aren't islands. That's fine with Cisco, which has made its name developing network technology gear. Version 5.0...

Distribute Tools: C-nario

By Dan Ochiva

Complex display walls, especially ones with a mix of resolution and size, still take time to set up and manage. New systems, such as the Cube multidisplay...

Distribute Tools: NEC

By Dan Ochiva

Today's increasingly complex digital signage often requires computers for setup or even to operate. Instead of requiring a separate computer, NEC designed...

Distribute Tools: Scala

By Dan Ochiva

Each new iteration of a digital-signage product is expected to do more, and release 3 of Scala's InfoChannel 5 is no exception. Scala builds on experience;...

Dream Job: Art School 2.0

By Kristinha M. Anding

Bobby Beck believes that animation education should provide a personal experience. Having taught animation classes at bricks-and-mortar art schools, the...

Mark In

In the world of content creation, the ability to churn and push out graphics on the go is coming to see the light of day. Dan Ochiva takes a look at the latest, including Fujitsu-Siemens Amilio GraphicBooster that leverages AMD’s recently announced ATI XGP technology. Also, an inside look at what it requires to build out an efficient AV system in the classroom....