Shotopop brings paper and 3D together for music video
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 13:05
The music video for All of Me by South African singer Chris Chameleon is a collaboration between Brighton based Shotopop and the WIZZ in Paris.
£250k cash boost for Waltz With Bashir
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 13:01
The UK Film Council has announced its latest round of awards from its Prints and Advertising Fund, including a £250,000 grant to distribute hit Israeli animation Waltz With Bashir.
UK Film Council announces Morocco films deal
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 12:43
Government officials from the UK and Moroccan governments have signed a treaty that will pave the way for filmmakers from the two countries to work more closely together.
Studio AKA discusses creating the charming Sing Up charity ad
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 12:12
Tone is an endearingly charming animated spot for the charity Sing Up. We spoke to director Steve Small and producer Sharon Titmarsh about the project.
Adobe releases Configurator free Photoshop automation tool
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 11:07
Adobe has released the first full version of Configurator, an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Photoshop CS4.
Autodesk completes acquisition of Softimage
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 11:04
Autodesk has completed acquiring "substantially all of the assets" of Avid’s Softimage business unit for around US$35 million. This will mean that Autodesk now owns three of the main 3D suites: 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage|XSI.
Exposures new talent festival kicks off this weekend
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 10:48
Manchester's Urbis Centre and Cornerhouse are set to host the Exposures Festival from Sunday onwards, celebrating new British talent in filmmaking and animation.
Facebook app verification fee draws criticism
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 10:47
Facebook now gives its developers the option of submitting their applications for review to obtain a seal of approval, but some developers aren't thrilled with the program.
New Firefox app lets users pimp their browsers
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 10:40
Mozilla Tuesday unveiled a Web application that speeds Firefox customization by offering users several sets of pre-selected add-ons.
Silverlight, for real this time
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 10:35
Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my October 2007 review) manipulated its multimedia-savvy, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) user interface using JavaScript. Silverlight 1.1, which added support for compiled .Net languages and supported more of the .Net API, was available at that time only as an alpha test.
Apple discontinues 23-inch Cinema Display
Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 - 10:29
Apple officially discontinued its 23-inch Cinema Display on Tuesday, making way for recently announced 24-inch LED Cinema.
Google unveils SketchUp Pro 7
Tuesday 18 Nov 2008 - 15:18
Google on Monday released SketchUp and SketchUp Pro 7, new versions of the company's 3D modeling software for Mac and Windows.
Survey: print design to see growth next year
Monday 17 Nov 2008 - 14:35
The latest business spending survey from research company Shape the Future says that nearly a quarter (23.9 percent) of UK businesses intend to increase spending on print in the next 12 months. Interestingly, this is more than plan to increase spending on networking (21.2 per cent) and website optimization (19.7 per cent). Only 18.6
per cent of the companies surveyed were planning to decrease spending on print.
Adobe to preview new interactive design tool, Flash Catalyst, at Max conference
Monday 17 Nov 2008 - 14:18
Adobe will hand out a technical preview of Flash Catalyst on Monday, a new
interface design tool that was previously known under the codename of Thermo.
Adobe bolsters streaming Flash
Monday 17 Nov 2008 - 14:17
Adobe Systems is adding dynamic streaming, which adjusts to the bandwidth rate on the desktop, and DVR capability to its Flash Media Server for streaming of Flash content.
