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Digital Anarchy debuts ToonIt! for Avid
Special Effects, 8 January 2008

USA: Digital Anarchy, provider of visual effects software for Adobe and Apple products, has released ToonIt! for Avid, the company’s first plug-in toolset for Avid systems. ToonIt! enables users to create cartoon-like images from film and video footage and provides Avid editors the [...]

AJA KONA 3 used in edit pipeline for Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Special Effects, 8 January 2008

USA: AJA Video, a manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, has provided its KONA 3 video capture card which was used with Apple’s Final Cut Pro (FCP) for post on Twentieth Century Fox’s recent release Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. Working at visual [...]

Telestream expands support for Thomson Grass Valley products
Special Effects, 7 January 2008

USA: Telestream, provider of digital media workflow solutions, has expanded its Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP) support for Thomson Grass Valley disk-based cameras and media servers. Telestream’s Flip4Mac Infinity component has been upgraded to import media from Thomson Grass Valley [...]

SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival grows in 2008
Special Effects, 4 January 2008

USA: The SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival, to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 12 – 14 Aug 2008, is expanding into a full-scale film festival. The event will incorporate curated and competition screenings, discussion panels with filmmakers, artists, and [...]

Digieffects acquires Walker Effects plugins
Special Effects, 3 January 2008

USA: Digieffects, a developer of software plugins for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion has acquired the Walker Effects plugins from WalkerFX. Suited for professional visual effects and motion graphics artists, the Walker Effects [...]

Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging partners India's Prasad Corp to provide post and restoration services
Special Effects, 18 December 2007

India: Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging and India's Prasad Corp have partnered to provide digital post production and restoration services to Indian, Hollywood and international film companies. Companies will combine resources, skills and capacity, as well as establish a dedicated [...]

Anti-piracy sweep continues in Malaysia
Special Effects, 18 December 2007

Hong Kong/ Malaysia – Malaysia’s Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), and the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), which represents the Motion Picture Association (MPA), raided three pirate optical disc burner labs and a related printing facility [...]

Toon Boom Studio 4 is Leopard-ready
Special Effects, 17 December 2007

Canada: Toon Boom Animation Inc. is providing support for Studio 4 for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard operating systems. All current Studio 4 Mac customers may login at toonboom.com to download the patch. Also, Toon Boom will be showcasing Studio 4, Digital Pro, Storyboard Pro and Flip Boom [...]

Creative Ministry to gather at Bangkok's Bed Supperclub on Dec 20
Special Effects, 13 December 2007

Bangkok: Creative Ministry, Asia's advertising, TV and film networking group will be hosting its next event at Bangkok's Bed Supperclub from 7pm on Thursday 20 December 2007. Production house InFocus Asia created the monthly event to provide networking opportunities among professionals [...]

BOXX and Iridas offer savings for RTX workstation and FrameCycler post production software
Special Effects, 13 December 2007

Germany / USA: BOXX Technologies, provider of computing hardware for visual effects professionals, and Iridas, specialist in uncompressed playback technologies, have introduced a year-end pricing promotion for the RTX series workstations for the FrameCycler 2007 line of post production [...]