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Red Bee Media sets up Singapore office
Special Effects, 7 November 2007

Singapore: Red Bee Media has opened an office in Singapore following the launch of new offices in France, China and Australia earlier this year. Headed by Petri Nikula, newly appointed VP Business Development, South East Asia, Red Bee Media's Singapore office will initially [...]

Toon Boom products compatible with Leopard
Special Effects, 7 November 2007

Canada: Toon Boom Animation Inc., developer of animation software solutions has made its line of products compatible with Apple's newly launched operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard. Professional software packages including Storyboard Pro and Digital Pro as well as [...]

Asia Media Festival set for a big splash in 2007
Special Effects, 31 October 2007

Singapore: The Asia Media Festival 2007 (AMF 2007), the regional business platform for the media industry held from Nov. 14 - Dec. 4 in Singapore, is set to be bigger this year with a marked increase in participation as well as the debut of new events. Hosted by the Media Development [...]

Luxology launches tutorial series for modo users
Special Effects, 22 October 2007

USA: Luxology LLC, an independent technology developer of 3D content creation software, has launched The Alley, a set of six video tutorials on modo's modeling, painting and baking tools for 3D assets. Featuring more than three hours of instruction by Luxology's Andy Brown, the [...]

The Foundry releases Tinderbox for Windows only Combustion
Special Effects, 19 September 2007

UK: Visual effects developer The Foundry has released its Tinderbox visual effects plug-ins and image-processing tools for Autodesk's Combustion (Windows only) software to bring over 70 new effects to Combustion users. The Foundry's Tinderbox range comprises four separate [...]

Creatives gather for X|Media|Lab Singapore
Special Effects, 17 September 2007

Singapore- Michael Naimark, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, Apple Lab, Atari Lab, and Lucas Arts; Suresh Seetharaman, founder and president, Virgin Animation and Virgin Comics; and Jyri Salomaa, head of research, Nokia China, will be among the international mentors at X|Media|Lab [...]

Film and TV government agencies to form Screen Australia
Special Effects, 14 September 2007

Australia: An agency known as Screen Australia will be formed from the merger of the Australian Film Commission, Film Finance Corporation Australia and Film Australia on July 1 2008. Arts Minister Senator George Brandis released draft legislation which outlines the proposed functions [...]

IO Interactive utilizes NaturalMotion's morpheme
Special Effects, 11 September 2007

UK: Copenhagen-based games developer IO Interactive, part of UK games publisher Eidos, is integrating NaturalMotion Ltd.'s animation middleware, morpeheme, into its game development pipeline to design assets for an undisclosed game title. morpheme will provide developers and animators [...]

Havok introduces Havok 5
Special Effects, 10 September 2007

Ireland: Havok, provider of interactive software and services to the games and movie industries has launched Havok 5 to offer new features on its modular suite of run-time technology and artists tools for development of cross platform electronic games and special effects for film. Havok [...]

Matrox releases X.mio2 development units
Special Effects, 7 September 2007

Canada: Matrox Video Products Group has released Matrox X.mio2 development units, a new hardware component of the Matrox DSX family of HD and SD video and audio products. X.mio2 is suitable for video servers, NLEs and CGs as it supports 4 HD-SDI inputs and outputs, 16 channels [...]