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Graphics plug-ins continue to expand capabilities and erase boundaries for digital artists worldwide. Developers are putting their tools into the hands of new users, releasing versions for Mac-based operating systems, [...]

If you're interested in what film and television is going to look like five or ten years down the line, it's worth casting an eye west to San Diego. Siggraph, [...]

This year's annual outing for the animation and computer graphics industry, SIGGRAPH 2002, took place in San Antonio, Texas, from 21-26 July. The always well-attended conference programme, including technical papers, [...]

Award-winning animator Chris Landreth and his team at Alias|Wavefront turn a theater performance into an amazing five-minute character animation At midnight, in a ramshackle theater above a funeral home in […]

CREATING CHARACTERS HAS BECOME MUCH EASIER, THANKS TO THE HUGE ASSORTMENT OF ANIMATION PLUG-INS NOW AVAILABLE Digital artists are forever pushing the envelope when it comes to 3D animation, as […]

Multimedia presentation software tools are making an ever-stronger claim for the business presentation market. The reason? These new programs combine the ease-of-use and presentation-specific features of traditional 'Slide-and-Tell' presentation software […]

As the 3D animation marketplace heats up, the software available for Macintosh-based animators is getting increasingly sophisticated. But how does one choose among the available programs? After all, while most […]

More than ever, digital video belongs to the desktop computer user, As hardware advances enrich the quality of captured video, the tools used to edit video improve as well. No […]

The development of more powerful PCs and Macintoshes has made rendering and visualisation applications more practical on the desktop, and software which once could only be found for the Amiga or Macintosh is now being offered for 486 PCs. There has been a reduction in rendering time, and many firms now include libraries of textures and objects with their software. Various visualisation and rendering software programs for IBM compatibles, Macintoshes and for both IBM and Macintosh are discussed., Improved processing muscle and accelerator boards for PCs and Macintoshes has enabled processor-demanding visualization and rendering applications to become more practical on the desktop. Rendering software typically imports modeled images--some [...]

Great strides are taking place in the field of desktop video. Last year the products available were mainly genlock boards that could synchronize NTSC signals with RGB, allowing instructors to […]

An effective Presentation relies on form as well as content. We test 15 products that can add visual muscle to your business message. Kathy Lang or any company concerned with […]

GUI TOOLS STILL FAR FROM PICTURE PERFECT To many, a picture represents a thousand words. To a programmer, a picture often represents a thousand hours of aggravation. While building graphic […]

The Appeal of Color When the first PC-based image processing products based on HSI (hue, saturation, and intensity) technology appeared on the market nearly three years ago, those in the […]

2D drafting has proved its' point. Benefits are recognised, and packages on all major platforms now have virtually) the same tools, and support virtually) the same file standards. So users […]

Mac CAD Takes Off The time has passed when the Mac could be dismissed as a design and engineering light-weight. The potent processing speed of the Mac II line was […]

Traditional pens and brushes are rapidly being replaced by their computerized counter parts because draw/paint/illustrative software is becoming more Powerful and easier tO use. in this first of a two-part [...]

How to use NaN Technologies' Blender, the free 3D modelling suite, is discussed.

Talk of digital workflows tends to focus on how the technology affects a printer's day-to-day operations. But in this age of cross-media publishing, printers also need to step back and [...]

Color management took baby steps forward in the first half of this year. There was more widespread support for the International Color Consortium (ICC) standard, improvements in color management on [...]

I have been using and reviewing the latest in cutting-edge, affordable, nonlinear editing products over the past few years. The technology has progressed to the point that the whole bundle [...]

This month's chart features the latest upgrade, version 6.0, of the popular WordPerfect for Windows. Its interface is highly customizable, providing users with the ability to custom-configure most features, including […]

Compix, a developer of character generators, has announced the availability of its Spirit package -- a system built for houses of worship that combines the company's GenCG graphics creation software [...]

Compix has made available its Spirit package, which gives houses of worship a CG tool specifically designed for building high-quality broadcast graphics. Combining Compix's intuitive GenCG graphics creation software with [...]

By Charles J. Murray Graphics processor and display controller handle up to four different video streams A new graphics processor could make it easier for future automobiles to process video […]

Chyron's Lyric PRO Version 7.1 broadcast graphics package is now shipping with enhanced international language support in the form of a 3D-rich text renderer. The advanced text renderer enables vector [...]

VDS' Promotor system for automated promos and graphics now supports the Harris graphics and branding systems including IconStation, ChannelONE and Inscriber G7. Promotor is a suite of applications that provides [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern New graphics software makes smoke, explosions and shrapnel look so lifelike, it almost hurts THE CHALLENGE: Fully harness the massive processing power in today's graphics cards to [...]

Staff Reflective films Staff Add prismatic impact to packaging Radiant Light Films for labeling, packaging, in-molding applications and others combine layers of polymeric materials with different reflective qualities to add [...]

Tiger Technology has announced stoneGate, a virtual file system that enables raw image sequences stored on the Autodesk Media and Entertainment Stone file system to be manipulated using standard graphics [...]