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As visual effects studios gear up for a new TV season, year-end movie releases and a steady flow of spot work, they put their VFX storage solutions to the test. [...]

In the world of graphics and animation, it's not uncommon to deal with an immense number of media assets created in different formats and resolutions. Considering the time pressure that [...]

Sky Sports has upgraded its EVS XT[2] servers and MulticamLSM software to incorporate HD, 3-D and additional production tools, such as Epsio, EVS' new graphics overlay solution, for its OB [...]

Creating realistic 3-D graphics is easier than you think, even if you don't know a z-plane from a glue stick. A new crop of Mac 3-D programs is aimed at […]

Creating imaginative display type on a computer hasn't always been easy. Although you could add basic colored fills and strokes to PostScript fonts, using Illustrator or FreeHand, you couldn't fill […]

Graphics Mean Business Ten Years ago, David Harnish, head of the media center at Walgreen Co. headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., created 35mm slides for executive-management clients, charging $50 to $60 […]

Advertising typographers used to know their place. Their contributions were always seen, but rarely heard. Yes, they added that little bit of finesse to press and poster campaigns, but they [...]

PCs are ready for prime time, but Painbox still dominates There's a new crop of TV promos and graphics in town. Although the design industry traditionally has gone to specialized [...]

Most parents are familiar with the growth charts hanging in the pediatrician's office--the graphical illustrations that gauge their sons' and daughters' physical progress against that of some imaginary paragon of […]

Federal office workers are doing a lot with microcomputer graphics, they said in response to a GCN survey, but they yearn to do more, and do it better. The survey […]

Need Design Inspiration? Look Around You! There are wonderful designers in the world - folks with years of graphic-arts schooling, a real flair for composition, and an original eye. I'm […]

In high school teacher Ron Barnett's newspaper and year-book classes in St. Helens School District #503 in Oregon, Adobe's InDesign is making great waves in designing layout. Making the switch [...]

B-Train Films, a New York-based sports-production company, is using Avid Xpress DV software to create the weekly pregame show for the New York Jets. Jets 24/7 With Herman Edwards airs [...]

Dynamic HTML gives designers and on-line content creators more power to create flexible user interfaces, and reduce severe load and network traffic on their interactive Web sites. Using DHTML, designers [...]

Mondo Media, a multimedia marketing, interactive advertising, and publishing studio in San Francisco, develops PC- and Macintoshbased point-of-sale, demonstration disk, kiosk, and CD-ROM campaigns for many high-technology companies. Key among [...]

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., a graphical user interface to an object-oriented database is helping programmers retrieve and reuse each other's code via the Internet. Brian C. […]

At the Interiork Department's Bureau of Reclamation office in Denver, Karen Morris relies on microcomputer grahics for weather-modification research. Morris is part of the Water Augmentation Group, which works on […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service users microcomputer graphics software at every level of complexity -- from basic commercial packages to shareware and inhouse programs for image […]

NEW PRODUCTS Software Publishing has released Military Symbols, government clip art for use with the company's MS-DOS graphics presentation package, Harvard Graphics. The more than 200 military symbols in the […]

More than a year ago, Apple evangelists began preaching that desktop-presentation software was the new wave, hot on the heels of the wildly successful desktop-publishing boom. The Apple answer, they […]