Computer Graphics World articles from October 2004

Computer Graphics World archives from October 2004

Show-biz Viz.(editor's note)(VizSim technology--)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... What a difference a few years can make in the computer graphics industry. One segment in which this couldn't be more obvious is visual simulation. In 2001, the last time we looked at the VizSim market at large, we found that it had screeched to...

ATI demonstrates the FireGL X3-256.(graphics board)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... ATI Technologies has debuted its FireGL X3-256 workstation graphics accelerator for the digital content creation and previsualization markets. Offering a 30-percent increase in performance over previous FireGL products, the FireGL X3-256...

Corel upgrades Painter to version 9.(painting)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Corel has announced Painter IX, an updated version of its Natural-Media painting and illustration software. Now available, Painter IX provides creative professionals--including entertainment artists, commercial designers, fine artists, and...

Curious Labs introduces Shade 7.(3D modeling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Curious Labs has begun shipping Shade 7, a 3D graphics suite targeted at designers, illustrators, and architects. Curious Labs' Shade 7 offers Bezier modeling tools, Boolean modeling, polygon mesh modeling, and auto-smoothing of curves. Its...

Wacom debuts Intuos3.(pen tablet)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Wacom Technology has introduced its new Intuos3 family of professional pen tablets. For designers, artists, and digital photographers, the Intuos3 tablets offer improvements over previous Intuos models, lending to increased productivity....

Postmodern Webcasting.(Video)(VBrick streaming media appliances)
October 1, 2004... There was a time, not too many years ago, when Webcasting was all the rage. It was during the dot-com craze, of course, when the Internet and Internet distribution seemed like the future of all things, and Webcasting was no exception. It didn't...

Reef madness: DreamWorks pushes commercial software in state-of-the-art directions to create a painterly, luminescent underwater world populated with cartoon characters for Shark Tale.(Film)(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... Think The Godfather meets Tex Avery or Chuck Jones, switch the sound track to hip-hop and reggae, set the action in a painterly underwater world, turn the characters into sea creatures, and you have a taste of Shark Tale, the first 3D animated...

Dream world: artists use the digital tools of today to build Sky Captain's World of Tomorrow.(CG / Live Action)
October 1, 2004... It all started with a dream: Amid the flurry of a snowstorm, the outline of a behemoth zeppelin becomes more defined as it floats into view and eventually docks atop a statuesque structure of concrete and steel. Moments later, a vintage P-40...

HDV ready for prime time? Will the HDV format usher in the next revolution in video production?(high-definition video format )
October 1, 2004... There's a debate going on in the professional video world that's eerily reminiscent of one that occurred back in the mid '90s when the DV format made its first appearance. Back then, the discussion focused on whether DV would one day...

Creature feature: intricate modeling and animation bring the characters in Alien vs. Predator up close and personal.(Character Animation)
October 1, 2004... In 1979, director Ridley Scott terrified moviegoers with his horror classic about an alien that gestates in a human host. Since then, the Alien film series has earned a venerable reputation in science fiction by adhering to a simple structure:...

Elemental art.(Portfolio)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... After a long struggle, digital imagery finally has been acknowledged as a legitimate form of fine art, and, recently, this accomplishment has been recognized in coffee-table books showcasing CG works. One of the latest offerings is Elemental a...

SIGGRAPH 2004.(Snapshot)
October 1, 2004... Luxology's Modo 3D Modeling Software Los Angeles's Museum of Neon Art served as the backdrop of a Luxology event at which the present incarnation, and future potentiality, of Modo was demonstrated. A polygonal and subdivision surface...

LightWave 3D Version 8: NewTek releases significant upgrade.
October 1, 2004... In the beginning, a.k.a, the early 1990s, there was the Commodore Amiga, NewTek Video Toaster, and LightWave 3D. Hollywood saw it, and it was good. The Amiga is gone and Toaster is now on the PC, but the LightWave 3D animation and graphics...

Vegas+DVD Production Suite: Sony Pictures Digital deals Vegas users a winning hand.
October 1, 2004... With its release of Vegas + DVD Production Suite, Sony Pictures Digital is positioning Vegas as a professional-level, all-in-one video and audio tool. The software suite includes Vegas 5, DVD Architect 2, and a Dolby Digital AC3 encoder. ...

Artbox Intro.(Asset Management)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Win During IBC in Amsterdam last month, Proximity debuted Artbox, its video asset management system targeted at broadcast television and postproduction creative professionals. Through a single interface, users of Artbox can store, search,...

Upgraded Esprit.(Modeling)
October 1, 2004... Win-Mac E-on Software has upgraded its scenery rendering and animation software tool, Vue Esprit, to Version 5. For creating and rendering realistic scenery, Vue 5 Esprit features High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) and Image-Based Lighting (IBL),...

A new squeeze.(Video)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Win-Mac Sorenson Media has begun shipping the new Sorenson Squeeze 4 family of video compression programs. To date, the new product line boasts Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite, Sorenson Squeeze 4 for Macromedia Flash MX, and Sorenson...

Hornet for Pros.(Workstation)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Monarch Computer has unveiled its Hornet Pro NexGen P4, a workstation targeted at graphics design and gaming professionals. The Monarch Hornet Pro NexGen P4 features a small form factor, an Nvidia Quadro FX graphics card, and support for PCI...

Events.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... OCTOBER 7 World Cyber Games held in San Francisco. Visit www.worldcybergames.com. 18-19 Serious Games Summit held in Washington, DC. Contact Serious Games Summit, 888-234-9476, 415-947-6134, www.seriousgamessummit.com. ...