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Siggraph News from The Briefing Room
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France Dominates Computer
Animation Festival
Blogger: Eric Melin
 France
is making its presence known at the Siggraph Computer Animation
Festival
this year, with no fewer than 18 entries in competition for the
Audience
Prize, as well as seven entries up for the Student Prize, the Jury
Award, and Best of Show. Supinfocom, a computer graphics university
with
campuses in Valenciennes and Arles, has some of the strongest entries,
while others are from the The Gobelins School of Image in Paris. more>>
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Selick's
Stereoscopy
Blogger: Ellen Wolff
 If the clips from Laika Studios' upcoming
Coraline
are any indication, the incomparable animation artist Henry Selick
(Nightmare Before Christmas, James And The Giant Peach)
is
directing a new spin on the idea of '3D.' Despite the fact that this
advance look at Coraline is happening at SIGGRAPH, Selick's
amazing animation isn't in 3D-CGI—it's in stereoscopic stop
motion.
(Think of '3D' in its last-century meaning, before the term was
transformed by computer animation.) more>>
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Viva Chihuahua
Blogger: Michael Goldman
The major studios are finally starting to get the
hang
of this viral video business. Tippett Studio's marketing chief Lori
Petrini pointed that out to me a few minutes ago as she showed me a
couple of YouTube! videos created by Tippett to strategically help
promote Disney's upcoming film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. more>>
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What's DJ Hauck
Doing?
Blogger: Cynthia Wisehart
 Tomorrow 2:40 at the Vicon booth (1101),
find
out what one of Sony's most prolific motion-capture veterans is doing
with his facial capture product FacePro.
Hauck (Beowulf, Monster House, and Polar Express)
and partner Steven Ilous (Polar Express) started Digital
Concepts
Group last year to address motion capture pipeline gaps, looking for
ways to simplify various tasks. First up: facial capture. more>>
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10 Years of Boxx
Blogger: Dan Ochiva
Founded in Austin in 1998, BOXX Technologies is using
this Siggraph to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a number of prize
contests, giveaways, and special edition hot-rodded workstations, to
name just some of the reasons why the booth seems to have a sense of
excitement. more>>
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Softimage Puts Siggraph on
Ice
Blogger: Craig Erpelding
Once again, the Siggraph party scene seems to be
living up to all expectations—thanks to another blockbuster from
Softimage. As is seemingly tradition from Avid's professional 3D
animation software division, Softimage in cooperation with Dell put
their cool spin on Siggraph with a party at 740 Club in downtown L.A.
where they promoted their new transformative open platform ICE with a
45-minute set by notorious hip-hop and reality TV icon Vanilla Ice. more>>
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BlogLive @ Siggraph 2008
Podcast: NewTek's Jay Roth
 Following his Tuesday blog posting on new
developments with NewTek's LightWave software, milllimeter
Senior
Editor Michael Goldman sat down for a chat on the Siggraph show floor
with Jay Roth, president of NewTek's 3D Products Division to elaborate
on those developments and discuss LightWave's place in the animation
world these days. more>>
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Siggraph News from The Briefing Room
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Featured News from the
Briefing
Room: New NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems Bring Visual Supercomputing To The
Deskside
 3D models and datasets have become too
large for the standard desktop workstation to handle. To help combat
the
problem, Nbidia, a worldwide leader in visual computing technologies,
announced the D Series of Nvidia Quadro Plex Visual Computing Systems
(VCS) available in deskside or rackmount configurations. Engineered to
provide the most robust Nvidia Quadro GPU visualization performance to
date, the Quadro Plex systems are ideal for the styling and design,
geosciences and scientific visualization industries, working with
extremely large 3D models, datasets and power walls. Read on at The Briefing Room
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Featured News from The
Briefing
Room: Maxon Delivers Fully-loaded Cinema 4D 411; Raises Bar for 3D
Animation Excellence
 Maxon Computer, a leading developer of
professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions,
unveiled Cinema 4D Release 11 (R11), the next generation of its highly
acclaimed 3D animation software suite. The super-charged release is
packed with advanced capabilities that deliver dramatically improved
ease of use and workflow, image quality and integration into any
production pipeline. Cinema 4D R11 highlights include a non-linear
animation system, new global illumination render engine and
dramatically
improved render speed. Read on at The Briefing Room
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