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Katherine Hays Joins GenArts as CEO
Visual Effects Plugin Company gets a "Massive" leader

All professional visual effects and motion graphics producers know about GenArts plugins. With plugins that support multiple host applications and various operating systems, GenArts' Sapphire plugins were quickly made the favorite to make things look "sexy" and "give it a "high end" look. Now Katherine Hays, founder of Massive, Inc., will help to guide the company as CEO. ...Read More »
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Lenovo D10 ThinkStation workstation
The Lenovo D10 is the big brother to the ThinkStation S10, and as such sports dual Intel XEON CPUs for a combined four processor cores, 12MB L2 cache and a 1333MHz front side bus. Housed in a tower configuration, the D10 system is wider than the S10, and can accommodate more internal drive space, with support for five 3.5-inch hard drives as opposed to three for the S10, two PCIe x4 slots, two PCI X slots, and a single PCI slot. ...Read More »
Case Study:
Full Mental Jacket takes CNBC's virtual studio to new heights of realism
When CNBC executives decided they wanted to use a virtual set to enhance the production of their monthly news magazine program, Business Nation, they turned to Full Mental Jacket (FMJ), a design agency with a solid reputation for its virtual set design. In the short time that virtual sets have existed as a truly viable option for the industry, FMJ has managed to acquire a wealth of experience and its impressive client-list includes: Global National, Dateline NBC's Michael Jackson Unmasked, and Discovery Channel's Greatest American. ...Read More »
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Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Mac Pro
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle. ...Read More »
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CREATING TRANSITIONS
When using Flip Boom on a Mac, you can't open multiple program windows. Actually, you don't really need to do that if you want to share elements. It's pretty easy to stack up a library within your project. Here's how to create a transition element in Flip Boom on a Mac. ...Read More »
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DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda created with Linux-based HP workstations
DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda, which opened today, June 6, 2008, was created entirely on Linux-based Hewlett Packard workstations. The digital studio has been using HP workstations since 2001 successfully on its films. Ed Leonard, CTO at DreamWorks Animation discusses the company's digital workflow, history of the HP-DreamWorks alliance, and the benefit of multi-core processing systems. ...Read More »
 
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