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Animation Evolution

By Kristinha M. Anding

Siggraph 2008’s Computer Animation Festival is undergoing an expansion this year, and crucial to this evolution is the new blood brought by student animators. The festival’s two jury panels chose numerous student pieces for the general Competition Screenings...

Featured Webcast

Streaming for Video Pros: Flash vs. Silverlight
Listen to this archived webcast with journalist and video producer Jan Ozer.

Reel-Exchange

Digital Content Producer of the Week
Regional content creators throughout the United States and worldwide on Reel-Exchange.

BlogLive

BlogLive @ Siggraph 2008
Catch up on what you missed at this year's show. Sponsored by HP

Products

Distribute Tools: Vutec

Fitting two separate screens into one housing doesn’t seem to make much sense, but if one of them is much more than just another screen, you’ll have Vutec’s unique product: the Vu-Flex Pro Duplex...

Shoot Tools: Bodelin Technologies

If you needed a small, lightweight prompter system for a widescreen HDV camcorder, your choices before now have been pretty slim Bodelin adds a model...

Shoot Tools: Dolgin Engineering

As everyone watches budgets more intently, having one product do more counts for something these days. That's part of the thinking behind Dolgin's vDoubler...

Reviews & Features

Step by Step: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

In Universal Pictures' third installation of The Mummy franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, we get to experience an especially creepy mummy up close and personal...

Dream Job: Raptor Rapture

A profile of Neil Rettig, a noted documentarian who specializes in films regarding birds. His latest raptor-focused documentary is set to air in the fall on PBS’ Nature...

Mark In

Now, workaday video editors have the chance to use some remarkable AI-based music-composing software that allows them to move beyond the usual options of original composition, commercial music, music loops, or library music...