Framestore was the sole provider of digital visual effects for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, delivering over 200 shots to the movie. [...]
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 devilfish has been working overtime since being signed to the BBC’s Branding and Identity roster, including a distinct set of designs for BBC Four and its new ‘Handmade in Britain’ series, as well as for a new Radio 4 dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. [...] Continue reading devilfish delivers distinctive BBC branding  Adobe has announced the first public preview release of Adobe Edge, a new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool. [...] Continue reading HTML5 from Adobe as Edge is previewed  Autodesk has announced Maya 2012, containing powerful new toolsets for previsualisation and games prototyping and better pipeline integration. [...] Continue reading Autodesk announces Maya 2012 Congratulations to Double Negative which has won the award for Special Visual Effects in this year’s BAFTA awards for its work on Inception. The prize followed a clutch of awards for the film at the annual Visual Effects Society awards, which also saw MPC and Framestore win gongs. [...] Continue reading DNEg scoops VFX Bafta  Vicon House of Moves has developed an animated CG film as part of the launch efforts for new superhero franchise The Guardian Project by GME and NHL. [...] Continue reading Hockey league superheroes  Animation studio Nexus and its directing duo Smith & Foulkes have created another piece of animation fantasy for Wieden + Kennedy, this time promoting the new Honda Jazz. Read on for an exclusive behind the scenes interview. [...] Continue reading Life…and all that jazz  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 sees Framestore providing some of its finest work yet, including recreated house-elves, a magical animated storybook sequence and other dazzling VFX- 110 shots in all. [...] Continue reading Rude elf  Adobe has announced the winners of the 10th annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA), a global competition celebrating student creative arts. [...] Continue reading 10th Adobe Design Achievement Awards - winners announced |   
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Recently I reviewed the new version of the venerable DTP software and set out some key tips for using it in a Masterclass feature for Macworld [...]
In this feature, commissioned by Macworld, I track the last ten years of Mac OS X. It ends with a preview of Mac OS X 7- Codenamed Lion, which is due this summer. [...]
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