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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  e-on software has announced the free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter, an instancing plugin for the mental ray and V-Ray renderers for 3DS Max. [...] Continue reading Free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter for 3ds Max Framestore has announced a new high-profile film hire in the shape of Steve MacPherson as CTO, VFX. [...] Continue reading Steve MacPherson new CTO, VFX at Framestore  Mill TV is creating the dramatic visual effects for Coronation Street’s special 50th year anniversary episode which will see tragedy strike Britain’s most famous street [...] Continue reading Mill TV to create VFX drama for Corrie anniversary-updated Industry veteran Michael McCarthy makes his return to Brickyard, while Lucy Herzog joins as VFX producer [...] Continue reading Two for Brickyard The Mill and AMV/BBDO have celebrated a multiple win at the Creative Circle Awards 2010, for the Metropolitan Police’s ‘Knife Crime’ interactive viral video. [...] Continue reading The Mill scoops Creative Circle Awards The Foundry has announced the release of its VFX compositing applications, Nuke and NukeX 6.0 [...] Continue reading Foundry shipping Nuke 6.0 And NukeX 6.0 |   
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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. [...]
What is the secret of convincing portraiture, whether done digitally or in traditional media or a mixture of the two? Find out in this feature [...]