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news FX studios are game Twenty-three per cent of US effects and animation studios are working on interactive games, according to research firm Trendwatch. It shows the games market is growing strongly, as evidenced by the number of vendors allocating more resources for game development. BeArtist.com site debuts Cardsup Greetings, a multimedia company from Vancouver, has detailed the launch of BeArtist.com, a major online portal for illustrators and artists. Its aim is to become the single reference site artists will ever need if they want to know how to build a successful career by selling and publishing. Digital flicks are coming The world’s first digital cinema network has been given the greenlight in the UK by the Film Council, which has awarded the Arts Alliance Digital Cinema group the contract to build 250 digital cinema screens. The award, worth £11.5 million, will use HD screens to show movies. artsalliance.com 16 d Framestore CFC’s animation falls flat London-based Framestore CFC has completed work for car-maker Renault that features a 2D character called Hector, and follows his adventures in a 3D world. Taking six weeks to produce using Alias Maya, Hector’s Life is a 60-second spot needed the creation of two rigs: a 2D one, and a 3D rig for when an element of depth was needed. The shoot, which took place in Italy, was supervised for Framestore by Ben Cronin and Jake Mengers. Global illumination references were gathered by Mengers for the London team, and cut-out paper figures were shot on location in order to place the 3D Hector plausibly in situ. Further CG work was required for the creation of the dung beetle Oscar success for both Spider-man 2, Incredibles The 77th annual Academy Awards was held in the US in February, with the coveted Oscar statuette going to movies such as The Aviator (five gongs) and Clint Eastward’s Million Dollar Baby (Best Motion Picture). Yet, for all the red-carpet celebrity draw that the Oscar’s inspire, the creative industry was more interested in the winners of best visual effects and animated movies. Best Animated Feature Film of the Year went to Disney’s The Incredibles from Pixar, directed by Brad Bird, which beat Shark Tale and Shrek 2 to first place. In accepting his Oscar, Bird attributed “life” as the reason behind successful animation. The animated CG movie also scooped an Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Editing, winning over both Spider-man 2 and The Polar Express. Best Achievement in Visual Effects was won by Spider-man 2 (effects led by John Dykstra), which beat off challenges from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and I, Robot. Best Short Film, Animated, went to Chris Landreth’s Ryan. The Academy Awards, www.oscar.com (main image, above). The life-like bug was built, textured, rigged, and animated in two weeks in Maya by Dean Robinson, using a preserved beetle as a model. The spot was shot on film for later use in cinemas, and a further level of grain was added to enhance the look of the spot. Framestore CFC, www.framestore-cfc.com The adventures of Hector follow a 2D paper character on his adventures to find the ultimate in luxury – space. technology Is this the end for CRTs? The end is nigh for Barco’s place at the pinnacle of the creative monitor market. The company has called time on its long-standing CRT monitors for designers – the Personal Calibrator V and Reference Calibrator V – and even withdrawn the LCD display created to replace them, the Coloris Calibrator. A company spokesperson told Digit that the company was now only focussing on what it calls “professional markets”, such as medical imaging. Barco’s CRT displays are the last of the major brands for designers to enter what is called ‘end-of-life’ – where no more units are being manufactured but a limited number are still available through resellers. Recently, the demise of NEC-Mitsubishi’s 22-inch NF (Naturally Flat) tube has ended production on wellknown monitors such as the Diamond Pro 2070SB and LaCie’s Electron22blue. Last year, Sony ended both its 21-inch CRT range and the Trinitron tubes within them. There is still a demand for high-quality CRTs though, as the news has caused a run on the remaining stocks of Electron22blues, according to LaCie UK general manager, George Leptos. There is some confusion over what to replace them with. Some designers are happy with equivalently priced models, such as Apple’s 20-inch Cinema Display or LaCie’s Photon20vision II. The first high-end LCD display, Barco’s Coloris Calibrator was withdrawn due to the company being unable to secure TFT panels of consistent quality, according to Geoffrey Clements, managing director of Barco’s reseller into the creative market, TypeMaker.
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