Archive for August 7th, 2007

Schneider Optics is pleased to welcome Ryan Avery as Los Angeles-based Regional Sales Representative for Schneider Photo/Video Group products including: Schneider MPTV filters, Century lens accessories, B+W filters, and large format photographic lenses.
Avery brings with him a strong library of knowledge of the photo world, developed during his experience working with professional photographic dealers. “His understanding of large format lenses and filters, as well as his experience with video products, will be an asset to our professional clients,” says Barry Rubin, Schneider Optics Director of Sales & Marketing. more

Now K-Tek offers the Avalon Traveler in muted red or blue anodized aluminum tubing – the only colored professional boom poles on the market.
With their distinctive hues, these attractive poles are an excellent way to differentiate different work crews, or to distinguish a kit and keep it apart from others in the field. And the new colored Travelers are not just pleasing to the eye. Against a background such as a blue sky, or a brick building, they blend more fully into the scene than traditional black boom poles, becoming a subtler, less conspicuous presence in the background. more

Band Pro Film & Digital has delivered Clairmont Camera‘s first six new Sony F23 CineAlta™ cameras. One of the most well-respected rental houses in the industry, Clairmont has offices in Hollywood, Toronto and Vancouver and is renowned for its extensive range of cameras, lenses, and accessories. Clairmont expects to increase its F23 inventory again soon.

According to owner Denny Clairmont, “Until the F23 came along, cameras in the 2/3-inch chip world were designed very much like ENG digital cameras. The Sony F23 has been designed more

Valley Cottage, NY, August 7, 2007 –Camera Dynamics Inc., part of The Vitec Group, industry leader in camera support systems and accessories, announces a financing partnership with National City Media Finance, a division of National City Commercial Capital Company, LLC (NC4), to provide equipment financing to the broadcast and media industries.

This innovative program is customized for the Camera Dynamics brands: Vinten, Vinten Radamec, Sachtler, OConnor, Petrol, and Autoscript. It is available to accommodate a range of more

Vinten Radamec, a Vitec Group brand and leading provider of robotic broadcast systems, announces the availability of the FBH-175 Fusion Bolt-On Height Drive, designed to provide robotic control of the manual height mechanisms of the Vinten Osprey Elite and Pro Ped pedestals, as well as the Sachtler Combi Ped.
With a maximum payload of 175 lbs, the FBH-175 easily supports Vinten Radamec Fusion robotic heads and professional portable video cameras, lenses and prompters. The system provides up to 35.4 inches of vertical travel with broadcast-quality and on-shot smoothness at more

SAN DIEGO (SIGGRAPH Booth #1249) Aug. 7, 2007 – Sony and mental images are announcing a joint project that will allow the Academy Award® winning mental ray® high-end rendering software to operate with Sony‘s new prototype Cell Computing Board in a range of visualization workflows that feature Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) technology.
The Cell/B.E. is a high-performance microprocessor jointly developed by Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toshiba Corporation, and IBM Corporation. The technology‘s innovative architecture is particularly well-suited for highly parallelized, compute-intensive tasks. more

Searchable Library Offers Unlimited Access to High Resolution Videos on Wide Variety of 3D Topics

San Diego — Aug. 7, 2007 — Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced Luxology TV, an innovative new online hub that allows the 3D community to exchange and view high resolution video clips on Luxology‘s website. Luxology TV enables anyone to enhance their 3D learning experience by searching, selecting and immediately watching videos on a variety of subjects such as modeling, rendering, painting and sculpting. more

Allows MMO, AAA and Casual Game Developers to Produce High-quality Texture Assets Faster Generating File Sizes that are 500-1000 Times Smaller than Regular Textures

San Diego — Aug. 7, 2007 — Allegorithmic, an emerging 3D technology company developing advanced texturing tools for real-time 3D content, today announced ProFX 2.6, the newest version of its patented procedural texturing middleware. Featuring a newly optimized core that runs faster and on a wider range of machines (starting with Pixel Shader 2.0), ProFX 2.6 is the only middleware that allows game developers to professionally author and render high-quality procedural textures. more

Includes Tools for Lens Distort, Stereo Image Stacking, Frequency Blur, Spherical Distort and Digital Camera Noise

San Diego, CA – SIGGRAPH 2007, Booth #1720 (August 7, 2007)-The software division of award-winning visual effects studio Frantic Films today announced the release of Awake, a plug-in pack for eyeon Software’s Fusion 5. Awake includes six powerful plug-ins: Lens Distort, Stereo Image Stacking, Stereo Image Unstacking, Frequency Blur, Spherical Distort, and Digital Camera Noise. Awake will be demonstrated at the eyeon Software booth, Booth #815 and at the Frantic Films booth, Booth #1720 at this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference from August 7-9, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. more

New Production-Proven High-Volume Particle Renderer for Autodesk 3ds Max Now Commercial Available

San Diego, CA – SIGGRAPH 2007, Booth#1720 (August 7, 2007)-The software division of award-winning visual effects studio Frantic Films today announced the commercial release of Krakatoa, the company’s high-volume point-based particle rendering, manipulation and management toolkit. Available as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max running on Windows, the software enables VFX artists to create dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects, all at unprecedented speeds. Krakatoa will be demonstrated at the Frantic Films booth, #1720, throughout the SIGGRAPH conference August 5-9, 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. more