Disney Animation Historian John Culhane Dies

August 4, 2015, 10:29 PM

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John Culhane, a Disney animation historian who penned numerous books, taught animation for many years and was caricaturized by animators in The Rescuers (Mr. Snoops) and Fantasia 2000 (Flying John in “Rhapsody in Blue”), has died at age 81. The studio stated that Culhane died Friday at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, due to complications of cardiac failure and Alzheimer’s disease.

FCG127 – 90 Cooking Shows (feat. Matt Goddard)

August 4, 2015, 10:29 PM

http://digitalcinemacafe.com/2015/08/04/fcg127-90-...

Managing Events in FCPX is an important task. When I met Matt at the FCPX Creative Summit I had no idea how this interview would go a month later. As you’ll see this completely organic conversation leads to an exploration of how Matt managed 90 Cooking shows with multiple assistants and one giant FCPX Library. Did he make the right media management decisions? Listen to this episode and find out.

Maxon Announces Cinema 4D 17

August 4, 2015, 10:28 PM

http://www.animationmagazine.net/tech-reviews/maxo...

MAXON has announced Cinema 4D Release 17, scheduled to ship in September for Mac OS X and Windows systems. This milestone release of the company’s cornerstone 3D animation, graphics, VFX, visualization and rendering software will be previewed at SIGGRAPH 2015 in L.A. (Aug. 11-13).

DreamWorks Animation Reports 2Q Losses of $38.6M

August 4, 2015, 10:28 PM

http://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-repor...

Still recovering from a period of layoffs and restructuring, DreamWorks Animation has reported a loss of $38.6 million in the second quarter.

favorite features in CC versions of After Effects:

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

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Maxon Releases Details on Cinema 4D Release 17

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/2015/08/maxon-releases-...

The new version of Cinema 4D, scheduled for release for Windows and OS X next month, will include the Take System, a new versioning system that handles scenes and manages variations in render layers and animation. Other new features include support … more » The post Maxon Releases Details on Cinema 4D Release 17 appeared first on Studio Daily.

Student filmmakers embrace Adobe Creative Cloud

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

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Each year, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) present the prestigious EDDIE Awards for the best-edited films in the business. To encourage young, up-and-coming editors, ACE also hosts an annual student film editing EDDIE competition. In 2015, two student editors, Aneesa Mahboob and Ben Stringfellow, used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit their films—and became two of the three competition finalists out of a pool of 100 students. Here, they talk about their experiences using Adobe video tools to cr...

Zoom F8 Overview

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

http://cinescopophilia.com/zoom-f8-overview/

With 8-mic preamps/10-track recording, super low-noise preamps, and support for 24-bit/192kHz audio, the F8 captures the highest-quality audio.

Premiere Digital Builds Future-Proof Transcoding W

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

https://news.creativecow.net/story/879478

(Nevada City, CALIFORNIA--August 4, 2015) Telestream®, the leading provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, today announced that Premiere Digital, one of the largest encoding and distribution service companies in the world, has purchased multiple Telestream Vantage media-processing systems running on GPU-accelerated Lightspeed Servers to replace its legacy encoding and transcoding systems and create a future-proof workflow.

"Southpaw": Sound Artists from Sony Pictures Post

August 4, 2015, 04:43 PM

https://news.creativecow.net/story/879477

(CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA--August 4, 2015) One of Hollywood’s most gifted action directors, Antoine Fuqua explores the rarified violence of the boxing ring in his latest film Southpaw, released this month by The Weinstein Company. The film traces the rise, fall and redemptive resurrection of Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), a talented but troubled fighter who grew up an orphan in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.