Pixar unveils features for RenderMan Pro Server 12
Pixar unveils features for RenderMan Pro Server 1206/02/2004 05:00 PM Pixar Animation Studios on Wednesday unveiled the feature list for its
forthcoming RenderMan Pro
Server 12 rendering software. New features include improvements to
3D "baking," improved volume rendering, performance optimizations and
memory reductions of to 30 percent for large scenes, improvements to
geometry including a new loop subdivision scheme.
Pixar unveils features for RenderMan Pro Server 12 (MacCentral)
Pixar unveils features for RenderMan Pro Server 12 (MacCentral)06/02/2004 06:16 PM MacCentral - Pixar Animation Studios on Wednesday unveiled the feature
list for its forthcoming RenderMan Pro Server 12 rendering software.
New features include improvements to 3D "baking," improved volume
rendering, performance optimizations and memory reductions of to 30
percent for large scenes, improvements to geometry including a new
loop subdivision scheme.
Excellent animation bl0g -- Cartoon Brew
Excellent animation bl0g -- Cartoon Brew08/27/2004 04:03 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
I can't believe I didn't know about Cartoon Brew until just now. It's
a blog maintained by animation insiders Amid Amidi and Jerry Beck.
Today's entry is a great interview with John Kricfalusi, who finished
up six new episodes of Ren & Stimpy for Spike TV.
[John Kricfalusi]:
Well I love extremes in different mediums. The extreme of a cartoon is
surrealism, that cartoons can do anything. A character can explode,
can fly into pieces and come back together, can have their heads blown
off, squash into a pancake, turn into an erection, I love all that
stuff. But that's not all I love. To me, if I make the character so
real, so believable, and then do wild stuff with it, it puts you in a
whole other world. It makes the weird stuff even more believable. Like
in STIMPY'S PREGNANT the whole opening, after the puke stuff's over,
turns into this realistic drama. Then when all the intensity is
released and Ren accepts that he's going to have the kid, it's all
happy and light-hearted. All the birds and squirrels show up, and then
it goes right into gags. So it's about contrast.
Universe 5.0: Venerable 3-D-Animation Software Adds Match Moving, Multiprocessor Support To Its Galaxy Of Features
Universe 5.0: Venerable 3-D-Animation Software Adds Match Moving, Multiprocessor Support To Its Galaxy Of Features03/19/2003 10:23 PM Electric Image's Universe 5.0 may not be the ultimate 3-D tool, but it
does provide an undeniably fast, efficient way for average users to do
the type of 3-D animation they do most often: propel ships through
outer space, position animated buildings and vehicles on a real-world
street, and make logos and graphics fly through commercials. (Macworld
via MyAppleMenu)
Proliferation of DVD players helping drive local animation market
It was brought to my attention today that Yahoo is copyrighting the
RSS feeds for those that are setting up Yahoo 360 accounts. Some are
already refusing to use the service because in a sense Yahoo now owns
your content.
This may be a oversight on Yahoo's part and I hope it is, I will
probaly use their service anyway but probably not the blog portion and
give them some time to answer these issues. [Yahoo
360 Copyrights Personal RSS Feeds]
Nanotechnology Film Wins Top Telly Animation Honors for DigiNovations and Boston Animation
Nanotechnology Film Wins Top Telly Animation Honors for DigiNovations and Boston Animation06/07/2004 02:59 AM Top award for video animation at the 2004 international Telly Awards
has gone to two Concord (Massachusetts) creative firms, working
together to create a film for MIT's exciting new nanotechnology
laboratory. DigiNovations' North Bridge Productions and Boston
Animation paired up to design and create the film, which shows the
work of MIT scientists and engineers at the molecular scale to create
exotic new materials and devices to protect U.S. soldiers. [PRWEB Jun
7, 2004]
This puzzle page
will be updated daily with new puzzles. On alternate weekdays they
will post anagram crosswords and Scrabble®gram type puzzles. On
Sundays they will post a crossword puzzle with straight clues. The
author Mohan Chunkath is a longtime crossword puzzle enthusiast and
Scrabble® player. He represented India in the World Scrabble®
Championships in 1999 and 2001. The site carries crosswords and
anagram puzzles of varying difficulty levels. This has been added to
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The first day of the RNC had interesting blogger moments - mostly
from outside of the convention, where both Liberal and Conservative
bloggers placed their attention. Much of the following information is
taken from Technorati's Politics
Attention Index™, a new feature on politics.technorati.com
where we watch the most authoritative bloggers following the US
Elections - both liberal
and conservativ
e, and track the stories they are monitoring, and in some cases,
breaking.
Conservatives happy with McCain and Giulani: Roger Simon, a blogger at the
convention, remarks, "John Kerry should take speech-making lessons from
John McCain. And if McCain is busy, he should try Giuliani." Blogs
for Bush's Mark Noonan wrote,
"tonight, for all practical purposes, the critics of the war have been
answered."
Bloggers claim another scalp? When asked about blogging's
effect on the political discourse in the United States, many people
point to the loss of Trent Lott's speakership as the first time
political webloggers kept a story alive and had a real effect on
inside-the-beltway actions. We now may be witnessing another story in
the same vein - that of the resignation of Rep. Ed Schrock, a two-term
Republican from Virginia's Second District, after pernicious reporting
from Blogactive. Daily
Kos presents an interesting<
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The Kerry sisters get boos at MTV AwardsThe Conservative
blogosphere was abuzz with links to the video clip of the Kerry sisters getting boos
and then "shushing" the
crowd.
Bloggers reporting from the convention hall A number of
credentialed RNC bloggers have been posting on their experiences at
the convention, akin to the DNC bloggers who wrote of the events that
occurred while at the convention itself. Ann Althouse reports on her day 1 experiences,
as do the folks at Wizbang!,
where they report on the issues in the
Blogger's Corner as well as an interesting run-in with Ari Fleischer
getting interviewed by the bloggers.
More highlights from Liberal Bloggers: Liberals were spending
a lot of time watching stories outside the convention. One item that
created a buzz in the Liberal
Politics Attention Index was a story in The Washington Monthly by bloggers Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rosen, and Paul Glastris,
the editor in chief of The Washington Monthly. In it they delve
deeper into the FBI investigation of Larry Franklin, a veteran Defense
Intelligence Agency Iran analyst. Juan Cole has additional commentary.
Yahoo Express Submit Changes With New Features10/25/2002 07:23 AM "...an online account manager that list all your sites that are listed
for renewal and says you can cancel 5 days prior to renewal date if
you don't want to renew."
Yahoo search includes RSS features02/18/2004 04:05 PM Jenny Levine points out that the new Yahoo search shows RSS URLs where
available and has links to add sites...
Dell Cutting Into Market For Blade Servers (Investor's Business Daily)
Dell Cutting Into Market For Blade Servers (Investor's Business Daily)08/05/2004 07:34 PM Investor's Business Daily - Aiming for a slice of its rivals' market
share, Dell Inc. plans to release soon what it calls its first serious
blade server line, with models it says will be the industry's first to
make the super-thin machines worth their hefty price tag.
Narrowstep to launch TELVOS™ Operating System and Narrowcast Shelly Palmer's daily video Blog from NAB
International Market Research Buyer's Guide Features SurveyWriter.com
International Market Research Buyer's Guide Features SurveyWriter.com08/19/2004 02:10 AM E-consultancy has released its new publication, Online Surveys - A
Buyer's Guide, and regards SurveyWriter as a leading market research
software solution in the UK. This 120-page guide, compiled by Tim
Macer who writes software reviews for Research Magazine and Quirks
Marketing Research Review, contains all you need to know about
successful online research and includes a five-page profile on
SurveyWriter.com. [PRWEB Aug 19, 2004]
BlogShares - Fantasy Blog Share Market12/03/2003 05:14 AM a fantasy market trading shares in weblogs .. BlogShares: Blog stock
market .. ¨ˆ ˆ¨ „§ ‡§ .. Blogipörssi .. related link ..
marketplace .. BlogShares! .. BlogShares .. Bloghsares .. listed ..
there
A good resource to discover the happenings at Yahoo Search. Also
lists a number of tricks to make your yahoo searching easier and more
productive.
New Security Features in ASP.NET 2.0
New Security Features in ASP.NET 2.007/08/2004 11:46 PM ASP.NET 2.0 builds on ASP.NET 1.x to enable you to more easily create
and manage users, and to password-protect pages in a Web application.
The new framework includes new features for working with
authentication and authorization, which were designed to appeal to
both Web site administrators and developers.
Web site administrators can take advantage of the new Web Site
Administration Tool to create new users and roles, and to control
access to pages in a Web application. The Web Site Administration Tool
is a set of prewritten ASP.NET pages that can be used by individuals
with no programming skills to configure a Web application.
Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched
Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched08/18/2004 08:05 PM Over the last couple of months, I've been helping some of the folks in
Yahoo! Search figure out how to start opening up, reaching out,
listening, and generally get more in touch with those outside of 701
First Ave in Sunnyvale, California. The first visible result of that
is the Yahoo! Search blog that we launched today. While it lives at
ysearchblog.com, you can also reach it via search.yahoo.com/blog if
you're so inclined. As you might expect, the first post...
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[John Kricfalusi]:
Well I love extremes in different mediums. The extreme of a cartoon is
surrealism, that cartoons can do anything. A character can explode,
can fly into pieces and come back together, can have their heads blown
off, squash into a pancake, turn into an erection, I love all that
stuff. But that's not all I love. To me, if I make the character so
real, so believable, and then do wild stuff with it, it puts you in a
whole other world. It makes the weird stuff even more believable. Like
in STIMPY'S PREGNANT the whole opening, after the puke stuff's over,
turns into this realistic drama. Then when all the intensity is
released and Ren accepts that he's going to have the kid, it's all
happy and light-hearted. All the birds and squirrels show up, and then
it goes right into gags. So it's about contrast.