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Canon announces the EOS 20D New professional digital SLR boasts 8.2 megapixel resolution and high speed action shooting modes |
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More Siggraph news News on some of the big players from this year’s Siggraph conference |
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Macromedia launches flash video kit New and upgrading Studio MX users get extra tools to add video to their sites |
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Cinema 4D hits version 9 German 4D group upgrades product line and adds 100 new functions |
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Siggraph exhibitors want 3-Democracy Companies look to cut prices and complexity before 3-D industry “explodes” |
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3DS MAX 7 unveiled Discreet announce the release of 3D Studio Max 7 incorporating new versions of Character Studio and the Mental Ray renderer |
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Nokia shorts call for entries Nokia sponsored short film festival call for short films viewable on mobile phones |
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Maxon launches Modelbank’s Maxon Marketplace Cinema 4D publisher, Maxon and Digimation have joined forces to create an online Marketplace for users of its software to buy and sell 3D content. |
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Ds Emotion launches Franz Ferdinand web presence Mercury Music prize nominated Franz Ferdinand have created a new website designed by London agency Ds Emotion |
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Brand new plant collection for Vue d’Esprit 10 new plant species available for e-on software’s natural environment software and absolutely free. |
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Macromedia unveils web content package Web design software giant unveils its Web Publishing System for designers and small business users. |
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New educational prices for Quark Xpress Massive discounts on Quark Xpress for students and teachers |
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Electric Rain launches Swift 3D 4 3D to Vector specialist Electric Rain has updated its product line through the release of version 4 of Swift 3D |
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D&AD STUDENT AWARDS 2004 The winners have been announced. But with such high entry standards the D&AD judging panel had a tough job choosing just one winner |
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Pete Fowler creates new animation for Kia advert Illustrator and designer Pete Fowler, best known for his work with the Super Furry Animals and his Monsterism.net Website, has animated an advert for Kia's new Picanto range. |
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Ark Muse Video up for Soho Shorts Award Visual Effects specialist’s work shortlisted from 18,000 entries |
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Apple launches 30-inch Cinema display Apple has refreshed its range of flat panel monitors with the release of its 30-inch Apple Cinema HD widescreen display featuring 2560 by 1600 pixel resolution. |
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BBC launches Motion Gallery Thousands of hours of footage from the BBC's archives available online |
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DAZ Productions Acquires Bryce from Corel DAZ Productions and Corel have announced that DAZ has acquired Bryce, Corel's 3D landscaping and animation package. |
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Apple launches new Power Mac G5s Every model to feature a powerful dual 64-bit processor |
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3Dlabs unleashes Wildcat Realizm 800 Graphics card manufacturer 3Dlabs has announced the launch of its latest incarnation of the Wildcat graphics board. |
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Fresh - An exhibition of artist and illustrators’ prints, paintings and drawings Bristol's newest gallery Soma opens with a 'Fresh' exhibition |
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Softimage releases SOFTIMAGE XSI 4 Softimage's latest release of XSI offers closer integration with Avid's video products |
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The Plugin Site releases version 2.0 of ColorWasher The Plugin Site has released Version 2.0 of ColorWasher, a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for correcting the colours, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos. |
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Daniel Brown wins coveted designer of the year prize Daniel Brown, the multimedia designer responsible for the Shockwave 3D playground noodlebox and play-create.com has won this year’s £25,000 Designer of the year award. |
Quicktime 7
QuickTime updates don’t usually get us that excited. But the inclusion of the H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 has us drooling as it’s the one the PSP uses for movies. Stick your showreel on a big memory card and put it on a PSP – that’s progress!
Canon EOS 350D
Canon’s pro-am SLR gets even better, now with an 8 megapixel sensor and new features previously only found on much more expensive models, including three focus modes, monochrome mode and faster memory card writing.
Annoying Apple
Jobs and co have sparked ire for getting heavy-handed with a student who put the latest OSX update online, so much so that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out and offered him $1,000 towards his defence.
Drunkenblog.com
Loonatics
“Hey, let’s take the Looney Toons characters and re-imagine them as angular, edgy superhero types in the year 2772 for today’s teen demographic!” No, really, we’re sure it’ll be at least as wonderful as Scrappy Doo.
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