Today Intel added eight new chips to its portfolio with the introduction of Comet Lake, a CPU family for energy-efficient lightweight notebooks. Based on the 14-nanometer Skylake architecture Intel launched back in 2015, the Comet Lake series is making its debut just a few weeks after the chipmaker unveiled Ice Lake, another CPU […]
YouTube Changes Copyright Monetization Policy
YouTube is changing its copyright enforcement policies around music to help create a healthier ecosystem for YouTube creators and rights holders. Copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via YouTube’s “Manual Claiming” tool. Instead, they may stop monetizing […]
DCC Web Round Up – July 2019
Is Netflix Overvalued? Netflix missed subscriber growth estimates in Q2, but Dilantha De Silva of Seeking Alpha argues that investors have many bigger problems to focus on. Citing the companies Debt to equity, quarterly cash expenditure on streaming content and new competition. Full Story YouTube Creators Looking for New Ways to Earn. Speaking to CNN Business […]
What Does It Take To Be An Oscar Nominee?
Interviewing the Animators In a time when animation is becoming more mainstream, when technology is breaking ground daily and talent is being heralded like it once was centuries ago; isn’t it interesting to see a medley of animators realizing their art? The Oscar Nominees for the 1998 Short Animated Film category […]
That Thing You Do – Welcoming Ken McGorry
Hello. I’m the guy from Post Magazine. You know, the monthly with all the coverage of effects for high-end feature films and commercials. One thing I’ve noticed over the years-and found increasingly exciting and challenging to write about is the migration to desktop post-production systems. But wait, the term “desktop” […]
Content Distribution – The Second Stage of Desktop Revolution
With all respect to highend system vendors, I see a massive trend bearing down like a freight train in the digital content creation market. So do most people I meet in the content creation arena. There’s the sense of awe, excitement, and yet trepidation that the way they’re doing business […]
Speeding Down the Highway to a Digital Era
Did you realize that 33 percent of all nonlinear editing done today is not bound for videotape? That’s right, and those figures are going to grow as Web streaming technology and bandwidth is improved. So, while we watch and are dazzled by the HDTV and digital television transformation, a more […]
Professional 3D Animation Software
The past 12 months have probably been the most agitated period in the history of 3D graphics and animation software. Competition between manufacturers has never been so fierce, with one company trying to outdo another in terms of performance and features. This “features war” has created a very interesting side […]
Silicon Grail Chalice Works Some Miracles
Creating visual effects without Chalice is like camping without a pocket knife. Inevitably, every visual effects project requires unplanned digital image manipulation, and Chalice provides the perfect environment in which to accomplish those tasks. Silicon Grail’s latest iteration of Chalice, version 1.6, takes great strides in increasing usability while maintaining […]
Alias|Wavefront Maya 2.0 Improves Functionality
The main concern for me as a Technical Director is always the final product. The last ten percent of production tends to become the deciding factor between a very good animation and a truly great one. Alias|Wavefront’s Maya Version 2 is a program that puts more power in the hands […]