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The Vanity: Uncompromising creativity on a deadline

Posted last week by Bill Ennis on Flame Premium can do that

We recently visited The Vanity, a Toronto-based post production company and Flame customer specializing in TV commercials. We talked with Naveen Srivastava and Sean Cochrane, Flame artists, co-owners and partners about how they meet tight deadlines without compromising creativity.

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Matt Estela now confirmed as guest speaker for Autodesk's Media & Entertainment Events in Melbourne | Sydney 2013

Posted last week by Con_Nicholas on ME@ANZ

Confirmed as one of the speakers is Matt Estela, the Lighting Lead from Animal Logic, Australia’s premier film, animation and visual effects studio. Fresh from working on “The Great Gatsby, Matt’s responsibilities cover the tricky terrain of combining complicated technical aspects with artistic and emotional notes. On a visually demanding film like “The Great Gatsby”, the complications are multiplied when you add in the elaborate world typical of Baz Luhrmann films.

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3ds Max and Stage Automation

Posted 6 May 2013 2:47 pm by Christopher Diggins on 3D SDK and Scripting Mayhem

Stage automation plays an important role in live entertainment events from music shows to Cirque du Soleil. What may come as a surprise is that thanks to a plug-in from Stage Technologies 3ds Max is playing an increasingly important role in designing, simulating, and visualizing live event automation.

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3dsMax2014: Features and Improvements you might have missed.

Posted 3 May 2013 1:31 pm by chrismmurray on Max Nation

This post covers all the new and improved features in the 2014 Release of 3dsmax.

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HOT TIPS: Ordering ConnectFX with Grid Snapping

Posted 3 May 2013 11:34 am by Ultimate_Smoker* on The Smoke Learning Blog

A very short hot tip showing you how to use the pixel grid and snapping to keep your node trees tidy. A useful practical tip.

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Autodesk Gameware User Summit 2013 Videos

Posted 2 May 2013 11:35 pm by p1ut0nium on Game On

Check out some new Gameware presentations from the Gameware User Summit in Seoul Korea.

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Scene Files from my Maya 2014 Unfold Presentation

Posted 30 April 2013 5:49 pm by Duncan Brinsmead on Duncan's Corner

As promised here are the scene files from my Unfold presentation along with some brief descriptions.

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Backburner 2014 download

Posted 30 April 2013 12:52 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

During some 3ds Max 2014 installs the Backburner 2014 option may be missing.

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Tools for Award Winners (And the Rest of Us Too) | Autodesk Media & Entertainment Events | Melbourne 3 June | Sydney 4 June |

Posted 29 April 2013 6:16 am by Con_Nicholas on ME@ANZ

SPECIAL EVENT: During this session, you will hear from two award winning Australian visual effects customers, Animal Logic and Fin Design, who will share their experiences in creating award winning high end effects for film and advertising using Autodesk creative software.

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More Paint Training - Painting on Alpha Channels with Smoke

Posted 26 April 2013 2:51 pm by Ultimate_Smoker* on The Smoke Learning Blog

Two new videos added to the paint training collection! Learn to paint on the alpha channel using either Desktop Paint or ConnectFX Paint. Downloadable media included!