As Asia Image gears up for its annual presentation of the Apollo Awards - the region's premier technical and craft awards program for - we talk to the three Co-Chairpersons who preside over the program's jury panel.... Read More
UK: Imagineer Systems, provider of VFX tools has released mocha, a standalone tracking station which leverages on Imagineer’s 2.5D planar tracking technology for tracking and rotoscoping workflows. mocha’s proprietary Planar Tracking System enables generation of corner-pins as well as...... Read More
Canada: GridIron Software has started shipping Nucleo Pro 2, an upgrade to the Adobe After Effects workflow to maximize multi-processor computer terminals. Its new features include 3D rendering applications Background Render Queue and Pre-Composition Proxies. Nucleo Pro 2 supports...... Read More
Canada: Matrox Video Products Group has released software version 3.0 for the Matrox RT.X2 realtime editing platform. The Matrox RT.X2 3.0 provides support for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software as well as...... Read More
USA: Digital Anarchy, provider of graphics software, has released Primatte Chromakey 3.0 for Photoshop. Primatte Chromakey is a green/blue screen solution for photography for use with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Primatte removes a blue/green background from a still...... Read More
Germany: IRIDAS has introduced RAW file support for real-time de-Bayering of ARRI D20 digital camera footage. The ARRI RAW file format offers 3K resolution and 12-bit color depth and can be played directly in FrameCycler and SpeedGrade with the...... Read More
India/USA: Mumbai and Los Angeles-based animation and VFX studio Rhythm & Hues will set up its third production facility in HiTec City in Madhapur, Hyderabad, India, to be operational in November 2007. The 25,000 sq. ft. facility will be...... Read More
The Toyota Camry is a car that intuitively reads the road. This is the message that the creatives at Sydney-based Publicis Mojo want viewers to read, once they get past the alphabet-soup of a world created digitally by the...... Read More
Need a couple hundred thousand extras for that climactic sequence in your movie? No problem. Danny Chan talks to Stephen Regelous, founder and product manager of Massive Software, a New Zealand based company that develops its namesake 3D animation...... Read More
Superimposing a foreground captured by one camera onto a background from another dates back to film days, but has come a long way since. Richard Dean reports... Read More
Ever wondered what it’s like to create sci-fi characters for an animated television series based on the uber successful Star Wars franchise? That’s exactly what the folks at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore have been up to since its inception last...... Read More
The Apollo Awards is an initiative aimed at honouring the best in production and post-production across Asia Pacific, with a strong focus on the creative and technical mastery behind the scenes.
Awards Ceremony: 24 May 2017 The Venue: Suntec, Singapore