No more Adobe CS, its Adobe Creative Cloud now...!

Adobe is making a major move into the cloud.
The company is on stage announcing the next big upgrade to its flagship digital editing tools, the Creative Suite, and The Next Web has just revealed that the new version will only be available through its online subscription service.
Adobe previously offered standalone editions of each product, which users could choose to keep or upgrade as new editions were released, but now the only way to receive updates to the product series will be to remain subscribed to the $49.99 per month service.

Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love

Tony DeRose wanders between rows at New York's Museum of Mathematics. In a brightly-colored button-up T-shirt that may be Pixar standard issue, he doesn't look like the stereotype of a scientist.

Why a Dreamworks animator left film for a game about a medieval mouse

Ghost of a Tale is a third-person action-adventure game set in a lush, but dark 3D world. It stars a tiny mouse in a medieval land filled with animals, and though smaller in scale, it's inspired by games like The Legend of Zelda, Dark Souls, and Ico.

Pixar sequel 'Finding Dory' set to hit theaters November 2015

Pixar is diving into its back catalog of beloved characters for a new movie set to hit theaters November 25, 2015. Finding Dory, the sequel to 2003's Oscar-winning Finding Nemo, will center on the loquacious, memory-deficient Blue Tang fish supporting character voiced by Ellen DeGeneres. The story will focus on reuniting Dory, who was seen swimming alone in the original film, with her loved ones. DeGeneres will return as the voice of Dory and Andrew Stanton will resume directing duties. Albert Brooks was previously confirmed back onboard, too, reprising his role as the voice of Marlin.

Scientists Generate Electricity Using Human Brain!

The topic is as interesting as the title. After decades of effort, Scientists have devised a way to generate electricity from brain. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an implantable fuel cell that can generate electricity from a fluid around the brain (cerebrospinal fluid). The result of the experiment was a success since it produced a few hundred microwatts of power from glucose within the cerebrospinal fluid. No adverse physiological effects have been reported so far. This small amount of generated power is of course not enough to run a small fan or any small appliance. But the inventors are not thinking of utilizing this energy to power the appliances. Instead, scientists have planned to make use of this energy in bio-medical field. The amount of electricity produced is enough to power the latest, futuristic and highly efficient brain implants that can help the paralyzed patients to move their limbs.

LEARN FROM the Masters: Pixar's Magical New Short

This sneak peek at Pixar's latest animated short, The Blue Umbrella, will make you fall instantly in love with a couple of brollies.... 

http://youtu.be/lVFNRrL79w0  

85th Academy Awards: 'Life of Pi' gets 11 Oscar Nominations

Hollywood filmmaker Ang Lee, whose India-centric movie 'Life of Pi' opened to hugely positive response,
was nominated in 11 categories for the 85th Academy Awards.

[MUST WATCH] Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of 'The Avengers'

25 (Free) 3D Modeling Applications You Should Not Miss

Technically, 3 Dimensions refers to objects that are constructed on three plans (X, Y and Z). The process of creating 3D graphics can be divided into three basic phases: 3D modeling, 3D animation and 3D rendering. 

Three dimensional (3D) computer graphics are widely used and they are almost too common to see anywhere, let it be movies, products designs, advertisements, etc. Although they are commonly seen, that doesn’t mean they are easily created. In order to interactively control a 3D object, it must be created in a 3D authoring tool which usually cost a lot to a non-professional user. 

A World Away: John Carter - MAKING

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ early 1900s tales of a fictional Mars (known as Barsoom) have been brought to the screen with modern day visual effects in John Carter. The film, directed by Pixar’s Andrew Stanton, sees the titular Civil War character, played by Taylor Kitsch, transported to the red planet where he meets the nine feet tall Tharks and all manner of civilizations. Visual effects artists from Double Negative, Cinesite, MPC, Nvisible, Legacy Effects and Halon Entertainment all collaborated on the alien world and its inhabitants.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Benchmarked In Quad SLI

What’s better than a top-of-the-line graphic card for a rabid PC gamer? Try four strapped int to the same motherboard and running in tandem. This sort of thing’s been possible for quite a while (for those with the cash for compatible hardware and power bills) but it’s always fun to see the latest and greatest pushed to the maximum levels of performance. So it is with NVIDIA’s brand new GeForce GTX 680, the company’s latest in ultra-powered GPU excess. Hardware.Info strapped four GTX 680s into a quad-SLI motherboard and let the benchmarks fly.

 

Nvidia Officially Announces GTX 680

Today, Nvidia takes the wraps off Kepler, its next-generation GPU, and quite possibly the greatest step forward for graphics processing since it unveiled the G80 in November 2006. The first desktop card out of the gate is the GTX 680. Unlike the 5xx series, which were based on a refined version of the Fermi architecture Nvidia debuted back in 2010, Kepler uses a new GK104 GPU — and its design is a sharp departure from Nvidia’s previous architectures.

Around The World In Six Ads

Nissan Juke, ‘Built to Thrill’ – Mikros Image

Building a skydiving car looks surprisingly easily in this Nissan Juke TVC directed by Lieven Van Baelen, with visual effects by Mikros Image. At Mikros, Christophe Huchet was VFX producer, with Antoine Carlon and Laurent Creusot acting as VFX shooting supervisors as well as CG lead and 2D/Flame artist, respectively. We talk to the studio about the ad’s main challenges.

HUGO: A Study of Modern Inventive Visual Effects

 

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo tells the story of an orphan living in a 1930s Paris train station. But it is also a story of the birth of cinema and the film itself used a wide range of inventive solutions to both tell its tale and pay homage to the earliest masters of cinema. To help bring Hugo to life, Scorsese called on long-time collaborator Rob Legato as the film’s visual effects supervisor. “The whole film really is celebrating persistence of vision,” says Legato, “and what it meant to early filmmakers, and the film is so rich with homage and appreciate of that.”

Infrared Tracking: Ingenious Innovation For WWF

The Ambassadors in Amsterdam have just finished work on a beautiful non-profit spot for the World Wildlife Fund. Their R&D team ‘The LAB’ made an innovative tracking tool for precise on-the-set object and camera tracking. They tracked a supermodel’s body using infrared tracking markers in a dual Phantom camera rig.

60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites

3D models represent a 3D object using a collection of points in 3D space, connected by various geometric entities. A free 3D model definitely can save your budget and deadline. On average, a modeler saves over 2 hours of modeling time when they could get a free 3D model.

Age Progression - Photoshop Tutorial

Here’s a little tutorial showing you how basically go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.

Making of Rango: Some Facts & Chit Cat

First for some vital statistics…

Total shots in film: 1,547

Total shots featuring Rango: 1,068

Total animation shots: 1,528

Animation man-hours: 79,724

Rate of animation: Two weeks for five seconds

Longest shot: 1,505 frames

Shots per night: 350 at peak

Render time: 120 million hours (13,670 years)

Kodak bBows Out of Camera Business

The Eastman Kodak Company, better known simply as Kodak, has announced that they will not be making cameras anymore, bringing an era that lasted a 124 years to an end. The company responsible for the invention for the roll film, which played an instrumental role in movie making, is having a hard time financially and this latest decision is the result of that.

Why Just 2 Sec's of Transformers 2 - Took 3 Months to Complete

About six months ago, Michael Bay approached Digital Domain, the Academy Award winning special effects company behind movies like Benjamin Button, Titanic , and the The Fifth Element, with a last minute request. He needed a closeup.