Your Animation Art Could Be Our Cover!

Reel-Exchange.com and Digital Content Producer magazine are teaming up to promote Student Animators at Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles, August 12-14—and you and your work could be the cover of the July ‘08 Digtial Content Producer issue!

If you think your animation, CG, VFX, or Game art is up to the task follow these guidelines for submission: Click here for all of the info

LA JOLLA, CA – High‐end cartoon effects for video are no longer the exclusive domain of Hollywood big boys thanks to video special effects creator NewBlue, Inc. Now anyone using leading desktop video software can take advantage of this free plugin download to “toonup” live‐action video with NewBlue Cartoonr, the company’s fast, easy and free way to give scenes a cartoon look. Users seeking effects for Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Liquid, Adobe After Effects, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro, Canopus Edius, Pinnacle Studio and Ulead VideoStudio can download this free video effects plugin at http://www.newbluefx.com/cartoonr. more

World’s Stock Imagery Sales Leader Will Offer Industry’s Easiest Way to Purchase all Types of Multimedia Under One Account

CALGARY, Alberta, May 14, 2008 –Today, iStockphoto, the company that revolutionized the stock photography market by offering images online for prices as low as $1, announced it will add royalty-free audio tracks to its collection of downloadable stock content in September 2008. In so doing, iStockphoto will become the first company to offer stock imagery, video footage, vector illustrations, Flash files and audio for purchase under one payment model, on one convenient site. more

Click for a wink. Click again for a smile. Facial animation has never been simpler as DAZ 3D, a leading developer of professional quality 3D models and software, today announced the immediate availability of Mimic Pro for Carrara, a plug-in enabling seamless lip-synching, sound analysis and speech animation simulations directly within Carrara 6.2. Mimic Pro for Carrara provides an advanced environment for quickly creating facial animation sequences, such as winks, nods and smiles, allowing 3D characters to effortlessly obtain a greater level of expression. To learn more about DAZ 3D, Mimic Pro and Carrara 6.2, or to purchase, please visit http://www.daz3d.com/mimic. more

New Facility’s Services Include Stereoscopic DI and Post for Features and TV

BURBANK (May 12, 2008)—Responding to Hollywood’s growing demand for 3D production and post-production, Stereoscope has opened its doors to serve the creative community. Equipped with the new version of Quantel’s Pablo 4K color grading system, which can handle real-time stereoscopic post-production, the studio has been designed from the ground up to provide a full range of stereo3D digital content services, from development through distribution. more

Portland, Ore. – May 9, 2008 – CHIFOO (Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon), Oregon and Southwest Washington’s local SIGCHI chapter, and Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, Oregon and Southwest Washington’s local SIGGRAPH chapter, today announced that celebrated designer, author and researcher of human aspects of technology Bill Buxton will present “Design Thinking: Action and Ecosystem,” beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 11 at the World Trade Center Auditorium (Bridge Level) more

Free for existing Final Effects Complete 5.0 customers a new point release that includes; Blur Dissolve, Lens Wipe, Spherize Wipe, Griddler Wipe, Pin Wipe, Slant Wipe, and Rain Wipe

Marlborough, Ma – May 7 2008 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Final Effects Complete 5.0.1 for FxPlug (FEC 5 FxPlug) and Final Effects Complete 5.0.1 for AE (FEC 5 AE) are now available as free updates for FEC 5.0 customers. The 5.0.1 updates add seven new transitions as well as provide important improvements to the existing 108 FEC transitions. more

Don’t Miss Your Chance at a Free iPhone!

Reel-Exchange is giving away a 16GB Apple iPhone to a Reel-Exchange member that posts a reel or video to a published profile by June 30, 2008.

Current Members:

If you are a current Reel-Exchange member, log in and post a new or updated video to your profile and hit the “publish” icon to make your new profile live.

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Add support@reel-exchange.com to your safe sender list, and watch for a verification email. Click that link, modify your profile and upload your reel, then hit the “publish” icon in the upper right portion of the “Edit My Profile” page to make your page go live. more>>

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Original Music/Sound Design House Helps Promote Need For Mosquito Netting To Stop Spread of Malaria and the On-Going Darfur Crisis

(Top) From VH1’s Nothing But Nets PSA; (Bottom) from MTV’s Save Darfur PSA

NEW YORK, NY — Ear Goo Inc. (www.eargoo.com), the award-winning music and sound design company lead by Chief Creative Director Paul Goldman, lent its collective talent to two important PSAs currently airing – “Nothing But Nets,” an initiative to supply Africa with mosquito netting to help stop the spread of malaria, currently airing on VH1; and “Save Darfur,” an awareness campaign featuring a voiceover from Alicia Keys that brings to light the atrocities being committed against the women and children of the war torn region. more

New Three-Spot Package Cleverly Highlights Web Sites Superior Job Listings

HAVERFORD, PA - Looking to communicate their superior job listings for the Washington, D.C. area, Washington Post.com, the online version of the nationally renowned newspaper, and ad agency Adworks (http://www.adworks.com) Washington, DC, turned to Phasmatrope Studios (http://www.phasmatrope.com) and director Michael Wilde to produce a new hilarious three spot campaign. The new campaign began airing this week regionally Washington, DC area. more