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	Speed Racer: Go Go Go Anime Bill Desowitz revs up Speed Racer with VFX Supervisors John Gaeta and Dan Glass along with Digital Domain, BUF, CafeFX, Evil Eye, Sony Pictures Imageworks and ILM...

Maya 2008 Character Modeling and Animation: NURBS Curves
In this third of six excerpts from Maya 2008 Character Modeling and Animation, author Tereza Flaxman provides an introduction to the two basic methods for creating and controlling NURBS curves...

Autodesk Discusses Realviz and Kynogon Acquisitions
Autodesk's SVP Marc Petit talks to Bill Desowitz exclusively about the strategy behind his company's recent acquisitions...

Iron Man: Armed and Animated
To make Iron Man fight and fly in a convincing suit of armor required a lot of creative and complicated CG work. Thomas J. McLean gets the scoop from ILM...

The 'Virtual' Rebirth of Cinema
Virtual filmmaking is energizing the industry and leading to a more creative climate for directors and other filmmakers, according to Robert C. Powers (Avatar, Tintin)...

Short Films with Big VFX
Janet Hetherington chats up three short films that make noteworthy use of VFX, including animated papers, a dancing column and a water man...

3ds Max 2009 Review: More Lighting, Rendering and Navigation
Ryan Lesser tests the new 3ds Max 2009 and is pleasantly surprised at how useful the new tools are, even for a humble game developer...

NAB2008: The Return of Stereoscopic 3-D
Bill Desowitz returns to Las Vegas to report on some of the highlights of the recent NAB2008, which elicited a lot of interest in 3-D technology and aesthetics...

Spielberg Thinkin' Lincoln After Tintin
It looks like Steven Spielberg's long gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic will follow his next picture, the motion-capture TINTIN feature, reports...

Witchblade Finds Its Way to Theaters
Platinum Studios, Top Cow Prods. and Arclight Films have combined forced to bring Top Cow comic WITCHBLADE to the big...

Madagascar 2 Goes Big on IMAX
IMAX Corp. and DreamWorks Animation SKG today announced an agreement to release MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA into IMAX theatres worldwide...

Stoltz, Toressani Enlist in Battlestar Prequel
Eric Stoltz and Alessandra Toressani have joined the cast of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA sequel CAPRICA, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER...

Verbinski to Direct BioShock Feature
2K Games announced today that it has reached an agreement with Universal Pictures to develop a feature film based on...

Nu Image/Millennium Films Acquires Buck Rogers
Nu Image/Millennium Films has picked up the film rights to BUCK ROGERS, reports VARIETY...

ABC Locates Two More Hours of Lost
Due to the writers strike, the current season of ABC's LOST will only feature 14 hours instead of the contracted...

Donnie Darko Sequel in the Works
British sales company Velvet Octopus will begin shooting a sequel to cult hit DONNIE DARKO on May 18th, reports SCREEN...

Marvel Super Hero Squad Coming to THQ
THQ Inc. and Marvel Ent., Inc. announced that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to create videogames based...

Revelation Comes to V for Vendetta Director
Director James McTeigue (V FOR VENDETTA) will take the reins of Inferno's thriller REVELATION, reports VARIETY...

Lionsgate Makes Deal with the Devil
Lionsgate has acquired screen rights to comic book DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, reports VARIETY...

Animation Smorgasbord at New York Comic Con

Janet Hetherington reports on juicy animation and vfx tidbits from New York Comic Con -- including X-Files 2, Hellboy 2, The Incredible Hulk, Wall•E, Prince Caspian and more.