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Creative Plug-ins for Power Users 

By Franklin McMahon

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My Post House: Sunrise Pictures 

Taylor Warren is the owner of Sunrise Pictures, a Telly Award-winning post house based in Middletown, Conn. He has been in the film industry for 19 years, and has worked on everything from feature films and documentaries to corporate projects...

Riding the CG Wave 

By Ellen Wolff

One of the most challenging assignments in visual effects is simulating photoreal CG water on a large scale. It was only two years ago that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards to the software brainiacs behind water simulation...

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It's been a while since the last official update to Cinema 4D, and make no mistake, Maxon has been working pretty hard to stuff this latest version with all kinds of high-end creative tools...

Adobe After Effects CS5 Review 

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Deep Facial 

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A Digital Zoo 

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You can see it in the jiggling skin on a hairless cat, or the bristling fur of a menacing wolf. It's state-of-the-art animal animation, as practiced by Tippett Studio in Berkeley, Calif...

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