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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 12:12 am Post subject:
HOUDINI APPRENTICE ~ Product Info:
The Apprentice Program is an initiative designed to give creative professionals access to Houdini software to develop their animation and effects skills through the use of learning tools and a non-commercial version of the software.
This Apprentice Edition software lets you mimic a production setting, as files can be saved and projects can be rendered.
Houdini Apprentice Edition CD CONTENT details:
Thisis what you get with this Edition:-
Non Commercial Apprentice Edition software
full documentation
training materials such as video tutorials and pdf lessons.
Commercial Houdini 5.5.
FACTS & LIMITATIONS:
The Apprentice Edition is only for non-commercial use. You may use the software to complete real projects, such as demo reel content, as long as you are not making money from those projects
The Houdini Apprentice Edition CD contains an actual copy of Houdini 5.5 that becomes licensed for the Apprentice program.
The program has an indefinite lifespan.
Apprentice Edition will be licensed automatically when you launch the software.
Each license will last for 30 days at which time it will be automatically renewed.
You will require an internet connection every time you acquire a license.
The Apprentice Edition will restrict your renderings to 640x480 and will place an unobtrusive watermark on images saved out to standard image formats.
You can also render to the Houdini Apprentice pic format which does not use a watermark and can be used to test Houdini's compositing features.
Output from the compositor would then be rendered with the watermark in place.
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To find out more details Click this LinkDestination of link goes to the Side Effects ~ Houdini Apprentice Program page.
Alias|Wavefront Announces Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition:
Toronto, Canada, December 2, 2002: - Alias|Wavefront, an SGI company, will release the Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition starting December 2002. Alias|Wavefront is continuing its commitment to make Maya software accessible to everyone interested in learning digital content creation. Maya Personal Learning Edition, launched in February 2002, has had more than a quarter of a million downloads to date.
In response to requests from the Maya Personal Learning Edition community, substantial enhancements have been made to make Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition a more effective learning tool. The watermark is no longer visible when working in wire frame mode so users can concentrate on developing their modeling skills. Also with this new release, it is possible to import different data types, including files from the commercial version of Maya. This gives users access to the many Learning Tools from Alias|Wavefront as well as after-market books and the huge virtual Maya community on the web.
The experience of learning Maya is multi-lingual as Alias|Wavefront presents the Learning Maya | Beginner's Guide(tm) containing a one hour DVD learning guide, an introduction to Maya booklet and a Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition CD with English, French, German, Japanese and Korean language tracks. Also new in this version of Maya Personal Learning Edition is one-step documentation installation in either English or Japanese.
The Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition includes all new features found in Maya Complete 4.5 software, so users can experience the full power of the software. New modeling tools, Subdivision surfaces, integrated 3D Paint and numerous User Interface (UI) and workflow enhancements are a few of the features that Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition users can experience, for free.
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For program details & FAQ's please CLICK HERE
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For more information, visit Alias Wavefront
Film Gimp released for Macintosh OS X:
Berkeley, CA, December 10, 2002. Film Gimp, the most popular open source tool in feature motion picture work, has released its first Macintosh version. Film Gimp is now available for Mac OS X, Linux, and SGI Irix. Film Gimp is a frame-by-frame retouching tool used by motion picture studios as an alternative tool to Adobe Photoshop.
Film Gimp was used on the movies Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little, and other productions. It is typically used for removing dust or making other corrections to digitized motion picture footage. It supports 16-bit color depth (48-bit RGB), necessary for working with film. Film Gimp developers, many based at Hollywood studios, work on Film Gimp cooperatively, with the program and source code provided free to the public at SourceForge.net.
"Great to see a paint package on the Mac that supports high bit depth!" says Alan Boucek, lead compositor for the movie The Matrix. "Texture painters can't paint in 16-bit in Photoshop." Photoshop offers only limited 16-bit support. That many 8-bit features are disabled inconveniences motion picture texture painters. Film Gimp, traditionally a 16-bit retouching tool, is in the process of making feature enhancements to better accommodate texture painters.
For more program details and product specs, please CLICK HERE
Media 100 Launches Final Effects For Mac:
Marlboro, MA, December 5, 2002 . Media 100 Inc. has released Final Effects Complete for Mac OS X. Final Effects Complete is a dynamic and essential set of over 100 software plug-in filters and transitions that generates Hollywood-style special effects for film, video, animation, DVD and CD-ROM content. Final Effects Complete is a special effects toolkit for the large installed base of Media 100, Avid, Apple and Adobe non-linear editing customers.
"Final Effects was originally released in 1995 and today there are tens of thousands of installed base customers that use it regularly to produce spectacular special effects," said Mike Savello, vice president of corporate communications for Media 100. "With this announcement, Final Effects Complete is now the perfect complement to our recently released and highly acclaimed Media 100 i Version 8 software for Mac OS X. And for the first time, the Final Effects plug-ins can also be accessed directly from within Apple's Final Cut Pro, greatly broadening the market opportunity."
The heart of Final Effects Complete is its ability to generate full-featured two-dimensional and three-dimensional particle animations directly within digital media solutions such as the Company's own 844/X, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Boris RED and other applications supporting the After Effects plug-in interface standard.
These particle filters enable video editors to generate rain, snow, fire, smoke, ball action, explosions, distortions, jet trails, hair, liquid mercury distortions, spotlights, color transitions and other video effects that produce high-value results.
For more details and product info please CLICK HERE
Have fun
~SR
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