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Stereobank.com announced Super Slow Motion 3D footageSterobank.com, the leading S3D stock footage marketplace, announced today that the biggest catalogue of 3D stock shots is hitting a strategic milestone by adding its latest series of Super Slow Motion 3D footage. With 1,000+ premium S3D indexed clips and tens of hours of creative footage, Stereobank confirms being the essential partner for producers and post-production companies looking for genuine 3D footage to complete their 3D projects in HD, 2k and even 4K definition.

Next Generation Simplifies Character Animation, Adds Stereographic Capabilities and Physical Rendering.

MAXON Unveils CINEMA 4D Release 13MAXON announced CINEMA 4D Release 13, the next generation of its industry- leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. With all new character tools, integrated stereographic capabilities, stream-lined multi-artist collaboration and physical rendering, CINEMA 4D Release 13 builds on the company’s 25-year legacy of enabling digital content creators around the world to produce highly engaging content quickly and easily for a variety of industries.

Grace & Wild Studios Provides Stereoscopic 3D Momentum For Ford Fleet Event

On June 21, 2011, more than 800 Ford Fleet clients arrived at the Detroit Film Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts and donned their 3D glasses, not knowing what to expect. They were immediately captivated as Ford Fleet kicked off its annual Product and Business Conference with a high-energy, cutting-edge stereoscopic 3D presentation featuring the combined creative and technical genius of Farmington Hills–based Grace & Wild Studios' CGI/VFX team.

Jackson-Dawson of Dearborn, the agency tasked with producing and coordinating the annual two-day event, contacted Grace & Wild as soon as it recognized the need for stereoscopic 3D in support of the meeting's theme—Momentum. In three weeks time, the Grace & Wild team transformed hours of vehicle footage, news clips, interviews, and graphic images into a fast-paced, in-your-face 3D montage underscoring Ford's leadership in the areas of fuel-economy, safety, and technology.

As creative director at Grace & Wild, Brent Feeman oversaw the creative process to ensure that it met and even surpassed client expectations. In what he describes as a very fluid process, Feeman says, "Jackson-Dawson afforded us the opportunity to collaborate on ideas right from the beginning. While this open creative process probably made for a tighter timeline during some rather complicated back-end rendering, the finished piece was better as a result."

"When you pitch the latest in 3D, you'd love to deliver the next Avatar," explains Mitch Jacobs, Executive Creative Director at Jackson-Dawson. "But the reality is, you're creating within a corporate meeting budget and schedule. That's where Grace & Wild excels by offering a blend of creativity, technology, discipline, and teamwork that enables them to deliver the best a medium offers within very tight parameters. They even managed to squeeze in time at the end to improve on what we all thought was perfection."

The completed video may have been a brief two-and-a half minutes long, but it delivered exactly the right blend of power and momentum to kick off the Ford Fleet two-day event and ensure that attendees were focused on One Team…One Plan…One Goal…One Ford.

Tweak's RV Streamlines Stereo 3D VFX Collaboration and Reviews for Industrial Light & Magic on 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon'

Tweak's RV Streamlines Stereo 3D VFX Collaboration and Reviews for Industrial Light & Magic on 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon'

Tweak Software's RV, used by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as its image and sequence viewer of choice, helped the company streamline stereo 3D visual effects reviews on the summer blockbuster Transformers 3. RV enabled stereo dailies review, collaborative reviews between its Singapore and San Francisco studios, and remote stereo reviews by director Michael Bay in Los Angeles.

IMAX Adds New Installment of the Spider-Man Motion Picture Franchise to Its 2012 Film Slate

The Amazing Spider-Man in IMAXIMAX Corporation, and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that the highly anticipated 3D action-adventure, The Amazing Spider-Man, will be released to IMAX(R) theatres simultaneously with the film's worldwide release on July 3, 2012. To date, the Spider-Man motion picture franchise has generated more than $2.5 billion in worldwide box office receipts. The last two installments of the franchise were also released in IMAX.