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IPhone version
List of opportunities

64 bit Version for Mac OS X
– This version will work under Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.x, and under Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.x
– Stable work under Mac Os Snow Leopard 10.6.x
– Productivity increase by 2 times for interface "re-drawing" (when shifting from Carbon to Cocoa)

Export into network calendar ICal
– You can view the following drop-down menu in Assigned tasks
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– When choosing a menu item a http link for your assigned tasks calendar will be copied into your clipboard
– You will be able to download your calendar from Cerebro (it will be automatically updated) into Google calendar, ICal, Outlook! For e.g. in the Google calendar, please choose Add/ Add URL menu item and insert the copied link.

We’ve started work on implementation of non material resource planning
– This can be "cutting rooms", cameras, etc.
– CreatingTools/Administator… Resources
– Assigning resources in Task Properties

Mас OS X – Gantt chart also available!

Creating new tasks by drag and dropping files into navigator function restored.
In the Navigator menu, choose a spot in the project and drag and drop 10 files there, and you will be able to create a task with 10 files or 10 tasks with one of the files , the task name will be created out of the names of each of the files.

In the next version:
– The Gantt chart will take into account Saturdays and Sundays and work hours. You will be able to enable/disable these functions.
– An additional calendar mode for resource planning!
– Time/resource overlap identification

By CARRIE ANTLFINGER

source from: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/finan…/D9GDT4CG1.htm

MILWAUKEE
Scenes in the next "Transformers" movie will be shot at the Milwaukee Art Museum and an empty automotive site in the city, officials said Friday, despite the production not qualifying for Wisconsin’s scaled back film incentives.
Incentives have been dramatically curbed and interest in filming the state has waned since "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp, came to Wisconsin in 2008. The movie received $4.6 million in tax rebates and credits but only generated $5 million in economic activity, prompting state officials to replace a previous incentive plan and with a $500,000 annual grant program.
"Transformers 3" won’t qualify for the new grant program, but Film Wisconsin board president Dave Fantle, said director Michael Bay was drawn by something even more attractive to moviemakers: location, location, location.
"You really need something that is one of a kind where a producer or director says, ‘I can’t get this anywhere else or I can’t replicate this in a sound stage in Hollywood’ and that was the case with the art museum," Fantle said.
The movie is due in theaters next summer, which also is the 10th anniversary of the Milwaukee Art Museum: a white, winged structure designed by Santiago Calatrava along Lake Michigan that serves as the city’s symbol for tourism.
"Transformers 3" stars Shia LaBeouf, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and model Rosie Huntington-Whitely. Fantle said some of the film’s stars are expected in Milwaukee, but couldn’t say which ones.
The production will bring 150 crew members and actors to Milwaukee the week of July 12. Fantle could only say most of the filming would be done at the museum and the museum will not be used as a museum in the film. It will be shut down to the public for a day.
Bay also is going to film at the empty Tower Automotive site. Regarding that site, Fantle could only say pyrotechnics would be used. He also didn’t rule out more locations being used in the film.
Filming was not expected to be open to the public, but some local students are likely to be hired as production assistants. There’s also a June 26 audition for paid extras to be "trendy executive types."
The film will shoot around the world, including several weeks in Chicago.
VISIT Milwaukee president Paul Upchurch expects the production to bring $1 million to the Milwaukee area for salaries, hotels, food, fuel and equipment.
Art museum director Dan Keegan said past locations used in "Transformers" films, such as Hoover Dam and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Udvar Hazy Center, saw more visitors afterward.
"The film will give the venue worldwide exposure during our 10th year anniversary celebration of the Santiago Calatrava designed Quadracci Pavilion," he said in a statement.
Fantle noted Milwaukee also is a finalist for "American Idol" auditions. He expects final word to come Monday.

We have just opened a new forum where people can post paid work requests, and where users can bid on jobs and projects.

Take a look here:

http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/vfx-marketplace-f138.html

Paid requests can be anything from solutions to small problems that you dont have time to figure out, to larger jobs such as roto-cleanups, matte paintings, etc… to full on animation and compositing jobs!

We will promote this to the production companies in our database and to our indi filmmaker community, but feel free to use this at work as well as a quick way to get professional work done when you are on a deadline!

Jah

Cinema 4D Ultimate Learning System Volume 6 | MOGRAPH
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This video was created to help extend the tool sets of standard Cinema 4D artists to encompass one of the most popular software modules on the planet, Mograph and Modynamics. cmiVFX breaks down each tool one by one with fast and easy chapter references designed for even faster muscle memory. cmiVFX continues to deliver the training and content you need, quickly, efficient and affordably. When it comes to high end CG and VFX training, there is only once choice… cmiVFX! This video is available today at the cmiVFX store for a Special Introductory Price!

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The Cloner Object, Our New Best Friend
Take a look at the cloner object in each of its four different forms; examine the basic parameters and the way the cloner object creates its clones. The cloner object is one of the primary tools utilized in the Mograph module and can be integrated with every other tool within the module. Understanding its basic functions is crucial to working with and understanding the others.

Intro to Effectors
Take a broad look at each of the different effectors. Effectors are used to control and animate the position, scale and rotation parameters and can be used to control any object with an effectors tab (the majority of the Mograph objects). Their ability to control more than one object (multiple cloner objects for example) allows for extremely powerful and complex animation with very little set up.

Intro to Modynamics
A favorite aspect of the Mograph 2 module, Modynamics allows for complex rigid-body dynamic simulations that can be set-up instantly and adjusted infinitely. Modynamics can simulate from dominoes falling to glass shattering with unparalleled ease and speed. A breakdown of the basic setup and a couple of examples will get you on your way to creating phenomenal dynamics.

The Other Objects
Learn more about other objects including the Matrix, Text, Fracture, and Instance Objects. Explore the differences and similarities of the Matrix and Cloner objects as well as how to use them in tandem. Mograph’s Text Object is an incredibly powerful way to generate text which the spline text tool simply cannot contend with. The Fracture Object allows for animated (or dynamic) deconstruction and separation of polygonal objects and the instance objects is great for creating trails of objects.

Mograph’s Spline Tools
The spline tools offered by Mograph are examined briefly here with a basic overview of their creation and a couple of ideas for using them. They are extremely useful for creating splines from motion (creating spline trails from each vertex of a moving object for instance) or for generating organic and repetitive splines that can be cloned and even effected by forces or dynamics.

Mograph’s Deformation Tools
The deformation objects allow for extremely powerful deformations of any object. From the displace deformer, which creates visible (in the viewport) deformations based on shader channels to the spline wrap, which can align or stretch objects along a spline. These tools create very easy shortcuts to problems that would have needed to involve much more complex solutions otherwise.

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The full list of additions and bug fixes is listed below:

New Features
Options to turn on/off rendering of proxy objects, X-Ref scenes and particles;
Support for stereoscopic rendering with different preview types (anaglyph, interlaced, checker, dual-window);
Adaptive sampling support with the ability to stop the RT once noise has cleared to some level;

Feature Requests
Support for the offset parameters of the physical camera;
Support for mesh lights;
Support for VRayAmbientLight;
Support for bitmaps in the Gradient Ramp texture;
MaxScript callback when a frame is complete.

Bug Fixes
Different result when there is a missing map in the enviroment slot;
Errors when there is a Bitmap texture without a file name specified;
horizontal shift for physical camera not working properly;
Differences with the production renderer when texture filtering is "None" and "Blur" is other than 1.0;
Animation of materials and textures is not updated in the ActiveShade window;
Animation of physical camera properties (focus distance, focal length) is not updated in the ActiveShade window.