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December 2011/January 2012 • Vol. 34 • Number 8 Innovations in visual computing for D C C professionals 10 Features Animation Evolution COVER STORY 10The comic-book series "Tintin" may be an old classic, but recently it has Magic Man 20 Martin Scorsese's 20 32 26 Dancing the Ice Away 42 Departments Editor's Note Stereo 3D: Visible Difference 2Stereo 3D fi lms are growing in popularity, and even though theaters Spotlight 4 News Third-quarter graphics shipments are up. Embedded graphics processors killing off IGPs. Products The Foundry's Katana 1.0. Dell's mobile workstations. Dassault Systemes' cloud services. Boxx's 3DBoxx 3970 Xtreme. Panasonic's TH-65VX300U plasma display. AMD's FirePro V4900. Imagineer/Boris FX's Motion Tracking for Editors. 48 Recent hardware and software releases. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Back Products xxxxxxxx x Look for CGW's VES Awards Supplement in January. Also, visit CGW.com for Web-exclusive features. SEE IT IN The Foundry's Ocula 3.0. December's takes a look at the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportuni- ties, and Threats relating to Audio, the Business of Post, New Media, Directors & Filmmaking, Stereo 3D, and Training. formed them using data captured from actors wearing head rigs that are part of a facial-capture system developed at the studio. See pg. 10. December 2011/January 2012 1 ON THE COVER Weta Digital created have spent a great deal of money preparing for this new medium, at times there just weren't enough 3D screens to accommodate the newest releases—a testament to the quality of the work being generated. 32 The year is nearly over, but the box offi ce is just beginning to heat up with 26 Animators from down under get their groove on, providing fancy footwork Road to Oscar for the computer-generated penguins appearing in . holiday tent-pole fi lms. Find out what our industry has to say about this year's visual effects and animated fi lms. 42 Mean Streets Expressionistic cinematography within an interactive, expansive environment where CG villains run amok and CG heroes try to restore law and order. one of the year's top games, incorporates German accomplished a number of fi rsts: the fi rst animated feature directed by Steven Spielberg, the fi rst animated feature produced by Peter Jackson, and the fi rst animated feature created by Weta Digital. biggest accomplishment is the way stereoscopic 3D is used to tell a moving period story. features a wide range of visual effects, but the s CG characters, and then per- By By By By T intin' Post Magazine By Barbara Rober tson Barbara Rober tson Barbara Rober tson Karen Moltenbrey Mar tin McEac hern Hugo Happy F eet T wo Batman: Arkham Cit y,