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April/May 2012 • Volume 35 • Number 3 Innovations in visual computing for D C C professionals 12 18 Framestore teams with Blitz Games to achieve hours of real-time animation for a cutting-edge streamed application. By Karen Moltenbrey SPECIAL SECTION 18 36 4 2FMX, Europe's conference on animation, VFX, gaming, and interactive Spotlight Departments Editor's Note FMX: An Industry Must media, has evolved over the years into one of the leading industry trade shows, attracting top-level attendees and presenters. Q4 2011 graphics shipments and the period ahead. Khronos releases OpenCL 1.2 spec. User Focus Digital Domain creates photoreal CG for Cisco TV spot. Products HP's Z workstations. OptiTrack's Flex 13. Luxology's Modo 601. Wacom's Intuos5. The Foundry's Hiero. Autodesk's 2013 software, suites. Pixologic's ZBrush 4R3. Side Effects' Houdini 12. Boxx's 3DBoxx 8920. iPi Soft's iPi Motion Capture 2.0. Eyeon's Dimension. Unity's 3.5. News Workstation market growth slow but steady for Q4 2011. 47 Recent hardware and software releases. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Back Products xxxxxxx x Visit CGW.com for Web-exclusive features, news, and more. A look at 24 38 24 Motion capture has taken hold of the industry like never before, even fi ltering Motion-Capture Mania into the mainstream. Here we look at recent innovations by mocap vendors and by those who use the technology. 32 Adobe continues its quest to stay on the forefront, unveiling its cloud- Visual Effects, One Frame at a Time By Barbara Robertson Business Evolution computing and subscription plans as a way to do that. By Kathleen Maher 38 Athena, artifi cial intelligence devised by Allen Bolden of Bit Theory, helps SEE IT IN 36 Andrew Morley lends his CG/VFX expertise to Aardman's latest creation, Transforming Computer Graphics the stop-motion feature The Pirates! Band of Misfi ts. By Barbara Robertson produce effects for some big-name movies. By David Cohn • Pros talk about their career path. • On-set post: The line continues to blur between production and post. • Big sounds on the small screen. • Andrew Stanton on John Carter. From animation to shot planning, motion capture is a vital tool for any studio. For the feature fi lm Battleship, Industrial Light & Magic used its iMocap system to capture the performance of stunt actors for the large aliens in the movie. See pages 12 (Battleship) and 24 (motion capture), respectively. ON THE COVER April/May 2012 1 12ILM develops a new fl uid-simulation system to handle the digital water in the New Coke Classic Features Water World feature fi lm Battleship. By Barbara Robertson