Craft / Upcoming Event
Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story

Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story

Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop), the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination for post-production and content creators, revealed its all-star list of guest speakers and panelists for Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story, a special one-day symposium for the creative community. “Building on the momentum of many successful events focusing on film editors, it seems a natural [...]

Media Biz / Article
Come Visit Us as We Record Our Take on NAB 2013
Tuesday, April 30th2013

Come Visit Us as We Record Our Take on NAB 2013

Tonight NYCPPNEWS gathers three journalists together as part of the kick-off to our Slow Take NAB 2013. We'll be posting the video later if you can't make it tonight to Showbiz Cafe...

Gear / Article
Adorama Hosts One Day “NAB Spin-off”
Tuesday, April 30th2013

Adorama Hosts One Day “NAB Spin-off”

B&H Photo has had a division that sells to the pro production and post industry for years now. Adorama must see room for another retailer, as they're launching this show, which seems centered mainly on cameras...

Craft / Product Review
Will MAXON’s Cineware Bring True 3D to Adobe?
Tuesday, April 23rd2013

Will MAXON’s Cineware Bring True 3D to Adobe?

Join Joe Herman as he takes an in-depth look at Cineware, the first fruit of MAXON and Adobe's exciting new technology that forms a direct pipeline between CINEMA 4D and After Effects. In addition, Joe shares his thoughts about CINEMA 4D Lite, a capable version of CINEMA 4D that will come free with the next version of After Effects.

Mark Schubin Delivers Entertaining Media History at Our March Event
Tuesday, April 2nd2013

Mark Schubin Delivers Entertaining Media History at Our March Event

Did you miss it? One of our largest crowds yet came to this past week's monthly In Person presentation by television engineer and opera historian extraordinaire Mark Schubin. Mark's talk spun us through over 90 entertaining minutes of intertwined opera and media history yielding new insights as to how the media of today came to be...

Don’t Miss Our Upcoming In-Person Event with Mr. Opera Tech Himself!
Saturday, March 23rd2013

Don’t Miss Our Upcoming In-Person Event with Mr. Opera Tech Himself!

Okay, maybe it's Mr. Mark Schubin to you, but to us he's Mr. Opera Tech, and his upcoming presentation this Tuesday, March 27th, will change everything you thought you knew about the history of modern motion media and how we got here!

Gear / Article
Create Web Comics with SmithMicro’s MotionArtist
Tuesday, March 19th2013

Create Web Comics with SmithMicro’s MotionArtist

Recently, I had a chance to check out SmithMicro’s MotionArtist app which you can use to easily create professional looking online comics, complete with animation and powered by the latest in HTML 5 code...

Craft / Article
Thursday, March 7th2013

How ILM Recreated New York for The Avengers

In this revealing video from ILM, we get a behind the scenes glimpse into how they recreated the area in and around New York's Grand Central Station for The Avengers.

People / Article
Wednesday, March 6th2013

Spike Lee Visits
Brooklyn College

The Brooklyn College website has an article covering Spike Lee's recent visit to the school as part of the presentation "Conversations on Race and Performance." The school's cinema program has garnered attention recently...

Craft / Article
Looking Back on Twenty Years of After Effects
Wednesday, February 27th2013

Looking Back on Twenty Years of After Effects

After Effects, one of the most important tools in every motion graphics artist and compositor's toolkit, turns twenty this year! In this article, Joe Herman looks back at his years with the innovative program which he has used practically from the beginning.