DesignCentre posted nice collection of photos showing Cannes Film Festival now and 40 years ago.

Full story: DesignCentre

Guys at Northeastern University made interesting device which, as they say,  "has the ability to track the position of a user's hand in three dimensions. Physical contact is not required and the user does not need to hold a controller or attach markers to their body. To control the device, the user simply waves their hand above it in the air."

Pretty interesting !

Source: http://vimeo.com/4366452

Finally some sport template for After Effects landed in our store - AE_Project_0025. Enjoy!

New After Effects scene just arrived to the store - number 24. Have fun 

Today, I release After Effects HD Template number 23 hoping you'll like it same way as previous projects.

Source and full story: Vancouver Sun

Pixar Animation, one of the world’s leading computer animators and a multi-Academy Award winning studio, will build a 20,000-square-foot facility in Vancouver to produce its popular short features.

Walt Disney Studios, with whom Pixar merged in 2006, is scouting locations in the city, concentrating on the downtown area. It hopes to have the new studio up and running by this fall.

The studio will hire 75 to 100 people, most of them Canadians, and will make all of Pixar’s three-dimensional, computer-animated short films, which usually run three to five minutes. All Pixar theatrical features will continue to be made at its main studio in Emeryville, Calif., which employs almost 900.

Amir Nasrabadi, who will run the Vancouver operation as studio general manager, said Vancouver was attractive to Pixar for a number of reasons. It’s an English-speaking city in the same time zone as Los Angeles; the B.C. production tax credits are attractive to an American company; and the city, with its numerous animation studios and quality schools, is a good source of talent.

“There’s a huge, very robust, and mature talent pool in Vancouver that we’d like to tap into and continue to develop,” Nasrabadi said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he has been vice-president of operations and finance for DisneyToon Studios, a direct-to-DVD studio.

“I don’t have a particular number [of employees] in mind, but I can say the majority will be locals.”

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Pixar+open+Vancouver+studio/1574458/story.html

I remember Steve Jobs saying that Kindle doesn't have any future because nobody is reading books anymore, but I'll tell you something: new Kindle DX makes me desire to read. I have a feeling that Apple designed it. It looks just stunning.

Read about Kindle DX

Watch the video here:

Another best Motion template in the universe from motionVFX arrived to our store. It's project 115 already. Can you believe it?

After Effects template number 22 just arrived to our store. It includes 3 scenes: Main, Lower 3rd and End Titles. Enjoy :)

We have another great template in the store today - Project_114. This time it includes 3 scenes: main, lower 3rd and end titles. Of course, everything can be used in whole Final Cut Studio package.