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Rethinking the Pipeline looks at how Dreamworks Animation has re-engineered its animation pipeline to better serve artists and improve workflow across complex studio environments. Composer Crashes CG World takes an evocative look at artist, Justin Lassen, whose music expertise breathes new sight - and sound - into CG art. Former Game Creator Taps Unreal Engine* 3 looks at Hollywood's new CG Internet series, Chadam, a natural entertainment evolution stemming from Epic's video game engine.

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Wolfenstein* is Reborn shows how a favored classic from the earliest days of PC gaming looks with all-new technology. Raven Software used Intel tools to optimize for multiple threads and create new worlds for gamers to conquer. Autodesk® fuels Triple-A Game Creations shows off new tools from Autodesk that bring animation forward another giant step. Empire: Total War* incorporates Intel tools to bring to life the conquest of the open seas by eighteenth-century England. Breathtaking realism makes the ocean look so realistic, you can almost smell the salty air. Take a Look at Larrabee brings game developers up to date on the development of this key technology.

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Welcome to the 3rd Dimension. If 3D is your thing, this issue pulls back the curtain on new advances from Autodesk, DreamWorks, and Intel that blend insane animation with wicked technology. The result: new 3D production pipeline paradigms. (Say that 3 times, fast.) Development techniques for explosive MMOGs. We take you behind the scenes with Call of Duty*: World at War, giving you insight into how it was developed. And Intel's Daniel Pohl walks you through the steps of ray tracing the new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars*. Playing games and making movies... nice work if you can get it. Don't adjust that dial (seriously). Find out what happens when an Evil Genius tests Bloomfield... right out of the box. Next, read how Damian Thaller, an unassuming CG artist, went from dreams to reality. His latest project: a little film called Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

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Multi-Threading Goo!: unfolds the tale of a Netherlands-based game programmer as he masters multi-threading. In World in Conflict, Massive Entertainment constructs a game that plays to the deepest cold war fears. Pure Genius is the story of José María Andrés and the imaginative CG creations that come out of his head. In Unlocking the Potential of Graphics Processing: Technology Transfer at Its Finest, Randi Rost of Intel talks of higher education and new graphics architectures. Home-Grown Production Pipeline Rivals Proprietary Platforms: Attila the Hun Comes to Life through Cost-Effective Tools shows how a readily available workstation powered by Intel® Xeon® processors brought Hollywood magic to a BBC production. In Opening an Architecture to Creative Development: Softimage Goes Custom, the benefits of ICE, a custom tool development environment, are highlighted. It's Back, Badder Than Ever: Bionic Commando witnesses Agent Spence resurrected in the latest version of the classic game.

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Broaden the Audience for Games speculates on how faster and more capable integrated graphics will affect the future of gaming. In Looks Aren't Everything: Making Games Act Real, Intel's own Roger Chandler talks about revulsion toward robots and intelligent behaviors in games. Planting Seeds for the Next Gaming Breakthrough reveals Havok's plan for mobilizing up-and-coming game developers by giving away Havok* Complete software for free. Rapid-Fire Moviemaking: Processing Power Streamlines the Digital Workflow looks at how advances in video capture, compression, storage, and finishing have come of age with multi-core processing power. In A Landmark in Image Processing: DMIP, discover how deferred mode image processing, a new addition to the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Library, speeds up complex image-processing tasks with up to 3X performance increases.

Comments (7)

January 15, 2009 4:38 PM PST R Hampton

I really like reading the Intel® Visual Adrenaline, especially on my lunch break. But since I got my iPhone, I would rather view it in text or html format (big 2-page spreads don't work on small screens). Don't know if it's economically feasible or if the numbers justify it, but I wanted to pass this along. Thanks again for the e-zine. Rich Hampton Fremont CA

February 4, 2009 10:28 PM PST Chryste, Visual Adrenaline editor

Hi Rich, Thank you for the kind words about the magazine. I wanted to let you know I am checking into your recommendations of a text version to accompany the PDF downlaod. We are updating the Visual Adrenaline website, which includes archiving articles as HTML.

April 1, 2009 1:25 AM PDT tcsee

Hi, the January 2009 magazine doesn't seem to work for download. I clicked on the latest download link but it pointed to the previous issue. I also provided subscription emails but I don't receive any welcome notification email. Can you help to fix this?

April 23, 2009 2:27 PM PDT vladr Total Points: 45 Registered User

Just wanted to thank you for the magazine that I`ve discovered only now. I like it much better than the Game Developer Magazine. It`s a really great reading and I hope you shall keep it up ! The art style is awesome ! Great Work !

May 28, 2009 12:15 AM PDT chryste, Visual Adrenaline editor

Vladr, thank you for the kind comments and the great comparison to a very well published Game Developer Magazine. We are committed to the magazine, providing content that is interesting, delivers business value and interesting insight. Feel free to send me topics :) Tcsee, sorry for being so late to the party here, but did you get your issue fixed? I would be more than willing to get you the Jan and March issue. Just email the support link for VA Dispatch at support@intelsoftwaregraphics.com and we will make sure you get what you need. Best to you both, Chryste

August 11, 2009 6:32 AM PDT piippo Total Points: 20 Registered User

Fantastic magazine, for free. Really great insight to different aspects. Layout is great. Really pleasing to read. This is somehow suprising, since I always thought that big companies don't care about this stuff, but it's great to be wrong! :) Keep up the great work.

September 7, 2009 12:39 PM PDT Javier L N

OK su pagina es muy importante por favos deseo ver sime alludan con lo referente a la intel 815

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