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    Animatrik Film Design, Dimensional Imaging team on new mo-cap experience

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    VANCOUVER, B.C. --

    Motion- and facial-capture companies Animatrik Film Design Inc. and Dimensional Imaging Ltd (DI4D) have entered into a collaboration which will yield state-of-the-art facial performance capture services for the VFX and video game communities across North America.

    Animatrik technology has been used on such high-profile projects as Image Engine’s Chappie, Microsoft’s popular Gears of War series and Duncan Jones' upcoming Warcraft. DI4D’s technology has appeared in such shows as the BBC’s Merlin and video games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Quantum Break. The new collaboration will allow Animatrik and DI4D to bring even more true-to-life animation to similar projects in the coming months.

    Animatrik has licensed DI4D’s facial performance capture software and purchased DI4D systems, which it will operate from its Vancouver and Toronto motion capture studios. Animatrik will also offer an “on-location” DI4D facial performance capture service, which has been seen before in projects such as Microsoft’s Halo 4.

    “The collaboration with DI4D marks another huge step for Animatrik, said Brett Ineson, CEO of Animatrik. “In order to continue to win industry-leading motion capture projects, it is essential that Animatrik is able to offer the very best quality facial performance capture possible. DI4D offers the highest fidelity facial performance capture solution that we have seen, and we are therefore delighted to now be able to offer this to our highly demanding VX and video games customers.”

    Colin Urquhart, CEO of DI4D, described Animatrik as “one of the industry’s leading motion capture and virtual production service providers. By collaborating with Animatrik, we expect to make our world-leading DI4D facial performance capture solution much more accessible to the VFX and video game communities across North America. Animatrik has recently completed some amazing movie and video game projects and we are very excited that Animatrik will use DI4D to deliver high fidelity facial performance capture on future projects.”

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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