London Road Show February 21-23 ^{10:00 January 30}

Yes, we knew once it would happen.

The time has come – we’re going to London!

On February 21-23 we’re planning to visit a number of VFX and animation facilities in London, Bristol with live demonstrations and presentations.

What’s on the menu this time?

• Cerebro, for sure. We’d like to show it to the UK VFX crowd and their feedback will be really precious for further product development.
• Mirada. We realize that not all of you, guys, may need the whole Cerebro bundle because the mature VFX facilities you work for must have been developed or adopted some kind of project tracker. OK, let’s pump it up with Mirada then! We’re launching it as a standalone product line right after the show.
• Cargador. Don’t you think that good ol’ FTP is getting a bit… obsolete? Yes, we assume that the English would rather call it “established” or “traditional” but still… Would you mind not to get your files corrupted on transmission or accessed by those whom they don’t concern ever again? Take Cargador and make those issues a history!

Want to take part in the show?

Check in by e-mailing to Konstantin Kharitonov (khar@cinesoft.ru) and we’ll drop into your place, too!

Cheers and… hope to see you soon!

Cinesoft Partner Shortlisted For VES Awards 2012. ^{01:50 January 11}

The 10th Annual VES Awards will take place on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, LA, USA. The nominees for awards in 23 categories are announced, and we are pleased to congratulate our partners in Kiev, POSTMODERN company, nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series with The Bomber project.

As far as we know, this is the first time in history when a CIS-based company is nominated for a VES Award.

So here are the particular people we are proud of:

• Igor Gotsulyak
• Dmitriy Kolesnik
• Egor Olesov
• Dmitriy Ovcharenko

We wish that these names already written in the short list, were also written in that cherished envelope, which will be solemnly opened on stage on February 7!

We keep our fingers crossed, guys!

The complete list of nominees is here.

The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Consisting of a diverse group of more than 2,400 members in 20 countries, the VES wants to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs.

Postmodern is one of the largest postproduction facilities in Ukraine. The portfolio of the studio consists of more than 2,000 commercials, 20 feature films and 100 music videos. Postmodern is a Cinesoft software distribution partner since 2011.

New Visibility Policy and other stuff ^{, 201100:51 December 27, 2011}

New Visibility Policy For Groups And Users

A new visibility policy takes effect in the current version. Visibility determines if a user is allowed to see other groups / users in various interface elements and whom he/she would see in particular. Visibility is configured on a separate Administrator panel tab – «Who Sees Whom».

Visibility options are the following: the user may see everybody in the universe, or the user may see definite groups only, or the user may not see anybody in the universe.

Visibility options for a user profile can be set up during its creation process as well.

Previous visibility policy was the following: only group-mates were allowed to see each other, i.e. the users had to belong to one and the same group for that. Now this rule is abandoned and group membership doesn’t affect visibility: it is not necessary to be included in a group to see its members and, vice versa, group-mates do not see each other until allowed by Administrator.

New visibility policy release will not affect current visibility settings for existing users though it is recommended to update Cerebro to manage visibility for new users.

Project Templates

You can select one of the existing projects to use it as a template for a new project. Select the project to be a template and select its content and settings you wish to transfer to the new project.

New Wizards

Several new wizards are added to help create new items in Cerebro, such as projects, users, groups etc. The wizards make it easier to create and configure those items. As a rule, a wizard guides you through several quick steps to specify all parameters for an item being created.

The item’s most essential properties are configured on the first step while minor properties are laid back to other steps. So it is obligatory to complete the first step only while the rest steps may be postponed or skipped.

New Administrator Window

The main feature – new Administrator panel works much faster. And some minor improvements were added, such as item renaming by double-click.

User Invitation

Invitation function is back! Its interface can be found here: Administrator -> Users. After the invitation is accepted by the user you get a notification in Cerebro and can set up the user profile parameters to take him/her on board right away!

New Task Alerts

Cerebro sends out e-mail notifications on different events to whom they concern. A new type of event is added – New Task Created. E-mail notification settings are configured here: Main Menu -> Profile.

Personal Data

A user can choose whether to open his/her personal data (e-mail, phone number etc.) to colleagues or not. This option is set up in user profile (Main Menu -> Profile).

Forum Text Zoom

A new feature – text zoom in/out is added to forum threads. Zoom is changed by the buttons in the upper forum panel. Besides, Shrink/Expand All Messages buttons are added onto this panel.

Bugs Fixed

• Report cannot be created by user with peculiar access rights;
• Incorrect task naming if created by file(s) drag-n-drop onto Navigator panel;
• Session could be lost in database;
• Cerebro crash while working with user statistics.

More information here

Merry Christmas and happy New Year! ^{, 201100:47 December 27, 2011}

Dear golleagues!

Please, accept our greetings in accordance with upcoming New Year holiday! We wish you a successful year full of technological innovations, ambitious projects, prevented clearance of deadlines and a lot of tasty ice cream!!
Thanks for the cooperation, we hope that our relationships will be even more usefull in the future!

(По-русски) CG EVENT 2011 завершился ^{, 201116:19 December 7, 2011}

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