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80 LevelVFXRockstar Shares 39 New GTA 6 Screenshots Two Weeks Before Launch Take a closer look at Vice City, Leonida, and the game's protagonists, Lucia and Jason.

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80 LevelVFXEntire Quixel Megascans Library Now Available For Free And this time, it's permanent.

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80 LevelVFXStardew Valley's 1.7 Update Might Be Its Biggest Yet ConcernedApe shares Clint and Sandy as marriage candidates are "just the tip of the iceberg."

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80 LevelVFXMassive Effect: The BioWare Story Documentary Announced The film was in production for two years before EA shut the studio down, and it will feature all three co-founders.

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80 LevelVFXCanva Announces Layoffs Affecting Over 1,200 Employees Its severance package is also raising questions about how businesses should handle workforce reductions.

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80 LevelVFXHow The Cat in the Hat Was Made with Autodesk Maya & Flow The filmmakers behind Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's new adaptation explain how Maya handled the movie's multiple visual styles.

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80 LevelVFXTake a Look Behind Animation in K/DA's FIRESTARTER Music Video While League of Legends fans are enjoying K/DA's new FIRESTARTER music video, we asked Fortiche's director Marietta Ren and animation supervisor Rémy Terreaux about the work on the animation, VFX…

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80 LevelVFXRecreating Vintage Dynamite Blasting Machine In 3D Kyryl Zlotnyk walks us through the full process of creating an authentic DuPont Blasting Machine No. 20 in 3D, covering everything from reference gathering to rendering and animation, along with…

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80 LevelVFXFortiche Reveals Animation References Behind K/DA's Latest Music Video See how FIRESTARTER was created.

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80 LevelVFXOpenAI CEO Sam Altman Responds to Backlash Over His Comments on PC RAM Altman says that his words were taken out of context.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo