Noted colorist Beau Leon won the MVPA Award for Best Colorist/Telecine for his work on the music video for “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance. Leon is director of telecine at creative design and digital production studio The Syndicate.

In addition to the win in the Best Colorist/Telecine category, the darkly emotional music video from the band’s platinum album “Black Parade” also won the award for Best Styling. The video was directed by acclaimed commercial and music video director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Green Day “American Idiot,” Justin Timberlake “What Goes Around…”)

A new version of Autodesk.Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) software is now available for download in English and Japanese at www.autodesk.com/maya-trial. Based on Maya Complete 8.5 software, this Maya PLE provides free access to Maya 3D animation, modeling and rendering software for non-commercial use by students, industry professionals and others interested in learning the application.

So what does this mean?!?!?!  I am working on a port of the great Capcom game, Street Fighter 3.  I am using Artwork from this great site: http://www.zweifuss.com/ .

If you would like to comment on the workflow to the Xbox, let me know: Click Here to go to the forums to discuss the porting.