Technology

Imagination Brings Caustic Series to Autodesk University

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Imagination Technologies announces the availability of its Caustic Series2 OpenRL PC boards and accelerating Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-ins for Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max at Autodesk University.

Facial Motion Capture Test With JB Blanc

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Last month, the whole team at Resnick Interactive did some Motion Capture (MOCAP) testing for a video game we’ll be working with in the near future.

Show Me the Money

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Android has a bigger market share than iOS, so a bigger pool of potential users should mean that Android apps drive more revenue, right? Not necessarily.

NGRAIN Offers Free 3D Authoring Tool

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NGRAIN debuts NGRAIN Producer, the personal learning edition, which is available free-of-charge.

ATOMO Turns to Bakery Relight

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ATOMO VFX chooses Bakery Relight software for its ongoing work on a diverse range of promo spots and animated shorts.

Red Giant Ships PluralEyes 3.1

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PluralEyes 3.1 adds timeline sync and native MFX support for Avid Media Composer for Mac.

Bond Gets a CG Komodo Dragon for Skyfall

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Cinesite's Jon Neill discusses creating the first CG character for the Bond franchise along with other VFX mayhem.

Life of Pi: Grabbing the CG Tiger by the Tail

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Bill Westenhofer of Rhythm & Hues discusses the VFX secret to Ang Lee's Life of Pi.

Vicon Releases Blade 2 Motion Capture Software

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Vicon announces the official release of Blade 2 motion capture processing software.

Canada’s SRC Orders Season 3 of The Garfield Show

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Canada’s French-language SRC network buys the third season of CG animated series “The Garfield Show.”

Rhythm & Hues Taps NVIDIA Technology for Life of Pi

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Global visual effects giant Rhythm & Hues, which recently completed the lion’s share of visual effects shots on the acclaimed new film, “Life of Pi,” leverages NVIDIA GPUs to maximize throughput and accelerate creative workflows.

House of Moves Teams with Activision for Call of Duty: Black Ops II

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Motion capture and animation service company House of Moves teams with Treyarch and Activision Publishing to provide full performance capture for cinematics featured in “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.”

Assimilate Ships Scratch V7 for Creative DI Workflows

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Assimilate announces the immediate availability of the world’s first truly integrated tool for digital workflows, from advanced dailies to creative DI.

HP Helps Power Rise of the Guardians

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HP and DreamWorks Animation mark the latest chapter in their ongoing collaboration by working together to create an epic adventure for worldwide audiences with the breakthrough animation of the studio’s upcoming 3D movie, “Rise of the Guardians.”

Bringing Horror back to Little Shop

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WB’s Kurt Galvao on the creation of The Director’s Cut decades in the making.

Digimania Releases German-Language Muvizu Update

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Glasgow-based 3D animation application Muvizu is released with a German-language version of the user interface, plus some great new content.

Cirque du Soleil’s Big Top Comes to the Big Screen

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James Cameron and Andrew Adamson weave acts from seven live Cirque shows into their new 3-D film, Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away 3D.

Autodesk Reports Third Quarter Results

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Autodesk reports financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013.

Mobile Simulators and Emulators: An Update

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Mobile emulators and simulators can help developers test their apps on different devices without having to actually have them on hand. The testing tools can make testing easier, particularly where there are lots of variations in device types, screen sizes and operating systems. But they also face some limitations.

CVMP to Explore Advances in Post Production

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This December the 9th annual CVMP Conference returns to London.