Category: Technology
Southpaw Launches Open Source TACTIC
Southpaw Technology announced that it has released its technology under the Eclipse Public License, an OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved open source license.
Geomerics Announces Enlighten Upgrade
Toon Boom Unveils Harmony 10
Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced the release of Toon Boom Harmony 10 at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles.
Poser Updates Miki, Adds Tyler
Smith Micro Software Productivity and Graphics Group previewed the fourth edition of Poser’s most popular 3D figure, Miki and will unveil Tyler GND, the first male GND (Girl/Guy Next Door) from Poser artist Blackhearted, at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles, Calif.
AMD Launches New FirePro Line
New AMD FirePro W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000 Workstation Graphics Cards are optimized and certified for leading professional software applications to deliver exceptional graphics experiences to the workstation market.
Xsens Releases MVN Live Plug-in for Maya 2013
Autodesk Helps Bring 'Arjun: The Warrior Prince' to Life
Indian animation and visual effects powerhouse Visual Computing Labs leveraged Digital Entertainment Creation software from Autodesk, Inc. to produce its second mainstream animated Bollywood film — “Arjun: The Warrior Prince”.
Lightworks Enthralls Crowds at SIGGRAPH
Lightworks is currently exhibiting at the Siggraph computer graphics exhibition in Los Angeles, California.
Red Giant Announces Update to Knoll Light Factory
Red Giant announced the release of Knoll Light Factory 3, the biggest update to the industry’s most advanced 3D lens flare system.
3D Systems Brings 3D Printing for Animation to SIGGRAPH 2012
3D Systems Corporation is excited to showcase its entire portfolio of 3D content-to-print solutions.
Legend 3D Selects EMC
Legend3D, the largest provider of 2D-to-3D media content conversions, has standardized on EMC Isilon scale-out storage for all of its visual entertainment assets.
Autodesk, Lightstorm and Weta Drive Virtual Production Forward
Autodesk, Inc. has partnered with Lightstorm Entertainment and Weta Digital to develop the next generation of virtual production technology for the motion picture industry.
NVIDIA Maximus Fuels Workstation Revolution with Kepler Architecture
NVIDIA launched the second generation of its breakthrough workstation platform, NVIDIA Maximus, featuring Kepler, the fastest, most efficient GPU architecture.
NVIDIA Announces Quadro Mobile GPUs
NVIDIA officially announced a new line of Quadro professional graphics solutions for the latest leading mobile workstations.
OptiTrack Announces Prime Series
The OptiTrack advantage now extends to the high-end motion capture market with the announcement of the Prime Series.
PipelineFX Simplifies Render Pipeline Complexity at SIGGRAPH
This year at SIGGRAPH 2012, PipelineFX will be showing off two new additions to the Qube! render farm management family.
Is Windows Phone Worth It?
FourBros Studio created a buzz about its success with Windows Phone 7, telling about ad impressions and real dollars generated. I recently spoke with Nathan Furtwangler, FourBros Studio member and developer, about what other developers can learn from their team and how their strategies might be applied to Windows Phone 8.
OpenGL ES Enabled GPUs to Hit 1 Billion Units by 2014
Shipments of GPUs conformant with the Khronos OpenGL ES family of graphics APIs (Application Programming Interface) will reach 1 billion units per annum by 2014 according to Imagination Technologies.
Sony Releases New Home Studio Software Lineup
Sony Creative Software announced the availability of the latest upgrades to their award-winning line of consumer products which include Movie Studio Platinum 12 and ACID Music Studio 9.
Sony Announces the Availability of Pixelcast
Autodesk Announces Extensions for 2013 3D Animation Software
Reimagining 'Total Recall'
Double Negative and The Senate discuss updating the Philip K. Dick sci-fi classic for the 21st century.
Houdini Integrates with OpenVDB
DreamWorks Animation SKG and Side Effects Software (sidefx.com) announced plans to integrate OpenVDB (openvdb.org), DreamWorks Animation’s previously proprietary sparse volume data format, into an upcoming release of Side Effect Software’s flagship Houdini software.
Pixar Brings RenderMan to SIGGRAPH
Pixar Animation Studios announced that the RenderMan team will present new insights at SIGGRAPH 2012 into its very latest rendering technologies, including upcoming releases RenderMan Studio 4.0 and RenderMan Pro Server 17.0, along with live demonstrations of RenderMan On Demand, Pixar’s new cloud rendering service.