Katana 4.0 Reveal Shows Major New Features Coming Fall 2020
At the recent Foundry Live event, the Katana team shared a sneak peek at their ground-breaking new lookdev and lighting software release slated for later this year.
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Foundry Releases Katana 3.6 with Powerful UI Updates
Advancements in 3Delight NSI 2.0 include powerful toon shading toolset, overhauled live rendering and new texturing tools.
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Foundry Releases Katana 3.5
Core engine rewrite boasts faster operations; new USD integration tools and customized shading groups among numerous other improvements
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Boris FX Acquires Academy Award-Winning SilhouetteFX and Digital Film Tools
Purchase adds rotoscoping, paint, and photo editing plug-ins to the company’s suite of post-production and visual effects applications.
E*D Studio’s New Plugin Converts 2D Drawings to 3D
PSD to 3D streamlines animation by turning sketches into moldable scenes using simple tools a novice can use
A Mesmerizing Homage to Visual Music: SIGGRAPH Asia Best in Show Winner ‘L’oiseau Qui Danse’
Independent VFX artist and director Jean-Marie Marbach pushes motion graphics to new heights with his award-winning music video made entirely with Adobe After Effects and Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite.
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Boris FX Brings Mocha & Sapphire Effects Plugins to Vegas Pro 15
Mocha planar tracking plugin now officially supports Vegas Pro.
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Animal Logic Open Sources USDMaya Plugin
Animal Logic has announced the open source release of its USDMaya plugin AL_USDMaya, which enables powerful and efficient authoring and editing of 3D graphics data using Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) in Autodesk’s Maya.˙
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Foundry’s Katana 3.0 to Include New Rendering Plugin 3Delight
Completely shareable between Katana and Maya, innovative shading engine is allows for direct transfer of look development between digital content creation apps.
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Boris FX to Showcase Mocha VR and New VFX Plug-ins
At SIGGRAPH 2017, Boris FX will preview 360° stereoscopic workflow and new versions of flagship plug-ins Sapphire and Continuum at the Los Angeles Convention Center in booth 1011.
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Chaos Group Releases All-in-one Fluid Dynamics Plugin Phoenix FD 3 for Autodesk Maya
Fire, smoke, liquid and ocean simulations now possible directly in Maya; FLIP Solver tops new feature set.
Elementacular 1.5 Plugin for Autodesk Maya Now Available
Interactive cloud sculpting and rendering plugin for Autodesk Maya supports rendering in modern render tools including Arnold and RenderMan.
Luxion Releases New Plugins for Autodesk Fusion 360, Revit 2017, 3ds Max 2017 & Maya 2017
Developer of the first real-time ray-tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and animation announces new and updated plugins that further integrate KeyShot with Autodesk’s line of 3D modeling applications.
Chaos Group Releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Autodesk 3ds Max
New All-in-one fluid dynamics plugin simulates fire, smoke, liquids, splashes, foam, ocean waves and more; adds new FLIP Solver to expanded feature set.
Boris FX Acquires GenArts
Leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow solutions for video and film acquires Sapphire flagship suite of visual effects plugins.
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mocha Pro 5 OFX Plugin for Nuke & Fusion Now Available
New mocha planar tracking plugin delivers GPU acceleration and streamlined workflows to OFX hosts including The Foundry’s NUKE and Blackmagic Design’s Fusion.
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Nozon, Chaos Group Partnership Enables Volumetric VR Without a Game Engine
Technology partnership still in private beta combines PresenZ and V-Ray to enable artists to create photorealistic pre-rendered, volumetric VR design spaces with free movement and full parallax without the help of a game engine.
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AMD Launching 32GB Workstation Graphics Card at NAB 2016
World’s first workstation graphics card with industry-leading 32GB memory support for large asset workflows with creative applications planned for availability in Q2 2016.
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‘Star Wars’-Inspired Visual Effects Plugins Now Available from FanFilmFX
Easy-to-use plugins pay tribute to iconic sci-fi visual effects, emulating lightsabers, blaster bolts and transitional wipes.
NVIDIA Launches New Iray Plugins for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya
Iray plug-ins for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya support NVIDIA’s new distributed rendering solution, Iray Server, now in open beta.
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Red Giant Releases Trapcode Suite 13
New release includes major upgrades to Trapcode Particular, Shine and Mir, new effects builder for visually designing particle systems, and brand-new plug-in Trapcode Tao for generating 3D ribbons and geometric shapes.
Granite for Unity 5 Arrives with New Pricing
Granite SDK -- the texture streaming middleware for real-time 3D -- is now available for Unity 5 for $349 or $20 per month.
NUKE STUDIO Plugin Now Available in ftrack 3.2
Advanced NUKE STUDIO integration opens up a more streamlined production pipeline.
Boris FX & Imagineer to Preview New VFX Tools at SIGGRAPH 2015
Special guest artists to demo Boris Continuum Complete 10 and mocha Pro 5.
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ZOIC Studios Taps RealFlow for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Led by VFX/CG Supervisor Timothy Hanson, ZOIC Studios employs RealFlow to help create simulations for Marvel blockbuster ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ completing nearly 100 shots for the movie.
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