Academy Software Foundation Launches OpenPBR MaterialX Subproject
The new open source shading model succeeds Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material; Open Source Days ‘23 event kicks off August 6.
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DreamWorks Animation Releases Open Source ‘MoonRay’
Previously announced at SIGGRAPH 2022, the production renderer is now available, in an industry standard CMake environment, complete with a new documentation website, restructured libraries, reduced dependencies, and referenced open source packages.
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NVIDIA Studio Highlights 3D Artist Edward McEvenue
The founder of EDSTUDIOS shared his holiday-themed short ‘The Great Candy Inquisition,’ all completed in NVIDIA Omniverse Create App.
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NVIDIA ‘GET3D’ AI Model to Populate Virtual Worlds Revealed
Capping its GTC announcements, the tech giant unveils new model that using only 2D images, generates 3D shapes - with high-fidelity textures and complex geometric details - to easily populate virtual worlds with a diverse array of 3D buildings, vehicles, and characters, in the most popular software app formats.
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Google Cloud Announces Major Zync Render Update
Version 2.0 rewrite of cloud-hosted rendering platform provides faster job startup, increased scalability and up to 48,000 CPU render cores.
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Maxon Acquires Redshift Rendering Technologies
Developer of industry leading animation software Cinema 4D acquires powerful and flexible GPU-accelerated renderer.
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How MoonRay Became the Hidden Superpower Behind ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’
DreamWorks Animation’s director of research and development, Robert Knaack, head of lighting Pablo Valle, and visual effects supervisor Dave Walvoord detail how the studio’s proprietary rendering tool helped power the breathtaking visuals in the culmination of the ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ franchise.
Blur Studio Taps V-Ray for Netflix’s New NSFW ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Short Film Anthology
Production studio explores different animation styles with the help of V-Ray renderer for new anthology series now on Netflix.
Autodesk Introduces Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU in Public Beta
Arnold now brings artists the power and flexibility of CPU and GPU rendering in a single renderer.
Render Legion Releases Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Faster interactive rendering, improved displacement, and new AI denoising bring even more power to artist-friendly renderer.
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Solid Angle Introduces Arnold 5.2
New release of Academy Award-winning rendering software includes new Cell Noise shader, multi-threaded Adaptive Subdivision, Texture Baking, and deeper integration with Cryptomatte.
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Defining Thanos: Weta Brings Motion Capture to New Heights for ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Weta Digital and Digital Domain transform Josh Brolin’s motion capture performance into a believable and imposing CG adversary.
Chaos Group Acquires Render Legion and Corona Renderer
Market leading architectural visualization rendering companies join forces; joint development already in process.
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Google Cloud Platform’s ZYNC Render Now Supports Autodesk 3ds Max
Google to showcase technology preview of V-Ray GPU for Autodesk Maya on ZYNC Render and more at SIGGRAPH 2017.
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Lucasfilm, ILM Announce Open Source Release of MaterialX Library
MaterialX development team to host a ‘Birds of a Feather’ meeting at the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles, CA on Monday July 31, 2017.
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Solid Angle Releases Arnold 5.0
Major new update includes improved performance and new shaders; Autodesk bundles Arnold 5 with 3ds Max 2018, replacing Mental Ray.
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Ray-Traced Volume Simulations Now Possible with V-Ray 3.5 for NUKE
Render OpenVDB simulations directly in Foundry’s industry-leading compositor; deep volumes now supported.
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max Up to 7x Faster
Free update of leading CPU and GPU renderer introduces efficient new lighting algorithm.
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Qube!’s Metered Licensing Keeps DHX Media Rendering Costs in Check
PipelineFX’s industry-leading render management software and new pay-per-minute licensing policy gives the international animation powerhouse an edge in today’s competitive broadcast market.
NVIDIA mental ray for Maya Now Faster, Easier & Free
Beginning November 30, CG artists using Autodesk Maya can tap NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated renderer, mental ray, directly within Maya for free.
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Disney Releases Practical Guide to Hyperion
Walt Disney Animation Studios releases a detailed breakdown of its new in-house production rendering software used on ‘Big Hero 6’ and the forthcoming ‘Zootopia.’
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