Tag: Foundry
Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Katana 4.0 and Boris FX’s Mocha Pro 2021
Foundry's Katana 4.0
Late last year, Foundry released the 4.0 version of its look development/scene assembly/lighting tool Katana. Within that release are some substantial improvements...
Spring RealTime Conference Slates 150+ Speakers Across 100 Sessions
The RealTime Conference (RTC) announced the lineup of its Spring event, featuring three 16-hour days packed full of live presentations, discussions, interviews and real-time...
March Tech Reviews: Eddy for Nuke 2.7; Foundry’s Mari 4.7 & Modo 14.2
Eddy for Nuke 2.7
Fluid simulations are a big deal in visual effects. They are used extensively for smoke, fire, explosions, water, etc. There isn’t...
Tech Tools: The Best of 2020
Let's face it, being on a "Best of 2020" list isn't setting a very high bar for anyone. You could have invented a Reese's...
Anamon Studios Serves Up ‘Let’s Eat’ Animated Short Film Using AWS
More than 150 Artists Realize a 6.5-Minute Story with Remote Collaboration
Centering on the relationship of a Chinese immigrant, Lina, and her American daughter,...
ACCESS:VFX Launches West Coast Chapter
ACCESS:VFX, an industry-led non-profit coalition of leading visual effects, animation and games studios, announced the launch of a new West Coast chapter. The global...
Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Katana 3.2 and Mari 4.6
Foundry’s Katana 3.2
I’m not sure how long it has been since I first reviewed Katana. I suspect it was in its formative years, when...
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 23
Pixar has released RenderMan version 23, featuring next-level artist interactivity, enhanced support for Pixar’s USD (Universal Scene Description), and first-class integration with SideFX’s recent...
December Tech Reviews: Nuke 12, Cartoon Animator 4, Ziva 1.7
Foundry’s Nuke 12
Last month, Foundry released version 12 of their flagship, Nuke. And there is some pretty groovy stuff in it. So, with minimal...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
May ‘19 Tech Reviews: Titan RTX, Maya 2019 & Modo 13
Nvidia’s Titan RTX
Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...
Foundry Releases New and Improved Mari 4.5
Digital design software developer Foundry has released a new 4.5 version of its popular program Mari. The new update introduces a transformative Materials System...
Foundry Acquired by Roper Technologies
Foundry (www.foundry.com), the leading developer of software for the media, entertainment and digital design industries, today announces that it will be acquired by Roper...
Foundry Powers Up Mari 4.2 with Mirror Projection
Leading creative software developer Foundry announced the launch of Mari 4.2, introducing the latest installment of the flagship 3D painting and texturing tool. The...
Mikros Animation Scales with AWS Cloud for Paramount’s ‘Sherlock Gnomes’
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
Foundry Builds on Google Cloud for Athera VFX Workflow Tech
Timed to FMX in Germany, Foundry announces Google Cloud Platform as the underlying cloud service provider for Athera. Known in beta as “Project Elara,"...
FMX Adds ‘Jim Button,’ ‘The Rain’ and More to 2018 Lineup
The 2018 FMX conference continues to build its well-rounded programming slate, with visual effects presentations on German fantasy flick Jim Button and Luke the...
FMX: VFX of ‘Shape of Water’, VR at the Planetarium & Trailer No. 5 Revealed
In a little over a month, FMX 2018 (Apr. 24-27) will return to Stuttgart, Germany to present a packed conference schedule covering animation, effects,...
Blue Sky Icon Chris Wedge to Keynote at FMX 2018
Germany’s top animation and vfx confab FMX has announced the initial lineup for its upcoming event, which takes place April 24-27 in Stuttgart. Blue...
SIGGRAPH: Cloud Rendering, Real-Time, MoCap & VR Developments
Conductor Technologies launched its Conductor cloud rendering platform for VFX, VR and animation studios. The first enterprise-grade rendering service of its kind, Conductor is...
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