Tag: Houdini
Animation & Rigging Solutions Sweep Academy Tech Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well...
The Stunning VFX of ‘The Shape of Water’
VFX Master Dennis Berardi discusses the stunning effects of Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.
There are few directors who've loved monsters, creatures and...
A Dandelion Hopes for a New Life in Kevin Hudson’s ‘Weeds’
The recent anti-immigrant climate in the U.S. had a deep impact on animation director Kevin Hudson. The director of the new animated short Weeds...
DI4D Receives £900k Growth Investment
Scotland-based animation and VFX studio DI4D has secured £900,000 (about $1.1 million USD) in investment funds from Percipient Capital and its shareholders, which will...
Authentic Mayhem
VFX crews set the ground rules for the firefights, weapons and supervillain antics for Warner Bros.’ most-recent DC Comics adaptation, Suicide Squad.
Suicide Squad from...
Marza Movie Pipeline Pushes Unity Beyond the Gaming Sphere
With each animated blockbuster release, the boundaries of what is possible in computer graphics is pushed by technical and artistic inches. But behind every...
Autodesk Acquires Arnold Developer Solid Angle
Amid the broadcasting tech buzz emanating from the NAB Show in Las Vegas, software giant Autodesk announces it has acquired Solid Angle -- the...
SIGGRAPH: Pixar Presents RenderMan Art & Science Fair
Pixar will present unprecedented insights into the development of RenderMan’s advanced RIS technology at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles this month, and to drive...
VR Comes to V-Ray
Chaos Group has announced V-Ray 3.2 for 3ds Max -- the latest version is compatible with 3ds Max 2016 and for the first time...
Bait Restructures in New Cardiff Facility
Cardiff-based Bait Studio has restructured and invested in a new facility, bringing its visual effects and motion graphics, animation and interactive divisions together on...
Cartoon Forum Wraps Up 25th Edition
Cartoon Forum celebrated a successful 25th edition of the important European toon event, which presented 84 new projects to the local industry and enjoyed...
SIGGRAPH News Bytes: Dynamixyz, Solid Angle, Lightworks
+ Dynamixyz is celebrating its fourth anniversary at SIGGRAPH with the release of a new version of Performer Suite markerless facial performance capture solution....
June 2014 Tech Reviews
Chaos V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max
There is no way that I'm going to be able to fit all the features in V-Ray 3.0. Is...
April/May 2014 Tech Reviews
ToonBoom's Animate Pro 3.0
ToonBoom has definitely carved a niche for itself in the animation world, from the production-level Harmony products down to the tools...
February 2014 Tech Reviews
Best of the Year
Our brilliant tech critic picks 12 of his favorite releases of the past year:
Lagoa. This web-based 3D system with a progressive,...
Delivering Digital Dystopia in 4K
Vfx supe Peter Muyzers details the labor-intensive process of creating the realistic worlds of Elysium for director Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi thriller.
In 2009, South African...
ILM and Sony Picture Imageworks Release Alembic 1.5
Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have released their jointly developed, open sourse project Alembic 1.5. The new tool facilitates...
Shotgun Pipeline Kit Released at Siggraph
Shotgun Software today released the Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit at the SIGGRAPH event in Anaheim, CA. The kit provides studios with a set of out-of-the-box...
Side Effects Software Introduces Houdini Engine
Toronto’s Side Effects Software has unveiled its Houdini Engine, which allows for deep integration of Houdini technology into a wide variety of Digital Content Creation...
DWA Releases OpenVDB 1
DreamWorks Animation is seeking to redefine volumetric storage and processing with the release of a new open source framework developed by studio engineers for...
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