Tag: USD
Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Nuke 15, Mari 7.0 & Katana 7.0
Foundry’s Nuke 15
Foundry’s latest release of Nuke 15 (and 14.1) presents a slew of new features, which we’ll get into, but first a note...
Disney+ Brings Extra Magic to Apple Vision Pro’s In-Home 3D Environments
Beginning February 2, fans will be able to experience Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm stories like never before with Disney+ on Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s...
Superprod Looks to Score with Magical Soccer Saga ‘Heroic Football’
Paris-based Superprod Animation is ready to hit the pitch with its latest toon team member, Heroic Football. Set in a world where soccer and...
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk & NVIDIA Form OpenUSD Alliance to Drive Open Standards for 3D Content
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and NVIDIA, together with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, today announced the Alliance for...
Tech Reviews: 3ds Max & Maya 2024, FumeFX 6
3ds Max 2024
Autodesk recently dropped a couple of its flagship media & entertainment products. Both Max and Maya are sporting fancy new features along...
New Workflows Unveiled for Autodesk Media and Entertainment Portfolio
Keeping in step with the ever-rising bar for VFX and animation quality in entertainment content around the world, Autodesk has announced new, streamlined workflow...
Ynput Launches Early Access to AYON Open-Source Animation & VFX Pipeline
Prague-based creative pipeline software specialist Ynput (previously known as PYPE Club) has announced the early access release of AYON, an open-source pipeline platform to...
Goodbye Kansas Reveals the Secrets to Creating the Perfect Digital Face
Thanks to the continuous improvement, development and boundary pushing advances in real-time and animation technology, a new era of hyper-realistic digital humans across games,...
The Best Tech Trends and Tools of 2022
***This feature originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)***
According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we can expect to experience The...
How ‘Canary’ Directors Dallaire & Therriault Let Their Animated Vision Soar
The classic story of "the boy who cried wolf" is refitted into a modern, CG-animated tale of unlikely friendship and tragic loss in Canary,...
Animal Logic Launches Next Phase of ALab with ‘Unhinged’ Short
Following the success of last year's release of ALab, billed as the first open-sourced USD shot context from a studio with 4,000 downloads to...
Autodesk Rolls Out Next-Gen Updates to 3D Tools
Autodesk has unveiled a series of feature-loaded updates to its portfolio of 3D tools for artists working in the film, television, games and design...
Tech Reviews: Adobe Substance 3D Painter & Premiere, Isotropix Clarisse iFX 5
Adobe Substance 3D Painter
The latest edition of Adobe Substance 3D Painter has some pretty exciting new tools. Earlier in the year, there was a...
Top Tech Tools & Trends of 2021
Once again, we round out another crazy year where our lives are slowly inching back to normal. But while people are stuck in their...
Wizart Makes More Animated Magic for AFM with ‘The Warrior Princess’
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
Russian animation powerhouse Wizart will be spotlighting its 2022 family movie...
Autodesk Envisions Cloud-Based Production Ecosystem for Media & Entertainment
Demand for streaming content and games is exploding due to the global pandemic, which spurred massive changes across the media and entertainment (M&E) industry....
Epic Games Unleashes Unreal Engine 4.27
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.27, introducing powerful new features for creators across game development, film and television, architecture, automotive and beyond. Highlights...
August Tech Reviews: Autodesk’s Maya ’22, 3ds Max ’22, Nvidia RTX A6000 & Boris FX’s Silhouette 2021
Maya 2022
It's been a while since I’ve typed out a review of Maya. This is mostly because Autodesk has been doing a slew of...
Chaos Launches V-Ray 5 Updates for Maya, Houdini with USD Support
Chaos introduces initial Universal Scene Description (USD) support for V-Ray 5 for Maya and V-Ray 5 for Houdini, tying two powerhouse production renderers to...
Pixar’s Universal Scene Description Going Open Source
Pixar intends to release its Universal Scene Description software (USD) as an open-source project by summer, 2016. The toolset addresses the need in the...
ADVERTISEMENT
NEWSLETTER
CONTEST
ADVERTISEMENT
