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.˙
SIGGRAPH 2017 Computer Animation Festival award winners “Song of a Toad,” “John Lewis Buster the Boxer” and “Garden Party” were presented their statues amid a conference that covered important advances and collaborations in animation, visual effects, AR/VR and robotics.
Event highlights include hearing from international VFX professionals and the 33 animago-AWARDS nominated projects from all over the world.
Collaboration will provide a step-by-step training solution for users anywhere to quickly learn RenderMan via Nimble Collective’s cloud-based platform.
Special previews of live rendering and a CPU + GPU solution accompany the announcement of RenderMan 21.5.
The fourth annual Pipeline Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in pipeline tool development and includes winners who demonstrated innovation in overcoming common VFX and animation challenges, were able to meet the demands of large-scale projects and showed generosity by making their tools open source, to be leveraged by the wider VFX and animation community.
The veteran VFX and VR director talks about the challenges of bringing compelling storytelling to VR and how to navigate the growing cloud of VR “hype” in order to better focus on viable creative opportunities.
Blackmagic releases new VR tools, planar tracking, state of the art keying and more,
along with a new low price of only $299 for Fusion 9 Studio.
NVIDIA is combining our expertise in AI with our long history in computer graphics to advance 3D graphics for games, virtual reality, movies and product design.
Available starting in September, Quadro eGPU solutions will now allow interactive rendering, VR, AI development on PC Notebooks, and will be available through qualified partners such as Bizon, One Stop Systems/Magma and Sonnet with more to come.
Immersive content studio scales rendering to cloud for same-day turnaround on 1,500 Frames of 5K stereo footage for 360-video project.
Google to showcase technology preview of V-Ray GPU for Autodesk Maya on ZYNC Render and more at SIGGRAPH 2017.
Recent updates for collections, Maya, Shotgun, Arnold, 3ds Max and Flame accelerate creative workflows.
NVIDIA shows first interactive demo of an Isaac lab trained robot in NVIDIA Project Holodeck at SIGGRAPH 2017.
The new OptiX 5.0 running on NVIDIA DGX Station delivers rendering performance of 150 servers.
The compact camera is built to support the tracking of smaller environments across VR, biomechanics, automotive and life science applications.
The new release includes features and enhancements that streamline motion graphics, VFX and VR content creation workflows and sets a path for the future of Cinema 4D.
Datasmith, which will be available as a private beta in August (unrealengine.com/beta), is designed to help artists and designers simplify the process of importing data into Unreal Engine from over 20 CAD/DCC sources, including Autodesk 3ds Max.
Full-body motion tracking and self calibrating systems are added to OptiTrack VR to produce the first automated, all-in-one tracking solution for location based entertainment VR.
The new cloud rendering platform by Conductor Technologies enables VFX, VR and animation studios to cut costs and boost capacity by offloading render workloads to the cloud.
New crowd simulation agent delivers lifelike, feature film quality movements recorded by one of the world’s leading motion capture studios.
Industry-leading simulation tool features improved workflow for creating crowds, expanded shading options, and universal plugin to ensure compatibility with all major 3D software.
Reallusion has announced iClone 7 real-time face and body motion capture featuring partnerships with Faceware and Xsens, simplifying mocap with dedicated tools and UI for recording actors in any environment and transforming a single PC into a streamlined and affordable rig for character creation, animation and live face and body mocap; Reallusion will showcase the iClone 7 innovations in Los Angeles at SIGGRAPH, August 1–3 at booth #1219.
Creative studio creates new cross-platform brand identity to celebrate the ultimate music fan, using the MTV “Wireframe + Skin,” visual framework to dictate composition and graphic content, resulting in new IDs, bumpers, key art, on-screen graphics, and more.
The leading markerless 3D-facial motion capture solutions provider has announced a Windows-Native, C++ SDK that enables developers and creatives to build their own real-time, interactive applications SDK for its real-time facial mocap and animation technology, Faceware Live, which it will be discussing at SIGGRAPH 2017 (Booth 741) Aug 1–3.
