LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) launched the second generation of its Maximus workstation platform, which now features the Kepler GPU architecture. Originally introduced last Novemb ...
August 7, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Toronto’s Side Effects Software has introduced new pricing for its Houdini 3D animation tool. The price reduction is an effort by the company to grow the global community. Simplified bra ...
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Boxx Technologies (www.boxxtech.com) showed their newly redesigned RenderPro and upgraded RenderBoxx solutions.
SIGGRAPH 2012 chair Rebecca Strzelec addresses the media prior to this year's show in Los Angeles. She estimates that approximately 5,000 more square-feet of floor space was sold for this year's exhib ...
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Sunnyvale, CA’s AMD (www.amd.com) launched the FirePro A300 Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for entry-level and mainstream desktop workstations. Featuring AMD Eyefi ...
LOS ANGELES — Alembic 1.1, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Lucasfilm Ltd., released its newest improvements and updates at this year’s ACM SIGGRAPH Conf ...
GLENDALE, CA — DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. has launched OpenVDB (openvdb.org), a previously proprietary sparse volume data format, to the Open Source community. OpenVDB enables a dramatic increase ...
August 6, 2012
GLENDALE, CA — Digital Domain is one of the first studios to adopt DreamWorks Animation SKG’s open source release of OpenVDB, a powerful tool for use in volumetric effects. OpenVDB uses a new data str ...
NEW YORK - Toronto-based Mr.X will expand to New York City with the opening of a new visual effects facility this fall. The 4,000 square foot space will be set up to handle the creation of photoreal C ...
LOS ANGELES — At the SIGGRAPH show this week, PipelineFX will highlight two new additions to its Qube! render farm management family: a new app named Qube! MobileView, which makes viewing and managing ...