The final battle sequence in The Avengers presented significant technical and artistic challenges to Industrial Light and Magic.
August 9, 2012
PORTLAND, OR — Red Giant has released Knoll Light Factory 3, a major update to the advanced 3D lens flare system. Co-developed with Academy Award winning VFX supervisor John Knoll, the new Light Facto ...
August 8, 2012
LOS ANGELES — After demonstrating its first full body scanner at SIGGRAPH in 2000, 3dMD brought its latest generation technology to this year’s SIGGRAPH show in LA. While the 3dMDbody System is capabl ...
LOS ANGELES — The LightWave 3D Group (www.lightwve3d.com), a division of NewTek, introduced Version 11.5 of its LightWave 3D modeling, animation and rendering software at the recent SIGGRAPH show. A c ...
LOS ANGELES — Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) has introduced the Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2013. The software offers interactive full-frame performance on the new ...
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 ...