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XaitMap for Unity now supports iOS, Android, and Unity Web Player

XaitMap for Unity now supports iOS, Android, and Unity Web Player

Apr. 24 | Mobile developers can now use the artificial intelligence pathfinder for games and simulations. Xaitment has expanded the scope of its XaitMap for Unity plug-in by adding support for iOS, Android, and the Unity Web Player. The path-finding software based...

Adobe presents Creative Suite 6 in festive cloud raiment

Adobe presents Creative Suite 6 in festive cloud raiment

Apr. 23 | The first response from Adobe users is overwhelming positive. A new Creative Cloud makes it possible to rent all CS6 products for a monthly fee. If today’s Twitter chatter is any indication, Adobe has a hit on its hands with the release today of Creative...

Autodesk expands Media and Entertainment Suites for 2013

Autodesk expands Media and Entertainment Suites for 2013

Apr. 20 | Multi-product workflows and extreme 3D detail drive this year’s updates. By Kathleen Maher The entertainment industry is fundamentally changing. It has been for a long time but it’s become more obvious with several huge industry shifts in the game,...

Corel releases CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6

Corel releases CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6

Apr. 17 | The easy-to-use alternative to Adobe Illustrator is now 64-bit, and offers a variety of features designed for the occasional user who needs a professional graphics product. Properties are easier to manage in CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6. (Source: Corel) We...

Khronos turns 12 with 15 APIs and counting

Khronos turns 12 with 15 APIs and counting

Apr. 12 | The mobile industry has come to rely on Khronos’ APIs as much as the graphics industry. The future is rosy if all industry players pay attention to the bigger picture. By Jon Peddie The Khronos Organization took their name from the god of time. It...

PipelineFX gives artists a render farm management GUI

PipelineFX gives artists a render farm management GUI

Apr. 10 | The out-of-the-box add-on to Qube helps artists and students manage render farm jobs in ways they intuitively understand. The process of creating animation sequences for film and games has gotten rather complicated in recent years, with the proliferation...

ArtRage for iPad now supports Retina Display

ArtRage for iPad now supports Retina Display

Apr. 5 | Artists now have four times more pixels at their disposal than with iPad 2. A screen capture showing some of the tools available in ArtRage for iPad. (Source: Ambient Design) Ambient Design is out the gate early with a new version of its iPad art app...

NASA’s Perpetual Ocean looks like Van Gogh in HD

NASA’s Perpetual Ocean looks like Van Gogh in HD

Apr. 3 | Hard to believe this gorgeous video didn’t make the cut for last year’s Siggraph animation show. From the early days of the space program to today, NASA’s  Scientific Visualization Studio has built up an incredible body of work in computer...

Kinect hack wizards vie for TechStars fame

Kinect hack wizards vie for TechStars fame

Apr. 3 | Eleven start-ups are now using Microsoft office space and a $20,000 grant to take their amazing Kinect-based projects to the next level. Microsoft is certainly not being shy about promoting Kinect hackability. Today it announced the winners in its Kinect...

Autodesk 2012 by the numbers

Autodesk 2012 by the numbers

Mar. 29 | Autodesk made its annual pitch to the media this week in San Francisco, and threw out a lot of numbers. When we parse the numbers, the picture emerges of a company happily running as fast as it can to transform digital art and design. There is a shift...