The new E5 series workstations and render nodes are designed for demanding 3D broadcast and film applications. Lightbeam Systems introduces a new line of its workstations, render nodes, and GPU notes for film and broadcast applications. The company claims the new series delivers up to 10x performance gain over its previous-generation computing systems. The Lightbeam … Read more
The Bullet open source physics engine and library is becoming a leading element in the emerging middleware stack for realistic animation. The open source Bullet physics engine and library is seeing broad uptake in the 3D modeling and animation industry. Recently both Luxology and Autodesk Softimage have announced add-ins that take advantage of Bullet. About … Read more
Two-way file exchange enabled for Photoshop, Maya and more. Pixologic’s ZBrush is generally considered the market leader for digital sculpting software for content creation. However, its position is hotly contested by Autodesk’s Mudbox. Autodesk positions Mudbox as a product that’s easier to use than ZBrush and compatible with other software tools such as 3ds Max … Read more
The .3dm converter is embedded in many products in addition to Okino’s PolyTrans|CAD. Ten years after releasing their first Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm file format support t0ol, Okino Computer Graphics announced today it is now shipping a rewritten, revised and optimized import/export converters compatible with McNeel’s Rhinoceros v5. For more than 20 years Okino’s PolyTrans|CAD has been … Read more
When the NewTek team is finished, Core will become part of LightWave. Kathleen Maher sorts it all out. The new LightWave is struggling to be born. In the meantime NewTek is shipping LightWave 10. The resource-starved 3D modeling side of NewTek, the LightWave division, has been bootstrapping a grounds-up re-write of LightWave, which it calls … Read more
