Autodesk and Walden Venture Capital are named participants; the amount of funding was undisclosed. Cloud rendering startup Conductor Technologies has raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital in a Series A funding round. The company is a technology spinoff from Atomic Fiction, a Hollywood special effects studio. The funding round was led by Walden Venture … Read more
Nuke users can now do all their virtual reality post-production work in one place. The Foundry has moved its new toolset for virtual reality from beta to the marketplace. Cara VR is a plug-in to Nuke, The Foundry’s popular post-production visual software. Cara VR adds a new set of tools to Nuke’s existing native support … Read more
The recent merger of Boris and Imagineer Systems drives this largest update of Continuum series software tools. Fresh from its recent merger with Imagineer Systems, Boris FX has released Continuum Complete 10 (BCC 10), its largest collection of video effects tools for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. BCC 10 for Adobe offers more than … Read more
Introductions from The Foundry, Autodesk, and Pixar set the agenda. The content creation companies at Siggraph this year had simple ambitions—to improve the ability of software to work together. First, most of the companies have to make their own software interoperate more smoothly—an ongoing challenge as they develop new capabilities and acquire companies. And now, … Read more
Game development veterans take on development tool market with new company, Nukeygara. Their first tool, Akeytsu, is available as a free Beta.
From Catia to 3ds Max to V-ray to Nuke, the artists at Ink solved the challenge of putting a new Land Rover in the best possible light. Land Rover recently introduced the Discovery Sport, a new entry into the competitive compact SUV market. The marketing team was tasked with trying to find a way to … Read more
London private equity firm HgCapital pays $312 million to add The Foundry to its Technology, Media & Telecommunications group. The Foundry, best known for its creative media products Mari, Modo, and Nuke, has a new majority owner. London private equity firm HgCapital has paid £200 million ($312 million) to take over majority ownership from The … Read more
Both the asset management system and the viewer now run without initial user configuration. Shotgun Software has updated its eponymous asset management software with a variety of new features and by including the previously separate RV asset viewer inside the primary product. Shotgun is a cloud-based production tracking, review and asset management software platform for film, … Read more
A new media format designed for virtual/augmented reality is just the tip of the iceberg. Otoy seems to believe in the sports cliché “go big or go home.” This week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, the well-funded start-up introduced a new free application for creating photorealistic content for virtual and augmented reality … Read more
Render local, in the cloud, or both using the new Cloud Wizard. Thinkbox Software has released an update to Deadline, its compute management solution for digital media assets that includes new virtual machine capabilities to extend compute resources on demand. Other enhancements including spot rendering of selected regions, support for more products, sharding out of … Read more
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