Akeytsu from French start-up Nukeygara provides only the necessary features for 3D character rigging and motion; “our clients are creatives, not engineers.” The current generation of top animation software is the result of a 20-year arms race, with each product seeking to offer more features—with resulting additional complexity—in each release. The result, says Nukeygara CEO … Read more
Zync offers an on-demand render farm service that scales from one core to thousands of CPUs. Amazon loses a small but influential cloud services reseller. Google has acquired Zync, which offers a cloud-based rendering service for special effects. The small firm has previously provided render farm services for recent films including Flight, Transformers: Dark of … Read more
New products and alliances announced at Siggraph give V-Ray an opportunity to dominate rendering in film and broadcast workflows. Recent alliances between rendering software specialist Chaos Group and The Foundry and Nvidia give new visibility to Chaos Group’s V-Ray rendering technology. Chaos Group and The Foundry have been working together on versions of V-Ray for … Read more
The integration brings continuous delivery to game and film artists through integration with leading 3D creation tools. Continuous Delivery is gaining favor in software development as a way for distributed teams to work together on large assets including code, documents, video, images, and more. One of the leading software companies enabling Continuous Delivery is Perforce, … Read more
Successful VFX for films including Elysium, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are among the projects organized in Thinkbox Deadline. Since its inception in 2007, Whiskytree has grown from a talented matte painting shop into a full-service CG powerhouse known for creating complex visual effects for feature films, commercials and video … Read more
Shotgun, Tweak, Zync Render, Fabric Engine, and Thinkbox sell multimedia solutions that work with each other. By Kathleen Maher The Shotgun booth at Siggraph keeps getting bigger. This year the company included demonstrations from several companies it works with. Shotgun Software builds pipeline tools, which on the face of it doesn’t sound very sexy for … Read more
Together with Philips and The Foundry, Dolby is promoting a new approach to 3D video content creation and distribution. By Kathleen Maher At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention recently, there were still a few companies and individuals who are bullish about 3D, but there were even more asking each other, “What was that … Read more
Adobe and Maxon have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on improved integration between Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects. No actual products or updates have been announced. You know the drill — stay tuned. Perhaps nothing says as much about the inevitability of accessible 3D content tools than Adobe’s increasing support for 3D. As the … Read more
Krakatoa creates either points or voxels for particle data for greater VFX utility. Python and C++ linking to other programs opens up new rendering options. This week Thinkbox Software releases Krakatoa SR, a stand-alone version of its high-volume CPU-based particle renderer. Krakatoa has become popular for high-energy special effects for large scenes involving flowing water, smoke, … Read more
From $250,000 to $3,495 in 14 years, Smoke is now positioned to compete well against Final Cut Pro and Nuke. When Autodesk first introduced Smoke back in 1999, after it got the product in its acquisition of Discrete Logic, the selling price was over $250,000, and could climb as high as $1.3 million with an … Read more
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