The Television Academy has announced the recipients of the 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards honoring an individual, company, or organization for developments in broadcast technology. Arnold Global Illumination Rendering System and Chaos’ V-Ray are among the eight Engineering Emmy recipients selected this year. The awards will be presented by the Television Academy Engineering … [Read more...] about Engineering Emmy Award 2021 goes to V-Ray and Arnold
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Maxon’s Redshift becomes subscription-only product
The renderer needs to maintain compatibility with multiple DCC applications and hardware platforms. Maxon has announced that its GPU-based renderer, Redshift, is now available as a subscription-only product. Maxon believes that as Redshift is constantly being updated and optimized, all customers should be running on the latest version in order to get the best customer … [Read more...] about Maxon’s Redshift becomes subscription-only product
Adobe adds industrial strength collaboration and review with the acquisition of Frame.io
Cloud-based content management, collaboration, review, camera to cloud capabilities add checklist items for studios and news producers. Adobe is adding some real power to its video product line with the acquisition of Frame.io, a cloud-based video company with over a million users. Like Adobe, Frame.io has a subscription-based business. Its “cloud-first” workflow promises … [Read more...] about Adobe adds industrial strength collaboration and review with the acquisition of Frame.io
V-Ray 5 for Unreal offers faster render times with Chaos Cloud
After coming out of beta and improving continuously with hotfix and non-hotfix updates, the latest version of Chaos’ V-Ray renderer for Unreal Engine is here. V-Ray 5 for Unreal is now available for $219 (annually) or $80 (monthly). The new features in V-Ray 5 for Unreal include custom light baking controls, a new Frame Buffer with post-processing controls built-in, a … [Read more...] about V-Ray 5 for Unreal offers faster render times with Chaos Cloud
SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace
Open source release of ray tracing examples, APIs, and drivers on GitHub with FPGA macro. SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate its ray tracing IP into a dedicated IP core that can be … [Read more...] about SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace
Adobe cuddles up with Blender with new plug-ins for Substance and Mixamo
The Substance brand gives Adobe considerably more reach. The wishlist for the Substance development team at Adobe is deep and long, but, since its acquisition, they’ve been ticking requests off the list. The latest updates include the long-awaited Blender plug-in for Substance and also a Blender plug-in for Mixamo. The Substance plug-in enables users to access and edit … [Read more...] about Adobe cuddles up with Blender with new plug-ins for Substance and Mixamo
MaterialX project starts in the incubation phase at the Academy Software Foundation
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) has accepted MaterialX as its seventh Foundation-hosted project. ASWF was founded to provide a selected set of open source code for content creation. Those technologies are available as open-source resources, meaning they are free to everyone, including source code and can be updated and changed. The ASWF was founded to maintain the code … [Read more...] about MaterialX project starts in the incubation phase at the Academy Software Foundation
The Genie that makes entertainment great
Every time you watch a video or listen to music on your phone, computer, or TV, you use a data compressor–decompressor called a CODEC. By compressing the data representing the content you’re interested in, more people can use the already crowded networks we rely on every day, all day. The primary CODEC in use today is MPEG—the Moving Picture Experts Group. It has served us … [Read more...] about The Genie that makes entertainment great
Unity growing with trees and vegetation tools from Speedtree
The game engine giants are building huge portfolios of tools and content for their customers. They are acquisition machines. Over the years, Speedtree has created a large library of trees and foliage that users can import into the game engines and lightly modify for season, lighting, etc. The company says it will honor customer subscriptions and is not revealing any … [Read more...] about Unity growing with trees and vegetation tools from Speedtree
Unreal buys Sketchfab
Sketchfab was founded in 2012 by Cédric Pinson, Alban Denoyel, and Pierre-Antoine Passet in Paris. They said they founded the company because they wanted to solve the huge challenge of 3D content creation: the difficulty of creating 3D models. The community of content creators and buyers has grown to 5 million. Sketchfab says they introduced the first web-based 3D player. … [Read more...] about Unreal buys Sketchfab