New brushes, AI features, performance improvement, and Sidecar support. Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel site. The Painter Essentials tool is $49.99. Slimming down … [Read more...] about Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021
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Adobe’s $1 million fund is helping creative community in more than monetary ways
An excellent opportunity to get hired for Adobe-commissioned projects and attend career guidance workshops. More than five years ago, Adobe introduced Adobe Creative Residency program for creative professionals. The motto of the program is “Create. Share. Activate. Empower.” The selected residents get access to the Adobe creative tools and resources, guidance from … [Read more...] about Adobe’s $1 million fund is helping creative community in more than monetary ways
Pixar veteran Guido Quaroni joins Adobe
And adds considerable depth to Adobe’s already deep pool of 3D talent. The content creation world shifted just a little on the news that Guido Quaroni, Pixar vice president of R&D, has joined Adobe as senior director of engineering on the Adobe 3D & Immersive team. Quaroni joined Pixar as an animation scientist in 1997. During his 24-year stay at Pixar, Quaroni worked … [Read more...] about Pixar veteran Guido Quaroni joins Adobe
FMX announces speakers for its first online conference
FMX has confirmed first lineup of speakers for its first online edition from May 4 to May 6, 2021. The theme of this year’s virtual show is “Reimagine Tomorrow." Due to coronavirus pandemic outbreak last year, people adopted remote and virtual workflows around the world. FMX 2021 will be offering live sessions, presentations, discussions, and keynotes on how the industry is … [Read more...] about FMX announces speakers for its first online conference
Vizrt revises its product offering through Flexible Access plans
Vizrt, provider of software-defined visual storytelling tools, has announced Flexible Access. As the name suggests, the new Flexible Access plans will provide production and financial flexibilities to the content creators. The Flexible Access plan will be available for the Vizrt Newsroom, Vizrt Extended Reality, Vizrt Production Control, Vizrt Media Workflow, and Vizrt Channel … [Read more...] about Vizrt revises its product offering through Flexible Access plans
Foundry releases Mari 4.7
Foundry has announced the latest update to Mari, Foundry’s tool for 3D texturing and paint. Mari 4.7 offers features like procedural mask workflow, improved shelf palette, extended post-process feature, new shader mode, node graph enhancements, etc. Foundry says that Mari can operate on many older, prior-generation systems. However, performance increases on newer, more advanced … [Read more...] about Foundry releases Mari 4.7
VFX in 2021: What works, who works & what’s changing forever
Update: The talk was presented live on Wednesday, 12/2/20, with an introduction by Dr. Jon Peddie of JPR, moderated by Kathleen Maher, Editor-in-Chief of JPR’s Tech Watch Report. Event panelists include Angus Kneale, Chief Creative, Preymaker; Matt Mazerolle, Director of Product/New Technology at Foundry; James Rogers, Framestore Creative Director and VFX Supervisor; Eric … [Read more...] about VFX in 2021: What works, who works & what’s changing forever
Adobe admits challenges in changing economy due to pandemic
And sees ongoing growth in digital media; the company is tweaking the knobs in digital experience. A huge Adobe Max conference is on the way. It doesn’t seem as if the company has cut back at all. This year’s show has 56 hours of live broadcast, 275 sessions, and is free to everyone. As a result, says the company, they have over 200,000 registrants in the weeks before the … [Read more...] about Adobe admits challenges in changing economy due to pandemic
GlassBox Technologies’ DragonFly 2.0 adds HTC VIVE Tracker support
Glassbox Technologies has released an upgrade to DragonFly, a professional cross-platform virtual camera for Unreal Engine, Unity 3D, and Maya. The company says that DragonFly 2.0 will offer options to content creators in need of a flexible virtual camera solution for both remote and in-studio workflows. The major additions to DragonFly 2.0 include native support of the HTC … [Read more...] about GlassBox Technologies’ DragonFly 2.0 adds HTC VIVE Tracker support
Unreal Engine and Unity plugins launched for Ftrack Studio
Ftrack, developer of scalable project management and media review software, has announced the availability of the Unreal Engine and Unity plugins for Ftrack Studio. The plugins come as standard with any Ftrack Studio subscription. Ftrack Studio is a project management, production tracking, and media review platform. It helps creators plan projects and track resources from start … [Read more...] about Unreal Engine and Unity plugins launched for Ftrack Studio