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Autodesk introduces Maya LT for indie and mobile game developers

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Randall Newton

The streamlined version of Maya will be for sale as a perpetual license or by monthly rental. Today, Autodesk releases ...

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Autodesk expands Media and Entertainment Suites for 2013

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Kathleen Maher

Multi-product workflows and extreme 3D detail drive this year’s updates. By Kathleen Maher The entertainment industry is fundamentally changing. It ...

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Khronos struggles with keeping Collada relevant

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Kathleen Maher

The standards group responsible for the graphics exchange standard realizes content exchange is a huge challenge and that so far ...

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Facial Studio adds photomatching to build custom 3D heads from photos

BY
Randall Newton

Di-o-matic puts advanced controls in users hands; a slimmed down version of the software is also available. The newest release ...

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Film industry partners tackle data exchange; introduce Alembic 1.0

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Kathleen Maher

Film industry partners Lucasfilm and Sony Imageworks have teamed up to create a compact exchange format called Alembic. The effort ...

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The LightWave team goes forward with a new plan

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Kathleen Maher

NewTek has decided to integrate new technology gradually rather than dump old for new. It is the same dilemma faced ...

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Autodesk unveils Skyline for the DCC pipeline

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Kathleen Maher

Developers wanted more than a technology preview when Autodesk gave a demo of its new DCC middleware; they wanted the ...