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AMD, all tressed up

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Jon Peddie

AMD TressFX 5.0 open-source hair/fur rendering system for Unreal Engine.

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Academy Software Foundation comes up ACES

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Shawnee Blackwood

The color coding system now an ASWF project.

V-Ray for Blender
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V-Ray goes native in Blender

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Karen Moltenbrey

Now fully integrated in the open-source software.

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Tech talk: Zuckerberg and Huang

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Karen Moltenbrey

Generative AI, open source, personalized AI, and more. When Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang took the stage at ...

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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Join Forces to Standardize 3D Ecosystem through Alliance for OpenUSD Initiative

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Shawnee Blackwood

This will enable developers and content creators to describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects, paving the way for an increasing variety of 3D-enabled products and services.

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Cesium calls for submissions for its $1 million Ecosystem Grants

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Ruchika Saini

Ecosystem Grants webinar will be held April 18, 2023.

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Autodesk updates its M&E portfolio

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Karen Moltenbrey

Adds new workflows, support for Apple Silicon to Maya.

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Framestore and HP join Academy Software Foundation

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Karen Moltenbrey

The numbers of members embracing open source software are constantly increasing.

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Lucasfilm and ILM announce open source release of MaterialX library

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GfxS staff

Development team to host a ‘Birds of a Feather’ meeting at Siggraph. Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have ...

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Blender Institute strikes again with cult comic Agent 327

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Amina Saeed

A three-minute teaser is out for a forthcoming feature film based on the work of Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk’s classic ...