Development team to host a ‘Birds of a Feather’ meeting at Siggraph. Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have released the MaterialX Library for computer graphics. MaterialX is an open standard developed by Lucasfilm’s Advanced Development Group and ILM engineers to improve the transfer of rich materials and look-development content between applications and … [Read more...] about Lucasfilm and ILM announce open source release of MaterialX library
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Blender Institute strikes again with cult comic Agent 327
A three-minute teaser is out for a forthcoming feature film based on the work of Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk's classic comics. By Amina Saeed After producing many award-winning shorts and raising over a million dollars in crowdfunding for 3D application development, Blender Institute introduces its new project, based on the work of Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk and his … [Read more...] about Blender Institute strikes again with cult comic Agent 327
AMD Radeon GPUs headed to Google Cloud
Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning services will have FirePro boards as compute accelerators. One more unknown success story for open source code. AMD has scored a big win in cloud technology, with the recent announcement that its Radeon GPU technology will be available to Google Cloud Platform users. Starting in 2017, Google will use AMD’s fastest … [Read more...] about AMD Radeon GPUs headed to Google Cloud
A holiday cartoon trailer from Blender Institute
Winter in Patagonia turns into a battle of wits, to be continued January 27. The Blender Institute has released a trailer just in time for the holiday season, plugging its upcoming new episode of the Caminandes cartoon series. In this episode it's Winter in Patagonia. Koro the Llama encounters Oti the pesky baby penguin, both going after that last tasty berry. The … [Read more...] about A holiday cartoon trailer from Blender Institute
AMD GPUOpen offers developers access to its libraries and “metal”
AMD embraces open source with game libraries and register data. A second release, the Boltzmann Initiative, supports high-performance applications. By Jon Peddie AMD plans to give developers unprecedented access to the innards of its GPUs next year, when it launches its GPUOpen initiative. AMD is the only company that can claim a clean sweep across gaming platforms, from … [Read more...] about AMD GPUOpen offers developers access to its libraries and “metal”
Southpaw extends Tactic digital asset management suite
Five new products help media and entertainment content creators. Every industry is coping with an explosion in digital assets as it becomes both more important and easier to create and save content. The media and entertainment industry is no different. Digital asset management software provider Southpaw Technology today releases five new applications that extend its open … [Read more...] about Southpaw extends Tactic digital asset management suite
Project Gooseberry puts Blender to the test
The crowd-funded open production will unite 12 global teams to create a feature-length animation using only open source tools, including new Blender Cloud. The non-profit Blender Institute has launched a crowd-funded, open production computer animation movie project. The Gooseberry Project will use the open source Blender 3D animation suite and the newly launched Blender Cloud … [Read more...] about Project Gooseberry puts Blender to the test
Southpaw brings its workflow management to Unity game development platform
The larger the project, the more developers need workflow management. The Unity utility is a commercial add-on to the open source Tactic. Unity keeps gaining ground as a game development platform, and as it has grown other content tools find ways to align with it. Now Southpaw Technologies is providing a way to use its Tactic digital asset and workflow management system inside … [Read more...] about Southpaw brings its workflow management to Unity game development platform
Tactic deploys digital asset management to Amazon Web Services
One-click cloud deployment, with as much expansion room for assets as any customer will ever need. The open source digital asset management platform Tactic is now available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). New or existing users may quickly deploy to the cloud with the same functionality available in a local installation. Tactic has always been available via … [Read more...] about Tactic deploys digital asset management to Amazon Web Services
Blender releases Cycles ray-tracing render engine with more permissive open source license
Cycles joins a variety of CG code libraries released to open source in the past few months. The primary Blender software product will keep its current more restrictive open source license. One of the strengths of Blender, the popular open source 3D creation software, is its rendering engine Cycles. It is generally acknowledged as a fast, high-quality renderer well integrated … [Read more...] about Blender releases Cycles ray-tracing render engine with more permissive open source license