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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 ...

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AMD Radeon GPUs headed to Google Cloud

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Randall Newton

Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning services will have FirePro boards as compute accelerators. One more unknown success story ...

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A holiday cartoon trailer from Blender Institute

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Randall Newton

Winter in Patagonia turns into a battle of wits, to be continued January 27. The Blender Institute has released a ...

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AMD GPUOpen offers developers access to its libraries and “metal”

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Jon Peddie

AMD embraces open source with game libraries and register data. A second release, the Boltzmann Initiative, supports high-performance applications. By Jon ...

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Southpaw extends Tactic digital asset management suite

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Randall Newton

Five new products help media and entertainment content creators.   Every industry is coping with an explosion in digital assets ...