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Project Gooseberry puts Blender to the test

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Randall Newton

The crowd-funded open production will unite 12 global teams to create a feature-length animation using only open source tools, including ...

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Southpaw brings its workflow management to Unity game development platform

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Randall Newton

The larger the project, the more developers need workflow management. The Unity utility is a commercial add-on to the open ...

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Tactic deploys digital asset management to Amazon Web Services

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Randall Newton

One-click cloud deployment, with as much expansion room for assets as any customer will ever need.   The open source ...

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Blender releases Cycles ray-tracing render engine with more permissive open source license

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Randall Newton

Cycles joins a variety of CG code libraries released to open source in the past few months. The primary Blender ...

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Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

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Randall Newton

The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

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Aras brings first 3D PDF conversion to PLM platforms

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Randall Newton

By using 3D PDF Aras avoids the need to work with competing proprietary 3D data formats, making an open visualization ...

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Southpaw updates Tactic digital asset workflow manager

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Randall Newton

Version 4.0 adds more advanced data connection technology and increased configurability to help media organizations design their unique digital workflows. ...

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Southpaw launches open source Tactic Team for Mac

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Randall Newton

Every feature in the Windows version of this digital production asset management system is included.  Southpaw Technology has released a ...

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Thingiverse bans functional gun parts

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Randall Newton

The user-contributed library of 3D models for MakerBot printing says it wants to distribute models with “a positive impact.” Thingiverse, ...

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Autodesk Jitterbit alliance offers “no-coding” connections from PLM 360 to ERP and CRM

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Randall Newton

New Autodesk PLM 360 Connect offers business application data integration. Jitterbit has backed away from its open source roots. Autodesk has ...