SAN RAFAEL, CA – Autodesk (www.autodesk.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Avid's Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million. Softimage was founded in 1986 and is headqua ...

October 24, 2008

BEAVERTON, OR - E-on Software (www.e-onsoftware.com) has introduced two new products in its Vue line of software for creating natural 3D environments — Vue 7 Pioneer and Vue 7 Complete.

October 17, 2008

REDONDO BEACH, CA - Realscan 3D Inc. (www.realscan3d.com), which has proprietary scanning technology, recently completed extensive 3D scanning for Disney's talking dog comedy, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. ...

October 8, 2008

LOS ANGELES - James Cameron is using Giant Studios' (www.giantstudios.com) proprietary, realtime mocap system while shooting his much anticipated film Avatar. Giant's technology allows Cameron to dire ...

September 4, 2008

LONDON - Aardman Animations (www.aardman.com) recently took delivery of its third Maximum Throughput Sledgehammer HD!O file server and realtime, multi-format video device. Aardman's Broadcast and Comm ...

August 28, 2008

LOS ANGELES – Sony’s projection technology was recently used during the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles. The festival aimed to explore the expanding horizons of visual representati ...

August 26, 2008

SANTA CLARA, CA - Nvidia Corporation has announced the production release of Cuda 2.0, the latest version of its C language programming environment for GPUs. The programming environment enables softwa ...

August 22, 2008

SANTA MONICA, CA - Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com), a provider of facial animation solutions, recently partnered with Paul Debevec of the University of Southern California Institute for Creative ...

August 20, 2008

PRINCETON, NJ — cmiVFX | cmiStudios has introduced a Houdini software training video, shot in high definition, this time for effects TDs migrating from other fluid simulation software packages.

July 29, 2008

MONTREAL - On Thursday, July 17th, Softimage (www.softimage.com) will host an online event highlighting new features of its XSI 7 animation application. Animators can tune in to the Webcast at 12:00pm ...

July 11, 2008