The final battle sequence in The Avengers presented significant technical and artistic challenges to Industrial Light and Magic.
August 9, 2012
PORTLAND, OR — Red Giant has released Knoll Light Factory 3, a major update to the advanced 3D lens flare system. Co-developed with Academy Award winning VFX supervisor John Knoll, the new Light Facto ...
August 8, 2012
LOS ANGELES — After demonstrating its first full body scanner at SIGGRAPH in 2000, 3dMD brought its latest generation technology to this year’s SIGGRAPH show in LA. While the 3dMDbody System is capabl ...
LOS ANGELES — Luxion, a provider of advanced rendering and lighting technology, has introduced KeyShotVR (www.keyshot.com), an all new technology that allows interactive viewing of photographic, high- ...
LOS ANGELES — Dominick Spina has been appointed vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for the newly formed LightWave 3D Group, which is a division of NewTek. Spina will work closely with the ...
LOS ANGELES — The LightWave 3D Group (www.lightwve3d.com), a division of NewTek, introduced Version 11.5 of its LightWave 3D modeling, animation and rendering software at the recent SIGGRAPH show. A c ...
LOS ANGELES — Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) has introduced the Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2013. The software offers interactive full-frame performance on the new ...
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) launched the second generation of its Maximus workstation platform, which now features the Kepler GPU architecture. Originally introduced last Novemb ...
August 7, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Toronto’s Side Effects Software has introduced new pricing for its Houdini 3D animation tool. The price reduction is an effort by the company to grow the global community. Simplified bra ...
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Boxx Technologies (www.boxxtech.com) showed their newly redesigned RenderPro and upgraded RenderBoxx solutions.