SIGGRAPH 2012 chair Rebecca Strzelec addresses the media prior to this year's show in Los Angeles. She estimates that approximately 5,000 more square-feet of floor space was sold for this year's exhib ...
August 7, 2012
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Sunnyvale, CA’s AMD (www.amd.com) launched the FirePro A300 Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for entry-level and mainstream desktop workstations. Featuring AMD Eyefi ...
LOS ANGELES — Alembic 1.1, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Lucasfilm Ltd., released its newest improvements and updates at this year’s ACM SIGGRAPH Conf ...
GLENDALE, CA — DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. has launched OpenVDB (openvdb.org), a previously proprietary sparse volume data format, to the Open Source community. OpenVDB enables a dramatic increase ...
August 6, 2012
GLENDALE, CA — Digital Domain is one of the first studios to adopt DreamWorks Animation SKG’s open source release of OpenVDB, a powerful tool for use in volumetric effects. OpenVDB uses a new data str ...
NEW YORK - Toronto-based Mr.X will expand to New York City with the opening of a new visual effects facility this fall. The 4,000 square foot space will be set up to handle the creation of photoreal C ...
LOS ANGELES — At the SIGGRAPH show this week, PipelineFX will highlight two new additions to its Qube! render farm management family: a new app named Qube! MobileView, which makes viewing and managing ...
CHICAGO — On August 25, an expert panel of top voiceover actors, talent agents, casting directors and ad executives will come together for That’s Voiceover! (http://thatsvoiceover.com), a seminar desi ...
LOS ANGELES — At the SIGGRAPH show earlier this month, Oxford, UK-based motion capture system developer Vicon (www.vicon.com) demonstrated its new Blade 2 motion capture processing software. Blade has ...
LOS ANGELES — Autodesk has announced new extensions for its Maya 2013 and 3DS Max 2013 3D animation software titles, which are included in the company’s Entertainment Creation Suites 2013. Available t ...