Tag: Katana
Pixar Releases RenderMan 25 with Advanced Denoising
Pixar Animation Studios today released version 25 of RenderMan, its award-winning technology for rendering animation and visual effects. The latest version features advanced denoising...
Cannes: ‘Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia’ Sparks a New Adventure for a Familiar Heroine
***This interview originally appeared in the May '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 320)***
For the past three decades, Thorsten Wegener has been producing high-profile...
WIA Announces Scholarship Program Industry Partners for 2022
Women in Animation is continuing to expand its ongoing WIA Scholarship Program with workshops, tutoring sessions, software packages and cash prizes for recipients of...
VIEW Conference Adds Virtual ‘Encanto’ Session, Houdini & Epic Games Reveals
Building on its robust hybrid program for 2021, Italy's VIEW Conference (Oct. 17-22) has announced a special virtual presentation on the making of Disney's...
Hybrid VIEW Conference Announces Massive Free Program for 2021
Italy's premiere animation, VFX and computer graphics gathering VIEW Conference has unveiled its full program of events for this year's 22nd edition.
VIEW Conference 2021...
August Tech Reviews: Autodesk’s Maya ’22, 3ds Max ’22, Nvidia RTX A6000 & Boris FX’s Silhouette 2021
Maya 2022
It's been a while since I’ve typed out a review of Maya. This is mostly because Autodesk has been doing a slew of...
Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Nuke 13, HP ZBook Fury 15 G7
Foundry's Nuke 13
Back in March, Foundry came out with the latest and greatest version of its flagship: Nuke 13 brings some pretty fantastic 3D...
Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Katana 4.0 and Boris FX’s Mocha Pro 2021
Foundry's Katana 4.0
Late last year, Foundry released the 4.0 version of its look development/scene assembly/lighting tool Katana. Within that release are some substantial improvements...
April Tech Reviews: Blender 2.91, Stan Winston School of Character Arts & FXPHD
Blender 2.91
Learning how to be a 3D artist involves understanding technique, workflow and best practices more than knowing specific programs. Sure, you can dive...
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 23
Pixar has released RenderMan version 23, featuring next-level artist interactivity, enhanced support for Pixar’s USD (Universal Scene Description), and first-class integration with SideFX’s recent...
Technicolor’s Mill Film Adelaide Up and Running
Global movie company Technicolor has launched a new post-production studio in Adelaide, Australia. The group’s first Southern Hemisphere operation, operating under the Mill Film...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
The Mane Event: ‘The Lion King’ Takes Pride in Virtual Production
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
One of the more surreal moments experienced by animation supervisor Andy...
Pixar Releases RenderMan 22.5 with Revamped Houdini Plugin
Pixar Animation Studios’ tech team have unveiled RenderMan 22.5, featuring a completely rewritten RenderMan for Houdini plugin along with several important new features and...
April Tech Reviews
Wacom’s Cintiq 16
What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions?
Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...
Mikros Animation Scales with AWS Cloud for Paramount’s ‘Sherlock Gnomes’
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
Foundry Builds on Google Cloud for Athera VFX Workflow Tech
Timed to FMX in Germany, Foundry announces Google Cloud Platform as the underlying cloud service provider for Athera. Known in beta as “Project Elara,"...
SIGGRAPH: Cloud Rendering, Real-Time, MoCap & VR Developments
Conductor Technologies launched its Conductor cloud rendering platform for VFX, VR and animation studios. The first enterprise-grade rendering service of its kind, Conductor is...
A Tentacle Spectacle
Pixar digs deep to make a septopus named Hank — arguably the studio’s most technically complicated character ever — a convincing foil in Andrew Stanton’s fish...
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Video: League of Legends - Taliyah: Homecoming
Austin, Texas studio Powerhouse Animation collaborates with Riot Games on a lovely trailer piece starring the game's young...
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