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May ‘19 Tech Reviews: Titan RTX, Maya 2019 & Modo 13
Nvidia’s Titan RTX
Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...
Magic Light Pictures Flies High with ‘Zog’ Special
Over the past decade, we’ve come to expect great things from the discerning animation production team of Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic...
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...
HouseSpecial’s Armadillo Love Story Makes a Date with Portland Airport
Portland, Oregon-based animation studio HouseSpecial and director Kirk Kelley have launched a new short about the love life of one of America’s odder creatures,...
The Highway Rat: He Just Loves to Steal Cake!
The new animated special The Highway Rat has all the ingredients of a classic animated special.
After producing The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on...
SIGGRAPH: Autodesk’s Next, Virtual Studios, VR & Moving to Mars
See previous re-caps and announcements here.
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Autodesk as ever has taken the opportunity of SIGGRAPH to highlight the next generation of its storytelling and collaboration...
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...
SIGGRAPH: Autodesk Showcases Design Animation Features
Autodesk is on hand at SIGGRAPH to present the latest design animation solutions for Maya 2017 and an update to 3ds Max. Maya 2017...
Daily News Bytes
Here’s Why Hasbro Just Bought an Animation Studio
Fortune dishes the details on the potential opened up by the acquisition of Boulder Media announced yesterday,...
Toon Boom Releases Harmony 14
Toon Boom Animation has released Harmony 14, the latest iteration of its popular 2D solution. The new version boasts additional tools for artists and...
Bait Restructures in New Cardiff Facility
Cardiff-based Bait Studio has restructured and invested in a new facility, bringing its visual effects and motion graphics, animation and interactive divisions together on...
Animals and Plants – In Space!
Framestore and MPC each faced distinct challenges in animating Guardians of the Galaxy's Rocket and Groot.
Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy is like a...
June 2014 Tech Reviews
Chaos V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max
There is no way that I'm going to be able to fit all the features in V-Ray 3.0. Is...
April/May 2014 Tech Reviews
ToonBoom's Animate Pro 3.0
ToonBoom has definitely carved a niche for itself in the animation world, from the production-level Harmony products down to the tools...
February 2014 Tech Reviews
Best of the Year
Our brilliant tech critic picks 12 of his favorite releases of the past year:
Lagoa. This web-based 3D system with a progressive,...
ILM and Sony Picture Imageworks Release Alembic 1.5
Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have released their jointly developed, open sourse project Alembic 1.5. The new tool facilitates...
DWA Releases OpenVDB 1
DreamWorks Animation is seeking to redefine volumetric storage and processing with the release of a new open source framework developed by studio engineers for...
Animation Mentor Accepting New VFX Program Applicants
Online animation and visual effects school Animation Mentor is now accepting applications for the inaugural Summer 2013 term of its new VFX Fundamentals program....
The Top 12 Tech Tools of 2012
Our in-the-know visual effects expert and critic picks his favorite releases of the year (in no particular order!):
Digital Molecular Matter. Physical simulation system found...
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