Tag: Renderman
Shooting for the Sky
France’s TeamTO celebrates its 10th anniversary by releasing its first feature Yellowbird, which it animated completely in house.
Telling stories always involves creating parallels, but...
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...
Pixar Releases RenderMan for Katana
Pixar Animation has released a new iteration of its Oscar-winning RenderMan rendering software that is bridged with The Foundry's KATANA asset-based look development and...
There Be a Cunning Dragon!
Joe Letteri, the Oscar-nominated vfx supervisor of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, discusses the fine art of crafting the dragon, those spiders and...
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,...
Moves Like Jaegers
Led by John Knoll and Hal Hickel, the brilliant team at ILM helps create Pacific Rim's epic battle between giant robots and sea creatures.
Pacific...
SIGGRAPH: The Foundry Announces Collabs, Developments
Amid all the buzz-worthy happenings at the SIGGRAPH confab in Anaheim, software developer The Foundry has a number of exciting announcements for animators and...
Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server 18
Pixar Animation Studios announced the release of RenderMan Pro Server 18, continuing the studio’s commitment to advancing the state of the art in cinematic...
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...
Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server, Studio Updates
Pixar Animation Studios has announced the simultaneous releases of RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 and RenderMan Studio 4.0, extensively upgrading the Oscar-winning render software widely...
Senior VP of Communications Don Levy to Leave Sony
Don Levy, the well-respected and tireless senior VP of communications at Sony Pictures Digital, is leaving the company on June 4. Levy, who has been...
Pixar Launches RenderMan into the Cloud
Pixar Animation Studios today launched a new cloud-based rendering service called RenderMan On Demand.
Developed in collaboration with cloud services provider GreenButton, Pixar says RenderMan...
Pixar Takes RenderMan for Maya 5.0 to SIGGRAPH
Pixar has unveiled the latest version of its RenderMan for Maya 5.0, featuring the latest technologies pioneered in RenderMan Pro Server 16.0, and scheduled...
Smurfs and the City – ‘The Smurfs’ in 3D
Peyo’s beloved little blue creatures come to CG life in Sony’s Smurfalicious 3-D hybrid extravaganza.
It’s been 53 years since Belgian artist Pierre “Peyo” Culliford came...
Wild, Wild Life: Creating the VFX of ‘Zookeeper’
They say that love conquers all, and in the latest CG-laced live-action effort from Sony Imageworks, love conquers the very laws of the animal...
Pixar Unleashes RenderMan Pro Server 16.0
Pixar Animation Studios has released version 16.0 of its Oscar-winning RenderMan Pro Server software. The new release offers innovative advancements in ray tracing technology,...
Pixar Slashes Prices for RenderMan Pro Server
Pixar is lopping 40 percent off the price of an individual license for its RenderMan Pro Server software.
The software, which has set an industry...
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