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Animation News: How Cinesite and Substance Recreated a Legendary Medieval City for Liongate’s ‘Robin Hood’
Allegorithmic’s Substance Designer and Painter software were used extensively to create the town of Nottingham for Liongate’s ‘Robin Hood’ film, offering industry and consumers alike stunning visual continuity and portrayal of realism.
V-Ray Days SIGGRAPH—Summoning Thanos for a VFX Breakdown
Chaos Group has its V-Days Events for this year’s SIGGRAPH. The lineup is tremendous and includes information from many of Hollywood’s recent hit films.
Territory Studio—Cinema 4D Powers Screen Visuals in ‘Blade Runner 2049’
How does one develop technology from the original Blade Runner film and make it feel authentically like it evolved over three decades? That was part of the task at hand for Territory Studio and Cinema 4D.
Chaos Group’s V-Ray Rendering Technology Wins 2017 Academy Award
Chaos Group founder Vladimir Koylazov, aka “Vlado”, will receive an Academy Award Plaque at the 2017 Academy Awards, recognizing V-Ray’s role in bringing realistic CGI to the big screen.
3D News: The Future Group Demos First Mixed Reality (MR) Based on Unreal Engine
Hyper-Realistic Feature Film-Quality Sets and Effects Integrating People and Objects In Real-Time,
New Patent-Pending Software With Origins In “The Matrix Trilogy” and more…
Mac 3D News: Andersson Technologies updates SynthEyes 1608
Leading camera tracking match-moving software used in film and broadcast industries gets many updates including animated scene illumination and more in latest 1608 updates.
Boris FX Releases Boris Continuum Complete 10 for Avid
BCC 10 draws upon the strength of past releases to deliver the most comprehensive plug-in package for Avid editors. New features include integrated mocha technology for planar motion tracking and masking, BCC Beauty Studio, a skin smoothing and retouching plug-in and BCC Title Studio, Boris FX’s next generation 3D titling and motion graphics tool.
SwiftCapture: New OS X Video Capture and Animation Software
The new software product designed for easy high-performance video capture features an intuitive user interface that allows anyone to create high-quality video recordings, time-lapse captures and stop-motion movies from a variety of video input devices.
The Foundry discontinues Keylight for Final Cut Pro
September is the last month that The Foundry will be selling and supporting key plugins for Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects. The news is a blow to the FCP community who have remained with FCP 7 and 6.
Blackmagic’s Fusion 8 coming to the Mac: visual effects and motion software
Long desired Blackmagic Design’s Fusion is finally coming to the Mac platform in Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio—public beta now open
Media 100 Launches Free Educational Licensing Program
Boris FX and MacVideo Promo today announce a limited-time program that provides free, perpetual Media 100 site licenses to qualified educational institutions.
EIZO ships new 4K ColorEdge High-End Displays
EIZO is shipping new 4K high-end monitors to the VFX, Film, photography and 2D-3D markets in North America.
Is the new Retina iMac the “iMac Pro” the market seems to be screaming for?
Apple’s new Retina iMac is a killer machine aimed squarely at a segment of the Pro market who badly need the 5k monitors that will transform their creativity and productivity in their work. This is a considerable segment of their users, but the internals of this machine happen to match up with what is being touted as the “fastest single-threaded workstation” in the world aimed at a whole lot of Apple’s other customers, just not on the right side of the OS divide.
Autodesk Desktop Subscription for Smoke 2015 Now Available
Autodesk Smoke 2015 is now available by Desktop Subscription with various levels of pricing over time…
NAB: Autodesk releases Smoke 2015 and optimized for new Mac Pro
Autodesk adds powerful effects controls, integration with Apple’s Final Cut Pro X and hardware optimization for the new Mac Pro in the latest Smoke 2015
