LOS ANGELES — Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) has introduced the Caustic Visualizer viewport plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2013. The software offers interactive full-frame performance on th ...

August 8, 2012

LOS ANGELES — OptiTrack (www.optitrack.com) has expanded to the high-end motion capture market with the introduction of the Prime Series, a new family of motion capture cameras tailored specifically t ...

August 8, 2012

LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) launched the second generation of its Maximus workstation platform, which now features the Kepler GPU architecture. Originally introduced last Novemb ...

August 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Toronto’s Side Effects Software has introduced new pricing for its Houdini 3D animation tool. The price reduction is an effort by the company to grow the global community. Simplified bra ...

August 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES — South Carolina-based 3D Systems Corporation showcased its 3D content-to-print portfolio at the SIGGRAPH show in Los Angeles recently. The company’s new ProJet 3500 is capable of pri ...

August 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH, Boxx Technologies (www.boxxtech.com) showed their newly redesigned RenderPro and upgraded RenderBoxx solutions.

August 7, 2012

SIGGRAPH 2012 chair Rebecca Strzelec addresses the media prior to this year's show in Los Angeles. 

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 ...

August 7, 2012

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 Confe ...

August 7, 2012

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