The final battle sequence in The Avengers presented significant technical and artistic challenges to Industrial Light and Magic.
August 9, 2012
LOS ANGELES — After demonstrating its first full body scanner at SIGGRAPH in 2000, 3dMD brought its latest generation technology to this year’s SIGGRAPH show. While the 3dMDbody System is capable of b ...
August 8, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Luxion, a provider of advanced rendering and lighting technology, has introduced KeyShotVR (www.keyshot.com), an all new technology that allows interactive viewing of photographic, high- ...
LOS ANGELES — Altair, a provider of simulation technology and engineering services, featured a HyperWorks simulation solution (www.altairhyperworks.com) at SIGGRAPH recently. RADIOSS, a next-generatio ...
LOS ANGELES — Dominick Spina has been appointed vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for the newly formed LightWave 3D Group, which is a division of NewTek. Spina will work closely with the ...
LOS ANGELES — The LightWave 3D Group (www.lightwve3d.com), a division of NewTek, introduced Version 11.5 of its LightWave 3D modeling, animation and rendering software at the SIGGRAPH show. A complete ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...