NVIDIA Quadro K4000 Helps Pixomondo Create Alien Worlds for Star Trek Into Darkness
Pixomondo is an international visual effects company that utilizes a 24-hour production cycle enabled by a global network of facilities for feature film, television and commercial projects. The company’s artistic prowess is further evident in its stunning visual effects work for J.J. Abrams' epic Star Trek Into Darkness.
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N3V Games' New "Dead On Arrival 2" Mobile Game Captures Zombie Motion with iPi Motion Capture
The next wave of zombie action is about to be unleashed in Dead On Arrival 2 – the latest installment in the popular mobile videogame created by the Queensland, Australia-based N3V Games. Playing a key role in streamlining the character animation development was the popular markerless motion capture software solution iPi Motion Capture from iPi Soft.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Now Available
Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 for Mac OS and Windows. The product is available as an individual license or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Designed for both photography enthusiasts and professionals alike, Lightroom 5 adds critical photo editing capabilities and creates groundbreaking workflows.
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SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery
Highlighting all forms of electronic and digital media art created in the last two years, the SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery demonstrates pieces that explore an idea, tell a story, or create an experience in a novel and engaging way.
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CrazyTalk 7 Review: Easy Facial Animation That's Great Fun
Reallusion has designed a great application that just gets better and better. CrazyTalk 7 is my choice for application of the year. Seriously, it's fun, but at the same time very powerful. You'll only be limited by your imagination.
Ricky Grove [gToon] - Staff Columnist - 1 opinion posted |
Cantina Creative Gives Iron Man 3 a 'Heads Up' with MAXON CINEMA 4D
MAXON announced that Cantina Creative, the design and visual effects studio located in Culver City, Calif., relied on its popular CINEMA 4D software to generate more than one hundred 2D and 3D visual effects shots that appear throughout the blockbuster Disney/Marvel Studios superhero sequel, Iron Man 3.
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Lumion® 3.2 update - Why architects get more clients!
important improvements and 100 small tweaks in Lumion, which together add exciting new functionality. The changes take another step towards making Lumion the ultimate software in 3D visualization for Architects, Designers and other AEC professionals.
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SIGGRAPH 2013 Releases Emerging Technologies Preview
SIGGRAPH 2013 Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications of the latest developments in several fields, from 3D displays and interactive input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.
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Digital-Tutors Releases New Introduction to Maya 2014, Introduction to MARI 2.0 and More
Digital-Tutors, providers of the world's largest CG, VFX and digital art training resource, released eight new tutorials and 23 so far for the month of May. Today's release is highlighted by the brand new Introduction to Maya 2014 filled with over 10 hours of training on the Maya interface, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, dynamics, lighting, rendering and more.
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Monsters in Our Midst
With two seasons of NBC’s Grimm now behind them, Portland, Oregon-based HIVE-FX has explored all sorts of ways to turn people into monsters. Now, thanks to a new pipeline they created between Maxon’s Cinema 4D, Autodesk’s Maya and Adobe’s After Effects, those fairy tale-inspired monsters are even more frightening, and in a more cinematic way, too.
Meleah Maynard |
Mastering UDK Game Development
Hands-on references like Mastering UDK Game Development are very useful. The book aims to teach you how to use the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) based on easy to follow exercises (tutorials). Mastering UDK Game Development takes users one step at a time, and each of the 8 chapters takes on a specific project from start to finish.
Sergio Rosa [nemirc] - Sr Staff Writer |
Adobe Cloud Silver Lining Playbook
The passage of spring is never complete without an announcement from Adobe in regards to exciting software enhancements. With the spring of 2013, Adobe Cloud adds a silver lining to their usual upgrades/updates playbook, within their video, photography, design, and web family of product lines.
Dee-Marie - Contributing Columnist |
Caustic's New Visualizer Plug-in and Series2 Cards Bring Real-Time Ray-Tracing to 3D Applications
Traditionally, 3D artists and designers have been forced to run many test renders in order to see what their work looks like in its final rendered state. That is, until Caustic's Visualizer plug-in for Maya and their (just released) Series2 ray-tracing accelerator cards.
Ricky Grove [gToon] - Staff Columnist |
NVIDIA Quadro K4000 in Review
The NVIDIA Quadro K4000 is a new high performance graphics card fromNVIDIA. It retails for around $800 USD making it a freaking steal! For many real-world applications you get performance very close to its bigger brother, the NVIDIA Quadro K5000, but for less than half the price.
Kurt Foster [Modulok] - Staff Columnist |
Three Recent Computer Graphics Books From Focal Press
Focal Press has always been a favorite publisher of mine. I've chosen three recent Focal Press releases to tell you about. The subjects range from starting out in Adobe Illustrator, to learning "secret weapons" to animate in Flash, to figuring out how to create original stories and characters for your animated film.
Ricky Grove [gToon] - Staff Columnist |
Carbon Scatter 2 - Make Billions!
Carbon Scatter 2 is basically an advanced instancer. If you need millions, or perhaps billions, of things positioned pseudo-randomly (with tons of controls on exactly how that positioning occurs), Carbon Scatter 2 is worth investigating. It's a very deceptive little plug in. At first you think it's this simple, anemic little tool that you probably won't use much. Oh, how wrong you are!
Kurt Foster [Modulok] - Staff Columnist |
