Tag: Autodesk Maya
Glassbox Launches Virtual Camera Toolset DragonFly
Virtual production software company Glassbox Technologies announced the release of its powerful and accessible virtual camera plugin DragonFly from private beta for public use....
Studio Parovoz’s Animated ‘Koshchey’ Revives Russian Classics
Animag recently had the chance to hear from some of the creative forces behind Parovoz Studio’s upcoming CG-animated feature Koshchey: The True Story. This...
Ziva VFX 1.6 Introduces Automated Anatomy Transfers
Ziva Dynamics has launched Ziva VFX 1.6, bringing anatomy transfer capabilities to its highly advanced character creation software. With Anatomy Transfer, artists can take...
Autodesk Teams with Rokoko on World’s Largest Mo-Cap Marketplace
Imagine being able to drag and drop an animation file created by the motion-capture studio behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That is now...
Animating the Outsider Experience: Maryam Farahzadi
This week, we caught up with Maryam Farahzadi, an Iranian-born, L.A.-based animation director who is currently working at CreatorUp Studio. Her two animated shorts...
Netflix Kids’ Dominique Bazay Unmasks ‘Super Monsters’
We caught up with Dominique Bazay, Director of Kids & Family Content at Netflix, just in time for Halloween to hear all about the...
The Best of SIGGRAPH 2018
This year at SIGGRAPH we had a few standouts for advances in technology, but also for paradigm shifts in terms of services for at...
Mikros Animation Scales with AWS Cloud for Paramount’s ‘Sherlock Gnomes’
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
Ziva VFX 1.4 Puts Real-World Physics into Character Creation
Just ahead of the SIGGRAPH confab, Ziva Dynamics has launched Ziva VFX 1.4, a major update to its character creation technology that adds five...
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 22
Pixar today released RenderMan 22, the highly anticipated new version of the Academy Award-winning 3D rendering software for animation and visual effects. This major...
Guru Explores ‘Space Between Stars’
Toronto’s hot animation hub Guru Studio (Paw Patrol, True and the Rainbow Kingdom, The Breadwinner) has unveiled the first trailer for its latest short...
‘Sgt. Stubby’: Tale of a Terrific Terrier
***This story was written for the May 2018 issue of Animation Magazine No. 280***
Inspirations for animated projects can arrive from the unlikeliest of sources....
Muppet Babies: Revisiting the Babies’ Rainbow Connection
*** This story originally appeared in the April 2018 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 279)***
Disney Junior delivers an awesome new CG-animated reboot of Muppet Babies, packed...
SIGGRAPH: Facial Animation Advances, Fabric Engine & the French Contingent
Adobe Research has built on its Project StyLit experiments to develop a new project called “Stylized Facial Animation” -- a tool for automating rotoscopy...
SIGGRAPH: Cloud Rendering, Real-Time, MoCap & VR Developments
Conductor Technologies launched its Conductor cloud rendering platform for VFX, VR and animation studios. The first enterprise-grade rendering service of its kind, Conductor is...
SIGGRAPH: Massive Announces Prime 9.0, AI Horse & Rider Agent
Massive, makers of the Academy Award-winning crowd simulation software Massive Prime, have announced the upcoming release of Version 9.0 of its flagship product, as...
SIGGRAPH: Shotgun Announces Pipeline Award Winners
Shotgun Software announced the winners of the third annual Pipeline Awards at SIGGRAPH in Anaheim on Tuesday. The Pipeline Awards recognize tools and individuals...
Autodesk Acquires Shotgun Software
Autodesk has agreed to acquire Shotgun Software, a developer of scalable, cloud-based production tracking, review and asset management software for the film, television and...
Thinkbox Software Announces Krakatoa for MAXON CINEMA 4D
Thinkbox Software has acquired code to bring its particle renderer, Krakatoa, into MAXON's CINEMA 4D modeling and animation software. Initial efforts to link the...
Pixar’s RenderMan Studio 18 Is Here!
Pixar Animation Studios has announced the release of RenderMan Studio 18, incorporating all of the performance and feature advantages of RenderMan Pro Server 18...
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