Archive for July, 2010

What left Siggraph

This year there were many novelties among which the announcement of a new data exchange format, Alembic, by Sony Pictures Imageworks and ILM.
This format allows efficient export of animated geometry bakeada between 3D and compositing applications.
Other high points were the announcements of new versions of Vue, Lightwave, [...]

Pixologic bought Sculptris

Pixologic, ZBrush developers, joined their ranks Tomas Pettersson, the creator of Sculptris and of course their product.

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Plastic Animation Paper free

We can now freely available from PAP Pro 4 for Windows, this program is a great tool for traditional animation.

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Nukepedia

New online community around Nuke.

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Impressive dynamics simulator

Lagoa is a Costas Thiago development that is integrated as plugin for Softimage ICE greatly expand their potential, for now you can only see the teaser.