Tag: Houdini
From Rockers to Walkers: Secrets of New V-Ray for Houdini from Ingenuity Studios
Chaos Group has released V-Ray for Houdini, a production-proven renderer built for high-end VFX and animation projects. Artists can now assemble their scenes in...
The Mane Event: ‘The Lion King’ Takes Pride in Virtual Production
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
One of the more surreal moments experienced by animation supervisor Andy...
Fox Renderfarm Backs Ambitious CG Fanimation ‘Dragon Ball Z Legacy’
A group of international CG artists and super Dragon Ball fans are teaming up to create a 3D reimagining of the iconic action-anime in...
Pixar Releases RenderMan 22.5 with Revamped Houdini Plugin
Pixar Animation Studios’ tech team have unveiled RenderMan 22.5, featuring a completely rewritten RenderMan for Houdini plugin along with several important new features and...
April Tech Reviews
Wacom’s Cintiq 16
What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions?
Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...
Po Bounces Back in ‘Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny’
***This story originally ran in the December ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 285)***
When Po, the beloved hero of the three Kung Fu Panda...
Building a Girl-and-Robot Dream Team for Netflix’s ‘Next Gen’
This Friday, Netflix will debut the new CG-animated feature Next Gen, written and directed by Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander, which features the voices...
HouseSpecial’s Armadillo Love Story Makes a Date with Portland Airport
Portland, Oregon-based animation studio HouseSpecial and director Kirk Kelley have launched a new short about the love life of one of America’s odder creatures,...
Foundry Builds on Google Cloud for Athera VFX Workflow Tech
Timed to FMX in Germany, Foundry announces Google Cloud Platform as the underlying cloud service provider for Athera. Known in beta as “Project Elara,"...
‘At the Ark at 8’ Harbors with SC Films
London-based sales company SC Films (White Fang) has revealed its latest family animated feature At the Ark at 8 (3D), a French-German-Belgian CG co-pro...
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...
Animation & Rigging Solutions Sweep Academy Tech Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well...
The Stunning VFX of ‘The Shape of Water’
VFX Master Dennis Berardi discusses the stunning effects of Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.
There are few directors who've loved monsters, creatures and...
A Dandelion Hopes for a New Life in Kevin Hudson’s ‘Weeds’
The recent anti-immigrant climate in the U.S. had a deep impact on animation director Kevin Hudson. The director of the new animated short Weeds...
DI4D Receives £900k Growth Investment
Scotland-based animation and VFX studio DI4D has secured £900,000 (about $1.1 million USD) in investment funds from Percipient Capital and its shareholders, which will...
Authentic Mayhem
VFX crews set the ground rules for the firefights, weapons and supervillain antics for Warner Bros.’ most-recent DC Comics adaptation, Suicide Squad.
Suicide Squad from...
Marza Movie Pipeline Pushes Unity Beyond the Gaming Sphere
With each animated blockbuster release, the boundaries of what is possible in computer graphics is pushed by technical and artistic inches. But behind every...
Autodesk Acquires Arnold Developer Solid Angle
Amid the broadcasting tech buzz emanating from the NAB Show in Las Vegas, software giant Autodesk announces it has acquired Solid Angle -- the...
SIGGRAPH: Pixar Presents RenderMan Art & Science Fair
Pixar will present unprecedented insights into the development of RenderMan’s advanced RIS technology at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles this month, and to drive...
VR Comes to V-Ray
Chaos Group has announced V-Ray 3.2 for 3ds Max -- the latest version is compatible with 3ds Max 2016 and for the first time...
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