Sketchbook leaves Autodesk to continue development under a new independent company Thomas Heermann – the Vice President of Automotive, Concept Design, and XR at Autodesk – has announced on Linkedin that Sketchbook is leaving the Autodesk stable into the stewardship of a new independent company called Sketchbook, The Sketchbook app has a long history, but[…..] […]
Adobe has announced an overhaul of its Substance suite of tools, aligning the branding and subscription offering with the rest of its products. All the apps have been given the Adobe logo treatment in a new green colour designed to demarcate the 3D apps. Substance Alchemist has been renamed Substance Sampler which perhaps more clearly describes[…..] […]
Shout! Factory has set release dates for four new Blu-ray Disc editions of animated films from the acclaimed Laika animation studio. The new “Laika Studios Edition” releases will offer digital remastered versions of each film in collectible packaging, plus new bonus materials, including interviews with the studio’s animation team, never-before-seen animation test footage, and feature-length[…..] […]
Highlighting deep support from a flourishing roster of GeForce partners, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher delivered a virtual keynote at COMPUTEX 2021 in Taipei last Tuesday. Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA’s GeForce business, announced a pair of powerful new gaming GPUs — the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti — and detailed the[…..] […]
at Computex 2021, Intel announced two new additions to the lineup of 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. These new processors, combined with Intel’s co-engineering work with independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), continue Intel’s leadership in mobile compute — delivering the world’s best processors for thin-and-light Windows-based laptops.1 Intel also introduced its[…..] […]
The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.93 LTS, the latest version in its Long Term Support initiative. New features include the addition of 22 new nodes to the Geometry Nodes Editor; the ability to create, edit and expand masks in the sculpting toolset; create stylised grease pencil lines around 3d objects; a[…..] […]
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5 in early access, with a stable release to follow in 2022. The much-anticipated next-gen version of the game engine and real-time rendering system features a wide range of disruptive new technologies, from geometry streaming and real-time GI to new character rigging, animation, level design and audio tools. New[…..] […]
Unity Technologies has updated ArtEngine, its AI-based material-processing software. New features in ArtEngine 2021.4 and 2021.5 include automated masking of visual features in an image, and the option to export and share ArtEngine projects with other artists. Users of the Studio edition of the software get a new command-line interface. An AI-based toolset to[…..] […]
“Solid-fluid Interaction With Surface-tension-dominant Contact” © 2021 Peking University, Beijing Film Academy, Dartmouth College, and Texas A&M University Programming to Feature 191 Projects From 22 Countries, Including Art Papers Best in Show CHICAGO—SIGGRAPH 2021 announces 191 selected research projects from 22 countries as part of both its Technical and Art Papers programs this summer. The[…..] […]
On May 12, Autodesk has completed our acquisition of Upchain, a provider of instant-on, cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) solutions. The addition of Upchain to the Autodesk portfolio accelerates our mission to deliver the next-generation software platform for design and manufacturing and creates more value for customers by removing collaboration[…..] […]
