Originally posted on 9 July 2019. Start-up Secret Weapons has released EbSynth, an interesting free tool for converting video footage into stylised ‘motion paintings’. The software transfers the look of one or more manually generated style frames to those from the video, creating the look of hand-painted animation. Based on recent research in style transfer[…..] […]
Helix Core and ftrack Studio’s latest integration update provides version control, security, and traceability for digital assets in the film, animation, and video game industries. Perforce, the provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, have today announced a new technology partnership with ftrack. In partnering on this[…..] […]
Epic Games has released Twinmotion 2020.2, the latest version of tis Unreal-Engine-based real-time visualisation software, adding a range of new tools for creating architectural animations. The update also improves the visual quality of the software’s water and car paint materials, and adds new readymade tree, construction vehicle and aircraft models. An easy-to-use tool for visualising[…..] […]
Japanese developer Tsugi has released DSP Motion, an interesting new tool that lets users ‘draw’ sound effects for animation, motion graphics and real-time projects. The $49 app provides an inexpensive alternative to stock audio libraries, translating the motion of your stylus or mouse into abstract sounds that can be exported to editing software or[…..] […]
AMD’S next-generation Ryzen Zen 3 Series processors are coming out later this year. This was confirmed by AMD CEO Lisa Su herself, you said that no delays are expected for the upcoming products. A report from Igor’s Lab suggests that the AMD Ryzen 9 4950X will have a massive boost frequency of 4.8GHz. This is[…..] […]
Denuvo launches anti-tamper and anti-cheat protection for mobile gaming industry Finnish game developer Traplight introduces Battle Legion with the new technology against cheating and tampering AMSTERDAM – August 4th, 2020 – Denuvo by Irdeto, the global leader in Video Games Protection and Anti-Piracy Technology, today announces the launch of a new anti-tamper and anti-cheat solution[…..] […]
With a focus on new capabilities and ease-of-use, version 2.1 of Bifrost for Maya makes it possible to build compounds using rapid point-cloud lookups, nearest-neighbor searches, and raycasting. Other highlights include an improved interface for setting datatypes on nodes, making graphs more readable, and significant improvement in file IO. Here’s a quick summary of some[…..] […]
the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California offers a sobering statistic. Roughly 30% of LAUSD students are not regularly attending their virtual classes. Some 15% of the district’s students have not attended a single class. For Los Angeles’ sprawling system of more than 600,000 students and 24,000 teachers, remote learning[…..] […]
Adobe has released Substance Painter 2020.2. the latest version of its 3D texture painting software, adding a long-awaited feature: the ability to paint across UDIM tiles. The update also adds the option to pause the Substance Painter engine while working, makes a number of improvements to overall performance, and reduces the size of project files[…..] […]
Foundry has released Mari 4.6v4, the latest update to its 3D texture painting software. Although it’s officially described as a maintenance release, it actually adds quite a number of new features, including a new local space mode for the transform tool and improvements to baking workflow. Since the orignal release of Mari 4.6, Foundry has[…..] […]
