Autodesk Joins Open Design Alliance to Fast Track Improvements to Interoperability. Below is Amy Bunszel, Autodesk vice president of Digital Engineering Products, her words about this event. Today, we’re pleased to share that Autodesk is becoming a member of the Open Design Alliance (ODA), a nonprofit technology consortium specializing in providing support and access to[…..] […]
High performance AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs to power COVID-19 focused research at Stanford School of Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, University of Toronto and other institutions across the U.S., Europe, and India AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a second round of high-performance technology contributions to assist in the global[…..] […]
Pixologic’s livestream announcing ZBrushCore 2021. Pixologic has released ZBrushCore 2021, the latest version of its cut-down edition of ZBrush targeted at hobbyists, students, 3D printing enthusiasts and illustrators. The update – once again, free to existing users – adds ZRemesher, ZBrush’s automated retopology system, and dynamic retopology, plus the MicroPoly system for mimicking woven fabrics[…..] […]
On September 1, 2020, Microsoft launched a new AI-powered tool targeted at spotting deepfakes for analyzing videos and still photos with the help of a manipulation score which is generated by the tool. Named as Video Authenticator, it generates “a percentage chance, or confidence score,” which, says Microsoft, indicates if the media or photograph has[…..] […]
The first release of the 2.9 series is here! Building on the success of the 2.8 series, Blender 2.90 continues to polish the user experience, introducing improvements to EEVEE, Cycles, sculpt, VR, animation, modeling, UV editing and so much more. Blender integrates industry standard libraries such as Intel Embree, Intel OpenImageDenoise and NVidia Optix to[…..] […]
Autodesk is to roll out 3ds Max Indie, its reduced-price subscription to the 3D animation software for artists earning under $100,000/year, to a wider range of countries on 7 August 2020. The change – announced in emails to existing subscribers reposted on social media – will make 3ds Max Indie subscriptions available in countries throughout[…..] […]
Blender users will soon get their own official RenderMan plugin, Pixar has announced. The integration, which will be released alongside RenderMan 24, will support all of the heavyweight VFX and animation renderer’s latest features, including new CPU/GPU rendering system RenderMan XPU. New official Pixar plugin supersedes previous community-developed tools Blender has had RenderMan integrations in[…..] […]
More than 150 Designs in Development, Including 20 Verified Under New Intel Evo Platform Brand Intel launches 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® Iris® Xe graphics, the world’s best processors for thin-and-light laptops1, delivering up to 2.7x faster content creation2, more than 20% faster office productivity3 and more than 2x faster gaming plus streaming4[…..] […]
Frame.io has just announced some major upgrades to its services and apps, which includes everything from the online app to FCP X integration updates. Image: Frame.io Heading up the new announcement is the official launch of the Frame.io Transfer App. Frame.io Transfer gives users more customisable control over how assets are moved. Users can both[…..] […]
Pixologic has released ZBrush 2021.1, a free bugfix update to the digital sculpting software that enables users to choose the way in which it works with Windows Ink. The release, which is intended to reduce lag when sculpting on Windows tablets like the Surface Pro, enables users to set the software to handle Windows Ink[…..] […]
