3D Animation and 3D Software

Sculptris - sculpting software sets new standards

2011-10-27T14:43:00.000+02:00

Enter a World of Digital Art Without Barriers.
Welcome to Sculptris.

Sculptris is an elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the technical and often tedious constraints typically associated with digital art.

If you're new to the world of digital sculpting, Sculptris is the ideal ground on which to get started. If on the other hand you're experienced in CG, what you will find in Sculptris is a blazingly fast way to realize your concepts.

It's intuitive, fun and user friendly, so you can focus as an artist on pure creativity.

Next Limit is pushing new boundaries

2011-09-02T10:56:00.000+02:00

A closer look at RealFlow 2012

On top of huge improvements of the Hybrido technology from Realflow 5 the new release has some staggering features and updates:

Dripping water, automatic foam generation, faster simulations and lower memory use
New emitters: Wet, Waterline, Splash&Foam, Wet&Foam
Faster input/output operations
Distance and velocity fields and velocity and vorticity maps can now be exported
Greater controllability of fluid surface – new method of combining particles and fluid fields.
Better control of the strength of interaction between objects and fluids
Secondary splashes

RealFlow 2012 now provides a built-in, easy-to-use tool to create fractured objects directly within your project.

The Retimer Tool in RealFlow 2012 works on any of the RealFlow 2012 elements and opens up a world of possibilities: Bullet time effects, reversed simulations, slow motion effects

We ask where is CUDA™ support?

RealFlow 2012 is a must have for fluid and dynamics simulation and the only thing we are waiting for is CUDA support that would allow the GPU to help calculate and simulate the scene and particle interacting.

NVIDIA:

CUDA™ is NVIDIA's parallel computing architecture. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPU.

With millions of CUDA-enabled GPUs sold to date, software developers, scientists and researchers are finding broad-ranging uses for CUDA, including image and video processing, computational biology and chemistry, fluid dynamics simulation, CT image reconstruction, seismic analysis, ray tracing, and much more.

iray - Physically Correct GPU Rendering Technology

2011-04-29T11:38:00.000+02:00

iray is an intuitive to operate, interactive, consistent, high-performance global illumination rendering technology that generates photorealistic imagery by simulating the physical behavior of light.

CUDA support
Unlike current ray-tracing renderers, iray does not depend on complex renderer specific shaders and settings to approximate global illumination. iray achieves its high level of performance by taking full advantage of the CUDA programming model, allowing interactive previewing on both single and multiple NVIDIA GPU platforms.

2011-02-21T18:06:00.000+01:00

RealFlow 5
RealFlow 5 byder på mange spændenede features. HYBRIDO er nok den mest opsigtsvækkende.
Video se her: Foam og splash

RealFlow bruger banebrydende partikel baserede teknikker til at simulere væsker, vandoverflader, stive legemer, bløde organer, fibre og masker for Visual Effects industrier.

RealFlow Renderkit
En ny tilføjelse til RealFlow teknologi er den RealFlow Renderkit. Den RealFlow RenderKit (RFRK) er et sæt værktøjer, der er designet til at lette den komplekse opgave for præstationen RealFlow ™ væsker. RFRK giver dig mulighed for at generere processuelle geometri på gøre tid, og også gøre enkelte væske partikler. Som en følge heraf vil RFRK dramatisk forenkle og fremskynde RealFlow ™ arbejdsprocessen.

Vue 9 - Digital nature

2011-02-21T17:30:00.001+01:00

Vue 9 indeholder en række store forbedringer, såsom dynamisk lysstyring, avanceret sten/klippe oprettelse, strømlinet terræn redigering og økosystem 4, sammen med signifikante forbedringer i den samlede ydeevne og meget mere præcis kunstnerisk kontrol.

In Short

EcoSystem 4

HyperBlob Technology

Rocky Mountains Fractal

Terrain Retopology

Improved Terrain Editor

Auto Saving and Scene Snapshots

Interactive Network Rendering

Native Cocoa

HDR Multi-Pass Rendering

Real-World Units

Catmull-Clark Subdivision

Improved Texture Management

Water demo of tessellation

2010-11-15T17:14:00.000+01:00

NVidia - Water Demo DX11 Tessellation

wiki:
A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.

Another tessellation from the Unigine_Heaven_DX11_Tessellation

New DirectX 11 Technology

2010-03-24T22:56:00.001+01:00

Nvidia:
In the DirectX 11 hair demonstration, long flowing hair is realistically simulated, generated and rendered on our next-generation GeForce GTX 480 using its unique parallel tessellation engines.

By moving the model and applying a simulated breeze, the hair billows and cascades naturally with accurate physical properties.

News from Industrial Light & Magic

2010-03-24T22:34:00.000+01:00

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), produced 850 of the approx. 1.000 shots in the most recent “Star Trek” film and created visual effects for six of the previous 10 editions in the series. The work required extensive demolition of planets, the creation of the Starship Enterprise and other spacecraft and creatures, as well as extensive digital matte paintings.

"This project marked our most ambitious effort on a "Star Trek" film to date. We tapped the iconic references from the series and previous films and really took them to the next level driven by J.J. Abrams’ creative vision," said Michael DiComo, ILM Digital Production Supervisor.

NVIDIA GPUs Power Visual Effects Nominees

2010-03-24T22:20:00.000+01:00

NVIDIA GPUs Power All 2010 Best Visual Effects Academy Award Nominees.

The nominated films — “Avatar”, “District 9” and “Star Trek” — all delivered unprecedented levels of sophistication and realism to the screen in the form of computer-generated fantasy and science-fiction worlds.

Vue - Digital Nature

2009-10-22T21:13:00.000+02:00

Vue ejes af E-on software. Vue serien er primært et 3d landskabsprogram. Vue bliver brugt indenfor de største film og spil produktioner. Udover at være et landskabsprogram, fungerer det også som et animations og arkitekt program.

E-on Software Nyhedsbrev- October 12, 2009

Vue 8 lanceres;:

CG Professionals
3D Artists
3D Entusiaster

Nye feautures:

3D Terrain Sculpting.
Giver dig mulighed for frit at forme terræn funktioner såsom udhæng og huler direkte ind Vue standard og proceduremæssige terræn.

Lokaliseret Infinite og proceduremæssige Terrain Sculpting.

Ny Directional Deplacement Engine til teksturer til at skabe mere detaljerede og livagtige
overflade funktioner med stærkt øget ydeevne.

Spectral 3, atmosfærisk teknologi, der markant forbedrer kvaliteten og realisme af skyer, volumelight og skygger.

Support til Maya 2010, Cinema4D R11.5, Softimage 2010 og V-Ray for Maya.

Og meget mere. Her et billede fra Vue8

Vue8
More information
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/

Softimage XSI

2009-10-22T20:59:00.000+02:00

Softimage XSI
Er et computerprogram til at lave 3D med. Programmet er udviklet af firmaet Softimage, der har hovedsæde i Montreal, Canada. Softimage er et datterselskab af Avid, en medievirksomhed, der beskæftiger sig med udvikling og salg, af redigeringsudstyr til film, tv og reklamebranchen. Softimage XSI er blevet opkøbt af Autodeks og bliver fremover udgivet og udviklet af dem.

RealFlow wins Oscar

2009-10-10T14:54:00.000+02:00

RealFlow

Next Limit Technologies wins Technical Achievement Award with RealFlow, for the simulation of realistic liquids.

Go to their website for more information

RealFlow

Autodesk 3ds Max

2009-10-10T14:42:00.000+02:00

Autodesk

Autodesk 3ds Max - News 2010

Create stunning 3D models in less time with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010 software. This full-featured 3D modelling, animation, and rendering solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content.

http://www.autodesk.co.uk
http://usa.autodesk.com/

3d Visualisering med Houdini

2009-10-09T23:43:00.000+02:00

www.sidefx.com/

News. 2010

Houdini er et 3d animations værktøj fra Side Effects.

Houdini introducerer nye muligheder for dynamiske simuleringer med bla. deres FX pyro solver.

Nogle af de mange film Houdini er blevet brugt i;

G.I JOE: The Rise Of Cobra
Terminator Salvation
Harry Potter and the half blood prince
The Increibly Hulk

www.sidefx.com/