Tweet I came across the vintage computer graphics channel at youtube, and man here we are a huge long way from there! There are some great videos up there of days gone by, if you have any interest, or want to see a machine the size of a room render what a phone can today… [...]
Tweet Check out Tactilis, a FREE drawing app for iPad that sports a unique approach to drawing with an interface that harkens back to an older time. Create Digital Motion has a great post on Tactilis, comparing it to Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad, introduced, in 1963. Tactilis is an iPad App for drawing and hand-written notes. It [...]
Tweet Toonboom, makers of the long-standing animation software ToonBoom Studio, has released Flipboom Lite, a simple app that will let you create simple flipbook style animations on the iPad. It really is a lot of fun… although I do find myself reverting back to creating dinosaurs killing UFO’s that are eventually all killed by a [...]
Tweet Keypad Pro for the iPad is a wireless remote with buttons sliders, dials and panns that will control any application on the Mac or Windows. I haven’t tried it yet, but I am eager to see how it will work with all the junk that I use, Maya, After Effects, etc. Looks promising! Check out [...]
Tweet Memo Akten shows off his latest, the Web Cam Piano. A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks. [...]
Tweet NVIDIA introduced at Siggraph 2010 its new GPUs based on the latest Fermi architecture and seriously the specs on the Quadro 4000, 5000, and 6000 look insane, and from what the buzz has been by early users points by all accounts that to be true. Vfx World Magazine has a great article covering not [...]
Tweet FxguideTV with episode one of likely many from the Siggraph 2010 show, in this episode an interview with Master Zap about iRay and Mental Mill, Mental Images new interactive photorealistic rendering technology and Shader creation application respectively. Also, an interview with nVidia about the Quadro 4000, Quadro 5000, and Quardo 6000 Fermi cards and Cuda GPU [...]
Tweet RenderStream, makers of high performance 3D workstations and Render Servers, have recently introduced Artie, a turnkey solution for small to mid-sized production facilities and studios. Artie is a 6U enclosure with a single PCoIP workstation, 2X RenderStream Ridiculous Speed 4 render farm and a switch shown here. 4U, 6U, 12U and 24U enclosures available depending [...]
Tweet From the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich, J. Schmid, R. Sumner, H. Bowles, M. Gross submit a WhitePaper for Programmable Motion Effects for various styles of speed lines, multiple stroboscopic images, temporal offsetting, and photorealistic and stylized blurring on both simple and production examples. “abstract: Although animation is one of the most compelling aspects [...]
Tweet I recently got an email from Greg D suggesting a post on the lab experiments Andrew Andoru has been working on – Thanks Greg, what a great idea! If you remember Andrew had some droplets that would render from After Effects, Nuke and Maya easily – basically doing a terminal render with some automation [...]
