Factory OS wants to upend the construction industry. Thanks to a very bad set of circumstances, the Bay Area is a very good laboratory for the development of efficient practices. The Bay Area is grappling with a crippling housing shortage that has gotten more acute as a result of several ruinous fire seasons, rising home prices, and reduced building … Read more
Autodesk reported increased earnings and brought its income up out of the red and into the black at $40.2 million. With revenues up 30% to $797, the company pushed its ARR up to $3.07 billion. Total billings increased by 48% to $892 million. The company’s recurring revenue is at 97% of the total. And yet, the stock went down immediately … Read more
A year ago at Siggraph, the creative community from TV, movie, marketing, game, and VFX studios came together to form the Academy Software Foundation, ASWF, as a resource for open software development in the creative fields. The Foundation was spearheaded by Executive Creative Director and Head of ILM Rob Bredow, who has shepherded several important open software and technology initiatives. … Read more
Working in the visual programming interface doesn’t mean working blind, thanks to support for visual previews. (Source: Autodesk) Autodesk announced Bifrost for Maya as an official feature included in the product on July 31st. Bifrost is another example of the increasing use of procedural techniques to enable free-form experimentation within traditional software programs or even as a standalone program … Read more
AMD used its trip to NAB to showcase the latest additions to ProRender new partnerships and plugins. AMD is driving hard with rendering for 2019 including performance boosts. AMD is updating plug-ins for Max, Maya, and Blender. At AMD, the company was also celebrating its integration into the latest version of the Foundry’s Modo, which was introduced in March 2019. The latest updates … Read more
HP came to NAB with good friends Intel to show off their new workstations, which just happened to be perfect for video content creation, VFX, and other memory intensive jobs. The broadcast and content creation industry is now squarely in the middle of working with demanding 4K workflows and negotiating the challenges of creating HDR content and 8K is clearly … Read more
It’s been a while, but the cover for our New Year’s issue was created using Dimension, Adobe’s tool which enables users to combine 3D models with 2D backgrounds to create a new artwork. We didn’t do anything really special, put paper bag on the foreground, created a texture for with Adobe’s Capture app, added the JPR logo as a decal … Read more
With its latest version of 3ds Max, Autodesk says it is revamping the user experience. In this case, that means some new tools and plenty of improvements on tools and features that were already there. As in the case of the Maya 2019, Autodesk says this is house cleaning release to improve on what’s already been done. Improvements to the … Read more
Autodesk has released Maya 2019, Maya LT 2019, MotionBuilder 2019, and Mudbox 2019. The company says it has concentrated primarily on bug fixes and stability. The natives have been mighty restless waiting for this release. In fact, Maya 2019 is so late that the actual year is the same as the version name. Wes Adams, Industry Marketing Manager, Film & … Read more
The software market is vibrant, growing, and changing. As always hardware is an engine for accelerating the capabilities of software, but technology advances and new ideas about digitalization are providing new opportunities for software. Huge opportunities. One of the most notable examples in engineering and design is the drive to link software information to real-world processes. In the digital content … Read more
The latest release of the new version of production renderer RenderMan was announced by Pixar Animation Studios. Version number 22 comes on the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding. The new version, RenderMan 22, brings in new features that speed up workflows for industry professionals. In particular, Pixar’s Live Rendering delivers continuous photorealism right in the applications. With always-on live … Read more
The design world is navigating a fundamental shift that might someday enable people to design or modify their own products. Certainly business models are changing, services and products are packaged together, and designs can be re-used and repurposed. Robots at work: A team from the University of Texas A&M is exploring the use of robots and lightweight geofoam to build … Read more
