Spheree A while back we did a post about Siggraph 2014, so here is one technology that was presented there. Found out about this on the IEEE Spectrum website in a post by Jeremy Hsu, who was writing about Spheree, a spherical display that lets you see 3D animations at any angle. This technology was […]
http://3dbin.com/ 3DBin – 360 degree animation We’ve looked at similar software before, where you make a 3D model by walking around an object and taking a bunch of photos, which then allows you to create a 3D-printed version. Animate your photos Here we find we can walk around an object and make a 3D animation. […]
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http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/character-articulation-input-device/ Throw Out The Mouse! – New Joystick For Animators This software and hardware allow an animator to physically manipulate an object, which the software instantly translates into movement. Yes, this replaces using a mouse to change movements a frame at a time. Go from defining joint angles with a 2D mouse to shaping 3D […]
http://s2014.siggraph.org/ What’s SIGGRAPH 2014? SIGGRAPH stands for the Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. The first SIGGRAPH conference was held in 1974 and is held in different locations across the United States and Canada. Since 2008, a second conference has been held in Asia every year in December. During the autumn in Finland […]
Source: http://www.dneg.com/ Double Negative Merger Opens Up Careers in VFX Merger… Double Negative and Prime Focus World have merged under the name of the Double Negative brand. Prime Focus founder and current CEO of Prime Focus World, Namit Malhotra says, “Prime Focus has proven over the last five years the undeniable benefits of global collaboration: the […]
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27501984 Groundbreaking Creative 3D Ideas and Growing Up Digital Found some interesting stuff, for example here is an article by Jane Wakefield, BBC Technology reporter, on whether we should be protecting our children from the digital world Source: http://dontapscott.com/2011/03/grown-up-digital-and-the-transformation-of-learning/ The author cited in her article is Don Tapscott who wrote the book Grown Up Digital and […]
Source : cgpersia.com RenderMan to be offered FREE! This news has been bouncing around for a few days now. But I include it here because some of us may have been busy doing other things and not seen it. So here it is again: RenderMan is to be offered free for non-commercial use, which includes evaluations, […]
Virtual Photographer – One Click to Perfect Photos Let’s take a step back and pull out some of our old photos. We can give these old things a new look, polish them up and turn them into something else you never thought of before. VirtualStudio To do this you can use the plug-in virtualStudio from […]
Exoplanets New 3D Models Eyes on the earth – vital signs of the planet visualization requires a quick download which you can grab HERE The following is a video showing what is possible once you have the download installed… This app is known as NASA’s eyes 🙂 Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment […]
