Dassault is not exactly a common brand in the halls of CES though the giant company has always put effort into establishing its brand throughout the world. Aficionados of the company will remember their wonderful, totally crazy, expensive TV ads about solving drought problems by rounding up a stray iceberg from the ocean and helicoptering it over to the desert, … Read more
Shapr3D as added new features for documentation, lofting, text, and Windows support. (Source: Shapr3D) Shapr3D, an ambitious company based in Budapest, Hungary, and founded in 2015 by István Csanády. The company and its 3D modeling tool have ground rapidly, relentlessly adding on features to enable their product to compete head-to-head with the established leaders who have been rapidly iterating … Read more
It starts with a sketch. Ashlar-Vellum, one of the pioneers in industrial design software tools, has introduced Lithium, their new sketch app, which comes at an opportune time for Mac designers. (Source: stock image) Austin-based Ashlar-Vellum is the inheritor of a long tradition of industrial design tools and the company has continued to provide tools for drafting, CAD, and … Read more
Adobe has introduced a new collection of cloud-based tools to enable anyone to create a quick multimedia something. Adobe suggests banners, flyers, logos, etc. In other words, prepare to see more plain old posts gussied up with baked content in your feeds. Anyone can do it: Adobe Creative Cloud makes the job of content creation easier. (Source: JPR) Adobe packaged … Read more
Maxon has been spewing news lately; it’s hard to track but it all adds up to a strong play for more of the creatives’ business. The headline is that Maxon plans to buy the assets of Pixologic, makers of the revered ZBrush sculpting tool. Maxon’s CEO David Gavran and the team have published a quick post with reassuring words for … Read more
This year, Pantone announced a brand new color to the color pantheon, Veri Peri. The association’s Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Institute, said the group’s members felt they had to come up with something special and something that expressed all the feelings and moods associated with 2022, a year that people hope will signal a new beginning. So, … Read more
Foundry’s UnrealReader node is an illustration of how different applications might work together through common portals. This is happening more and more in production tools as content becomes more in demand and time crunches get worse. (Source: Foundry) We haven’t talked about Nuke updates in a while, so it’s worth going over them in a little more detail because … Read more
Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon) Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had … Read more
The gunfighters are circling the corral and their fingers are twitching. In-play is the opportunity presented by Arm. As if it’s not enough that Arm owns mobile phones, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial appliances, and it has a growing role in the datacenter, Apple has proven that Arm can take over in personal computing, and even workstations. There are a lot … Read more
The gunfighters are circling the corral and their fingers are twitching. In-play is the opportunity presented by Arm.
Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment division is rebuilding itself within the Autodesk enterprise. The company has always wanted its DCC division with its enormous wealth of creative tools to be able to serve the entire company as well as be a major force in professional entertainment content creation. We’re seeing those first steps. Things change quickly these days. At Autodesk’s … Read more
Weta’s Digital Tools have just barely made their public debut when Unity swoops in and picks them up for a cool billion and a half bucks, or $1.625 billion to be more precise. Weta Studios has long had a talented development team, who have made their mark in film with credits for Avatar, Black Widow, King Kong, Lord of the … Read more
