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Weta Workshop artists give physical reality to digital fantasies

Weta Workshop is the Oscar-winning CG house behind such hits as “The Lord of the Rings”. In the company’s early years almost all physical creative pieces were the result of handcraft, but the company found ...

AMD jumps into Windows 8 tablet market

AMD opened up a new front in the processor fight with the announcement of the Z-Series of APUs for Windows 8 tablets. AMD is touting “all-day” power with the dual-core Z-60 running at 1 GHz ...

Felix Baumgartner set to attempt Mach 1 skydive

Pending weather conditions daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first skydiver to hit supersonic speeds by leaping from a helium balloon at an astonishing 120,000 FT. If successful, his jump will break both ...

Designing autos takes plenty of power

Daniel Simon a professional designer who works in Hollywood talks about his move to a Boxx WS and Nvidia Maximus. “I often handle both vehicle design and modeling in the film projects that I work ...

Vectorworks and Maxon select rendering competition winners

Vectorworks and Maxon Computer, have announced the winners of the Visions Global Rendering Competition. The winner in each of the four categories received $2,500. Contest manager Theresa Downs, the communications director at Nemetschek Vectorworks, said ...

The Foundry acquires Luxology

London’s The Foundry acquires Bay Area 3D modeling and animation company Luxology and plan to forge a strong new player in the digital content creation market. The Foundry and both sides are looking forward to ...

Lightmap’s HDR Light Studio 4 offers point-and-light control

Precision lighting is crucial to content creators, yet it has been a tedious process. Lightmap’s HDR Light Studio 4, released today, offers an alternative. HDR Light Studio creates a single HDRI map containing the entire ...

Podcast: A conversation with Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher and Brian David Johnson

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Autodesk moves simulation to the cloud

Autodesk has rolled up many of the simulation and analysis tools acquired in recent years and put them online as a new cloud-based service, Autodesk Simulation 360. Scott Reese, VP for Simulation and Cloud Platform, ...

The Workstation Market Remained Sluggish in Q2’12

The results from the workstation market’s first quarter were disappointing, as it marked the first two consecutive quarters of negative growth since 2008. Alex Herrera, Senior Analyst, reports that around 883,000 workstations shipped worldwide, down ...

The workstation market remained sluggish in Q2’12, reports Jon Peddie Research

The workstation market remained sluggish in Q2’12, reports Jon Peddie Research TIBURON, California September 9, 2012 – The results from the workstation market’s first quarter were disappointing, as it marked the first two consecutive quarters ...

Eye-tracking poised to become a standard computer-graphics feature

SolidWorks is only one of many companies looking to incorporate eye tracking into future updates to the user interface. The art of designing great computer controls will depend in part on combining eye-tracking with older ...