It’s been a big year for Maxon. The company won its first Academy Award, and in the last 12 months it has gotten a new CEO, David McGavran, and it celebrated this year’s NAB by acquiring Redshift Rendering Technologies. Maxon gathered crowds at NAB on the back of their Academy Award for Motion Graphics and their newly announced acquisition of … Read more
Chaos Group has announced their new cloud-rendering service, which, they say, differs from competitive services with straightforward pricing that charges only for the rendering time and does not have surprise fees such as additional charges for uploading files. The company describes Chaos Cloud rendering as a single button click. As with most rendering services, customers buy packages of credit. Their … Read more
Rendering and VR are strong messages for graphics vendors at SolidWorks World 2019 and AMD was riding high on those bandwagons. In addition, AMD is highlighting new GPU accelerated features in SolidWorks 2019. The company also highlighted new workstation options. In short, AMD had a pretty good story to tell at the show. The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer telescope is a … Read more
Several companies offer a ray tracing plug-in for SketchUp, but Trimble calls this one the “premier renderer for SketchUp.” After more than four years of R&D, V-Ray Next accelerates the SketchUp workflow, and according to Chaos Group, the SketchUp plug-in offers massive speed and intelligence enabling designers to produce better renders faster. Chaos says V-Ray Scene Intelligence can now automatically … Read more
When Quake, a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive came out in 1996, it was a breakthrough, transformative, disruptive milestone in PC gaming and has been a legend and foundational example ever since. Quake II release one year later had improved graphics and game mechanics and was an all-time hit—21 years ago. Run, … Read more
Using a little code to make big impressions Our friends at SuperD have been relentlessly toiling away at the math and code of their amazing sub-surfacing tool. We first reported on this in our July 5, 2017 issue. Originally thought of as a teaching tool, President & founder Kun Gao PhD, of Boulder Graphics showed us their latest release of … Read more
