Grome2, the popular outdoor modeling suite from Quad Software, has just been released and boasts several impressive features.
If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend you go check out their site. The examples they have online are breathtaking.
A new market study from Jon Peddle Research concludes that the Modeling and Animation market will continue to grow over the next 5 years, from a current valuation of $219M to $328M in 2013. Why?
Beyond traditional industries, new markets are also opening up for more casual users of 3D modeling and animation tools, defying barriers posed by high cost and complexity. Free 3DM&A tools are becoming available and millions of copies are being downloaded every year suggesting a pent-up demand for easy-to-use 3D tools. In addition, there is a hard core of hobbyists and casual users who are using 3D tools even though the learning curve is steep. New distribution models are just now opening up including online worlds, YouTube, MyToons, the Daz communities, and more. By the end of this decade, new growth will come in mainstream markets, the report says.
InsideHPC is reporting that NVidia’s OpenCL drivers have passed certification and are now available to all registered Nvidia Developers.
NVIDIA Corporation has released the world’s first OpenCL 1.0 conformant drivers for Windows XP and LINUX. These drivers are now available to all NVIDIA GPU Computing registered developers.
NVIDIA’s OpenCL 1.0 conformant drivers support all GPUs based on the CUDA parallel computing architecture and include:
- Updates to the OpenCL SDK code samples
- A new SDK “oclsobelFilter” sample
- OpenCL compiler and driver binaries
- OpenCL for compute-capable GPUs documentation
- Support for Windows XP 32 & 64 and LINUX 32 & 64
…To apply to become a GPU Computing registered developer, please visit: http://developer.nvidia.com/page/registered_developer_program.html
If you’d like further details about NVIDIA’s ongoing support for OpenCL, please visit: www.nvidia.com/opencl.
NVIDIA’s OpenCL drivers exit certification process | insideHPC.com .
CGSociety has announced a new trio of upcoming workshops on their website. the new entries:
The courses are each 8-week courses with a $499 registration fee. Get full details on their site.
SIGGRAPH2009 has released a preview video of what you can see in the Technical Papers session.. A cliff notes version:
Looks like a good collection of papers this year.
The trailer is out for the SIGGRAPH2009 Computer Animation Festival, showing some of the best in the computer graphics industry including animations, scientific visualizations, real-time captures, and more.
The SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival (CAF) is sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference so enjoy this short preview video. And make sure you get to New Orleans to see the entire CAF!
via YouTube – SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival Preview.
Variety is carrying the story that, amid economic turmoil and widespread unemployment in the VFX industry, Imageworks still plans to remain a profitable and prominent VFX house. How?
Exec VP for production Debby Denise said that while Imageworks now has to compete against small shops all over the world many with much lower labor costs “The studios and filmmakers have to weigh the cost advantages against the risk of the small shops not being able to deliver large numbers of shots in time for the release date.” Imageworks advantage she said is “They can depend on us.”
Add in more automation of some processes and their obvious partnership with Sony, it seems that Imageworks might have a chance.
via Imageworks looks to rule f/x field – Entertainment News, Technology News, Media – Variety.
Aaron Presnail has recently won the Knight News Challenge award, putting in control of a quarter million dollars. What does he plan to do with it?
He also understands that only a handful of news outlets can afford to invest significant resources in the beautiful-yet-intelligible presentation of such data, which is why he plans to use his $243,600 Knight News Challenge award to build an open-source data visualization module targeting community newspapers, independent journalists and bloggers — really, anyone interested in publishing data visualizations.
Every SIGGRAPH has an outreach component, and this year is no different. Information is now coming out about what they plan to do this year.
To give back to the New Orleans local community, SIGGRAPH introduces the SIGGRAPH 2009+1 Outreach program, giving people from around the globe opportunities to give back through a series of partnerships with local organizations. These outreach efforts focus on helping to educate local youth about enriching careers in technology and creative arts with a long term goal of strengthening the community as a whole by investing in this next generation.
So far they’ve announced 4 initiatives:
Various sites are carrying this image of a pro-Ahmadinijad rally in Iran, showing the huge crowds. Various other sites are now carrying this image showing that it’s a poor photoshop job.
Another example of the evils that visualization and computer graphics can facilitate, if left unchecked. Click on the image for fullsize.
Gizmodo – Ahmadinijad Lying Again With Photoshop – Ahmadinijad.
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