Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 1:33PM The Foundry has just released Katana 1.0. I used the Sony Imageworks version of Katana on both "I Am Legend" and "Beowulf 3D". It was a fantastic tool back then and I can only imagine that The Foundry has done a great deal to make it a truly revolutionary product. Integration with Nuke will make it a fantastic tool for any production pipeline. Click on the image below to read more.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 6:16AM Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson look at The Thing from 1982 & 2011 and the structural changes in this year's movie viewer demographics. Click on any of the images below to listen to the show at FX Guide or subscribe for free in iTunes.
Monday, October 24, 2011 at 9:32AM Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 4:29PM HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer.
Users easily reach into an interaction volume displaying the virtual image. This allows the user to literally get their hands into the virtual display. A novel real-time algorithm for representing hands and other physical objects, which are sensed by the Kinect inside this volume, allows physically realistic interaction between real and virtual 3D objects.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 2:50PM I saw this short at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver back in August. A breakdown from the director, Damian Nenow can be seen below. It's an absolutely stunning use of computer graphics.
