Image Metrics Introduces Four Facial Animation Service Levels for Video Game, Film
Los Angeles - Image Metrics, a provider of facial animation services for the entertainment industry, has introduced four new facial animation service levels for film and game customers.
The four new service levels range from facial animation for background video game characters to photorealistic digital doubles for live-action movies. All offerings use Image Metrics’ proprietary facial animation technology to analyze an actor’s facial performance and transfer it with all of its subtleties and nuances to a 3D facial rig.
The service levels include:
Value: At roughly half the cost of standard facial animation, this service level uses Image Metrics’ proprietary technology to automatically generate high volumes of high-quality facial animation for secondary characters in games or for pre-visualization purposes.
Pro: Ideal for important in-game scenes and cutscenes, this service level offers more subtle facial movements on advanced games rigs as well as iterative cycles to help clients capture better performances.
Premium: This level provides greater creative control with pore-level analysis of facial movement and more fine-tuning of the performance. Including optional support for multi-camera performance capture, it is ideal for more budget-conscious film studios or VFX houses that need high quality CG faces for films, visual effects shots or television spots.
Elite: Image Metrics’ highest level of service takes advantage of the very best its technology-based service has to offer. From HD (and up) support to optional multi-camera performance capture, superior analysis detail to multiple creative iterations, this level gives quality-focused directors the freedom to create completely believable digital faces for their most important scenes.
For easy integration into customer pipelines, all service levels include a final output of animation curves that work with the leading 3D software applications. Ongoing customer service is also included in all service levels.
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Autodesk Takes 3D Design and Documentation to Next Level with AutoCAD 2010
San Rafael, Calif. - Autodesk Inc. has released AutoCAD 2010 software, the latest version of its design and documentation platform. Autodesk also announced the 2010 AutoCAD family of discipline-specific software and AutoCAD LT 2010 software for professional drafting and detailing.
(2/9/2009)
AutoCAD 2010 sports new capabilities designed to help users tackle challenging design problems, including free-form design tools, parametric drawing, and enhanced PDF support.
AutoCAD 2010 provides more power and innovation to help users document, communicate, explore, and customize design ideas, says a representative. With new free-form design tools, users can more easily explore ideas in 3D models to create virtually any shape.
AutoCAD 2010 now also supports 3D printing, for the production of physical 3D models and physical prototypes. New PDF import and underlay, enhanced publishing features, and constraint-based parametric drawing tools round out the new offering.
The latest release of AutoCAD LT 2010 professional 2D drafting and detailing software features PDF input and output enhancements, additional 2D drafting commands for viewing and editing drawings, and 2D drafting tools from AutoCAD to help increase productivity.
Autodesk Design Review 2010 software is available as a free download to users of any Autodesk product, including the AutoCAD 2010 family of products.
Product availability varies by country. Details and purchasing options will be accessible beginning March 24, 2009, at www.autodesk.com/autocad.
San Rafael, Calif. - Autodesk Inc. has released AutoCAD 2010 software, the latest version of its design and documentation platform. Autodesk also announced the 2010 AutoCAD family of discipline-specific software and AutoCAD LT 2010 software for professional drafting and detailing.
(2/9/2009)
AutoCAD 2010 sports new capabilities designed to help users tackle challenging design problems, including free-form design tools, parametric drawing, and enhanced PDF support.
AutoCAD 2010 provides more power and innovation to help users document, communicate, explore, and customize design ideas, says a representative. With new free-form design tools, users can more easily explore ideas in 3D models to create virtually any shape.
AutoCAD 2010 now also supports 3D printing, for the production of physical 3D models and physical prototypes. New PDF import and underlay, enhanced publishing features, and constraint-based parametric drawing tools round out the new offering.
The latest release of AutoCAD LT 2010 professional 2D drafting and detailing software features PDF input and output enhancements, additional 2D drafting commands for viewing and editing drawings, and 2D drafting tools from AutoCAD to help increase productivity.
Autodesk Design Review 2010 software is available as a free download to users of any Autodesk product, including the AutoCAD 2010 family of products.
Product availability varies by country. Details and purchasing options will be accessible beginning March 24, 2009, at www.autodesk.com/autocad.
Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Finalists Revealed
San Francisco - The 2009 Independent Games Festival (IGF) has announced the 10 winners in the Student Showcase for its 11th annual awards, with games from three continents spanning ecological, paint-splattering, and fantasy exercise games to be shown at GDC this year. Chosen from a new record of 145 Student Showcase entries, these games will go on to compete for an overall Best Student Game prize, to be awarded at the IGF Awards Ceremony on the evening of March 25, 2009.
(1/22/2009)
Among the year's Student Showcase winners are: CMU's active play exercise-centered game Winds Of Orbis, quirky Danish first-person dishcleaning game Dish Washington, and ecological management puzzle game City Rain from Brazilian students.
Also honored are titles including USC's abstract painting game The Unfinished Swan and reality-manipulating sidescrolling shooter Zeit Squared.
All IGF finalist games will be exhibited at the IGF Pavilion at this year's Game Developers Conference. GDC, ThinkServices' annual conference dedicated to the art, science, and business of games, takes place March 23 through 27 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
Each finalist in the IGF Student Showcase will receive a $500 travel stipend to help aid expenses for the trip to GDC 2009. The winner of the IGF Best Student Game Award will receive a special trophy and $2500 cash prize during the ceremony.
The Student Showcase games and game mods that will be considered for the 2009 Best Student Game Award are all highlighted on the IGF Web site, and the full list of finalists follows:
Tag: The Power Of Paint (DigiPen Institute Of Technology, Seattle)
Feist (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland)
Winds Of Orbis (Carnegie Mellon - Entertainment Technology Center, Pittsburgh)
Dish Washington (The National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment, Denmark)
The Unfinished Swan (University of Southern California)
Where Is My Heart? (Universität Ulm, Germany)
The Color Of Doom (The Guildhall at SMU, Texas)
City Rain - Building Sustainability (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil)
Kid The World Saver (University Of Southern California)
Zeit Squared (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
San Francisco - The 2009 Independent Games Festival (IGF) has announced the 10 winners in the Student Showcase for its 11th annual awards, with games from three continents spanning ecological, paint-splattering, and fantasy exercise games to be shown at GDC this year. Chosen from a new record of 145 Student Showcase entries, these games will go on to compete for an overall Best Student Game prize, to be awarded at the IGF Awards Ceremony on the evening of March 25, 2009.
(1/22/2009)
Among the year's Student Showcase winners are: CMU's active play exercise-centered game Winds Of Orbis, quirky Danish first-person dishcleaning game Dish Washington, and ecological management puzzle game City Rain from Brazilian students.
Also honored are titles including USC's abstract painting game The Unfinished Swan and reality-manipulating sidescrolling shooter Zeit Squared.
All IGF finalist games will be exhibited at the IGF Pavilion at this year's Game Developers Conference. GDC, ThinkServices' annual conference dedicated to the art, science, and business of games, takes place March 23 through 27 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
Each finalist in the IGF Student Showcase will receive a $500 travel stipend to help aid expenses for the trip to GDC 2009. The winner of the IGF Best Student Game Award will receive a special trophy and $2500 cash prize during the ceremony.
The Student Showcase games and game mods that will be considered for the 2009 Best Student Game Award are all highlighted on the IGF Web site, and the full list of finalists follows:
Tag: The Power Of Paint (DigiPen Institute Of Technology, Seattle)
Feist (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland)
Winds Of Orbis (Carnegie Mellon - Entertainment Technology Center, Pittsburgh)
Dish Washington (The National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment, Denmark)
The Unfinished Swan (University of Southern California)
Where Is My Heart? (Universität Ulm, Germany)
The Color Of Doom (The Guildhall at SMU, Texas)
City Rain - Building Sustainability (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil)
Kid The World Saver (University Of Southern California)
Zeit Squared (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Hacker or Cracker
Hacker any posts in Eric Steven Raymond is "there is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking that Wizards Trough its history back decades to the firs time-sharing minicomputers and the earliesr ARPAnet experiment"
In other words, Raymon said, "the members of this culture originated the term 'hacker'." The hacker and then introduce the internet, create programs to UNIX operating systems can be used at this time. And the hackers are the ones who have been meritorious in the World Wide Web so that it can be enjoyed by all people around the world anywhere in the home he was connected to the internet.
More Raymon says "if you are on this community and if you have distribution inside, and then people recognize you as a hacker, then you are a hacker."
Overview of the views we can Raymon that one definition of a hacker are not evil as we think about this. Yes, if they can enter into our computer (through the Internet) because they can take in knowledge. However, if there are people who enter illegally and then into our computer and then "steal and make random" our data, they are a cracker. And they can be a hacker in the world of difference. With the line, they are all experts in information technology, and working seriously on.
However, to avoid confusion, a key word in this problem, according to Raymon is the difference between them; a Hacker is one who built the system, while even a cracker "destroy". (How to become a hacker, Eric S. Raymond, 2001).
When a hacker term trend as a crime that frightening? Not because "sin" in the hollywood film expert deflect the term hacker and cracker this. Many of the themes the film hackers in the form of a "crushing system information" that should be applied to the meaning of a cracker.
A film such as the Net (1995), Take Down (1999). Movies are the theme for his hacker cracker.
And interpretation of mistake before, until now the term hacker is still dibiaskan with the term cracker. Confusion is not only happening in Indonesia alone, even outside negeripun the views of both the same as that.
Term hackers appear in the early 1960s among members of the student organization's Tech Model Railroad club in artificial Intelligence Lab Masschusetts Institute of technology (MIT). The term hacker was initially positive to mention means a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make progranm computer with better rather than the previous (Understand characteristics Hacker Community: Case Study on the Indonesia Hacker Community, Donny BU, M. Si)
BECOME A Hacker
Perhaps a glimpse of the definition above is enough to restrict far the role of a hacker and cracker that. This will not lift the hacker and the early history began guilty. But more on drip difficult if we learn how to become hackers. Or more specific, we can become a hacker?
In any posts How to Become a Hacker, Eric Steven Raymon said that a hacker is not easy the suspected. The first step to becoming a hacker must take a minimum of 5 existing programming languages. He mentions programming languages C / C + +, Java, Perl, Python & LISP. In addition, the program is able to interact with the HTML to be able to build a communication network with the Internet. Above all the basic science that is "mandatory" if we owned the interest to become a hacker sincere. Because basically a Hacker is the mastery of reading and writing code.
What code? Because the computer that we run every day at its core is comprised of different code instructions quite complex.
In addition to control over the programming language, we must also have adequate provision in the English language to be able to exchange thoughts with the hacker community from around the world. This is not prohibited because, in general, they (community members) have a code of ethics apart on open-source code or program that can open and processed especial by others. Example, the code in Linux that flare introduce recently has the concept of open source and therefore can be owned by the public as free software.
Back on the issues above, to be a hacker for the purpose of sharing knowledge in information technology, or in a wider sense to facilitate the computer in the future, it should not be scared. Instead, knowledge must be translated and equally so dug into the terintegral in the Lika-coil cyber world. Provided that we are not stuck on the negative behavior so that to be a cracker sitem break the secret of others.
START A Struggle
When we intend themselves to be more familiar with the hacker world, then some provision other than those mentioned above, the control of programming languages, html and the English language, seems intent also must be equipped with a basic attitude and orientation of our initial goal to become a hacker. Instead of being an expert is good programming, even if not properly be stuck on the negativ behavior that is not only harming people but boomerang. I wonder, if just in case you become a cracker and you are like other people to open the secret, then, do not hope that you can easily walk to other countries. Because, said several sources, your name is on the "black list" as cyber criminals?
On the side of this interesting to see in one hand, we need a sophisticated technology that often appear in seconds, the other side is stuck on worry fear pattern "wrong" that result in Patal. However, as a gesture, we stand on the agreement, that learning languages is offered by Eric Steven Raymon above, is a good thing. Because the find, at least we can get a solution to make the program useful for other people. And if this is done, believe, you are a hacker.
Hacker any posts in Eric Steven Raymond is "there is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking that Wizards Trough its history back decades to the firs time-sharing minicomputers and the earliesr ARPAnet experiment"
In other words, Raymon said, "the members of this culture originated the term 'hacker'." The hacker and then introduce the internet, create programs to UNIX operating systems can be used at this time. And the hackers are the ones who have been meritorious in the World Wide Web so that it can be enjoyed by all people around the world anywhere in the home he was connected to the internet.
More Raymon says "if you are on this community and if you have distribution inside, and then people recognize you as a hacker, then you are a hacker."
Overview of the views we can Raymon that one definition of a hacker are not evil as we think about this. Yes, if they can enter into our computer (through the Internet) because they can take in knowledge. However, if there are people who enter illegally and then into our computer and then "steal and make random" our data, they are a cracker. And they can be a hacker in the world of difference. With the line, they are all experts in information technology, and working seriously on.
However, to avoid confusion, a key word in this problem, according to Raymon is the difference between them; a Hacker is one who built the system, while even a cracker "destroy". (How to become a hacker, Eric S. Raymond, 2001).
When a hacker term trend as a crime that frightening? Not because "sin" in the hollywood film expert deflect the term hacker and cracker this. Many of the themes the film hackers in the form of a "crushing system information" that should be applied to the meaning of a cracker.
A film such as the Net (1995), Take Down (1999). Movies are the theme for his hacker cracker.
And interpretation of mistake before, until now the term hacker is still dibiaskan with the term cracker. Confusion is not only happening in Indonesia alone, even outside negeripun the views of both the same as that.
Term hackers appear in the early 1960s among members of the student organization's Tech Model Railroad club in artificial Intelligence Lab Masschusetts Institute of technology (MIT). The term hacker was initially positive to mention means a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make progranm computer with better rather than the previous (Understand characteristics Hacker Community: Case Study on the Indonesia Hacker Community, Donny BU, M. Si)
BECOME A Hacker
Perhaps a glimpse of the definition above is enough to restrict far the role of a hacker and cracker that. This will not lift the hacker and the early history began guilty. But more on drip difficult if we learn how to become hackers. Or more specific, we can become a hacker?
In any posts How to Become a Hacker, Eric Steven Raymon said that a hacker is not easy the suspected. The first step to becoming a hacker must take a minimum of 5 existing programming languages. He mentions programming languages C / C + +, Java, Perl, Python & LISP. In addition, the program is able to interact with the HTML to be able to build a communication network with the Internet. Above all the basic science that is "mandatory" if we owned the interest to become a hacker sincere. Because basically a Hacker is the mastery of reading and writing code.
What code? Because the computer that we run every day at its core is comprised of different code instructions quite complex.
In addition to control over the programming language, we must also have adequate provision in the English language to be able to exchange thoughts with the hacker community from around the world. This is not prohibited because, in general, they (community members) have a code of ethics apart on open-source code or program that can open and processed especial by others. Example, the code in Linux that flare introduce recently has the concept of open source and therefore can be owned by the public as free software.
Back on the issues above, to be a hacker for the purpose of sharing knowledge in information technology, or in a wider sense to facilitate the computer in the future, it should not be scared. Instead, knowledge must be translated and equally so dug into the terintegral in the Lika-coil cyber world. Provided that we are not stuck on the negative behavior so that to be a cracker sitem break the secret of others.
START A Struggle
When we intend themselves to be more familiar with the hacker world, then some provision other than those mentioned above, the control of programming languages, html and the English language, seems intent also must be equipped with a basic attitude and orientation of our initial goal to become a hacker. Instead of being an expert is good programming, even if not properly be stuck on the negativ behavior that is not only harming people but boomerang. I wonder, if just in case you become a cracker and you are like other people to open the secret, then, do not hope that you can easily walk to other countries. Because, said several sources, your name is on the "black list" as cyber criminals?
On the side of this interesting to see in one hand, we need a sophisticated technology that often appear in seconds, the other side is stuck on worry fear pattern "wrong" that result in Patal. However, as a gesture, we stand on the agreement, that learning languages is offered by Eric Steven Raymon above, is a good thing. Because the find, at least we can get a solution to make the program useful for other people. And if this is done, believe, you are a hacker.
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