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Foundry and Luxology Merge
The Foundry (Nuke, Mari, Katana) today announced it has merged with Luxology (Modo)
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/foundry-and-luxology-merge-fxg-exclusive/
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Brekel kinect real-time motion capture
http://www.brekel.com/?page_id=155
It allows you to capture 3D objects and export them to disk for use in 3D packages. As well as do skeleton tracking which can be streamed into Autodesk’s MotionBuilder in realtime, or exported as BVH files.
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Tracing Spherical harmonics and how Weta used them in production
A way to approximate complex lighting in ultra realistic renders.
All SH lighting techniques involve replacing parts of standard lighting equations with spherical functions that have been projected into frequency space using the spherical harmonics as a basis.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4162/slides/spherical-harmonic-lighting.pdf
Spherical harmonics as used at Weta Digital
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-science-of-spherical-harmonics-at-weta-digital/
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