Weta Digital and SideFX Bringing Houdini to the Cloud with WetaH
www.awn.com/news/weta-digital-and-sidefx-bringing-houdini-cloud
New WetaH collaboration marks leading VFX company’s second move to integrate top commercial and proprietary applications in a single cloud-based service.
How HTC Vive Accidentally Created Mo-Cap Tech 10 Times Cheaper Than the Industry Standard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khoer5DpQkE
USD Alab open source scene
The USD ALab data set is the Animal Logic interpretation and implementation of real world production and pipeline concepts. There are two downloads available, including guiding documents and two sets of textures.
The first download contains the ALab scene assets themselves, derived from our production assets and conformed for compatibility to allow them to load in any tool which supports USD.
The second download is an optional extra, a “production rendering Texture Pack,” which delivers 4K OpenEXR textures with udims for production style rendering.
Walt Disney Animation Amps Up Production With New Vancouver Studio
https://www.awn.com/blog/blame-canada-and-covid
deadline.com/2021/08/walt-disney-animation-studios-vancouver-studio-what-if-1234809175/
Effective next year, Walt Disney Animation Studios is throwing the doors open to a new facility in Vancouver, BC that will focus on long-form series and special projects for Disney+. The first in the pipeline is the anticipated, feature-quality musical series Moana.