SynthEyes motion tracking
/ animation, software

http://www.ssontech.com/synsumm.htm https://vimeo.com/14352900

Isotropix announces Clarisse iFX
/ software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMu9JRX7Pps

Isotropix announces Clarisse iFX

Brekel kinect real-time motion capture
/ animation, software

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.

Tracing Spherical harmonics and how Weta used them in production
/ lighting, production, software

 

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/

Unity 3D resources
/ IOS, lighting, production, software

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/12321/how-can-i-start-learning-unity-fast-list-of-tutori.html

 

If you have no previous experience with Unity, start with these six video tutorials which give a quick overview of the Unity interface and some important features http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/video/

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Fabric engine
/ software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50qCYaCapi0

Fabric Software has discontinued work on Fabric Engine, its much-praised framework for developing custom tools for VFX and games pipelines, along with its supporting tools for DCC software.

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/fabric_engine?utm_source=CGSociety+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CGSNL%232+December  

a computational engine, that will enable web developers to tap into a computer’s multi-core power to bring multi-threaded performance in a web browser.

Used for Image/video processing – 3D Interaction (games, storytelling, interactive manuals) – Perceptual/Visual computing – Simulation (physics, crowds, financial, etc) – Visualization for use in medical, engineering, and oil and gas – Raw computation – Data mining – Business intelligence – Semantic analysis – Recommendation engines – Large-scale simulations – Other computationally intensive applications

Strong VPN
/ software

http://strongvpn.com/