How Vast Data created the data platform for dazzling Pixar’s Elemental film
Pixar Animation Studios partnered with Vast Data, the data platform company for the AI era, to power the data-intensive feature animation production of its...
5 companies form Alliance for OpenUSD for 3D graphics standard
Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for...
How USD can become an open 3D standard of the metaverse
As CES 2023 approaches with a lot of metaverse talk, one of the technologies that is coming to the forefront of standards discussions is...
The DeanBeat: A Big Bang week for the metaverse
The metaverse had a couple of Big Bangs this week that should put it on everyone’s radar. First, Epic Games raised $1 billion at...
Nvidia reveals Omniverse Enterprise for simulating products and worlds
Nvidia has announced its Omniverse, a virtual environment the company describes as a “metaverse” for engineers, will be available as an enterprise service later...
Coco VR: How Magnopus brings Pixar’s magic to life
“Pixar originally didn’t want to do the project [Coco VR] because they didn’t think we could hit the quality bar that they found acceptable,”...
Grand Theft Auto creator Dave Jones: You never know when you’ve got a hit idea
Since cofounding DMA Design in 1987, Dave Jones has created video games that have become massive franchises, including Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, and...
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode is the first game from House of Mouse’s new mobile strategy
Disney has teamed up with the PerBlue studio on Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, a mobile brawler that features characters from both the Magic Castle...
Kingdom Hearts III to debut in 2018 with Pixar characters
Kingdom Hearts III will debut in 2018, and it will include Pixar characters for the first time in the history of the video game...
Pixar veteran creates AI tool for automating 2D animations
Artificial intelligence is going to change just about everything — like animating video games, for example. Animation-technology startup Midas Touch Interactive has a new...