I just got back from Siggraph. Some incredible stuff on the floor, such as a very very large rear projection screen in the nVidia booth showing some incredibly realistic 3D renderings in near realtime.
DAZ 3D Studio is available as a free download in release candidate version, soon to be a free full release. This is a product like Poser, with slightly less functionality but with some UI functions actually better/easier to use. Good deal!
The "Electronic Theater" showed animation content for two hours. Not much here that could even be compared with anything that's ever been done before.
There was 3D "cartoon" content of beyond incredible quality (artistically and technically), fantastic realistic motion captured 3D composites used in an HP commercial, an animation from Sony(!) that explained very clearly the XYZ color space from CIE (as different from most other color systems, it is device-independent and goes beyond what the eye can see), tornado simulations, and much much more.
Artistically, on a scale from 1 to 10, this program of animation content ranked a "Holy Mackerel!"
Well worth the $50 single performance ticket price!
Although I got one of those tickets for free after submitting my own animation.
Specifically it was my own very slowly animated facial expression showing my reaction to the ticket price, this made the ticketeer promptly fork over a free VIP ticket. Gotta love it, I'm glad I took those theater classes a long time ago! :O)
Projection was handled by a $150,000 Christie 2K projector that was out of this world good.
I recently saw Revenge of the Sith in 2K projection at the Arclight theater (did I say I got 2 free tickets? :O), their projection was not as high quality as this puppy.
Astonishing brightness, contrast ratio, color space, sharpness and a sheer subjective joy! I want one!
More if I find something more in my two huge swag bags, my brain is fried from so many sense impressions...
DAZ 3D Studio is available as a free download in release candidate version, soon to be a free full release. This is a product like Poser, with slightly less functionality but with some UI functions actually better/easier to use. Good deal!
The "Electronic Theater" showed animation content for two hours. Not much here that could even be compared with anything that's ever been done before.
There was 3D "cartoon" content of beyond incredible quality (artistically and technically), fantastic realistic motion captured 3D composites used in an HP commercial, an animation from Sony(!) that explained very clearly the XYZ color space from CIE (as different from most other color systems, it is device-independent and goes beyond what the eye can see), tornado simulations, and much much more.
Artistically, on a scale from 1 to 10, this program of animation content ranked a "Holy Mackerel!"
Well worth the $50 single performance ticket price!
Although I got one of those tickets for free after submitting my own animation.
Specifically it was my own very slowly animated facial expression showing my reaction to the ticket price, this made the ticketeer promptly fork over a free VIP ticket. Gotta love it, I'm glad I took those theater classes a long time ago! :O)
Projection was handled by a $150,000 Christie 2K projector that was out of this world good.
I recently saw Revenge of the Sith in 2K projection at the Arclight theater (did I say I got 2 free tickets? :O), their projection was not as high quality as this puppy.
Astonishing brightness, contrast ratio, color space, sharpness and a sheer subjective joy! I want one!
More if I find something more in my two huge swag bags, my brain is fried from so many sense impressions...