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Multiverse
Studio toolset

will upgrade

Foundry tools

Foundry and J Cube form
exclusive agreement to
provide an improved
Katana and Maya pipeline

A new partnership will bring the
Multiverse Studio toolset to the CG
production industry, providing an
expedited pipeline for moving iles
between Katana and Maya. Customers
Song of a Toad will gain a commercially supported set
© 2017 Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg of MaterialX, Alembic and USD tools
uniied in every Katana and Maya
version and available for all platforms.
VR Theatre debuts interactive and batch licences that
Foundry will resell Multiverse Studio as
activate both Katana and Maya plugins
and offer Alembic and USD support.
at SIGGRAPH supervisor at Soho VFX, says, “We’ve
Berj Bannayan, partner and VFX
been using Multiverse here at Soho
VFX for over a year, for our Alembic
Presentations at the Computer Animation Festival also pipeline that incorporates Maya,
showcased short films rendered in real-time Houdini and 3Delight. It’s been
transformative for us, being used in
this year at siGGrAPH’s Computer Animation the conference week. Attendees also had the everything from The Shallows to Ben
Festival, 25 incredible submissions featured at the opportunity to meet and discuss with directors Hur and Logan. The integration into our
electronic theatre and ten in the Vr theatre. the that featured at the electronic and Vr theatres in existing pipeline has been
shorts ranged from advertising, visualisation and Q&A sessions. straightforward and we’ve been
simulation to visual effects and game cinematics. Computer Animation Festival director Pol outputting some positively giant
short ilms or visual effects reels from industrial Jeremias said, “we are extremely excited about our Alembic caches that we’re now
Light & Magic, Pixar Animation studios, weta show this year. we will be presenting many irsts, handling easily. It’s great stuff!”
digital, Moving Picture Company and epic Games including short ilms being rendered in real-time – a
were also shown. And for the irst time, festival milestone for this festival – the introduction of our
goers experienced the Vr theatre space with Vr theatre, and perhaps most importantly, some
morning and evening programmes throughout really incredible student work! when watching the
electronic and Vr theatre ilms, my hope is that
our attendees will become inspired by the
Festival award winners experience and leave with new ideas. the Vr
The winners of this years’ Festival are: Best submissions we accepted push the boundaries of
in Show – ‘Song of a Toad’ by Kariem Saleh storytelling and technology.
(Germany); Jury’s Choice – ‘John Lewis “Over the past two years, Vr has re-emerged as
Buster the Boxer’ by MPC and Dougal an important and popular medium, and the projects
Wilson (United Kingdom); and Best we are showing represent the next wave of this –
Student Project – ‘Garden Party’ by presentations that depict powerful new stories to
Théophile Dufresne, Florian Babikian, see, hear and experience. Accepted pieces range
Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Navarro, from environmental documentaries to short stories Multiverse Studio enables fast data transfer of
Vincent Bayoux and Victor Caire (France). to music videos, and they will really give viewers a layouts and geometry between applications
sense of where Vr is going.”

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