Gadgehit writes: "Walt Disney Pictures have signed a 5-year exclusivity agreement with Autodesk for their XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology (XGen), used most recently by Walt Disney Animation Studios in the hit animated film “Tangled.” The software allows animators to quickly and easily create hair, fur or vegetation and more on surfaces."
Fun with Autodesk Fusion 360.
If you need to troubleshoot or design electronic hardware, an oscilloscope is a useful bit of kit. This week Ben and Felix put together a Raspberry Pi-based Bitscope Micro Oscilloscope with a 7-inch touchscreen.
The design software maker has just unveiled Forge, a new project seemingly inspired by the Maker Movement.
Gadgehit.com writes: "Autodesk has announced Autodesk Smoke 2013 video editing software, a completely redesigned and repackaged version of the all-in-one video editing and visual effects tool for the Mac. Smoke 2013, born out of two decades of visual effects leadership, features a unified creative workflow that brings powerful node-based compositing right in the timeline at a new price of $3,495 USD."
