We’re thrilled to learn that Gaffer was a key lighting and rendering software for a VES nominated project! CG Supervisor Edmond Engelbrecht and the Image Engine team were nominated for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project for their work on Game of Thrones; The Winds of Winter, with the procedural texturing, look development, and rendering for the Citadel environment produced using Gaffer.
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The buzz surrounding Gaffer was pretty solid at Siggraph this year, thanks in part to our Gaffer paper, published and presented at DigiPro.
Continue reading “SIGGRAPH and DigiPro 2016”FXGuide has a detailed breakdown of Independence Day: Resurgence, including Image Engine’s key contributions: the aliens, interior mothership environment, and holding prison.
Continue reading “Interview: Independenence Day Resurgence”The BlenderDiplom website has a nice interview with Francois Beaune, developer of Appleseed, the open source renderer behind the short film “Fetch”.
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CGSociety has a great interview with Martyn Culpitt, VFX supervisor at Image Engine, talking about Image Engine’s work on Jurassic World.
Continue reading “Jurassic World”Demonstrating the latest improvements in Appleseed interactivity.
Demonstrating the latest improvements in Appleseed interactivity.
Courtesy of the Blender Foundation and the Big Buck Bunny project.
Example showing a custom shader authoring interface derived from Gaffer
An experiment demonstrating how Gaffer could be embedded in Maya, pulling info from Maya to populate the scene.
