3D’s MIDI moment: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA rally around OpenUSD

The scene format that began its life at Pixar Animation Studios is poised to become a standard for all things 3D – scenes, but also tools, data, and workflows. And yes, that could make this into 3D’s MIDI moment. It’s not that OpenUSD is anything like MIDI – it isn’t. But it has the same […]

NVIDIA Omniverse hit beta, and all your creative 3D worlds just got more connected

NVIDIA’s Omniverse is in open beta. Even saying what it is is hard to do because something like this hasn’t really existed before, but now working together on 3D in real-time got way easier. And if 2020 demonstrated anything, it demonstrated how much creative technology needs that collaboration to progress.

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2020

Animation for Games, Fanciful and Surreal, by Mario von Rickenbach [Unity]

Zurich-based artist Mario von Rickenbach is a fine representation of what the new generation of visualists looks like. Adept in code and art alike, turning his talents in illustration beyond pretty pictures to experimental game design, he’s part of a breed of artists who expresses visual ideas in interactive, live form. Those real-time game engines […]

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2012

Inspiration: Fluid, Organic Forms, in the Generative Narratives of tsaworks

Peter Kirn - June 30, 2011

Audiovisual Inspiration: Suryummy Imagines Interstellar Cooking Show

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2008

More Generative 3D Forms, Coded and Physical, from Martin Böttger

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2008

More Generative 3D Forms, Coded and Physical, from Martin Böttger

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2008

Audiovisual Inspiration: Agriculture Gone Electronica, in TRACTOR

Peter Kirn - July 18, 2008

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