Siggraph Asia 2011, Hong Kong. /*jupiter jazz*/ proudly announces the release of AtomKraft/Nuke version 1.0. AtomKraft is the kick-ass, asset friendly, look development, lighting & rendering toolkit integrated with Nuke, the leading visual effects compositing application by The Foundry. Avoid going back to 3D at the compositing stage of the production pipeline. AtomKraft allows you to [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft/Nuke 1.0’.
Hong Kong / Annecy, France — /*jupiter jazz*/ is proud to announce it has entered into a long-term technology licensing agreement with rendering software architect François Beaune resulting in the acquisition of the appleseed open source renderer. appleseed is a modern physically-based rendering platform with a strong focus on quality, correctness and precision. At its core is a deterministic, [...] Read more – ‘appleseed, by /*jupiter jazz*/’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ is pleased to announce our participation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, taking place for the first time in our beautiful city: Hong Kong. The show will go on between December 13th—15th and the /*jupiter jazz*/ R&D band wagon will be playing some hard rock tunes on the show floor throughout the week. Meet us @ “The [...] Read more – ‘SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 — Hong Kong’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ is happy to mesmerize you with the immediate availability of AtomKraft 0.9.5, its flagship look development, lighting and rendering VFX plug-in for Nuke. This marks our 4th beta and 2nd release candidate before the highly anticipated version 1.0, available shortly before SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011, Hong Kong. Rock up at our booth to see [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft Beta 4’.
We were invited by John Haddon & Carsten Kolve for the Cortex Birds of a Feather at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver. Paolo gave a quick talk about why and how we implemented Cortex in AtomKraft. A live recording is available, along with all other kick-ass presentations on the Cortex Vimeo channel. Here below and extended version of the talk, [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft at SIGGRAPH 2011 — Cortex Birds of a Feather’.
The /*jupiter jazz*/ Rock & Dub band is excited to announce, few days before SIGGRAPH 2011, the immediate release of AtomKraft to the general public of the galaxy! This version is our 3rd beta and marks a release candidate for AtomKraft 1.0 which will then be available after SIGGRAPH. For the first time it is available on all platforms: [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft Public Beta’.
Through their close collaboration with Tokyo-based solution provider Crescent, /*jupiter jazz*/ has started providing localized R&D services in Japan with immediate effect. Crescent is also the exclusive AtomKraft reseller for the region. Read this article in Japanese. We are excited to announce that the R&D legend Dave Gordon has joined /*jupiter jazz*/‘s Jedi council. Dave is [...] Read more – ‘/*jupiter jazz*/ now provides localized R&D services in Japan’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ is proud to announce that the Vancouver-based studio Image Engine, used AtomKraft for heavily motion-blurred atmospheric snowfall effects featuring millions of 3D particles in Electronic Arts’ “SSX: Deadly Descents” snowboard game trailer. Image Engine was one of the first studios joining the beta testing of AtomKraft, back in mid 2010. Their experienced team has provided [...] Read more – ‘Image Engine and AtomKraft’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ has entered into a long-term technology licensing agreement with DNA Research, the makers of the RenderMan compliant 3Delight REYES/raytrace hybrid render engine. /*jupiter jazz*/ is using DNA Research’s 3Delight in its flagship product AtomKraft as well as other upcoming tools. The integration of the 3Delight rendering back-end into AtomKraft hides the complexity of this high-end RenderMan-compliant [...] Read more – ‘3Delight Technology Licensing Agreement With DNA Research’.
The /*jupiter jazz*/ r&d team is delighted to kick off a second round of testing with AtomKraft Beta2 being released today. Over 200 sites worldwide are participating. We are proud to have seen AtomKraft successfully deliver final production shots even during the early Beta1 round. We think this beta finally has some of the features that [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft Beta 2’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ is pleased to announce that Paris-based studio Duran Duboi makes a significant investment, acquiring a site license of Floyd, Particle Porn & Ryutai. Duran Duboi acquired a site-license of Floyd, ParticlePorn and Ryutai, and joined the beta testing of AtomKraft. Their experienced team has provided invaluable feedback on the development of Floyd, Particle Porn and Ryutai. [...] Read more – ‘Duran Duboi Acquires Site-License of /*jupiter jazz*/ tools’.
If your Japanese reading skills are good enough, find here an interesting article on AtomKraft which is featured on issue #148 (December 2010) of CGWorld Japan under the “HOT Stuff” section. Arigato gosai mas to the CGWorld crew who interviewed me back in June in Tokyo, to Crescent, Inc., our exclusive reseller on rising sun [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft Featured on CGWorld Japan’.
/*jupiter jazz*/ goes skin-deep to provide photoreal virtual human tissue to full CG mech-a-tronic protagonist in Hindi Sci-Fi flic “Endiran”. India’s most expensive film to date, “Endiran, The Robot”, uses Jupiter SGI Skin and 3Delight for the photo-realistic skin rendering of the digital double(s) for the main character, the human-robot chimera, Endhiran. Jupiter SGI Skin, [...] Read more – ‘Going Skin-Deep’.
Before I talk about the subject itself, let me start with a story. Many people have commented on the ‘Liquid’ shelf system my very good friend Sascha Ulber designed, in spring 2003. As trivial as it looks, the way it was conceptualized and most things about it were about five years ahead of the curve then. By Moritz Moeller Introduction [...] Read more – ‘The Power of Interdisciplinary Teams’.
SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles. /*jupiter jazz*/ announces that the first license of AtomKraft is given away for free, as in ‘beer’. AtomKraft is the upcoming look development, lighting and rendering solution for the Foundry’s Nuke that enables VFX studios to alleviate the use of 3D packages for these parts of the production pipeline. This special version, AtomKraft [...] Read more – ‘A Free AtomKraft License for Everyone’.
François Beaune, software architect at the /*jupiter jazz*/ group, has been working on a renderer for some time, the name is appleseed. François is not new to this kind of challenges, he wrote and managed one of the first OpenSource Global Illumination renderers: toxic. appleseed is as well open source, released under the very permissive MIT [...] Read more – ‘Appleseed’.
For people interested on what’s happening on Jupiter, not astronomically speaking, the new /*jupiter jazz*/ website is now online. In the last year little revolutions have happened on Jupiter: The R&D command center rolled out our first commercial software, AtomKraft The team population has increased and we regularly have more and more website visitors, thanks [...] Read more – ‘A new Website’.
We are in preparations to launch /*jupiter jazz*/ on an exciting new development platform: reality. As much as for many of us the digital is part of our reality, we here mean: real as opposed to digital. Hardware as opposed to software. You know: the stuff that needs to deal with gravity. Starting of course [...] Read more – ‘Made on Jupiter’.
After releasing several open source projects, /*jupiter jazz*/ introduces AtomKraft, the fully integrated, interactive look-development, lighting and rendering solution for the Foundry’s Nuke. AtomKraft enables VFX studios to alleviate the use of 3D packages for these parts of the production pipeline while staying tightly in the Nuke environment. For more information consult the AtomKraft page and make sure to read [...] Read more – ‘AtomKraft Preview’.
