2018 iPAD & APPLE PENCIL SUPPORT!

Now iPAD 2018 support Apple pencil!

WOW! ZBrush 2018 is coming!!!

and the official world premier video

Art style matching made easy !?

This NVIDIA algorithm copies the artistic style of one photo onto another!?

According to the developers, the goal of photorealistic image style transfer is:

...to change the style of a photo to resemble that of another one. For a faithful stylization, the content in the output photo should remain the same, while the style of the output photo should resemble the one of the reference photo. Furthermore, the output photo should look like a real photo captured by a camera...

GPU-accelerated Rendering Option - RedShift

Redshift presentation at the SIGGRAPH 2017 NVIDIA booth

Make your DRONE FOOTAGE more CINEMATIC!!

Pretty practical and useful information by Peter McKinnon-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvUW-rRmAO8

Facebook Launches Social VR ‘Spaces’ On HTC Vive

It’s now cross-platform! : )

Mixed Reality Headset From Magic Leap

The design is quite unique and has some impressive specs. Hope it will be as good when it becomes available.
Link: https://www.magicleap.com/

Cinema Cameras 101

A great article by B&H - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/buying-guide/cinema-cameras-what-filmmakers-need-know

New Vive Focus

Finally, a new head mounted display without any clumsy wires for physical tethering !!!

https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/11/get-up-close-with-the-vive-focus/

ZBrush 3D Prints

Some 3D prints I did from my Zbrush sculpts -

Top Five VR Social Experiences

Interesting read for the current social VR trends...
https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/08/top-five-vr-social-experiences/

Albert Einstein Sketch (2013)

Google Arts & Culture VR

The virtual tours for the amazing national parks are sooooo cool!!!
Link: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/project/national-park-service

Traditional Clay Sculpt (WIP) 

Take way more efforts than the digital counterpart but feeling the clay in your hands/fingers just purely wonderful!!!  

RealityCapture

Best photogrammetry software as of today!

Link: https://www.capturingreality.com/

Pearl - Narrative VR Short Film in 360

Time to explore the potential of storytelling within a 360 CG world. Fun! :)

The Colors of Star Wars

Every Star Wars movie, according to its colors - by Alvin Chang
Every Star Wars movie begins and ends with the same color palette — yellow and black for the scrolling introduction, and blue and black for the credits. But everything in between is very different...

https://www.vox.com/culture/2015/12/17/10322514/star-wars-colors

Great Cinema Reference Site

I stumbled into a pretty cool cinema resource site, a ton of useful references there- http://cinematechnic.com

Real-Time Facial Performance Capture

Real-Time Facial Performance Capture with a single camera, very impressive tech!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMa2oT1wMIs

Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

A very cool talk on Haptic applications by Katherine Kuchenbecker- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJ9Aakddng