OTOY’s Octane Render reduces the cost of creating hyper-real 3D imagery (exclusive)

Octane Render, available now, should increase 3D computer-generation and image-rendering productivity.

Otoy buys Refractive Software and announces cloud-based digital animation technology (exclusive)

Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology firm Refractive Software.

In an exclusive interview, Otoy chief executive Jules Urbach said that this move …

Otoy teams up with Autodesk to create cloud-rendering platform

Otoy has partnered with creativity tools maker Autodesk to create next-generation cloud rendering tools that will make film making, 3D designs, and video games easier, the company said today. Autodesk is also investing an undisclosed amount into Otoy.

The alliance …

Otoy’s cloud tools can render stunningly realistic video (exclusive)

Filmmakers and game creators would love to create animations so realistic that they look like they were produced inside a Star Trek Holodeck, the virtual simulator from the sci-fi TV and film series. In the Holodeck, you couldn’t tell whether …