Inverview to Broadcast Bridge about iPi Automation Add-on

Jay Ankeney writing for Broadcast Bridge recently spoke with Pavel Sorokin at iPi Soft about the company’s new Automation Add-On feature.

“Modern animation production has very complex pipelines,” Sorokin said, “and our iPi Automation Add-On allows them to create scripts that can alleviate repetitive motion tracking tasks. They use our software to create command sequences, and then apply those motions to automate various different characters.”

Learn more from the full inverview:
https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/6492/ipi-soft-automation-add-on

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New software release 3.3.9.205 includes:

N E W    F E A T U R E S:

• Further increase of jitter removal speed. Improved algorithm is 10-20% faster compared to the previous release. Speed increase depends on particular hardware (GPU and CPU).

B U G    F I X E S:

• Biomech Add-on free trial activation did not work.
• Periodic Auto-Save did not work in jitter removal. Now the project is saved every 30 seconds.
• Memory leaks in jitter removal.
• Crashed if timeline slider is clicked during jitter removal or tracking operation.

U N D E R    T H E    H O O D:

• Improved responsiveness of user interface during jitter removal on computers with slow video cards.

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Congrats to Iloura for its Emmy win for VFX in Game of Thrones

iPi Soft congratulates our customer Iloura, the leading Australian-based animation and visual effects studio, on winning a 2016 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for its work on the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones (GoT) the “Battle Of The Bastards” episode. Iloura used our iPi Motion Capture software throughout GoT for pre production and production to generate a library of vignettes they could use to drop into a number of shots and also for custom shot specific animation. Stay tuned for more details to follow on the Iloura iPi Mocap workflow.

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New software release 3.3.8.204 includes:

N E W    F E A T U R E S:

• Increased speed of jitter removal. New algorithm is 3-7 times faster compared to the previous one. Speed increase depends on particular hardware (GPU and CPU).
• Trajectory filter is improved for noisy data.

B U G    F I X E S:

• Tracking operations of multiple depth sensors projects failed with exception on some models of Nvidia cards using drivers 372.54, 372.70.

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