The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome
Stam likes hideous complications. He works for Autodesk, the software company that produces Maya, the worlds leading 3-D modeling software. Maya has shaped nearly every CG visual effect youve seen since 1998 — from the first Matrix to the newest Spider-Man.
With his current project, a new module for Maya called Nucleus, Stam is getting closer than ever to his goal. Stams formulas allow two or three elements to interact as they would in the real word — smoke with wind, or fabric with solid objects. What hasn’t been accomplished yet is a system that can encompass and express dynamically all of the earthly elements and physical laws at once. Stam wants software that can play God with pixels. Right now, hes only in the early stages, but Nucleus is taking the special effects world a step closer to Stams dream of a unified physics-driven system that can produce eye-popping visual effects all by itself.
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