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September 24, 2010 --
Syflex in "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood".
This breathtaking animation is packed with simulation on clothes, hair, accessories on characters, horses’ ponytail etc.
Interview with executive producer Alex Sandor Rabb at Digic Pictures.
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January 15, 2010 --
Sylfid-f1
Syflex releases Sylfid-f1, a piano-like virtual instrument, where the motion of the strings
is computed in real-time using the Syflex simulation engine.
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August 15, 2009 --
Syflex in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
MPC required extensive cloth simulation in the latest Harry Potter movie, especially
in the action packed Quidditch match.
Read more about the movie in the August edition of
CGW and on
MPC's website.
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April 04, 2009 --
Syflex in "Monster vs Aliens"
Syflex is again in action is the latest Dreamworks CG movie "Monster vs Aliens".
Read more about the movie in this March issue of CGW.
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December 19, 2008 --
Syflex in "The Tale of Despereaux"
Interview with Sylvain Degrotte, Cloth Supervisor on "The Tale of Despereaux"
at Framestore Feature Animation.
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October 13, 2008 --
Syflex 3.9 released
Syflex 3.9 for Maya 2009 has been released today. With multi-threading, the new version is faster than ever.
For instance on a quad core Syflex 3.9 is up to 3.7 times faster than the previous versions making it
15 times faster than any other solution on the market.
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August 25, 2008 --
Syflex in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"
Lucasfilm in Singapore chose Syflex for the cloth simulation.
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July 21, 2008 --
Syflex in "Meet Dave"
CIS Hollywood used Syflex for the cloth simulation in "Meet Dave".
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July 26, 2008 --
Syflex in "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Meteor Studios relied on Syflex for most of their shots,
such as the skin of the T-Rex and character clothes.
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July 26, 2008 --
Syflex dressed Chimps in "Space Chimps"
Vanguard Animation used Syflex to dress the chimps in this space adventure.
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July 26, 2008 --
Syflex in "Dark Knight"
Double Negative used Syflex to help animating the batcape.
Paul Franklin, visual effects supervisor at Double Negative, said in an interview for VFXWorld:
"the demands of IMAX meant our cloth simulation needed to be much more detailed."
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June 30, 2008 --
Syflex in "Kung Fu Panda"
According to Manninen's interview in the June 08 edition of CGW:
"We created a process using Syflex that allows the animators to run cloth sims while they’re animating.
Because this is kung fu, we really needed to help the simulation look cool;
we wanted to create a flowing look with the simulated clothing."
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June 5, 2008 --
Syflex in "Dragon Hunters"
To animate the characters,
Mac Guff
used traditional key-frame animation, combined with a great variety of simulations and dynamics.
CGW has a
detailed article
about the movie in its November 08 edition.
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May 12, 2008 --
Syflex in "Horton Hears a Who"
Bluesky Studios needed an out of the box cloth simulator that would give them the flexibility to do different types
of cloth materials with a fairly quick turn around.
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May 1, 2008 --
Syflex in "10,000 BC."
MPC
uses Syflex for the nets and harnesses on the mammoths.
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February 25, 2008 --
Syflex in "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
Tippet uses Syflex to animate clothes and invisibility shields on the goblins.
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January 8, 2008 --
Syflex in "I Am Legend."
Sony Picture Imageworks used Syflex in "I Am Legend."
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January 5, 2008 --
Syflex in "The Golden Compass".
Cinesite and Framestore CFC used Syflex in the making of "The Golden Compass",
for clothes, sails and ropes.
CGW has more in its December 2007 issue.
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November 22, 2007 --
"Syflex in "Fred Claus"."
MPC populated the North Pole with hundreds of elves.
Clothing animation was simulated in Syflex.
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November 16, 2007 --
Syflex in "Bee Movie"
CGW has an in-depth article about Dreamworks' "Bee movie".
For cloth, character effects artists used Syflex to handle costumes for the humans and the bees.
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November 12, 2007 --
"Syflex in Lissi und der wilde Kaiser."
An Austrian empress, as well as other characters, chose to wear Syflex clothes
in the latest German CG animated movie from Michael Herbig.
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October 31, 2007 --
"Syflex in Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
CG artist Claire Pegorier from MPC used Syflex to animate sails and ropes:
“Our CG galleons had up to a dozen sails, with these huge pennants and flags on top of the masts,
and as many as 5,000 ropes! So, a realistic simulation was of paramount importance."
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July 25, 2007 --
"Syflex in the U.K."
Syflex is used by many companies in the UK.
Recently, three companies in London: Double Negative,
Framestore CFC and the Moving Picture Company used Syflex in the lastest
Harry Potter movie.
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June 21, 2007 -- "Silver Surfer"
Hydraulx used Syflex in "Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer".
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June 11, 2007 -- "Spider-Man 3"
Sony Pictures Imageworks used Syflex in 80 shots for Spider-Man 3
for digital doubles, masks and flags.
More details in our gallery pages.
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May 20, 2007 -- "Shrek the Third"
CGW has an article about cloth in "Shrek the third".
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April 20, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "Las Piñatas"
BYU's students used SyFlex in their latest short movie "Las Piñatas".
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April 12, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "TMNT"
IMAGI used SyFlex in their latest full CG feature film "TMNT".
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March 28, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "300"
Hydraulx, Meteor Studios and Animal Logic used SyFlex in their special effects work for "300".
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March 01, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "CREATURE ANATOMY"
The new "Maya Techniques | Hyper-Realistic Creature Anatomy Part II" DVD from Autodesk is out. Lead Animation Technical Director at Weta Digital, Rudy Grossman, is one of the authors. Rudy is demonstrating in the DVD the use of SyFlex for skin & flesh simulation.
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February 14, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "SMALLVILLE"
Santa Monica's EntityFX used SyFlex in the production of special effects for the TV series "Smallville". We have a nice testimonial from Director of Technology Todd Daugherty and more details in our gallery.
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January 12, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "Night At The Museum"
Rainmaker used Syflex to animate the Jackal’s cloth skirts.
More details in VFXWorld.
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January 16, 2007 -- SYFLEX IN "CHARLOTTE'S WEB"
The team over at Tippett Studio used SyFlex for dynamics simulation in a shot where Wilbur is being bathed in buttermilk in anticipation of his appearance at the county fair, and Tempelton the rat is taking a ride, too... The full article can be found here.
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