Atoms of Empire

Toolchefs has released Atoms Crowd 3.3.0, is a crowd simulation framework which is skeleton based, modular and fully customizeable via c or python. Atoms Crowd is integrated with Maya, Houdini and Katana but is also a standalone application and supports Vray, Renderman and Arnold

Toolchefs has released Atoms Crowd 2.6.0, is a crowd simulation framework which is skeleton based, modular and fully customizeable via c or python. Atoms Crowd is integrated with Maya, Houdini and Katana but is also a standalone application and supports Vray, Renderman and Arnold.

Toolchefs has released Atoms Crowd 2.5.0, the latest update to its cross-platform crowd simulation system, adding a “state of the art” OpenGL draw system with support for LODs, and big render speed boosts.

Toolchefs has released Atoms Crowd 2.0, the latest update to its cross-platform crowd simulation system, adding a “state of the art” OpenGL draw system with support for LODs, and big render speed boosts.

How does a crowd react to an historic event when certainties are shaken? A year after documenting the beginnings of the Ukrainian Revolution (Maidan, 2014), Sergei Loznitsa revisits a watershed moment in modern Russian history. Made entirely from black and white archival footage, with no commentary at all, The Event looks back on the failed coup in August 1991 that led to the collapse of the USSR. Documentary maker Loznitsa collected TV and amateur footage of street protests in 1991.

Toolchefs has unveiled Atoms Crowd 3.6.0, the next version of its software-agnostic crowd animation system, adding new features such as Animation Retargeting, Multi Layout, Variation Modifier and much more.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 is one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. Three men - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - emerged from obscurity to forge an entirely new political system. In the space of six months, they turned the largest country on earth into the first Communist state. Was this a triumph of people power or a political coup d'etat that led to blood-soaked totalitarianism? A hundred years later, the Revolution still sparks ferocious debate. This film dramatizes the 245 days that brought these men to supreme power.