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Fantastical Cast of Thousands Created in Most Diverse Range of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Creatures Seen in Filmmaking to Date

Monday 12 December 2005

Massive Software announced today that visual effects company Rhythm & Hues has taken advantage of Massive's autonomous agent 3D animation and digital stunts system on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, filling the screen with fantastical CG armies that interact via artificial life. The film breaks ground for the variety of characters and animals bought to life using Massive crowds. It also for the first time demonstrates that Massive-generated performances are realistic enough to appear in close proximity to the camera and to hero characters in the scene.

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Weta Digital Uses Massive Software to Ape Reality on King Kong

Thursday 1 December 2005

Massive Software announced today continued pioneering use of the company's AI–driven 3D animation system by Weta Digital for more than 600 visual effects shots on King Kong. The Massive work on the film, which follows Weta's industry–leading innovation with Massive on such movies as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and I, Robot, creates a living, breathing backdrop of activity on Manhattan and Skull Island.

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Massive Software Launches Massive Jet™

Monday 1 August 2005

Massive Software announced today Massive Jet™, a new autonomous agent 3D animation application that enables the creation of large–scale, believable digital crowd shots "out of the box" with high quality and a low learning curve. A full–functioning package priced under $6K USD, Massive Jet™ leverages the company’s Academy Award–winning artificial life–based technology, pre–built Ready–to–Run Agent™ library and GPU–accelerated rendering support to allow animators and artists at any facility to quickly and easily produce highly realistic Massive scenes.

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Massive Software Supports GPU–Accelerated Rendering

Wednesday 27 July 2005

Massive Software announced today graphics processing unit–accelerated rendering for Massive, the company's Academy Award–winning autonomous agent 3D animation system. GPU–accelerated rendering support in Massive, now available for use with products including NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards, enables visual effects artists to render huge–scale Massive shots at film quality without a render farm.

Large facilities can maximize the new GPU–accelerated rendering to free up rendering resources and produce Massive simulations with astounding quality and speed. For the first time, visual effects studios of any size have the capability to use Massive and render out large–scale Massive scenes – using their typical production setups.

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A52 Uses Massive To Place 15,000 Spectators Under the St. Louis Arch

Thursday 23 June 2005

Award–winning Los Angeles visual effects and design company A52 today detailed their animation and visual effects work for a new Budweiser broadcast spot from Waylon Ad in St. Louis. The :60 commercial "Everyday Heroes" debuted widely during high–profile programming on Memorial Day weekend, featuring innovative visual effects feats including the team's first–ever use of Massive – the artificial–crowd–generating animation system developed specifically to support production on "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy. The spot will continue airing through July 4.

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Digital Domain Adopts Massive Software

Monday 21 March 2005

Massive Software, developer of the Academy Award–winning 3D animation system for AI–driven characters and digital stunts, announced today that Digital Domain (DD) is integrating Massive into its VFX pipeline. Massive, originally developed by Massive Software founder Stephen Regelous for use on The Lord of the Rings large–scale battle scenes, has been adopted by premiere creative facilities worldwide including Rhythm & Hues, Animal Logic, WETA Digital, The Mill and many others. Digital Domain, a renowned visual effects studio, recognized the value of Massive Software for meeting the complex effects challenges of today's discriminating feature film and commercial clientele.

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Rhythm & Hues uses Massive’s "Smart Stunts™" for Elektra Visual Effects

Thursday 10 February 2005

Massive Software, developer of the Academy Award–winning 3D animation system for AI–driven crowd–related effects, announced the use of Massive by Rhythm & Hues for the motion picture Elektra (20th Century Fox). Maximizing the software’s new built–in "Smart Stunts™", a team of two at the leading visual effects studio – Massive Supervisor Dan Smiczek together with Technical Animator Marc Bryant – applied the software’s unique flexibility for animating large groups of characters or creatures to create a complex scene involving hundreds of CG snakes.

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