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Weta Digital announced they teamed up with SideFX to work on a new software service combining Weta’s proprietary tools within SideFX’s award-winning Houdini application.
The platform will feature Weta Digital’s integrations and extensions of the Houdini workflow, including Weta’s Loki multiphysics solver and high-performance compute paradigm. These solutions were used for a number of well-known blockbusters including Avengers: Endgame, Alita: Battle Angel, and War for the Planet of the Apes.
"Partnering with SideFX was essential in realizing our vision for the cloud service, I cannot imagine doing this without them," said Weta Digital CEO Prem Akkaraju.
"The industry is moving to distributed architectures that will allow our cloud service model to reduce expensive technology barriers, further enhancing the natural strength of Houdini’s node-based procedural workflows and overall position in the market," added Akkaraju.
Previously, Weta Digital and Autodesk presented WetaM, a new cloud-based service that will provide access to the studio’s powerful in-house tools inside Autodesk’s Maya. The subscription-only service will launch in private beta by the end of this year.
The project is a part of Weta Digital’s new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) division which provides the ability to use 100 of the studio’s proprietary tools inside a custom build of Maya.
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