Over the past year Myrtle Software has worked with Digital Domain, the leading visual effects house based in Venice California, to help produce the next generation of its proprietary Storm renderer.

Myrtle Software completely supported Storm for Digital Domain on the following major motion pictures

      Speed Racer
      Transformers
      The Golden Compass

and continues to do so on the forthcoming features

      The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
      GI Joe

Storm won Digital Domain an Academy Award® for Scientific and Technical Achievementin 2004.

Myrtle Software has been hired by Digital Domain, the leading visual effects house based in Venice California, to help produce the next generation of its proprietary Storm renderer.

Storm won Digital Domain an Academy Award® for Scientific and Technical Achievement in 2004 and has been used on numerous major motion pictures including The Day After Tomorrow, Stealth, Flags of Our Fathers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and Transformers.

Craig Zerouni of Digital Domain said "It's very exciting for us to be able to draw on the the skills and experience of Peter Baldwin and Myrtle Software. The fit between their expertise and our existing toolset is ideal, and proving very productive." Peter Baldwin of Myrtle Software said "It's a great honour to be chosen to help produce the next version of such an august, production proven tool. I'm sure that we can make it even better and keep Digital Domain ahead of the curve for many years to come".

The 5x5 Voxel Renderer is coming to Autodesk's Maya with a whole host of powerful new features! (see a screenshot here)
Myrtle Software is currently looking for studios with Autodesk's Maya/ Pixar's Renderman vfx pipelines, initially under Unix, who are interested in participating in alpha stage evalution of this major upgrade of our flagship product. We'd particularly like to hear from facilities who have tornadoes to produce.
If you're interested then please get in touch with Peter Baldwin.

64bit versions of the 5x5 Voxel Renderer are now available. Please get in touch with Peter Baldwin to obtain evaluation copies.

Many thanks to all those people we met whilst demonstrating the 5x5 Voxel Renderer at Siggraph 2006 in Boston. It was great to put so many faces to names!

Two major new features added to the 5x5 Voxel Renderer. Firstly, new tools have been created to enable artists to easily generate Deep Shadow Maps for volumetric effects produced using 5x5. Secondly, users can now automatically generate mattes for object/ volume intersections without having to re-render the volumetric. Please Login to read the new example.

Myrtle Software releases the 5x5 Voxel Renderer - a powerful tool for producing production quality volumetric effects, like smoke, clouds, fire and splashing water.

New contact and support numbers for Los Angeles and London available

Myrtle Software completes beta testing of the 5x5 Voxel Renderer - a powerful tool for producing production quality volumetric effects.

Many thanks to all those people we met at Siggraph 2005 in Los Angeles - it was great to put so many faces to names!

Comments from Myrtle Software's Peter Baldwin about the creation of fluid effects for Warner Bros' "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" included in this online article

Myrtle Software will be attending Siggraph 2005 in Los Angeles - if you would like to see us there please get in contact!

Images created using Myrtle Software's fluid simulation tools appear in the book Production Rendering, Design and Implementation, Springer Verlag 2005

Myrtle Software to provide software and Technical Director services to the Moving Picture Company for Warner Bros' forthcoming movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory