Steamboat gets a new engine.(new computer aided design products)(Software Review)(Brief Article)

Steamboat's Jig, a software program for rendering traditional geometry as well as photo-realistic hair, volumes, and particles, was featured in Asia Image's SIGGRAPH Preview last month. Jig was on display and on sale at the show, but the company also announced the launch of a subsidiary company, Steam Engine, as an alternative solution for developing new rendering pipelines and effects.

Steam Engine offers a sizable parallel Linux cluster at a remote site or the option of a preconfigured Steam Engine render farm to be set up on-site on a month-to-month basis. With direct access to ...