VANAS Launches ‘Production Management in Digital Entertainment’ Course
The 1-year online program trains students in production oversight for animation, visual effects, and video games; now accepting applications.
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Image Engine Shares ‘Halo’ Season 2 VFX Reel
The VFX studio created 158 VFX shots, 20 unique space vehicles, and digital doubles for the Spartan crew while staying true to the franchise’s lore and aesthetic; series now streaming on Paramount+.
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VFX Breakdown Reel Highlights MPC’s ‘Atlas’ Free Fall from Space
Leading visual effects studio delivered 266 shots for director Brad Peyton’s sci-fi adventure; film stills and concept art help illustrate the work on full CG environments, set extensions, spaceships, digital doubles, and FX simulations for epic battle sequences.
Wētā FX Fashions Creatures Great and Small for ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’
VFX Producer Kevin Sherwood and Animation Supervisor Ludovic Chailloleau talk Shimo, Skar King, One-Eye, Suko, and the myriad environments of Hollow Earth created for the latest Warner Bros./Legendary Monsterverse outing.
MPC Shares ‘Spaceman’ VFX Breakdown
Studio’s VFX team delivered over 800 shots, including all space environments, on director Johan Renck’s sci-fi drama starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan; film now streaming on Netflix.
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Arcturus Announces HoloSuite Toolset Update
New Accelerated Volumetric Video Codec compresses data so creators can populate digital scenes with more volumetric characters than ever before while maintaining high data quality.
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Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Launches ‘ViewScreen’ Visualization Suite
Designed for full-scale productions, the new ProVis tools let filmmakers visualize and animate entire scenes, including digital assets, in real-time, across multiple cameras.
AMD Announces New AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Graphics Card
The new card, priced under $1,000, delivers reliable and stable performance for content creation, AI applications, and CAD, offering a double-digit performance increase in key professional applications compared to competitive cards.
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Claynosaurz Releases ‘Claynos’ Teaser Trailer
The 3DCG short tells the origin story of the colorful stylized dinosaurs inhabiting the studio’s IP; following 2 months of concept development, the team tapped Autodesk Maya and Arnold, using the Conductor cloud-based rendering service, to complete the film.
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Rodeo FX Shares ‘The Little Mermaid’ VFX Breakdown Reel
The studio contributed 259 shots across multiple sequences, including breathing life into iconic characters Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle – staying faithful to their original characters while integrating actual animal behavior.
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MPC Shares ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ VFX Breakdown Reel
See how the leading visual effects studio delivered 896 shots on Paramount Pictures’ newest entry in the ‘Transformers’ universe, including creating multiple large-scale full CG and digital set extensions, including one that transported the present-day New York skyline back to 1994.
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MPC’s VFX Goes to the Dogs in ‘Strays’
Leading creative studio delivers 720 shots for Universal’s comedy adventure, starring Jamie Foxx and Will Ferrel, about an abandoned dog who forms a gang of misfit ‘strays’ dogs; CG magic used to create a fully digital eagle and replace dogs’ muzzles and heads.
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VFX Legion Shares ‘The Passenger’ Breakdown Reel
Team delivers 60+ shots and digital effects intensifying the high-impact violence throughout the hostage thriller, from the bloody restaurant massacre to the killing spree that follows; now available on streaming platforms.
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VFX Legion Amps Up the Terror in Lionsgate’s ‘Cobweb‘
The visual effects boutique delivers 225+ shots for the psychological thriller, adding to the tale’s horror with invisible effects, which included a 3D animated spider, digital limb replacements, and CG environments and set extensions.
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NVIDIA's ‘Neuralangelo’ Source Code Now Available
The AI model transforms 2D video clips into detailed 3D structures for export and use in design applications across art, game dev, robotics, and digital twins.
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NVIDIA Rolls Out Major Updates to NVIDIA Omniverse
Today at SIGGRAPH 2023, the tech giant revealed the newest improvements and additions to its foundation platform and services for developers to optimize and enhance 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI.
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AMD Announces New AMD Radeon PRO W7600 and W7500 Graphics Cards
The new cards, designed to enable top performance for mainstream professional workflows, leverage breakthrough AMD RDNA 3 technology to deliver 2X higher TFLOPS performance and 1.5X higher maximum total data rate for displays than previous generation.
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Cinesite Adds ‘Monstrous’ VFX to ‘The Witcher’ Season 3
The award-winning visual effects studio creates the huge-jawed Aeschna sea monster, the deadly Flesh Monster, and a huge Ring of Fire, in the hit fantasy adventure’s latest season; watch the final S3 episodes now on Netflix.
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MPC Shares VFX and Animation From ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Studio created multiple large-scale full CG and digital set extensions, including one that transported the present-day New York skyline back to 1994; a team of 1,000+ artists across London, Montreal, Bangalore, LA, Toronto, and Adelaide delivered 896 shots, including 18 of the movie’s characters.
NVIDIA Reveals ‘Neuralangelo’ AI Model
New technology uses neural networks to turn 2D video clips into detailed 3D structures for import into design applications; NVIDIA Research to demo at this year’s CVPR in Vancouver June 18-22.
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AMD Introduces AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series Graphics Cards
The graphics and vistech innovator’s latest graphic cards optimize image fidelity and color accuracy; graphics and compute-based apps operate simultaneously without compromising workflows.
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Maxon One Announces 2023 Product Updates
New features and workflow enhancements are revealed across entire product line, including Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant, ZBrush and Forger, promising improved performance, workflows and advanced tools for animation, rendering and sculpting.
KitBash3D Teams with Epic Games on Digital Asset Library
10,000+ digital assets are coming to Fortnite creators via Fab, Epic’s new creator marketplace, now available in its Alpha Version.
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OPSIS Scores with VFX for Frito-Lay’s FIFA World Cup ‘Soccer or Football’ Commercial
Director Michael Bay brought in the visual effects house on the spot, featuring soccer icon David Beckham and football legend Peyton Manning, to create some very “cheesy” Cheetos-munching debris, a CG ball smacking a chip bag, and generic stadium shots where all manner of branded signage, banners, flags, and video screen imagery had to be removed.
Goodbye Kansas Shares ‘See’ Season 3 VFX Breakdown Reel
Studio delivers 50 shots that include CG characters, digital water and explosions, plus set and crowd extensions on Apple TV+’s Emmy Award-winning post-apocalyptic dystopian drama.
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