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SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

iClone 7 Mocap at SIGGRAPH 2017

Reallusion has announced iClone 7 real-time face and body motion capture featuring partnerships with Faceware and Xsens, simplifying mocap with dedicated tools and UI for recording actors in any environment and transforming a single PC into a streamlined and affordable rig for character creation, animation and live face and body mocap; Reallusion will showcase the iClone 7 innovations in Los Angeles at SIGGRAPH, August 1–3 at booth #1219.

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Next Limit Technologies Headline News

Next Limit Introduces RealFlow Cinema 4D 2.0

The new version of the software offers fluid simulation directly in Cinema 4D, a new Multiphysics solver and other features.

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PipelineFX Headline News

PipelineFX Announces Release of Qube! 6.10

New features include an integrated Shotgun user interface, perpetual license keys, command line access to Microsoft Azure during the beta and Clarisse renderer support.

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Golaem Headline News

Golaem Announces Release of Golaem 6

The new software version is built to give crowd technical directors more under-the-hood access to the crowd simulation engine, and provides custom artificial intelligence, an emit/kill behavior, traffic simulation behavior and improvements to the acclaimed Golaem Layout Tool.

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Adobe Headline News

Adobe Acquires Mettle’s SkyBox Tools

The acquisition accelerates Adobe’s position in the cutting-edge 360-degree film and virtual reality media, allowing native integration of SkyBox plugin functionality in future releases of Premiere Pro and After Effects.

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Atomic Fiction Headline News

Marc Chu Joins Atomic Fiction as Animation Department Supervisor

Based out of their Oakland office, Chu will oversee animation company-wide, bringing to bear 20 years of experience animating and supervising, after his most recent role as animation director at ILM.

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Business Headline News

Animasia Studios Teams with Pilla-Scheetz Productions for ‘Nine Lives of Claw’

Malaysian animation studio to develop 2D animated concept from co-creator Gary Pilla into a multi- platform brand covering animated series, mobile games, and toy line merchandise.

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Toon Boom Headline News

Toon Boom Rebrands, Unveils Toon Boom Producer

Makers of 2D production tools Toon Boom Harmony and Storyboard Pro announce availability of new web-based production tracking and digital asset management tool.

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Visual Effects Headline News

Rhythm and Hues Co-Founder John Hughes Launches PHD

With offices in India, Malaysia and South Africa, new full-service production and postproduction collective led by VFX industry veterans John Hughes and Helena Packer and film/TV/commercial director Kevin Donovan forms in Los Angeles.

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2D Events

American Film Market & Conferences 2017

Begins: November 1, 2017

AFM will be in Santa Monica from November 1 – 8, 2017.

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360 camera Blogs

Cooking Up a Chinese VR Short

China's first improv VR table read informs the development of ‘Four Dishes and a Soup.’

In People, Short Films, Technology, AR/VR/XR | ANIMATIONWorld, Blog Post | Blogs: Reality Bites | Geographic Region: Asia

Nimble Collective Headline News

Nimble Collective Launches ‘Disrupted’ Micro-Series Pilot Project

Launched in collaboration with the Mountain View, CA startup’s innovative Virtual Studio Service Platform, ‘Disrupted’ is the story of Ben, a 40ish unexpectedly unemployed animator, and his disillusioned and absurd path back into the workforce.

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AIAF Events

Australian International Animation Festival 2017

Begins: May 12, 2017

CSU Animation & Visual Effects present the 14th Anniversary of the Australian International Animation Festival, running Friday, May 12 through Sunday, May 14, 2017.

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Sony Pictures Animation Headline News

Sony Pictures Animation Appoints Pam Marsden Head of Production

‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ 1 & 2 producer previously served as executive vice president of physical production.

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Commercials Headline News

Not To Scale Signs Drew Lightfoot

New York commercial production company to rep multi-disciplinary animator/director in the U.S. and Europe.

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China Headline News

China’s Tencent Partnering with Up Studios for ‘Super BOOMi’

Chinese tech and media giant Tencent teams with one of China's leading original IP studios to produce of a new CG-animated series based on the hit character BOOMi.

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Nimble Collective Headline News

Nimble Collective’s Bruce Wilson Promoted to Chief Scientist

Digital media industry leader Rob DeMillo joins Mountain View, CA startup production platform aimed at revolutionizing the animation content market as Chief Technology Officer.

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Technology Headline News

Qube!’s Metered Licensing Keeps DHX Media Rendering Costs in Check

PipelineFX’s industry-leading render management software and new pay-per-minute licensing policy gives the international animation powerhouse an edge in today’s competitive broadcast market.

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mixed reality Blogs

Mixed Reality Takes Off in the Middle Kingdom

An American entrepreneur opens China's first high-end mixed reality showroom.

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Blackmagic Design Headline News

More Than 45 Sundance Films Created Using Blackmagic Design Technology

More than 45 films and series at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival used Blackmagic Design’s digital film cameras, DaVinci Resolve Studio grading, editing and finishing solution, Fusion Studio visual effects and motion graphics software, and other products throughout production and post production.

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3D animation Blogs

Chinese Stone Lions Now an Actual Reality

A seven-year odyssey comes to fruition as Disney's first original Chinese TV co-production.

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Kidscreen Headline News

Final Kidscreen Hot50 Rankings Announced

Netflix, Amazon Studios, DHX Media, The LEGO Company and YouTube Kids all secure number-one spots.

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Virtual Reality Blogs

The Art of Indirection

Transcript of my VR storytelling principles presentation just given at the 7^th Int’l Conference & Exhibition on Visual Entertainment in Beijing.

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Nimble Collective Headline News

Nimble Collective Invites Animation Artists to Apply as Beta Testers

Startup aimed at building the world’s largest online animation community seeks individual animators or small teams to collaborate and test virtual streaming pipeline capabilities.