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Entering a New World of High-End Visuals with NVIDIA’s RTX A5000 Graphics Card

Carl Flygare, NVIDIA Professional Visualization Marketing Manager at PNY, talks about virtual production, changes in the M&E landscape, and the many virtues of the NVIDIA RTX™ A5000 professional graphics card, which is available at a special promotional price for a limited time.

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Boris FX Acquires SynthEyes

The 3D camera tracking VFX app joins the Boris FX Suite, which already boasts Sapphire, Continuum, Mocha Pro, Silhouette, Optics and CrumplePop; live SynthEyes demos slated for IBC September 15-18.

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NVIDIA Makes Extended-Reality Streaming More Scalable with CloudXR Suite

The updated software-hardware combination brings high-quality XR to more enterprises and developers, enabling high-fidelity, immersive environments for anyone with an AIO headset or mobile XR device.

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Academy Software Foundation Launches OpenPBR MaterialX Subproject

The new open source shading model succeeds Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material; Open Source Days ‘23 event kicks off August 6.

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Movella Launches OBSKUR All-in-One Livestream Broadcasting System

Leading mocap tech company’s new application is the first such product built on UE5; OBSKUR Mocap Box, a mocap suit redesigned especially for streaming, also launches.

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Do It in the Cloud Headline News

CoreWeave Completes Conductor Cloud-Based Rendering Service Integration

Customers can now access expansive compute resources including NVIDIA RTX A5000-A6000 graphic cards for VFX, animation, and motion graphics workloads; check out the demo at SIGGRAPH 2023, running August 6-10 in LA.

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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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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Graphics Cards Special Pricing from PNY Now Available

PNY, one of NVIDIA’s leading professional visualization partners, has announced special limited-time pricing for the versatile, advanced, and high-performance NVIDIA RTX™ A5000 professional graphics card.

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Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO

The Foundation’s newest hosted project, created by Larry Gritz in 2008, is widely used by VFX and animation studios and integrated into leading production software products; don’t miss the OIIO ‘Birds of a Feather’ session at SIGGRAPH August 7.

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Maxon Announces New Feature Updates

The summer heats up with enhanced Maxon One subscription offerings, including Jitter added to Redshift, MatCap Shader Node and Support for Maya on Mac, and Improved Trapcode Workflows.

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Ready to Take the VFX Challenge? Headline News

Stage 03 Launches ‘VFX Challenge: Creatures Edition’

Dive into the world of VFX with this creative contest using After Effects, Maya, and Nuke to incorporate CG creatures into live-action footage; 1^st prize is an Insta360 X3 Camera; free to enter, the submission deadline is August 31, 2023.

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3D Art Challenge Headline News

FGT3D ‘New Adventure’ Challenge Winners Announced

Working from the prompt ‘Adventure is worthwhile in itself,’ 3D artists worldwide created their own ‘new adventure,’ telling their stories through 3D renders; six winners - three professional and three student works - received various prizes from event sponsors.

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Chaos Releases Vantage 2 Real-Time Visualization Tool

The standalone product gives artists the ability to explore massive, production-quality 3D scenes - complete with full raytracing - and make changes in real-time.

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Browser-Based Generative AI Headline News

Poly Introduces New Generative AI Texture Generator

The company has just released WithPoly, a browser-based tool for creating and upscaling PBR textures that with prompts, can create up to 8K resolution in seconds.

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It’s Unreal Headline News

Epic Games’ Free ‘RealityScan’ App Now on Android

Photogrammetry app uses pictures taken with Android or iOS device to create high-fidelity 3D models; export to Sketchfab or download to use in other apps such as UE or Twinmotion.

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Real-Time MoCap Headline News

Disguise and Move.ai Release ‘Invisible’ Real-Time Markerless MoCap Bundle

The solution lets creatives animate real-time characters and gesture-triggered effects without markers, wearable suits, and long calibration setups.

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Promoting African Culture Headline News

Kunda Kids Launches Music-Filled ‘Kunda & Friends’ on YouTube

U.K.-based kids’ media company taps Uganda-based Creatures Animation to produce the 3DCG educational series portraying African Culture and fostering essential life skills such as confidence, kindness, and teamwork.

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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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Jon Peddie Research Releases 2023 Digital Content Creation Market Study

The report shows growth in demand for digital content and tools for its creation, especially in emerging markets.

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Digital Kinetics Deploys Vicon’s Valkyrie and Shōgun

Croatia-based studio creates cutting-edge motion capture stage to deliver mocap and virtual production services to local and international entertainment industries.

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Digital Domain Names Matt McClurg Head of Visualization

The industry veteran takes the reigns to optimize the VFX studio's proprietary toolsets including machine learning software and AI-driven creations.

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Pixar Releases RenderMan V25

Newest version includes enhanced technology features such as advanced denoising powered by machine learning, reaching new milestones in support for volumes, secondary passes, and performance for feature film animation and VFX.

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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.

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digital content creation Headline News

disguise Announces Platform Integration with NVIDIA Omniverse

The new collaboration allows artists to connect their preferred content creation tools in a unified production pipeline for faster, easier changes and enhanced content production, with a lower barrier of entry for accessing M&E workflows.

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3D Design Platform PixCap Scores $2.8M Seed Funding

The funding round, led by Sequoia Capital’s Surge, will support the company’s global expansion while furthering its product development; the web-based tool, equipped with numerous 3D assets and templates, brings the power of 3D design to everyone.