Impossible Objects Dreams Up ‘All Kinds of Fields’ for John Deere
Directed by Jay Walker, the spot tapped studios’ technical expertise using CG, LED volume shoot and traditional VFX to visually realize a young girl’s dream.
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Watch: Ingenuity Studios’ ‘Black Cake’ VFX Breakdown Reel
The VFX house delivers 700+ shots across all 8 episodes of Season 1 of Hulu’s drama mystery series based on Charmaine Wilkerson's debut novel about a family wrapped in a murder mystery.
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‘Jane’ Harnesses the Power of Imagination and VFX to Help the World’s Wildlife
For Matt Bishop and his artistic team, creating 39 different wildlife creatures, some highly endangered with little available reference, for Apple TV+’s live-action/CGI hybrid series inspired by the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, was a rewarding, collaborative effort that hopefully helps inspire people to better understand kids’ relationship with our planet; the show premieres on the streamer April 14.
Gnomon’s Real-Time Short ‘The Voice in the Hollow’ Shows Power of Unreal Engine
The 10-minute animated African horror fable by instructors Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma - known as Half M.T. Studios - employed hand-drawn and cutting-edge 3D techniques, with tools like ZBrush and Maya for characters and Substance Painter for texturing, and was rendered exclusively in the game engine.
Mathematic Crafts the Dystopian Auto-Racing World of Pink Noise’s ‘Sky Cry’ Music Video
The creative studio delivers ‘Crashtag,’ the world's first robot influencer, using a variety of 3D tools to design and build the futuristic sci-fi world of director Kim Chapiron’s new short film.
The Challenges of Creating Digital Humans
VFX studio Goodbye Kansas’ Jonas Skoog and Goran Milic share their insights on the pipeline, tools, and ongoing development needed to create CG humans that look real and emote believably.
Method Studios Walks Us Through History for ‘Eternals’ End Credits
Audiences take a stunning visual tour of artwork across the ages, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Aboriginal cave paintings, Middle Age tapestries, and Indonesian shadow puppets, in Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and Marvel Studios’ superhero adventure.
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Molecule VFX Helps Amazon Prime Achieve a State of ‘Bliss’
Led by VFX supervisor Luke DiTomasso, the studio delivers over 200 shots for director Mike Cahill’s sci-fi thriller about two overlapping worlds, one real, one not, one ugly, one beautiful, and the conspiracy to keep people from finding out the truth.
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Adobe Updates Substance Painter and Designer
Enhanced features support hiding of geometry mask while painting; copy and paste effects between layers and texture sets; streamlined UV tile workflow; and several new design updates such as Pantone integration.
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‘Bearly’ Charms as SCAD Animation Studio’s Debut Film
The delightful 2D/3D animated musical short, about a curious bear cub’s attempt to resist hibernation, marks the start of the program’s ambitious plan to produce two new shorts each year.
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Nvidia Omniverse Open Beta Now Available
Cloud-based platform accelerates collaboration in real-time through connected virtual worlds that provide photorealistic rendering.
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WATCH: ‘Marbles at Night’ Demo Illuminates Future of Graphics in NVIDIA Omniverse
Physics-based demo highlights dynamic ray-traced lights, path tracing, and 100 million polygons, all running in rea- time on a single GeForce RTX 3090 GPU.
Adobe Releases Substance Painter Update
New 3D paint tools optimize creative workflow allowing users to paint across UV Tiles, import UDIM images from existing sources and export easily to renderers or engines that supports UDIMs.
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Adobe Releases Substance Source Parametric Decals
Coming on the heels of last Wednesday's livestreamed Substance Day keynote, company announces new features to easily add unique variations of isolated details to a model.
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Adobe Announces Substance Designer and Painter Updates
In livestreamed keynote, Sébastien Deguy discusses new software features that improve workflow and capabilities of 3D and VFX artists.
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MasterVR Releases Masterpiece Studio - 3D Content Creation Suite
New suite combines and builds on Masterpiece Creator and Masterpiece Motion for faster, easier rigging that allows users to create 3D content in minutes.
Adobe Announces Updates to Entire Substance Suite
Company rolls out significant set of updates across their 3D texturing suite: Substance Painter, Alchemist, Source and Designer
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Elastic Tackles ‘Gears of War 5’ Multi-Part Launch Campaign
Creative studio collaborates with 215 McCann, XBOX and The Coalition to produce, design and animate three key pieces of game launch content.
Adobe Releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Update includes up to 200x faster bakers with RTX, 40 new smart materials and API scripting improvements.
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Unity Technologies Announces Unity Learn Premium
New learning platform gives Unity developers exclusive access to gaming and industry-specific resources, live access to tech experts and advanced content.
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Unity Releases CG Short ‘Sherman’ to Showcase Real-Time Production Template
Emmy Award-winning team behind the ‘Baymax Dreams’ shorts for Disney shares funny new film, the free tools and best practices used in its production.
GDC 2019: Project Substance Alchemist Enters Open Beta
3D tool from Allegorithmic enables the rapid creation of PBR Material Libraries for game, film, architecture and industrial design.
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Substance Painter Adds Subsurface Scattering for More Realistic Characters and Materials
Second major update of 2018 brings interface updates, cross-substance improvements and a host of new features for amateurs and pros alike.
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Allegorithmic, CLO Launch Best-Dressed Statue Contest
Entrants will have a chance to win prizes by designing creative clothing for Michelangelo’s David or Jean-Antoine Houdon’s Diana.
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WATCH: Guru Studio Unveils Trailer for ‘Space Between Stars’ Short
First project produced as part of Guru’s new short film program is directed by Samuel W. Bradley with a score by composer Jim Guthrie.
