Producing Animation the Right Way on ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’
DNEG’s feature animation division drew on years of cutting-edge VFX production experience to build the pipeline needed to help Locksmith Animation bring Barney and Ron the B*Bot to life.
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NVIDIA Canvas Update with New AI Model Released
Latest version of tool, which allows artists to quickly turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images, features powerful new AI model based on GauGAN2 research.
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NVIDIA Releases Free Version of Omniverse for Individual Creators and Artists
The company’s real-time 3D design collaboration and simulation platform is now available to millions of NVIDIA GeForce Studio creators with RTX GPUs; new Omniverse Machinima and Omniverse Audio2Face platforms also revealed, as well as new platform features and 3D asset marketplaces.
NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Now Available Through PNY
PNY is partnering with NVIDIA to bring their revolutionary real-time 3D collaboration and simulation platform to reinvent workflows for dispersed creative teams across the animation and VFX space. Join the free ‘Revolutionizing 3D Workflows with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise,’ webinar set for November 17.
NVIDIA Reveals Omniverse Avatar Platform
New technology generates interactive AI avatars with ray-traced 3D graphics by connecting speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines and simulation technologies.
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NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Replicator Synthetic AI Data Generation Engine
Powerful system produces physically simulated data for training neural networks; first implementations shown are NVIDIA DRIVE Sim and NVIDIA Isaac Sim apps.
NVIDIA CEO Shares Vision for AI, Robotics, Omniverse Avatars and Digital Twins
In his virtual GTC keynote, company founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced a host of new technologies, including his Toy Jensen miniature avatar, to demonstrate transformative uses of the tech giant’s latest offerings in accelerated computing and the Omniverse Enterprise virtual world simulation and collaboration platform.
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Don’t Miss Epic’s ‘Animation Workflows Using Unreal Engine and Maya’ Webinar
Coming Wednesday, November 10, virtual event will show how to create stylized character-based animation using UE and Autodesk Maya, exploring open standards like Alembic and USD to quickly move work between the two platforms.
Join PNY and NVIDIA’s ‘Revolutionizing 3D Workflows with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise’ Webinar
This free presentation on November 17 will showcase how companies can address remote and hybrid work challenges with NVIDIA’s new real-time collaboration and simulation platform, Omniverse Enterprise; PNY is also hosting a series of Omniverse Enterprise sessions at GTC 2021, NVIDIA’s free digital conference running November 8-11.
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NVIDIA GTC 2021 Unveils Massive Program – Free Registration Now Open
The tech giant’s free virtual conference runs November 8-11, featuring 500+ sessions with industry leaders; highlights include founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, a discussion on the potential of USD for 3D creators, and how the Omniverse, USD, and real-time rendering are transforming global film production and workflows.
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Autodesk Shares Vision of Cloud-Based M&E Workflows
Announcements made today, as Autodesk University 2021 begins, outline an industry forward look at Cloud production, open standards, and machine learning; shift to the cloud in response to global pandemic means opportunities to build a more resilient future, unlocking new levels of creator collaboration and efficiency to meet growing content demand.
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Unreal Engine 4.27 is Here!
Now available, the latest update to Epic Games' real-time game engine boasts improvements for creators across multiple industries such as game development, film and television, and architecture; enhanced features include improved VFX workflows, faster light baking, integrated RAD game tools, and production-ready pixel streaming.
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Animal Logic Releases Open Source USD ALab Complete Production Scene
Release includes full scene description, from global assets through to shot outputs; broad use of assets is designed to promote education, training, and demonstration by students, studios, and vendors.
NVIDIA Unveils Major Omniverse Expansion
Groundbreaking simulation and collaboration platform introduces Blender and Adobe integrations that will open up system to millions of additional users.
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Displaying Great Ingenuity on Spotify’s ‘Today’s Top Hits’ Campaign
Ingenuity Studios delivers 65 shots in five stylized, fantastical CG worlds, each for a different starring musical act, for a new campaign highlighting the streaming music platform’s largest playlist.
NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse Now in Open Beta
New enhanced simulation platform with robotics specific extensions provides essential features for building virtual robotic worlds and experiments.
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Bad Guys Have Their Fun in ‘Evil Genius 2: Wold Domination’ Trailer
Haz Dulull and He Sun deliver an exciting game cinematic spot for Rebellion’s latest release, produced with a USD-based Houdini pipeline, Unreal Engine, and Redshift.
Autodesk Unveils Maya, 3ds Max and MotionBuilder 2022
Flagship product updates include powerful new functionality and tools like the much anticipated USD plugin for Maya.
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LoUPE Simplifies Storytelling with Technology ‘For Artists, By Artists’
Tangent Labs co-founder Jeff Bell shares how their platform integrates asset management, production and task management, review and collaboration, sketching, draw overs, and note taking to enable transparent, accessible, and innovative animation and VFX creativity.
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Tangent Labs Announces LoUPE CG Pipeline Tool
New production component tool allows teams to focus on creativity and storytelling by reducing the pain points in their pipeline.
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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.
Making Myth Real: Breathing Light Into ‘White Snake’
For Beijing-based Light Chaser Animation, Foundry has played an essential role in the studio’s growing success in producing visually compelling and beautifully designed CG animated feature films.
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Foundry Releases Katana 3.5
Core engine rewrite boasts faster operations; new USD integration tools and customized shading groups among numerous other improvements
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Luma Pictures Takes Molten Man and Cyclone into the Cloud on ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
VFX producer Michael Perdew shares how Google Cloud was integral in the studio’s Air and Fire Elementals production work on the hit superhero action adventure.
NVIDIA Unveils Interactive 3D Design Collaboration Platform Omniverse
NVIDIA Omniverse enables teams to interactively work together to create and render scenes using industry-standard 2D and 3D software.
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