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FMX 2025: Rhythm of Change

Begins: May 6, 2025

The 4-day event returns to Stuttgart, kicking off May 6; on-demand presentations are available May 10 – June 10.

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Mindshow Unveils Real-Time Virtual Production Platform

Technology merges real-time rendering with asset ingest and character animation tools accessible across the entire production pipeline, from storyboarding to final pass; streaming veteran David Baron joins leadership team as COO.

Cutting-Edge Animation Headline News

MPC Recreates the Pride-Lands for ‘Lion King’ Prequel ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’

The VFX and animation studio led a team of over 1,700 artists, technologists, and production crew across 4 continents, collaborating remotely as well as using VR and virtual production tools to navigate digital environments.

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Pixomondo Unveils PXO AKIRA Vehicle Shooting System at CES

Enhancing safety, reducing costs, and maximizing creative freedom compared to traditional methods, the new system offers an ‘all-in-one’ solution for filming vehicles using virtual production in any setting.

Heading to Stuttgart Headline News

FMX 2025 Shares First Program Updates

Paul Debevic named chair of the 4-day conference on animation, VFX, interactive and immersive, which runs May 6-9, 2025 in Stuttgart.

It’s Unreal Headline News

Unreal Engine 5.5 Now Available

Latest update features major enhancements to animation authoring, rendering, virtual production, mobile game development, and developer iteration toolsets.

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Realtime Launches Virtual Production Division

Annie Shaw to head the BAFTA-nominated VFX studio’s new arm, whose new virtual production tool supports film and TV productions, production companies, and game developers.

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Vicon and Lux Machina Outfit Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center

NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ state of the art motion-capture and virtual production facility now offers students enrolled in the new Master of Professional Studies degree in Virtual Production a chance to learn with next generation technology.

Heading to Savannah! ANIMATIONWorld

Unpacking SCAD AnimationFest 2024 With Paula Wallace and Dan Bartlett

The university’s founder and the Dean of the School of Animation and Motion discuss the array of top speakers and program highlights, including Genndy Tartakovsky receiving the Award of Excellence and Toby Wilson presenting 'Blue Eye Samurai,' at the annual celebration of animation, which starts tomorrow, September 26, running through September 28.

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Genndy Tartakovsky to be Honored as SCAD AnimationFest 2024 Returns to Atlanta

The legendary genius behind ‘Dexter’s Lab,’ ‘Samurai Jack’ and “Hotel Transylvania’ to receive the Award of Excellence at the festival, which runs September 26-28; the 3-day event features screenings, panel discussions, and presentations from SCAD Alumni students, alumni and industry creatives.

Technology Headline News

Sony Announces Virtual Production Tool Set Version 2.0

Coming this winter, the virtual production software update will deliver Camera and Display Plugin and Color Calibrator improvements for a better broadcast and cinema workflow; both apps are free with select features available under a paid license.

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Chaos Drops ‘Butch Cassidy’-Inspired ‘Ray Tracing FTW’ Short

The film, made as part of the company’s ‘Project Arena’ deep dive into ICVFX (in-camera VFX), highlights the state of visual effects and filmmaking – from the artist’s point of view; new innovative virtual production tools integrate virtual shoots into overall production pipeline, enabling direct use of film production assets without any preprocessing.

Where Hollywood and Silicon Valley Converge Headline News

Infinity Festival: Where Hollywood and Silicon Valley Converge

Sony Pictures Imageworks CTO Mike Ford and Head of Production Mandy Tankenson co-chair the 7th edition which returns to Hollywood November 6-9; the event celebrates the convergence of art, technology and entertainment.

Save the Date Headline News

FMX YouTube Channel Launches with 2024 Talks, 2025 Event Dates Set

Save the date - FMX 2025 will run May 6-9, 2025; free content from this year’s conference is now available to stream, kicking off with ‘AI is now at the Gates of VFX and Animation’ panel.

People Headline News

RADiCAL Adds Habib Zargarpour, Joe Marks and Dane Allen Smith to Advisory Board

The three industry leaders bring decades of shared experience to the AI mocap and real-time 3D creation tools developer as it ramps up its product expansion.

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Impossible Objects Announces New Culver City Facility for Virtual Production

World-building lab and creative studio’s new facility features a 30-foot-wide by 10-foot-high LED wall built with AOTO 2.3mm pixel pitch panels and Brompton SX40 Tessera processors.

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Dimension/DNEG 360 Launch ‘Rise Up’ Virtual Production Training Initiative

Partnership with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s Group Effort Initiative on U.K.-based program is aimed at providing training opportunities to under-represented talent in a cutting-edge production environment.

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Meptik’s ‘Studio in a Box’ Accelerates Virtual Production

Pre-configured Disguise studio control stacks for projects of all sizes include ROE LEDs, camera tracking, comprehensive creative and technical support, and training in one seamless solution.

Doing it in the Cloud Headline News

Virtual Production Studio Dimension Selects AWS and Arch Platform

On heels of signing joint venture with DNEG to launch DNEG 360 division, the company announced its choice for cloud and technology platforms to scale global visualization, virtual production and content creation services.

Everybody Wants to Save the World… Again VFXWorld

VFX Helps Up the Post-Apocalyptic Humor in the Genre-Shifting ‘Fallout’

Creators and co-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, and VFX supervisor Jay Worth, discuss how they integrated 50’s B-Movie Sci-Fi, Spaghetti Western, and Future War tones and designs into their darkly satirical hit series adaptation of Bethesda’s best-selling video game, now streaming on Prime Video.

Depicting a Unique and Crucial Time in History VFXWorld

DNEG Heads into Deadly Clouds with ‘Masters of the Air’ VFX

The leading VFX and animation studio partnered with Dimension Studio on an end-to-end virtual production and visual effects effort on more than 1,600 shots and 200 assets for Apple TV+’s harrowing miniseries that follows the exploits of the 100th Bomb Group flying daytime missions over Nazi Germany during the darkest days of World War II.

Education and Training Headline News

Disguise and MARS Volume Launch Virtual Production Training Course

The Accelerator course will allow trainees in London to shoot a film on an 8,000 square-foot LED stage with the same MARS LED volume used on ‘3 Body Problem,’ ‘Culprits,’ ‘Gangs of London,’ and other projects.  

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