Tagged With: Virtual Reality

Women in Animation co-president Marge Dean to moderate panel of guests representing film, TV, comics, VR, gaming and digital streaming on Thursday, July 20, at San Diego Comic-Con International.

Director Tim Rudder and producer Bobby Beck led a team of artists in partnership with studio platform Artella to create the animated WebVR short.

Fast-growing roster of directorial talent fusing technology and storytelling includes Nexus Studios, Mighty Nice, Gentleman Scholar, Assembly, The Mill's Mill+, XYZ Studios, Wizz, Carnage, independent visual director Paul Mitchell, and Blacklist directors CISMA and Terry Hall.

SIGGRAPH 2017 will present the animated, student short film, created by Animationsinstitut alumni Kariem Saleh and Alexandra Stautmeister, with the award at a ceremony at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles on July 31, 2017.

Director of immersive platforms storytelling for ‘The New York Times’ Graham Roberts will present a 40-minute talk about the organization’s VR expertise and integration of the new medium into the media outlet’s news reporting through NYT VR, as well as insight into the making of the 10-minute short film ‘The Antarctica Series: Under A Cracked Sky,’ executive produced by Roberts and one of four films in the Times’ Antarctica series.

Launched by creative studio VR Playhouse, the program consists of three essential, six week courses covering 3D production, interactive 360 video and storytelling in virtual reality starting July 10, with other intensives planned.

The makers of the Limitless VR Creative Environment have released the interactive, animated VR experience, ‘Reaping Rewards,’ available for free on Steam and coming soon to the Oculus store.

SIGGRAPH’s fledgling VR showcase matures with a diverse array of new Virtual and Augmented Reality projects from around the world, all focusing on the theme of diversity.

Groundbreaking VR lab and incubator to be the first of its kind in China.