Devcom Developers Conference 2023
Begins: August 20, 2023
The hybrid event, featuring talks, panels, and workshops from experts across the global games industry, will take place August 20-22 in Cologne, Germany.
Category: Technology
Pixelatl Festival 2023
Begins: September 5, 2023
The 12th Mexico’s annual animation, videogame, and comic festival will take place in Guadalajara September 5-9, 2023.
In 2D, 3D, Art, Business, CG, Comics, Digital Media, Education and Training, Event, Films, Games, Home Entertainment, People, Places, Short Films, Technology, Transmedia | Event Types: Conferences
Unreal Fest 2023
Begins: October 3, 2023
The conference heads to the New Orleans Convention Center October 3-5, this year featuring over 150 sessions, hands-on training, and networking opportunities.
In 3D, AI, Business, CG, Digital Media, Education and Training, Event, Games, Interactive, Jobs & Recruiting, People, Places, Technology, Transmedia, Virtual Production, AR/VR/XR, Visual Effects | Event Types: Conferences
European Conference on Visual Media Production 2023
Begins: November 11, 2023
The 20th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production brings together worlds of academic algorithmic research and post-production to discuss new advancements and innovative applications; the conference will take place November 11– December 1, 2023.
In 2D, 3D, AI, CG, Digital Media, Education and Training, Event, Interactive, Mobile and Wireless, Motion Graphics, People, Places, Post-production, Previs/Postvis/Visualization, Technology, Transmedia, Virtual Production, AR/VR/XR, Visual Effects | Event Types: Conferences
Impossible Objects Gets Unreal on GM OnStar Campaign
Team uses state-of-the-art virtual production and real-time technology, including Unreal Engine and disguise, to highlight expanded tech capabilities of OnStar’s offerings – without ever having to hit the road; check out ‘From The Lab: Building the OnStar’ to see how.
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Arcturus Named Go-To-Market Partner for Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios
The volumetric video tech leader’s new pipeline offers complete, photorealistic end-to-end solutions, from capture to distribution, for content creators on any size project.
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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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Shutterstock Brings Generative AI to 3D Scene Backgrounds with NVIDIA Picasso
Using cutting-edge tools, the visual-content provider now lets users quickly create and customize 3D scene backgrounds.
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NVIDIA Announces Powerful New RTX Workstations and GPUs
Desktops from BOXX, Dell, HP, and Lenovo feature NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs and incorporate NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software; 3 new desktop workstation Ada Generation GPUs - NVIDIA RTX 5000, RTX 4500, and RTX 4000 - also announced.
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NVIDIA Reveals New Resources to Accelerate OpenUSD Adoption
Newly announced Omniverse Cloud APIs include ChatUSD, Run USD, DeepSearch and USD-GDN Publisher, giving developers more power to seamlessly implement and deploy OpenUSD pipelines and apps.
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BOXX Announces RAXX P1G Workstation with New NVIDIA L40S GPU
The high-performance platform is purpose-built to power generative AI and media and entertainment workflows with NVIDIA’s new universal GPU for data centers based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
In 3D, AI, Business, CG, People, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All
NVIDIA Rolls Out Major Updates to NVIDIA Omniverse
Today at SIGGRAPH 2023, the tech giant revealed the newest improvements and additions to its foundation platform and services for developers to optimize and enhance 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI.
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FutureWorks Delivers on Indian ‘Ray Donovan’ Adaptation
The VFX studio contributed 1,800 shots for Netflix India’s ‘Rana Naidu’ series, based on the popular American Showtime drama series; work included action clean-ups, greenscreen sequences, and CG elements such as the creation of a realistic snake that appears during a drug-induced hallucination.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: Asia
Foundry Showcasing Expansive 3D Tools Lineup at SIGGRAPH 2023
‘Foundry Learn and Education’ meetups and presentations at the conference include techniques in compositing from Unity Wētā Tools, Boxel Studios, and Action VFX and lighting and 3D techniques from Foundry product experts.
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AWS Releases AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3 for UE5
New Unreal Engine 5 plugin leverages existing render setups and scalability so cloud-based resources can accelerate final-pixel outputs; also updates DCC apps, including Adobe After Effects 2023, Autodesk Maya 2024, Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, Autodesk VRED 2023 and Maxon Cinema 4D 2023.
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Unity Unveils New Unity Wētā Tools Division at SIGGRAPH 2023
Leading platform for real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experience creation will showcase groundbreaking work in character creation, environment building, rendering, and compositing; live keynote today from August 7 2pm - 3pm PDT.
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NIM Labs Launches NIM 6.0 Studio Management Platform
All-in-one system gets redesigned for speed and efficiency to help studios and freelancers bid for jobs of any size while keeping track of their bottom line.
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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.
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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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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NVIDIA GTC 2024 Announces Call for Submissions
The conference, taking place March 18-21, 2024 in San Jose, California, seeks submissions for talks, posters, and training labs by September 8, 2023.
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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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‘The Last Dungeon’: SCAD Animation Studio’s ‘Unreal’ New Short
For Junior animation student Alexandra Young, jumping into Unreal Engine to direct the school’s latest animated film, having never worked in 3D, was at first like drinking water from a firehose; however, she and her team quickly and effectively embraced the powerful real-time animation platform to tell an epic fantasy story in ways they couldn’t have done otherwise.
In 2D, 3D, Art, CG, People, Short Films, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld | Geographic Region: North America
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.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Launch Alliance for OpenUSD
The tech giants and Linux Foundation affiliate JDF join forces to create new AOUSD initiative to nurture global USD collaboration and support developers in building products and services for an ever-widening range of large-scale 3D projects across new industries and applications.
