Qvisten Animation made extensive use of PipelineFX’s intelligent render farm manager and Microsoft Azure integration to complete their feature ‘Anchors Up’ on a tight timeline, relying on a shared disk image in the cloud and Qube!’s automatic resource allocation.
Director Tim Rudder and producer Bobby Beck led a team of artists in partnership with studio platform Artella to create the animated WebVR short.
The sessions will feature expert creators across film, games, computer animation, visual effects and virtual reality, presenting their work on projects like ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,’ ‘Cars 3’ and ‘Overwatch.’
The popular VR fortune teller now combines tarot reading, astrological reading and the ancient Babylonian game of Ur on Google Daydream and Samsung Gear VR devices.
Known for VFX work on major feature films Pirates of the ‘Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,’ ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,’ ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘Ghostbusters,’ 3D conversion, VFX and VR studio Legend 3D, Inc. has announced additions to its executive leadership team, as a part of the digital media company’s work to expand its global footprint.
The overall VFX supervisor on Luc Besson’s upcoming epic sci-fi adventure discusses the film's challenges and his relationship with the director going back 20 years to 'The Fifth Element.'
Company President Clément Calvet and Managing Director Jérémie Fajner describe her arrival as a major step in the expansion of Superprod, particularly for the newly-created digital department Brin will oversee.
New 24 and 32-inch Cintiq Pros will join the previously introduced 13 and 16-inch models to form a comprehensive range of sizes for every need.
Deluxe-owned visual effects studio delivers eight-foot-tall 12,000 pound CG pig for director Bong Joon Ho’s new feature film for Netflix.
MaterialX development team to host a ‘Birds of a Feather’ meeting at the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles, CA on Monday July 31, 2017.
Representing more than 600 academic facilities located in over 80 countries worldwide, worldwide, Autodesk-sponsored student competition received 8,725 digital projects created by 2,752 students.
Shail joins Spin VFX as Senior Visual Effects Producer after experiences as an artist, supervisor and show runner.
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.
After previous experiences working in senior-level capacities with Electronic Arts and Disney Interactive, Kalson will play a key role in the development of both existing and new SYBO games, where she will apply her extensive background in AI to focus on analysis, narrative and player behavior throughout game experiences, with the goal of delivering more interactive connections between the game characters inhabiting the SYBO universe and the company’s millions of fans.
New features include an integrated Shotgun user interface, perpetual license keys, command line access to Microsoft Azure during the beta and Clarisse renderer support.
Award-winning artists, directors and animators Nicolas Ménard, Louise Bagnall, Conor Finnegan and Eimhin McNamara will screen their animated films in Chapter, Cardiff on Saturday, July 22nd as a preview event for the new Cardiff Animation Festival (April 2018), both of which are organized by Cardiff Animation Nights.
The new software version is built to give crowd technical directors more under-the-hood access to the crowd simulation engine, and provides custom artificial intelligence, an emit/kill behavior, traffic simulation behavior and improvements to the acclaimed Golaem Layout Tool.
‘Rebels’ action brings heroic characters and compelling villains closer to the stories of ‘Rogue One’ and the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, available on Blu-ray and DVD August 29th.
In addition to the 800 Euro main award at the festival in Žilina, Slovakia, juries bestowed awards for the best music video, student film, video game pitches and video game jam.
This year’s edition of the animation, video game and transmedia event calls for projects in three categories: Portuguese-Spanish animation and video games, European transmedia and new media projects and international online animation series, with a submission deadline of July 28.
Update features include new alphas and patterns, improved filters, new fonts, Substance Source integration, ambient occlusion and a live edge wear filter, and is available for free to all Substance Painter 2 -- Indie holders.
London, Montreal, Vancouver and Bangalore facilities deliver more than 1,000 VFX shots for the first installment of Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ monster movie franchise.
Animation historian Tom Sito elected to represent the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch; VFX veteran Richard Edlund re-elected to head the Visual Effects Branch.
Innovative features in latest instalment of the Modo 11 series include a client-server bridge to Unreal Engine 4 and more.
Four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, Oscar winner John Nelson, two-time Oscar winner Bill Westenhofer, and Oscar winner Martin Hill join the roster of more than 25 top industry professionals already confirmed for Italy’s computer graphics conference.
