The Visual Effects Society to honor writer-producer-director Favreau for his boundary-breaking use of visual effects to create a seamless and invisible background for remarkable stories and vibrant characters to play across film and television.
Former MPC VFX supervisor’s notable projects include ‘Seize Glory’ for Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III,’ Madden: The Movie’ for ’Madden NFL 16’ from EA Sports, Samsung’s ‘Do What You Can’t,’ and Super Bowl spots for Coca Cola and Acura.
The Walt Disney Company to end its content deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service beginning in 2019.
Allegorithmic unveils Live Link from Substance Painter to Unity, Substance Automation Toolkit, Substance Source in Unity, Substance Source in Unreal Engine 4, and more at the second annual Substance Days Hollywood held July 27-29 at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation.
Award-winning film and animation production company signs John Kahrs, the Academy Award-winning director of Disney's 'Paperman,' for exclusive commercial representation.
New pipeline TD and compositor previously served as head of technical pre-sales at data storage solutions provider Pixit Media, designing high-performance storage and network infrastructures for the Media & Entertainment industry.
Motion capture technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries collaborates with leading developer of virtual reality gloves to allow customers to integrate Manus VR Glove finger tracking into their production pipelines.
New VR solutions Atom View and Nu Design enable super-fast cinematic quality display and collaborative environment editing within the virtual environment.
International Oscar-winning creative studio Framestore is showing its cross-platform capabilities yet again by bringing the powerful Marvel character Hulk to life on both film and commercial platforms, with the London film team and the Los Angeles integrated advertising team collaborating on the latest CG characterization of Hulk for upcoming Marvel Studios releases and Renault’s commercial “Renault Kwid.”
Newly-signed deals for season two of the DHX Media and A Stark Production co-production include Universal Kids in the U.S., along with broadcasters throughout Greece, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Middle East, the Baltics, Russia, Angola & Mozambique, and French Canada.
2017 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation to be held on Saturday, February 10, 2018.
The Framestore Film team in London and Integrated Advertising team in Los Angeles extend the studio’s big screen Hulk experience into director Jonathan Gurvit’s slammin’ new “Renault KWID” spot.
HP teams with partners on ‘HP Mars Home Planet,’ a global co-creation project to imagine life on Mars, as part of their newly announced VR strategy focusing on enabling brands to reimagine how they innovate and engage customers.
New VR portfolio, including the world’s first professional wearable VR PC, makes HP a prime partner for immersive customer experiences.
Animal Logic has announced the open source release of its USDMaya plugin AL_USDMaya, which enables powerful and efficient authoring and editing of 3D graphics data using Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) in Autodesk’s Maya.˙
SIGGRAPH 2017 Computer Animation Festival award winners “Song of a Toad,” “John Lewis Buster the Boxer” and “Garden Party” were presented their statues amid a conference that covered important advances and collaborations in animation, visual effects, AR/VR and robotics.
Event highlights include hearing from international VFX professionals and the 33 animago-AWARDS nominated projects from all over the world.
Collaboration will provide a step-by-step training solution for users anywhere to quickly learn RenderMan via Nimble Collective’s cloud-based platform.
Special previews of live rendering and a CPU + GPU solution accompany the announcement of RenderMan 21.5.
The fourth annual Pipeline Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in pipeline tool development and includes winners who demonstrated innovation in overcoming common VFX and animation challenges, were able to meet the demands of large-scale projects and showed generosity by making their tools open source, to be leveraged by the wider VFX and animation community.
The veteran VFX and VR director talks about the challenges of bringing compelling storytelling to VR and how to navigate the growing cloud of VR “hype” in order to better focus on viable creative opportunities.
Blackmagic releases new VR tools, planar tracking, state of the art keying and more,
along with a new low price of only $299 for Fusion 9 Studio.
NVIDIA is combining our expertise in AI with our long history in computer graphics to advance 3D graphics for games, virtual reality, movies and product design.
Available starting in September, Quadro eGPU solutions will now allow interactive rendering, VR, AI development on PC Notebooks, and will be available through qualified partners such as Bizon, One Stop Systems/Magma and Sonnet with more to come.
Immersive content studio scales rendering to cloud for same-day turnaround on 1,500 Frames of 5K stereo footage for 360-video project.
