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Epic Games Headline News

Couldn’t Make It to SIGGRAPH? Watch the Epic Games User Group Presentation Online

Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.

Warner Bros. Pictures Headline News

'Wonder Women' Leaps onto Blu-ray with Bonus Deleted Scene

On August 29, 'Wonder Woman' will be available to own for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on favorite devices from select digital retailers, and on September 19, 'Wonder Woman' will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers and on select gaming consoles.

AMPAS Headline News

Cinematographer John Bailey Elected Academy President

ASC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient’s cinematography credits include ‘Ordinary People,’ ‘American Gigolo,’ ‘The Big Chill,’ ‘Groundhog Day,’ ‘As Good as It Gets,’ ‘The Anniversary Party,’ ‘The Way Way Back’ and ‘A Walk in the Woods.’

FMX Blogs

WATCH: The Third Floor’s Duncan Burbidge Talks ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Rogue One’ Previs at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 12:52am

The GM and executive producer talks in detail about his studio’s previs work on Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange,’ Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’

Visual Effects Society Headline News

Jon Favreau to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

Brickyard VFX Headline News

Brickyard VFX Welcomes Benji Davidson

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.

Allegorithmic Headline News

Allegorithmic Unveils Substance Painter 2017.2 and More at Substance Days Hollywood 2017

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.

Jellyfish Pictures Headline News

Jellyfish Bolsters Team with Appointment of Dave Wells

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.

Vicon Headline News

Vicon Delivers Hands-on Tracking

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.

Nurulize Headline News

Nurulize Unveils Disruptive VR Development Tools

New VR solutions Atom View and Nu Design enable super-fast cinematic quality display and collaborative environment editing within the virtual environment.

Framestore Headline News

Framestore Animates Detailed Hulk for Marvel

 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.”

DHX Media Headline News

DHX Dives into New Deals for ‘The Deep’

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.

HP Headline News

HP Rockets to Mars with VR Experience

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.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

Animal Logic Open Sources USDMaya Plugin

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 Headline News

SIGGRAPH 2017 Concludes Strong in Los Angeles

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.

Nimble Collective Headline News

Nimble Collective Announces Collaborative Exploration with Pixar’s RenderMan

Collaboration will provide a step-by-step training solution for users anywhere to quickly learn RenderMan via Nimble Collective’s cloud-based platform.

Pixar Headline News

Pixar Animation Studios Showcases New Rendering Technologies at SIGGRAPH 2017

Special previews of live rendering and a CPU + GPU solution accompany the announcement of RenderMan 21.5.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

Shotgun Announces Pipeline Award Winners at SIGGRAPH 2017

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.

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