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Massive Headline News

Massive Announces AI-Controlled Horse & Rider Agent

New crowd simulation agent delivers lifelike, feature film quality movements recorded by one of the world’s leading motion capture studios.

Massive Headline News

Massive Debuts Massive Prime 9.0 at SIGGRAPH 2017

Industry-leading simulation tool features improved workflow for creating crowds, expanded shading options, and universal plugin to ensure compatibility with all major 3D software.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

iClone 7 Mocap at SIGGRAPH 2017

Reallusion has announced iClone 7 real-time face and body motion capture featuring partnerships with Faceware and Xsens, simplifying mocap with dedicated tools and UI for recording actors in any environment and transforming a single PC into a streamlined and affordable rig for character creation, animation and live face and body mocap; Reallusion will showcase the iClone 7 innovations in Los Angeles at SIGGRAPH, August 1–3 at booth #1219.

Laundry Headline News

Laundry ‘Kills Boring’ with MTV International Rebrand

Creative studio creates new cross-platform brand identity to celebrate the ultimate music fan, using the MTV “Wireframe + Skin,” visual framework to dictate composition and graphic content, resulting in new IDs, bumpers, key art, on-screen graphics, and more.

Faceware LiveSDK Headline News

Faceware Technologies Announces Faceware Live SDK

The leading markerless 3D-facial motion capture solutions provider has announced a Windows-Native, C++ SDK that enables developers and creatives to build their own real-time, interactive applications SDK for its real-time facial mocap and animation technology, Faceware Live, which it will be discussing at SIGGRAPH 2017 (Booth 741) Aug 1–3.

MPC Headline News

MPC Showcasing Technology and Artistry Behind This Year’s Blockbusters at SIGGRAPH 2017

MPC Film to showcase its latest work, including presentations on the technical and creative challenges behind the water simulations of Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,’ the future of VR in film production, and the advantages of cloud-based resources.

DI4D Headline News

DI4D Unveils Highest Fidelity Facial Performance Capture at SIGGRAPH 2017

Proprietary ‘motion scanning’ technology captures 4D data comprising video rate 3D surface scans tracked with a dense fixed topology mesh.

Isotropix Headline News

Isotropix Launches Clarisse 3.5

Latest update of Isotropix’s next-gen artist-centric creation tool includes new particle & property paint, new set of scattering features, new instance collision detection, new per-instance time offset, a complete set of lighting and rendering features, and more.

Luma Headline News

Luma Creates CG Vulture for ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’

The Award-winning creative studio teamed up with Director Jon Watts and VFX Supervisor Janek Sirrs to deliver stunning visual effects work for eleven sequences in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ including the Vulture’s epic CG landing scene, the vulture’s airborne grab and the first clash between hero and villain.

Foundry Headline News

Foundry’s Katana 3.0 to Include New Rendering Plugin 3Delight

Completely shareable between Katana and Maya, innovative shading engine is allows for direct transfer of look development between digital content creation apps.

Jellyfish Pictures Headline News

Jellyfish Pictures Launches VFX & Animation Technology Platform RenderWise

New cloud hybrid rendering and virtual studio platform for VFX and animation studios to be introduced at SIGGRAPH 2017.

Foundry Headline News

Foundry Launches Nuke and Hiero 11.0 to Power Next Generation of VFX Content

Leading high-end compositing tool reboots with array of exciting new features, including updated VFX Reference Platform, a powerful collaborative workflow for Nuke Studio, and much more.

lawsuits Headline News

Fox, Paramount & Crystal Dynamics Named Defendants in MOVA Lawsuit

MOVA developers suing Disney and Marvel for IP Infringement expand lawsuit to include ‘Deadpool,’ and ‘Terminator: Genisys’ features and ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’ video game.

Technology Headline News

Hej Stylus! Offers Digital Artists Full-Fledged Stylus Control on macOS

Menu bar application for macOS makes it easy for illustrators, designers and digital artists to configure and smooth out their graphic tablet, pen, mouse or other input.

FMX VFXWorld

WATCH: Clint Reagan Talks ‘Logan’ Previs and More at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 4:00pm

The veteran HALON Entertainment supervisor details his studio’s previs work on Marvel’s superhero action adventure hit, as well as their use of game engines and real-time rendering technology. 

 

Cinesite Headline News

Cinesite Montreal Releases VFX Breakdown for ‘American Gods’

New video showcases the studio’s visual effects created for the Emmy-nominated Starz series based on the book by Neil Gaiman, including extensive weather and environment effects.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

Epic Games to Unveil Real-Time Production Innovation at SIGGRAPH 2017

First-ever Unreal Engine User Group to showcase how real-time graphics are transforming content creation across animation, feature film, augmented and virtual reality, and more.

Tendril Headline News

Tendril Optimizes with Thinkbox’s Deadline and Redshift On-Demand

To create the five-minute animated “Coming to America“ sequence for STARZ’s ‘American Gods’ episode five, animation and design studio Tendril transitioned to a GPU pipeline ahead of the project, leveraging Thinkbox’s Deadline for compute management and tapping Redshift with per-minute licensing via the Thinkbox Marketplace.

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