SVA Announces 27th Dusty Film & Animation Festival Dates
Running Saturday, May 7 through Tuesday, May 10, four-day event will showcase more than 100 films and animations from School of Visual Arts students graduating this spring.
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Blackmagic Releases Public Beta for DaVinci Resolve 12.5
Massive update boasts more than 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features, including major additions to the editing toolset, new and enhanced color features, improved HDR support, and powerful new effects.
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Jon Favreau’s Photoreal Jungle Adventure
According to the director of Disney’s latest hit feature, ‘The Jungle Book’ could be called both live-action and animated.
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Final Program Details Unveiled for FMX 2016
‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ director Jennifer Yuh Nelson joining ‘The Peanuts Movie’ director Steve Martino and ‘Construct’ director Kevin Margo for a panel on the relationship between directors and technology.
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NVIDIA Launches Iray for Cinema 4D at NAB 2016
Iray for MAXON’s Cinema 4D now available in the NVIDIA web store free for 90 days, then $295 a year with a node-locked or floating license.
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The Foundry Introduces CARA VR Toolset
Public beta now open for new plug-in designed to enable the creation of high-quality virtual reality content within the NUKE environment.
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VFX Producer Paul Grimshaw Joins Tippett Studio
Following strong spring commercial releases, Tippett Studio welcomes former Executive Producer of ILM and VP/EP of The Orphanage as EP of Commercials & New Media.
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Autodesk Releases Latest Versions of Creative Finishing and 3D Animation Offerings
Autodesk Flame Family 2017, Maya 2016 extension 2 and 3ds Max 2017 now available; new tools and improvements deliver innovation, productivity and efficiency.
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HP Packs Power and Performance into All-in-One Workstation
HP introduces its third generation of the HP Z1 Workstation, combining the simplicity of an all-in-one design with performance typically found in traditional towers.
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ftrack Announces Adobe Creative Cloud Integration
Project management platform now includes native integration support for Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe After Effects CC; live demonstrations to be held at NAB 2016.
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Cospective Announces cineSync 4.0
Next generation of secure, synchronized reviews across multiple platforms and devices introduced at NAB 2016.
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Thinkbox Debuts On-Demand, Per-Minute Licensing with Deadline 8
Updates Include third-party metered licensing with The Foundry’s NUKE and KATANA, and Chaos Group’s V-Ray; a new proxy server; and enhanced monitor features.
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Autodesk Announces Acquisition of Arnold Maker Solid Angle
Developers of Arnold, the 3D animation and visual effects ray-tracing image renderer used on VFX Oscar winner ‘Ex Machina,’ purchased for an undisclosed sum.
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Box Office Report: Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ Roars to Life with $291M Globally
Jon Favreau’s CG re-imagining of the animated classic swings past expectations to score the number-two opening of all time for the month of April, and is widely expected to cross $300 million mark on Monday.
ASSIMILATE Announces New SCRATCH VR Suite at NAB 2016
First demos of the only end-to-end Virtual Reality toolset and workflow encompassing dailies, conform, color grading, composting, finishing and mastering to be showcased at the 2016 NAB Show.
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GPL Technologies to Showcase NVIDIA Technology at NAB 2016
Full schedule of live virtualization and visualization demonstrations using NVIDIA GRIDTM technology, NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs, and the Quadro Visual Computing Appliance set for the 2016 NAB Show in Las Vegas.
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Motion Picture Sound Editors to Host ‘Star Wars’ Presentation at NAB 2016
The sound and visual effects team behind’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of the movie in a Creative Master Series session at the 2016 NAB Show.
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Mill Valley Film Festival Now Accepting Entries for 2016 Edition
Running October 6-16, the Mill Valley Film Festival is accepting submissions of short films in the Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Children and Family, Experimental, and Youth Produced categories now through May 20.
AMD Launching 32GB Workstation Graphics Card at NAB 2016
World’s first workstation graphics card with industry-leading 32GB memory support for large asset workflows with creative applications planned for availability in Q2 2016.
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Trixter Unveils Shot Breakdown from ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Munich-based visual effects studio delivered 294 shots for key sequences and characters for the Marvel blockbuster and another 106 shots for film trailers for a total of 400 shots.
Delve into the VFX of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6
VFX supervisor Joe Bauer and VFX producer Steve Kullback present the visual effects work for the upcoming season of the hit HBO fantasy series in a new featurette with lots of breakdowns and behind the scenes footage.
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Fox Officially Announces ‘Deadpool’ Sequel
It’s a big day for movie sequels as 20th Century Fox officially announces ‘Deadpool 2’ and unveils footage from Blue Sky’s ‘Ice Age: Collision Course,’ ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day: Resurgence.’
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Fabric Software Previews Rhino 3D Integration for Fabric Engine
Updates to virtual reality and visualization tools extend live authoring and editing within the virtual environment to CAD pipelines.
PipelineFX is Cloud-Ready on Google Cloud Platform
Mature render farm management system provides direct link to Google Cloud Platform for visual effects, post-production and broadcast studios.
Adobe Unveils Breakthroughs in Video and Film Production
Virtual reality, character animation, sound innovation comes to Creative Cloud.
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