VFXWorld Magazine
Box Office: ‘Ready Player One’ Scores $41M Opening
‘Isle of Dogs’ expands slightly and retains the top per-theater average, while ‘Black Panther’ hangs on in third place overall in its seventh weekend of release.
NVIDIA Quadro GV100 GPU Adds Ray Tracing Abilities
RTX technology makes computationally intensive ray tracing possible in real time when running professional design and content creation applications.
‘Ren & Stimpy’ Creator Accused of Sexual Misconduct with Minors
‘BuzzFeed’ reports on two women who reached out to John Kricfalusi as teenage fans in the 1990s who say they had years-long relationships with him -- with one becoming his live-in girlfriend at the age of 16.
2018 Student Academy Awards Get Underway
Foundry Launches Modo 12 Series
Release delivers a range of innovative features including a VR viewport embedded in the UI and improved animation capabilities.
Cardiff Animation Festival Announces Full Program
Wales event adds special screening of ‘Isle of Dogs’ and Q&A with crew members, plus a look at the stop-motion feature 'Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires.'
Academy Clears Bailey of Misconduct
AMPAS statement explains the steps taken to investigate the claim and concludes that no further action is required.
Braun and Maisel Form Mythos Studios
SB Projects founder and Marvel Studios founding chairman create studio focusing on franchise films, acquire 50 percent stake in Aspen Comics.
Chaos Group Launches V-Ray for Unreal Beta
Seamless import of V-Ray scenes into real-time; ray traced rendering now available in Unreal for architecture, automotive and design.
FMX Adds Focuses on ‘Jim Button,’ ‘The Rain’ and More
E*D Films Sets Free its Scene Track Unity Media Exporter
Award-winning indie animation house launches first open source tool, which lets animators export FBX, MIDI, image and video files from the popular game engine.
Box Office: ‘Rim’ Opens On Top, As ‘Panther’ Adds Records
Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ does strong business in limited release, as ‘Sherlock Gnomes’ struggles.
Jaegers and Kaiju Battle Once More in ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’
Overall VFX supervisor Peter Chiang talks previs, techvis, drones and Chinese sound stages on Steven DeKnight’s sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-adventure romp.
Proof Helps Plan Ahead for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
L.A.-based visualization studio handles previs and postvis on Ava DuVernay and Disney’s new fantasy-adventure film.
TAAFI x CASO Animation, VFX Job Fair Coming to Toronto
More than 30 companies are slated to exhibit at the festival’s annual job fair being held this year at George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus.
Registration Opens for SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver
AMPAS Investigates Bailey for Harassment
'Variety' reports three claims were made on Wednesday, prompting the academy to launch an immediate investigation into the behavior of its president, who was elected to the post in July.
WATCH: Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer
The studio’s entire lineup of superheroes prepares for a final showdown with Thanos in the much-anticipated blockbuster.
Substance Painter UI Gets Refreshed with Help from Users
Sonar, Henson Team on Live-Action Sci-Fi Series ‘Rift’
Series for teens is about a girl who travels to a parallel fantasy world that will be created by the famed Creature Shop.
Vicon Introduces Shōgun 1.2 at GDC 2018 with a Virtual Escape Room
Daily presentations with new Unreal Engine 4 content project and a multi-person virtual escape room take center stage at Vicon’s GDC booth.