VFXWorld Magazine
DNEG Expands TV Business in Vancouver and Montréal
Award-winning VFX house expands Vancouver and Montréal facilities, hires veteran television and VFX producer Michelle Eisenreich to lead Vancouver operations.
Epic Games Launches MegaGrants, New Unreal Engine Technology & Online Services at GDC 2019
Announcements include $100,000,000 Epic MegaGrants, features in Unreal Engine 4.22 and beyond, SDK availability for free Epic Online Services, Epic Games store news and more.
NVIDIA Announces Creator Ready Driver Program at GTC 2019
NVIDIA supercharges creative workflows with RTX GPUs and Creator Ready Drivers to improve performance and reliability in creative applications.
Disney Closes Acquisition of 21st Century Fox
Disney’s historic $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox creates an unprecedented collection of content and talent for the Mouse House.
Roper Technologies to Acquire Foundry in $544M Deal
Foundry’s name and brands to remain unchanged under the continued leadership of CEO Craig Rodgerson in all-cash deal expected to close in April 2019.
GDC 2019: Project Substance Alchemist Enters Open Beta
3D tool from Allegorithmic enables the rapid creation of PBR Material Libraries for game, film, architecture and industrial design.
Iguazio’s Platform Scales NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Deployments
Samsung SDS integrates serverless and big data to automate machine learning application scaling and productization.
Chaos Group Shows Future of GPU Rendering and Real-Time Ray Tracing at GTC 2019
Unity Teams with NVIDIA to Deliver Real-Time Ray-Tracing
Is it real or rendered in real-time? Coming later this year, High Definition Render Pipeline leverages the NVIDIA RTX platform to deliver photorealistic image quality and lighting.
OptiTrack to Show Precision Tracking with Jenga-inspired Demo at GDC 2019
Featuring large-scale Jenga sets, the real-time location-based VR demo will track 130 objects simultaneously.
Image Engine Brings ‘Lost in Space’ to GTC 2019
Using assets from the award-winning Netflix series, NVIDIA teams with Autodesk and Vancouver VFX studio Image Engine to showcase real-time GPU-accelerated rendering workflows with RTX Server and Quadro vDWS.
NVIDIA Unveils Interactive 3D Design Collaboration Platform Omniverse
NVIDIA Omniverse enables teams to interactively work together to create and render scenes using industry-standard 2D and 3D software.
Stroke of Genius: NVIDIA Researchers Debut GauGAN at GTC 2019
Offering a powerful tool for creating virtual worlds, interactive ‘smart paintbrush’ app harnesses the power of generative adversarial networks to convert rough doodles into stunning photorealistic landscapes.
Blur Studio Taps V-Ray for Netflix’s New NSFW ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Short Film Anthology
Production studio explores different animation styles with the help of V-Ray renderer for new anthology series now on Netflix.
Epic Games awards $500,000 in Unreal Dev Grants
More than a dozen developers across games, film, TV, AR and VR receive cash assistance in the program’s final round.
The Third Floor Announces Story Attic Content Initiative
Leading visualization studio launches online showcase for original science fiction and fantasy-themed digital comics, illustrations and videos created by leading comic book artists and illustrators.
WATCH: Lord Danger Delivers New Trailer for Capcom’s ‘Devil May Cry 5’
Director Mike Diva blends stylized combat with dreary, absurdist notions of an anti-depressant commercial to announce availability of latest action series game installment.
The Rookies Launches 2019 Global Competition
9th annual Rookie Awards call for entries is open to all amateur creatives in VFX, animation, games, VR, motion graphics and 3D visualization.
Disney Releases New Trailer & Poster for Live-Action ‘Aladdin’
First full-length trailer gives a glimpse at some of the film's most iconic scenes, including Genie’s dance with his magic carpet.
Bemo Taps iPi Motion Capture for Adult Swim Series ‘Dream Corp LLC’
Mind-bending series entering production on its third season combines live-action and CG animation using iPi’s markerless motion capture software.
Shotgun Announces Jira and After Effects Integration at GDC 2019
Shotgun Software showcasing its Jira, After Effects, Unreal Engine and Unity integrations at the 2019 Game Developers Conference.
Female VFX Talents Celebrate International Women’s Day in the Age of #MeToo
A diverse group of nine female creative professionals working at Pixomondo share their career histories, motivations and insights from navigating a male-led industry.